December

Well, I have about one hour to post this and have accomplished my goal of at least one blog post per month for the year! So let me attempt to recap December for you...

December started with lots of concerts and parties. I think in all we had 9 concerts and 5 parties! What a month! The week before Christmas my brother Joel and my sister-in-law Shantel and their 5 children all came from Minnesota to visit. We had a week of one family function after another. On Tuesday the 22nd we all met at Heritage and spent the day watching movies, playing games and doing puzzles (which was a good thing because it rained all day).

Everyone talked, ate and played...

Cousins got acquainted...

Joel brought Spike and all the kids got to play inside him...

Super Smashbrothers went for hours...

When all the family festivities were done, it was finally time for us to enjoy Christmas! This was taken Christmas morning and though it's blurry (the lights were off), I think you get the idea. Angie was so excited!!

It was a fun day for all of us, even Ruth did a pretty good job opening her gifts.

The year was finished off by Caleb's brother Eric getting married on the 29th.

Now to make my Holiday cards and do all of the other things I just didn't have time for this year. More to come in 2010...
Happy New Year!!!!!

Granny Annie

About two weeks ago my niece purchased a wig and thus began Granny Annie! The latest webisode is Grannie's Thanksgiving, but I will post all of the earlier ones in reverse order. Enjoy! By the way, these movies were filmed and edited by my other niece LeeAnn and they are unscripted for the most part.

Granny's Thanksgiving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEy9vAeSeY

Granny Annie-Twilight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKEfswJWQXM&feature=channel

Granny Annie & the coupon book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCMuvUi5eSI

Granny Annie feeds the birds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYPVoGWENc


Cute girls and lots of talent!

Halloween Fun

This year Angelique decided to be a witch for Halloween and after much searching I finally decided to make her costume myself. I am always amazed at how much they can charge for so little costume! It took me about two hours from start to finish, but I did not have a patern so I had to make one myself. I don't think it turned out too bad. She was happy with it and that is the most important thing.

Here she is making her scary witch face!

Of course she had to have a broom

Ruthie got to be a dragon this year. After Halloween last year I found this costume for $5 and decided it didn't matter if I had a baby or not, I couldn't pass that up. Isn't she cute?

I love the back! Hood was a little too big, but otherwise a perfect fit.

My two girls!

Spooky!!!

This year we actually found time to decorate our house for Halloween! Caleb went all out with blacklight, scorpions and everything! It ended up looking really good in the end and all of the trick-or-treaters were very impressed.

This is the pumpkin Angie and Caleb carved. Unfortunately I was stuck down at the school building the set for our upcoming play, but I'm glad they had fun. From what I understand, Ruthie had a lot of fun watching the whole thing transpire.

They also decided to write on the back. And yes, it was "Creepy"...

This is Bob. He was added to our decoration a couple of years ago. He is light sensitive and says thing like "If you think I'm scary, you should look in the mirror." His eyes light up and usually his mouth moves, but his mouth suddenly decided not to work. Caleb will have to try and fix him next year.

We found this awesome spider at Target this year and couldn't resist him. Now all we need is a really big web to put him in.

Happy Halloween everyone! Hope your was as good as ours!