Snow

Whoohoo, we had a decent snow storm here on Saturday, I love it! According to the news we got 18 inches. I remember when I was little it seemed like we always had a lot of snow on the ground but it just doesn't happen much these days.

My Yukon, the snow was up past the bottom of the door.

 

The girls tried to make a snowman, but it wasn't the right type of snow.

 

It was and still is beautiful though, I hear we are going to get more (maybe 10 inches?) on Wednesday. I say bring it!

I took a few new pictures yesterday. These were spontaneous and you can tell by the marker on her hand.

Malia got this rocking horse for Christmas. Chief was a little jealous that I wasn't taking his picture. So I accommodated him by doing so.

Hahaha, this is my favorite one, it looks like he is giving me the 'stink eye'.

Apple Pie

One of our favorite things to make and eat is Apple crumb pie. So that's what we did this past weekend.

Megan and Malia cut the apples.

Malia was trying very hard but didn't get to far with the wrong side of a butter knife.

Layering the apples in the crust.

And getting fingers and hands all gooey with cinnamon and sugar.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but I can tell you it was AWESOME !

Christmas

Christmas was really fun this year because Malia is starting to get the Santa thing.
We started out by spreading magic reindeer food around the lawn on christmas eve, she was pretty excited about doing that !

One of Malia's favorite things she got this year was a little girls makeup kit.  It had (gasp) lip gloss in it !
This girl LOVES anything you put on your lips.  I thought it would be fun to try and take a picture of her every time she put that stuff up to her lips, I bet I have a total of 30. I even took some pictures of her putting it on her Dad, Uncle Dan, cousin Danny and her brothers but I wont blackmail embarrass them by posting it.

 

 

A Fun Filled Weekend

First we had a snowstorm over the weekend so we just HAD to go out and play.

 

Then we took some pretty cool pictures of Megan. Head over here to see more.

http://juliesfavoritephotos.blogspot.com/

                                  This girl and the camera have a serious love affair going on.

 

Then we came into the house to work on a few school projects for Megan.

She had to make a model of a type of rock called coquina and it had to be edible.

So we made it our of a rice crispy treat

with brown colored marshmallow and some sprinkles for effect.

She also had to make a Yule Log.  I had no idea that it was a looooooong process fun way to spend the afternoon, we used a 'classic recipe'.

 

                                                               And  guess who helped?

Sissy got braces

Today Megan got braces.  She was pretty excited about it.
(Please note all these pictures were taken with my iPhone so they are not really good)

Here she is before anything happened.........

I think she is starting to have second thoughts now, Its starting to sink in.................

( They made her wear these glasses)

Almost done now.............................

When they were done putting them on, they let her get up and look in a mirror.  Her first reaction was this.

The expression on her face says it all......

Then she cups her hands around her mouth like she is hiding them from everyone in the office and whispers,

"Oh my god they are so UGLY" !

She is so adorable,  I think she looks cute with braces.

Not much has been happening and I really haven't  had any time to take any new pictures but here are some that were taken when we went over to Leigh's  parents (my oldest son's GF) house for dinner recently.

They have two Labrador dogs and the one LOVES to play.  Malia just loves to play with Porter.

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Cookies

Wow, I cant believe its been two months since I posted ! It seems like I'm really busy, but I cant get nothing done.


Anyhow................................

We spent the halloween weekend camping (where else) in Gettysburg. Malia was excited about it but it started to pour just as we were getting ready to go trick or treating so she was satisfied with just sitting under the canopy giving out the candy

We made out annual Christmas cookies this past weekend.  I figure we made about about 40 Doz of 13 different kinds.

Here's Ms. Peacock now...................

And a few extra pictures, since I haven't really been taking any lately