Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Family dress up time...

My girls love to play dress up. They especially love to dress up their daddy.
He is a pretty good sport!

What started out as dressing up dad, turned into dressing up the whole family.
We got these crazy wigs on clearance after Halloween. They are insanely messy. We have hair everywhere!

M was taking all the pictures. We were all laughing our heads off at our fabulousness!

Dad and his trains....


My hubby has a 1983 A-Team train set. Once every 5 years or so he breaks it out to play with the kids. The girls always have fun playing with it and listening to their daddy tell stories about playing with it when he was a boy.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

First Dad and the girls set up the tree. The girls help fluff all the branches and dad puts on the lights. Then Mom steps in to do the decorating. This arrangement works out really well. I hate putting the lights on. I added the ribbon.
Then the girls helped put on all the ornaments.



It is fun to watch it get prettier and prettier.
And of course, by the time it is all done I am too exhausted and forget to take a picture of the finished tree. It has been pretty much the same for the last few years. We decided that next year we are going to do something different on the tree.

Thanksgiving 2009

We had my hubby's whole family over for Thanksgiving this year. 34 people! We were packed in pretty tight, but we had lots of fun.

Here is Grandma R helping out in the kitchen.

We had lots of yummy food. Especially the pies! I could just skip all the other stuff and go straight for the pies! I made a chocolate pecan, 2 pumpkins, an apple, a cheesecake, and a chocolate cream this year.

We played the spray bottle game:

Poor hubby always gets stuck in the corner ever year removing the meat off the turkey.
I think everyone had a good time and enjoyed the delicious food.

FHE fun...

We sometimes do this for our family home evening activity. It is super fun unless you happen to suck instead of blow. YUCK!

Big girl bed...

Our little H started climbing out of her crib, so we decided it was time for a big girl bed. She was so excited for her new bed (probably so she could be just like her big sister who has one just like it.) She has never had a problem sleeping in it. She absolutely loves it.

A new hairdo for me...

BEFORE:

I went and got my hair dyed professionally for the first time ever. It didn't turn out exactly as I wanted. It was BURGUNDY! She said she had to add a little red in so my ends wouldn't turn green. Well burgundy was not exactly the color I was going for.

AFTER:

Luckily, she fixed it for free, but I didn't get a picture of it after she did. It looked 100 times better after she fixed it. Now I am trying to figure out if I want to stay a brunette!?!