Merry Christmas!!

MERRY 

CHRISTMAS

  EVERYONE!!!

Sledding!!

Today we all went sledding and had so much fun!!

Laptop before and after

So for my birthday Bill got me a new keyboard for my laptop...this might seem like a strange gift, but I LOVED it and here's why =)
A few months ago maybe even 3 or 4 months ago Liam decided to bang one of his toys on the keys of the laptop...

Here is the result of that destruction!!

The sad part is that I have been typing on this broken keyboard FOREVER!! The worst part of it was the space bar...even the little touchy pad was missing so I'd have to hold my finger on the circle for half a second in order for it to register...so frustrating...

But now my laptop looks like this...

Happy B-day to me!!

Today for my birthday we went over to my mom's house after church. My mom made a fabulous dinner...mmmm...it tasted sooooo good and then she made a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting...do I even need to say how delicious it was!! I was so stuffed!! The kids gave me a beautiful bracelet and some peanut butter christmas trees!! I got some slippers from my mom, some jeans and a sweater from my dad and a new keyboard for my laptop from Bill...Liam had beat most of the keys off my old one =) I'll show before and after pictures in a later blog =) I got lots of birthday wishes from friends and family on Facebook and calls from Bill and my brothers!! I't's been a wonderful day and I feel very loved!! A humongous thank you to my parents...I love you guys!!! And a big thanks to all those who remembered me on my special day =)

Blob the Snowman

I've really been wanting to build a snowman but the last batch of snow we got was too powdery. Well today it was nice out and warm compared to the single digit temps we've had recently...I think it was in the mid 40's today... so before dinner the kids and I went out to attempt to make a snowman with the powdery snow...I think he turned out pretty cute...but not as cute as those three kiddos with him =)

SNOW!!

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" We got a little snow Saturday night and then it snowed all day Sunday but it was a very light and powdery snow. The weatherman called it "crystaline snow" on the news. It must have continued to snow through the night last night. It was so beautiful to wake up to a winter wonderland. The school district was on a 2 hour delay so the kids got dressed and went out right away to play in the snow. They didn't stay out too long because it was freezing cold out!! 3 degrees to be exact =) We're supposed to get more snow tonite and tomorrow!! I hope we do but I also hope we get more as it gets closer to Christmas...once all of our family has come in of course!! =)

O Christmas Tree

We are ready for Christmas!! We put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving =) It's probably been 2 years since we put our Christmas decorations up and I forgot a lot of what we had...it was fun opening tupperware bins and seeing what all we had =) It was funny because as we were getting things out I said that I wanted to get a small tree for the kids' homemade ornaments and in one of the bins there was a small tree that I'd forgotten we'd bought one year to put up when we were coming to Colorado for Christmas =) Plus it's always fun decorating a new house =) We are supposed to be getting some snow today and more this weekend and it is FREEZING cold...I hope we get quite a bit of snow...I want to build a snowman =) I absolutely love this time of year!! Welcome Winter!!

Thanksgiving...

We had a wonderful Turkey Day. My mom did most of the cooking and everything tasted sooooo good!!! We had waaaaaay too much food and of course yummy pies for dessert...apple, pecan, PUMPKIN, banana cream and chocolate for the kids =) I was especially thankful this year to be here in Colorado and to be able to spend Thanksgiving with my parents =)