Snow Shots

Snow pictures are so fun to take,it's just hard to expose it correctly and get something original..seems like yr to yr the snow pictures all look the same.LOL

Anyway here a few I took,I ran out this morning for like 10mins to take a few..I had to come in though,my fingers stopped working! LOL








This is an old cultivator that is sitting out in our field,I thought the color would be cool against the white snow..it's different,I like it! :D


It wasn't making very good snowballs yet,too cold! lol

We may get ice tomorrow..YUCK,I'd much rather have snow!

Snowcream

We got our first measurable snow yesterday,only a few inches but the kids still enjoyed it! Well Tanner did.He's been sledding after school the past two days and of course they had to have some "snowcream" ,you know snow but eat it like ice cream! LOL That was the best part of winter for us as kids,we would BEG to put snow in a bowl with sugar and any other toppings we could think of,we thought that was the best! lol So of course I told Tanner that little tidbit a few years back and what do you think he begs to do each time it snows? you guessed it..so of course Emma got to share in that little tradition this yr too. She wouldn't eat it until he put chocolate syrup on it..smart girl ;)
Here are a few snaps of them enjoying their first "snowcream" of the winter!

December fun!

Well it's hard to believe that Christmas will be arriving in about a week! Where did this month go?! It's been a fun month so far though and the best is yet to come!

I'm trying to get everything done,didn't get as much decorated as I would have liked and I didn't get as many cookies made but hey what can you do.lol We did get to see Santa though and Emma did GREAT! I was surprised! She didn't cry and sit there so big so I was actually able to snap a decent shot. Afterwards he gave the kids a bag of 'goodies' and they got cookies and punch,she loved that part.lol

I tried to get tree decorating pictures but they didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. My 9yr old didn't want to cooperate and we didn't have enough lights on the tree I realized,just wasn't putting off enough light to get good pics without the flash,but I tried. Anyway here are the decorating shots,Santa picture and a few other random ones! Merry Christmas everyone!!








see? He just can't take a good picture anymore,it's pure dorkiness all the time.lol


awwwwww :)


So onry!!

Busy Busy!

This time of year is obviously very busy (for everyone I'm sure!) ,just seems I have a million things on my plate (and mind) right now and I hate to feel so pressured. This week me and another girl are planning the Once a month cooking group for this coming Saturday. The 'main' girl has finals for college and is swamped so she was unable to do most of the planning. So we have to find time to figure up the cost (like by tomorrow) and go shopping for 10+ people by Thursday and cook meat for about 7 meals before making the meals on Saturday. On top of that I need to finish Christmas shopping and find time to decorate the tree and the house for Christmas. I have a ton of other small things throughout the week to do too but I have a feeling I'll be rushing here and there with the cooking group! THEN This weekend Tanner is staying overnight with his cousin on Friday for his birthday,I have the cooking group saturday morning but Tanner has to picked up by 11 or so (it will be dads duty that morning!) than we are going swimming with the boy scouts at 3. Thankfully I think Sunday is pretty clear,not sure yet. Next week I have to try to plan and shop and cook for a Christmas party WE are hosting at our house for my husbands coworkers,argh! WHY do I agree to this stuff? That same weekend we have a christmas get together with my MIL and SIL for a gift exchange and I need to bring food to it too. :::whew::::: I know it doesn't seem like TON but it's things that take so much planning and thats the worst part! Then of course we have two family get togethers we are going too on Christmas eve,one on Christmas day and another Christmas party on the 27th..it's going to have drinks though and at that point I'm going to NEED a drink! LOL I really do like the holidays but it can be a tad overwhelming...oh and I have to try and get some sugar cookies baked at some point because I'm taking Emma over to a friends where a few of us are going to decorate cookies with the kids. I'd feel better if I had all my shopping done ,heck nothing is even wrapped! That takes long enough in itself esp. while I have a destructive 16mo old on my hands.LOL

Somehow it will all work out though..January should be a bit slower but already things are starting to fill in on the calender. Well two things should be fun. A couples passion party on the 17th and a scrapbooking weekend...yeah!

One good thing I'm looking forward to this week is MOPS..ahhhhhhhh. I love MOPS! Two hours of mom talk UNITERRUPTED! woohoo! Thank goodness for small things :)

I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday planned..I can't wait to see the kids faces when they see all their presents,thats the best part. I'm sure Emma will love tearing into hers!

More onry by the day!

Guess who I"m talking about? That girl keeps me on my toes and I barely have a chance to relax anymore until she's napping or down for the night. Talk about ONRY! My oh my! lol

Here a few quick snapshots of her..you decide for yourself on the first couple ;)






The last two are ones I took one day in Tanners room. He had some nice light coming in his window and I wanted to try to get a few of her without flash. Well.....it didn't work out so great. Every 2 seconds after I set her down she'd be sliding off the bed to go run. I captured ONE (yes one) decent shot and the other I captured as she was escaping! lol