Ready or not...

Christmas is a week away...seems crazy.

Candies made- check!

Tree- check!

Lights- check!

Presents wrapped- check!

Now it is time to sit back and enjoy the season.

Merry Christmas!

Days like this...

When every word is said with a whiny tone, girls feel the need to tattle about the tiniest things, and the fighting never ends....it makes you wish for the days like this:

Sisters helping sisters.

Creative children making upside-down snow angels.

Giggles and laughter.

Girls playing well together.

Sisters complimenting each other on their throws. :)

Happy cooperation in building something.

A lazy dog enjoying a cozy fire...oh wait, that happens every day.

This snow came to us mid-Nov. and I think it is about time we get some more.

*Syd did most of the work on the snowman, but she is left out of the pics because she was in school. :(

Ice Skating

It's been so long since I've found the time to blog. I'm hoping to do better, but I guess life just keeps getting in the way.

We went ice skating with Tafoyas several weeks ago and had a blast. All the kids picked up on it pretty quickly.

Justin did a lot of sitting...(the skates hurt his feet...big baby. ;) It was nice not having to worry about Syd too much, she just took off.

Justee, like last time, was a little too brave. She wanted to do it herself, so one of us had to be right there to soften her falls. She did great though.

Charlee really started getting the hang of it...here she is trying not to fall.

All of us, minus Sherri, who obviously had to take the pic.

Love this pic. Syd caught some air...glad I was there to soften this one.

They're creepy and they're kooky...

Mysterious and spooky

They're all together ooky

The Addams family

Thought I better add a black and white for authenticity.

K...I'm done.

The Dur....Addams Family

Halloween 2010 was a success! We had a great time dressing up together.

The girls got lots of compliments and stares...Charlee said she was a little embarrassed because so many people would point and laugh and her. We told her that was a good thing. :)

Some fun with the photos...

In the first set of pics, we forgot Thing. We had to add him in this one. :)

We had some good food and even better company. Plus we could not have asked for better weather. It was awesome, and no one needed even a jacket.



Everyone looked great!

I love Halloween! Time to start thinking about what to be next year!

Winner!

Justee took home the prize for best costume at Gold's Gym party today. I sure think she makes a cute Uncle Fester. She was pretty happy with her light bulb that really lights up when she puts it in her mouth. :)

Sydnee as Wednesday...headless doll and all. Charlee and Sydnee had their parties at school on Fri. Their school does a costume parade, so all the kids get to see each other's costumes.

I guess Cousin Itt got tired after walking the halls.

We had our Trunk-or-Treat and I helped the YW with a haunted house. It turned out really cool, but I forgot my camera and didn't get a single pic. I will have to see if I can find someone who did. We still haven't gotten pics of us all together, but tomorrow we will for sure.

I put off taking pics of Sydnee at her soccer games until her last game. Today was a rescheduled game and this is what my procrastination got me.....

We were lucky enough to be joined by our Ward's missionaries while carving pumpkins. Believe it or not, one of these guys had only carved pumpkins once before. The other one....NEVER had done it! I was happy to show them the ropes. :)

I don't know what I was thinking, but I forgot to get pics of all the pumpkins at the end of the night. Syd did her own owl and it was really cool. Unfortunately it got broken traveling home from the T-0r-T. :(

Things are getting done

Halloween is soooo close! I am excited, but I have lots of things I want to get done this week. Costumes are almost 100% complete...like 98%. Here is a little peak at Charlee's Cousin Itt costume. This is the first stage of her costume (minus the pink sleeves.) After this I attached a bunch of craft sting and began unraveling it all for less of a dreadlocks look and more of an hair look.

This is her headpiece: She needed to be able to see, so I attached the "hair" to the top and the bottom of the glasses. This made for an extremely itching problem...after some thought I solved this by adding some extra fleece to soften it up. She was so happy to feel the difference. It is pretty comfy now.

Can't wait to get the whole family done up tomorrow for the Trunk-or-Treat!

One of our before Halloween musts is to make some caramel apples.

I wanted to share something I made at our last Relief Society activity. We did a bunch of Christmas crafts and I signed up to make this advent calendar. It is really hard to see in these pics, but I think they are super cute.

It is just a mini muffin pan with decorated magnets over the holes. We used lots of scrapbook paper, stickers, and cutouts.