Snuggles, Bags, and Cute Girls

Madison and I had some quality sewing time going on this month to help make some fun bags. Her friend Hannah was sewing up a storm too and made Madison a Snuggie. We were ALL snuggly in our Christmas robes for New Year's Eve when my mom got to come for a short visit.

The BEST present we opened was....

OUR KIDS.

They all fit inside the big box our basketball hoop from Santa came in! Thank goodness Santa didn't go as crazy as last year... or the whole family might have fit into whatever box he brought. HO HO HO Merry Christmas!

Annual Pics in Front of the Tree

This is a Harris tradition that I've carried over into my family. PJ pics in front of the tree on Christmas Eve. The kids groan when it's time to take pictures, but I think they secretly love it!

Angel Gabriel Gets the Jitters

Grant opted out of the ward nativity this year. He said he would not be a donkey AGAIN this year unless we paid him. Carter was the Angel Gabriel and had some lines he had to memorize and deliver. Well, he got a little nervous onstage and started picking at his feather belt, so wisps of fuzzies began swirling all around the nativity. Some of the "animals" even took to blowing the fuzzies to keep them in the air. "Gabriel" did do a beautiful job on his lines, despite his jitters.

Creative Christmas Chaos

I've been flexing the creative muscle in my brain to come up with Tree Costumes (tomato cages covered with green blankets) and Crafts for the boys craft day at school.

Now- I know their tree costumes were not the most beauiful, but it only took about an hour of my life span to make them and I do so love to save time. I used the time I saved to have a brief nap before their choir performance at school and we were nearly late- oops.

Saved Time=Nap=Lateness=Chaos.... I couldn't put their cosumes on until we got to the school and ended up trying to do it super-speedily in the parking lot. It was dark so I couldn't find the hole I'd cut out for Carter's head and began to have fits of hysterical laughter. Seriously I could not stop laughing... this impaired me for when I was trying to put Grant's costume on, so I didn't notice that I only got half of his face showing until he was onstage singing. I STILL start giggling when I see these Christmas tree costume pictures of the boys and remember them asking if that's how they were supposed to "look".

MadHatterison

Madison set up a "tea" party complete with snacks in her room when she found out some of her friends were coming to visit. The boys mostly ignored it and opted to run around and play foosball, but the girls had a lovely time. Carter eventually sniffed out the food and ended up eating all the leftovers. I think Madison's Halloween costume has had an impact on her personality...

Gummy Bear Town

For an assignment at school Madison had to construct a cell module. She made such a creative gummy bear town... the only bad thing was that Dad threw it out before we could remove some of the things we wanted to keep from the cell model.

Let the 32nd year begin!

Jeremy's another year older, but still young in spirit. We love you so Daddy-O!

Yum Yum Yum

We combined forces with the Christensen's for Thankgiving this year and enjoyed such a feast! Plus Jill made the tables beautiful because she enjoys bringing beauty into being. Thank you friends for helping to make the day fabulous! I wish I had some of those fabulous foods to eat right now, but then they might not be as special at Thanksgigving.

Goodbye Grandpa Don- We'll Miss You

We traveled to Utah for Grandpa Don's funeral. This is the first funeral I've been to and I have to say it was a beautiful experience. Hearing stories about Grandpa and how he lived his life was inspiring. He was truly a great man. We will miss seeing him so very much. We love you Grandpa Don.

Loves from Grandma Leann

No one can resist getting loved on by Grandma. Who would want to? James just enjoys playing hard to get!