Winter Wonderland!

On Thursday it snowed, and snowed, and snowed. It started sometime in the morning before we woke and it ended sometime around 6 or 7pm. After the wind finally died down some, we sent the boys outside to try out their winter gear from Santa. Jamison wasn't sure he loved being out there so his time was very short lived. Spencer would have lasted longer if he hadn't of fallen into the snow and it went down his neck. So while I was out shopping tonight, I bought him a new scarf so that won't happen again. The pictures turned out so cool with the snow falling down. Jamey is using the new snow blower that we got from my grandparents this fall. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!! It really saved Jamey that day, because he had to do it twice. This is the second time. The drifts are pretty cool!!

Christmas; O Joy

Well I thought I'd post a couple of fun pictures from Christmas. We had a great time together.

1. After church on the Sunday before Christmas I love to take a family picture of that year- so here it is. (By the way- I really love family pictures so I make my family endure several!!)

2. On Christmas Eve we thought it would be fun to make sugar cookies and decorate them for Santa. I also thought it would be fun to make my own sugar cookies from scratch. Well they looked pretty, however they were seriously deadly. The shorting that I used was bad and in turn Jamey and Jamison were sick from them. I guess Spencer and I were smart enough not to eat them. I really hope that Santa is OK!!!

3. We decided that we would carry on Jamey's family tradition on getting new PJ's on Christmas Eve and so here we are in our new jammies!!

4. So because of the bad sugar cookies (or at least that's what I think happened) Jamison was throwing up on Christmas day. He seemed fine and had a good time opening the gifts, in between his spouts of upchucking. He just preferred to sit on dad's lap all morning- which once again was a bit of a bonus for me because then the aim of fire was at dad. :-) Here are a few shot of the boys opening gifts.

Christmas... Here We Come!

I have felt SO overwhelmed trying to get ready for Christmas this year. I have been SUPER busy working, and have once again had to turn people down for appointments. It really does make me feel good to know that so many people are using me as their stylist, but I hate having to say no. The last couple months however- I have learned that it is a necessity in my life to say no. Since I haven't posted in a while I will just quickly post a new family picture that we took, and I did a little photoshoping. I am not Becky, but I did take a few minutes and played with the picture to get what I wanted. All I have left to do is wrap some presents, and then I can officially say that I am 100% ready for Christmas. My last day of work this week is Thursday, so hopefully I will get do some some fun stuff this weekend with the family. I have big goals of trying to home make sugar cookies for Santa this year. Thanks to winning the cookie cutters from our white elephant exchange at our friends Christmas party last weekend, we now have lots of shapes to choose from! I'll have to let you know how it turns out. Have a GREAT Christmas.

Murder Mystery Dinner Party

So mid November some friends invited us to be part of their Murder Mystery Dinner Party. It was a blast. We totally skipped out on Halloween this year (and for some of you- we know you missed our AWESOME costumes), so this was a way to party like Halloween. Jamey and I were assigned the roles of Elias Truist-Heath (Jamey) and Elvira-Lynn Fekshin (Erica). Elias is a young up-coming heart-throb gunfighter. (I think they nailed Jamey's character to a tee.) He's known as the best brawler west of the Mississippi and comes out of every fight with nary a scratch. Now Elvira-Lynn on the other hand is a consummate soiled dove. She spreads, among other things, sunshine wherever she goes. The theme was Old Western set back in July of 1881. We had so much fun with the other couples that participated and dressing up. Here are a couple of pictures of the night.