Saturday, December 19, 2009

gingerbread houses

tonight we made gingerbread houses {out of graham crackers and canned frosting!}!

it was totally messy and absolutely fun!

daryl was the architect for the boys' houses.



the backside of spencer's house


spencer's house
my house
colby's house
the attic in colby's house

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

happy anniversary!


today i've been married 14 years. it doesn't seem like it's been that long. it's been a fun adventure, and i can't wait to see what the next 14 years hold for us!

i {heart} this man!

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

you better watch out....

santa claus came to town tonight!!!!

we had our annual family christmas party at church tonight, and it was so cute! first the kids from sonshine school performed, and i think there may be a future american idol in that group! one little girl kept grabbing the microphone and saying hello....too cute!

then our wednesday night singing class sang a few songs. it was weird "being on stage" again. it's been many years since i sang with a group in front of a lot of people. it was like being in jr. high and high school choir all over again.

the best part of the night {besides the awesome chocolate peppermint cake} was when santa arrived. you just can't help but smile when you see santa. he's just so.......magical and jolly, you know? i got to help with the kids who were visiting with santa. i introduced them one by one to santa claus. what a fun job that was!

you're never too old to talk to santa, are you spencer?

most of the kids were totally enchanted by him, but there were a few little ones who wanted nothing to do with him! one little girl said she would go talk to santa if i would go with her and let her sit on MY lap! so unfortunately for the parents, i'm in their daughter's picture with santa.
this adorable little guy was fascinated with santa.

these next two little ones weren't quite as enamored with santa.


after all of the kids had talked to santa, i got my turn! since i'd already told him last saturday that i wanted a buyer for my house for christmas, i figured he didn't need me to tell him again. i just asked him if i could take a picture with him. he said, "of course!" we took our picture, and then he said, "now you have to do something for me. don't run away." i gave him the weirdest look because i had no idea what would happen next. "she's gonna take a picture, and you're gonna plant one right here," he said pointing to his cheek! i couldn't let santa down, so i gave him a smooch on the cheek!

quote of the day: "I better not pull this Santa's beard. It looks real, and he'll put coal in my stocking if I do that!" ~an adorable little boy in line tonight {and no, it wasn't colby!}

Sunday, December 6, 2009

great weekend

i had a fun-filled weekend, but unfortunately i have few pictures to prove it!!!

friday night daryl and i went to the voice of the martyrs christmas dinner. they are a christian organization that send care packages to christians all over the world. the boys stayed with e.d. and susan and helped them decorate for christmas. they had quite an operation going....e.d. put the hooks on while the boys hung the ornaments on the tree!
saturday we went to best buy to replace our camera that went for a dunk in daryl's sweet tea a couple of weeks ago. my new camera (and yes, it's all mine. i was told it was my birthday present!) is almost identical to the other camera. i tested it out at lunch on colby's pizza sculpture, but you can't see the picture.

that night our church participated in the bartlesville christmas parade. this was a first for adams blvd. church of christ. as we were walking to the parking lot where our float was waiting, santa claus was standing by the gate welcoming all the participants! i stopped and asked him if i could take my picture with him, and he said,"of course!" i got an adorable one-armed photo of the two of us, but you can't see that one either. {i also told him that i wanted a buyer for my house in broken arrow for christmas.}

i also took a lot of cute pictures of all of us on the float, especially of the varmints and me. there was also a "little person" dressed as an elf on the float next to ours. he was awesome!!! he was dancing and doing flips and singing! colby kept pointing and saying, "mom!!! look at the elf!" i took his picture as well, but you're not going to see that one either.

right as the parade was about to pull out, i took the camera from my coat pocket and turned it on to take some more pictures. but when i looked at the screen, it was all messed up! i turned it on and off thinking it was just cold or something, but nothing changed!

i was bummed, but at least i had a few pictures already saved on the card.........wrong! i put in the card reader, and nothing would load! my other sd cards worked just fine, but not the new one!

daryl took the camera back to best buy today {thank goodness we bought the extended warranty!} and they said it had taken a blow of some sort! what??? the guy said those cameras are extremely fragile, and the slightest bump can totally screw it up! he also said that when it got hit, that it shorted out and fried the sd card. that's why i have no pictures to show you.

except.........i have a few pictures of today's adventure with spencer. {i took them with our old, old camera.} someone gave us two tickets to Handel's Messiah, so spencer and i went to that performance at 2:00 this afternoon. this was a first for both of us, so we didn't know what to expect. the orchestra music was amazing.....i could have listened to that music all day, but i didn't care much for the chorus. i found that strange because i was a choir nerd in jr. high and high school. i could tell that spencer was bored, so we left at half-time {aka intermission} and went christmas shopping! the best part of the day was when spencer told me he had fun with me today! priceless...
quote of the day: "i had fun today." ~spencer