Happy Birthday Trevor Micah!

Happy Birthday Trev, you would have been 24 today. I miss you more than I ever thought possible.

Gingerbread tradition

Every year since she was three, Alorah has spent a Saturday before Christmas over at Mammy's (Ev's mom) house making gingerbread. This year Lainie got to join in the fun. It usually takes a whole day to complete the process from start to finish and they look forward to it every year. Here are a few pictures courtesy of Mammy:

Visiting Santa

We spent last Saturday afternoon visiting with Santa. Alaina was especially escited to see him and woke up at 6:30 to make her list for santa. it included a yo yo, sunglasses, chapstick and pretty clothes. She asked me to write it down so she could copy it.

THere wasn't a very big line and Santa spend a lot of personal time with each child. He greets each of them with "my how you''ve grown this year" or "look at you, you're so much taller" Santa commends them on how well thry're keeping their room clean and how they need to work a little harder on picking up toys. He is just the best and the kids love him

Micah was the first to see Santa. He RAN and gave him the hugest hug and then spilled his wishlist~ cho cho trains, cars, and firetrucks

Lainie Boo was next and she forgot her list at home. But she shared most of it with Santa. He seemed quite surprised that all she really wanted was a yo yo. He said it's been a long time since he's heard that request.



Isaiah walked up and seemed a bit awkward with santa but santa got him tp cheer up and give a nice cheesy grin. Zaiah told Santa that all he wanted was a kitten. Santa informed Zaiah that he rarely brings live animals anymore after the big accident in '84 when a puppy fell out of the sleigh, they were able to swoop down and save him but it was such a big scare that they don't really do live animals anymore

giving santa a high five
Alorah told Santa that she just wants a webkinz for Christmas. Santa told her that he's gotten lots of request for those this year and he was thinking about getting one for rudolp and what did she think? She said probably get the reindeer one and santa said "nah, he's already got 7 brothers"

Overall it's always a magical trip to see Santa!

I WON, I WON, I WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am absolutely stunned over here. They were supposed to announce the winners yesterday and I spent all day checking the computer, nothing. I was on absolute pins and needles but I went to bed. I checked first thing this morning and there was my name!!!!!

YEAH!!!!! I am doing the happy dance and ran down the hallway to jump on Ev asleep in bed :0)

This is what I just won!!!! I've always wanted a personal diecut machine!!!!!!

layout contest

Ok so there's this new contest going on and you submit your digital layouts to win huge prizes, like a $1500 camera, $500 printer, $100 wacom tablet (which I've been wanting SOOOOO bad, can you say Christmas anyone ;0) Anyway these are two of the layouts I created and submitted. I'll of course let you know if anything comes of it . . . doubt it though, there's some stiff competition out there. If you're interested in the contest check it out here.
If you want to see all the layouts in the contest click here.

Here is a post of Isaiah doing his homework. For kindergarten he had to memorize the entire passage of Psalm 23. He worked for a few weeks on this and I asked if I can video him. This was while he was still learning it, if you ask him now he can remember it perfectly. In the first part of the video he says his verses and you can hear Alorah prompting him in the background. In the second half of the video Daddy and Micah are helping Isaiah work on his sight words ~ quite cute!

Isaiah's Outfit

Last week I went to pick the kids up from school on their last day before Thanksgiving break and I found Isaiah sitting on the bench wearing this adorable outfit. He had made this in kindergarten with Mrs. O'Day and the rest of his class. I think is one of the most adorable things I've ever seen and something I'll probably save forever! He told me he was Squanto ;0)


The outfit came complete with beads, a feather headdress and some kind of primitive writing . . . something about a fire . . .
And lastly he even had a papoose on his back ~ simply precious!