I LOVE Christmas

I really do, I love it. When Christmas comes we go to the movies more (more times in the last 2 months then we have all year!) We went and saw the Tale of Depearoux (sp?) an animation movie about a little mouse, in Othello with the "cousins" as Beck would say. Then we went to the Basketball game and saw Baby Kylie perform. My niece, Rylee had a piano recital, but the roads were getting bad, so we decided to get on the road. I love Christmas because I love my tree decorations! I love Christmas because I can put a poinsettia on Paisley's head and one can say a darn word about it.
I love Christmas because Stephen is home more, there is a present under the tree with my name on it, and I get to eat these truffles my friend, Bethany, made for me and I get to eat them all for lunch and I didn't feel bad for one minute because they were ssssooooooo good! I love Christmas because I get to buy people stuff, especially my kids and my hubby. I bought Stephen a grill and gave it to him yesterday because we are headed to the cabin soon and I had no way of getting it up and back. I love Christmas because I get to wear Christmas socks.

Stuff We're Doing

Today was a busy day. With the help of a friend we cleaned my whole house. I think that I may invest in a house cleaner. It's just so much better with two people tackling the cleaning, add that with friendly conversation and WHAM! Clean house that smells nice. I don't know why I am actually cleaning, I guess I haven't done the carpets and I will wait on that because I am once again potty training Beck. He hasn't done half bad and I get it now when people say, "they don't like it when they are wet, so then they learn." Because he tells me right away when he has soaked his "underpants." He has 4 accidents yesterday and only 3 today, so I see progression. The 3rd one today he almost made it.Yesterday I got ambitious and finally painted Beck's room. He said he wanted blue, so he got blue. :)
This is the face of a little boy who's dad made him put his new remote control Hummer away because it was 10:00 at night. My cousin/roommate, Alexie brought it home for Beck for Christmas, but she wanted him to open it now and he is in love. He even tucked it in for the night.... Right when he woke up it was back ramming it into the walls and my feet. He hasn't figured out the remote control and how it will actually "steer," but he doesn't care.

This is Paisley and her very first eggs and boy she loved them as much as Beck loves that new Hummer remote control car. :) She scarfed them down so fast and was smiling the whole time. I think that she was finally happy to be eating the same thing that everyone else was eating. This video is of my little artist. I am so proud that he has learned how to cut! Yeah! Such a preschool mom thing to say, but it really is quite a skill to have mastered. He loves to sing the "open shut" (cerrar, abrir).....

Happy Birthday to the Captain

Happy Birthday Kortni, you old lady... :) Love you and hope you are having a good time in Idaho! (Don't worry, your house or the gym have not burned down yet!) (Me and my sister Kortni about 1983)

Bum fingers and Santa Claus!

My week started out pretty crappy and I am trying to find the good parts. My body has taken a turn for the worse, slowly giving up on me... Saturday I twisted my knuckle ( my own diagnosis) while trying to carry the podium at the gymnastics place after a very smooth running Fun Meet (see Kortni, we can survive when you are gone! :) I thought it was just gonna hurt for a minute, but it kept hurting and then swelling bigger and bigger. I taped it, so that I wouldn't move it (because I'm a baby and it hurt) But I'm glad that I never went in because now it doesn't hurt so much and it's only black and blue, no more swelling.So to add to my bum finger, blister from Paisley nursing (whole nother story) I now have ANOTHER bum finger (different hand) after slamming it in the car door at Wal-Mart on Monday. Man, that one hurt like a mother! After a full day of throbbing and lots of pressure, at 1 in the morning I finally got on the internet after I had convinced myself that all the tiny bones in my finger had been smashed to smithereens..... I heated up a paper clip and melted a hole in my nail to relieve some blood and pressure and Wow la! Relief! It still throbs, but man, it felt so much better and I can now go about my daily business.... The 6th ward Christmas party was a talent show and after Beck got in a fight with another toddler on stage while singing Jingle Bells, with the nursery, him and Paisley got to see Santa Claus. Paisley just kind of stared and played with her rattle and it was right after the fight, so Beck wasn't the happiest camper.Good think he's already getting a bunch of presents this year! After the ward Christmas party I went to Michael's on the Lake for dinner with some friends from a play group that we've had going for 2 years. I believe that all in attendance are the original play groupers. We have grown to be quite a large group (at times) with girl's coming and going. We meet at each other's houses in the winter and the at the park in the summer. It's lots of fun and it been also fun to meet new people.Katie Roylance, Jenica Heslop, Bethany Jenks, Amber Jenks, and KorbiBeck and his Grandpa Bobby Boy at Bob and Ann's house in Othello last night for a Family Home Evening.
And one more picture of Paisley, just cause she's cute! :)

Relief Society

Last night was our Relief Society Christmas Dinner and we were supposed to dress up "fancy." Stephen says that my black shoes didn't match my white dress and I tried to explain that your shoes don't have to be the same color as your dress, I could have worn turquoise shoes right? Or am I wrong? Am I so off on my fashion that I have no idea. I wonder what people think of me when I wear a turquoise cardigan, pink shirt underneath and then multicolored tennis shoes? Am I crazy? Seriously, mark your comment as "anonymous" and let me know because the odds are that I probably have no idea. :) And by this picture and how sharp my cutie hubby is looking, he's probably right, but I really just didn't want to wear my white summer heels, I mean it was freezing outside! Anyways, it was a way yummy dinner, kudos to the 6th ward Relief Society for an adult night out and peace of mind that my babies were only just right down the hall in the Primary Room. :) pictured left to right: Stephen, Korbi, Jessica and Dallas Croft, Rory and Kathy Kolste, Chris and Monte Bowen.

And also... YEAH! Our first snow! I was starting to lose hope in thinking that it would be one of those winters with no snow, just coldness, but here it is in all it's glory and boy, was Beck ever excited. He threw on his coat and pulled open the door and ran outside before I could even grab my camera.

Bananas

Makes you want to eat bananas, huh?