What we have been up to.

We Went up to Mt. Hood to play in the snow the week before Thanksgiving.

We had a snow ball fight.

Here is our Thanksgiving disaster. Every year something goes wrong. This year I assigned Jacob and Shelby a salad to be in charge of making. Shelby got the green jello salad which turned out great. Jacob got to make the dixie salad. Everything was going well until he put in the whipped topping. The bowl was too close to the edge and it fell on the floor spilling everywhere. Good thing I just mopped. Also to everyone who ate the dixie salad don't worry we just salvaged the stuff on top so no one ate directly off the stuff on the bottom that hit the floor (except for Rory, she ate it directly off the floor while we all tried to clean it up before she got full)

Here is all of us celebrating Grandpa's birthday with him.

Here we are at Thorntons tree farm where we get our tree every year. This is there petting zoo. Rory was trying to grab the pony by the nostrils. That how she shows her love.

We always take the hay ride and scope out what kind of tree we want. This year we picked a Frazer Fir.

Here is the tree we decided on. It was so funny to walk through all the trees with Rory. Every time she found a tree she liked (which was usually one that was the same height as her) She shouted out Ulaah Ulaah. So we all joined in and scattered among the trees shouting Ulaah Ulaah at the ones we considered. It almost sounded like a Hawaiian word or name.

Here is Jacob rockin' the house at his winter band concert. They only gave us one opportunity to take photos then they told us no pictures so the kids can play without all the flashes blinding them.

Then we set up our tree and stocking. which have to do about every day because the girls love to take off the ornaments and play with them. That is also why the tree is decorated the way it is but even with keeping only the top half decorated they manage to get the horse ornaments off and play with them. Plus we end up having a ornament hospital and glue them back together every few days.

This is Mackenzie's school Christmas party. Here she is with her teacher Shaun.

We also decorated cookies

and visited with Santa

This is our first opportunity to really decorate outside. We were so excited we drove the neighborhood to get ideas. We chose these LED lights. They are bright blue and white icicle type. We really like how it turned out. But we want to get blue bulbs for the outside to go with the theme.

Now I think we are up to date. Sorry for the lack of posting but as you can see with have been really busy.