The night before Christmas....

Pictures from Christmas Sunday...

Getting ready for Christmas...

...And yes, the dog does wear lip gloss!

Just amuse me...

WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL???
Try it without looking at answers

1) Pick your Favorite number between 1-9
2) Multiply by 3 then
3) Add 3, then again Multiply by 3
I'll wait while you get the calculator...
4) You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number....

5) Add the digits together

Go to the coment section of this blog to get your answer!!!

The look...

Ah..the look of garlic bread and chocolate all in the same bite. No, I am not the sadistic torturer. She did it all on her own. It seems like she actually likes the combination!

AnaLea's song to Santa...

Make sure you turn off the music on the blog. Its located at the very bottem of the page.

Small Town Christmas...

My brothers, sisters, and I went up to our parents house in Oakley, Utah. The small town has a fun Christmas tradition. You meet at the town center, Santa Clause comes, free hot chocolate and cookies, and last but not least, you get a hay ride through the main street in town to see the Christmas lights. We all had a blast!

Purseaphobia...

When AnaLea is doing something that she is not supposed to be doing and she knows that she has been caught in the act, she will double her speed and cause as much destruction as possible in just the few steps it takes to cross the room and pick her up.

This applies to our lil incident in Costco today! I turn my back towards AnaLea to go pick up a lovely sample of keish. Then I hear a lady shout, "OH MY!" I turn my back to see that AnaLea has pulled another ladies purse into our shopping cart. At the same time that I turned around, AnaLea looks up at me and smiles. Then her hands are flying a million miles per hour tossing used tissues, keys, and credit cards into the air. Four Steps! That's all it took to get to her and snatch that purse out of her hands! URRR!! What an embarrassing mess. I wanted to crawl under the table and just hide there as I rock back and forth like an idiot. But I didn't! I cleaned up the mess and apologized to my audience. Instead of running to the rescue of that poor ladies purse, I should of just walked away like she wasn't my daughter.

You know what? AnaLea has a sick obsession with purses! Sick, I tell ya! Absolutely sick! No purse is safe. Not even at church! You should see what she did to another laddys purse in Sunday school. One word. L I P S T I C K! Yah...we wont go there. Besides, the lady let AnaLea play with her purse! So it wasn't my fault!

So now, I have an intense fear of purses! You call it Purseaphobia, I'll call my therapist!

What wont kill me...

...Will NOT make me stronger! It will only make me turn into a blue face, huffin and puffin, lifeless Zombie at 7 pm and pass out for the night before 7:30! Gees remember when 2 am was an early bed time? This is worse then being pregnant!

I hope this is just a phase...You know, where the food completely bypasses the mouth and goes straight into the hair. Or even in the air. My most loveliest child, in whom I love dearly, is getting two baths a day! And the walls...well, lets just say they aren't white anymore. Call it a mucky reddish, yellowish, and brownish color. Not to mention, what was smooth has been textured with noodles, oatmeal, carrots, and peas. I really am not diggin it!

Elf Dog...

A lil neighbor friend of the family....particularly of Sadie, gave Sadie this gift for Christmas.

Flowers...

I had another one of those melt downs at the end of a very bad day. And this is what Chris sent me to cheer me up...

For my husband...

C H R I S

I want to make you smile as you make me.
I wish you saw my thoughts right through my eyes.
You ask me what I'm thinking. I can't tell you.
You are the stars, and I the empty skies.
In me there is a yearning ever flowing
That needs to reach an end that never comes.
I cannot be myself without you with me.
This is a truth no wisdom ever plumbs.
You laugh, and say that I'm your personal angel,
And this is what I want so much to be.
The beauty of my life is like a passion
That blows right through the person that you see.

A trip to the North Pole...

My sister and I took AnaLea to see Santa Clause. Believe it or not, SHE LOVED IT! She sat on his lap and went on and on about what she wanted for Christmas!

Can you believe this...

AnaLea is getting quite creative!

Clowns and tears...

This is the last picture I have with Chris and AnaLea. A GROWN and a SIGH! Oh well, we can get more in 3 months! Yippee! She is wearing, what I like to call, "her clown dress." Chris bought it when we were in Seattle. It was appropriate!