It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....then I fell down the stairs!

First let me start by saying that I am ok after my crazy fall this morning. Okay not really crazy my feet just slipped out from under me so I slid down the stairs and landed on my rear! Not fun. I was in a lot of pain this morning but I am taking lots of IBProfen and taking it easy and I am feeling better (I'm a teeny bit worried -okay a lot worried!- about having to get out of bed tomorrow morning other than that I think I can handle it). Thank goodness we had deocrated for Christmas on Saturday! :) I LOVE Christmas and having the house all decorated is one of my favortie things. We got a new tree last year after Christmas so this was our first year putting it up and I love it! I love everything about Christmas. The magic, the spirit of it all, the baking, giving gifts, it truly is my favorite time of year. Here are some pictures of our decorations...

The tree Again, with the flash this time.
One of my elves...

a closer up picture, no flash so it's kind of blurry

one of my favorite decorations. The jingle bell wreath on the front door

Joe made this stocking holder 7 years ago. We got new stockings this year - I LOVE THEM~ The elf with the stockings....

The elf putting presents under the tree

Daisy is hoping there are doggie bones for her...

a few more decorations

the table

I painted this a few years ago...

the reindeer taking off!

Our house, again kinda blurry but I couldn't use the flash

We had a great thanksgiving and Joe's parents came to visit. We had lots of fun seeing some Christmas lights, playing games, teaching Grandma to play guitar hero, and of course eating until we were stuffed! :) Hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well.

Now post your Christmas decorations! I want to see your houses too! :)

Merry Christmas~!

I love your blog award

My friend Jamie tagged me so here it is.....

This post is in honor of the "I Love Your Blog Award." I now have to answer each of the questions with a one word answer.

1. Where is your phone? pocket
2. Where is your significant other? Eric's
3. Your hair color? blonde
4. Your Mother? fabulous!
5. Your Father? lost
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? ???
8. Your dream/goal? organization
9. The room you're in? living
10. Your hobby? sewing
11. Your fear? sadness
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? healthy
13. Where were you last night? airport
14. What you're not? quiet
15. One of your wish-list items? time
16. Where you grew up? Utah
17. The last thing you ate? lunch
18. What are you wearing? clothes
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? AWESOME
21. Your computer? addictive!
22. Your mood? carefree
23. Missing someone? always
24. Your car? Kia
25. Something you're not wearing? shoes
26. Favorite store? Target
27. Your Summer? boat
28. Love someone? yes!
29. Your favorite color? red
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? unsure

I now award five people the "I Love Your Blog Award."
1. Sara
2. Heather N
3. Candice
4. Song
5. Teresa

***On a side note I HATE these one word answer things because I am such a chatty it is VERY hard for me to just answer with one word! :)

How well do my kids know me?

I have seen this on a few friends blogs and I wanted to see what my kids had to say....

Here we go:

Q1. What is something mom always says to you?
HD: Stop bothering your sisters
Sierra: "You say 'come here' alot" - I guess I am always needing her lol
Haylee: I love you

Q2. What makes mom happy?
D: Clean rooms
S: presents
Haylee: my love

Q3. What makes mom sad?
D: When our chores aren't done
S: When we are mean to each other
H: I don't know

Q4. What makes mom laugh?
D: me
S: when I say "Is this Burt from accounting?" - (that's a line from Horton Hears a Who and it cracks me up every time)
H: jokes

Q5. What was your mom like as a kid?
D: bad -(what the heck???)
S: undiciplined (alright who is making up stories about my childhood?!?)
H: cute

Q6. How old is your mom?
D: 33
S: 33
H: 33

Q7. How tall is your mom?
D: 5'5
S: 5'3
H: 5'30 -(she really did say 5 feet 30 inches -wow!)

Q8. What is her favorite thing to do:
D: talk on the phone
S: play bejewled
H: blog

Q9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
D: talk on the phone
S: get down on her knees and says "THEY'RE FINALLY GONE!" -she's very close! ha ha
H: get on the computer

Q10. If your mom becomes famous what will it be for?
D: loving her children -(he really wanted to say talking on the phone!)
S: comedy
H: singing

Q11. What is your mom really good at?
D: preparing lessons for church
S: cooking - (she must be thinking of someone else on this one!)
H: Bejeweled 2

Q12. What is your mom not very good at?
D: video games - except for the Wii
S: putting songs on my ipod
H: there is nothing that you are not good at (she is my sweet baby)

Q13. What does your mom do for her job?
D: photography
S: photography
H: photography -(after this she said "I mean you are really good at it. Have you seen the pictures that you do?")

Q14. What is your moms favorite food?
D: homeade caramels
S: chicken
H: I have no idea

Q15. What makes you proud of your mom?
D: that she has a strong spirit
S: everything you do for primary
H: how much you love us

Q16. If your mom were a cartoon character who would she be?
D: Daffy Duck - he is cracking up right now he said it's because I can get really mad but I can be nice 3 seconds later. (yikes - can you say mood swings? ha ha)
S: can't think of one
H: Minnie Mouse

Q17. What do you and your mom do together?
D: play the Wii
S: sew
H: school

Q18. How are you and your mom the same?
D: we have brown eyes
S: we both have wonderful personalities
H: we are both cute

Q19. How are you different?
D: I'm still in school
S: I have blue eyes
H: I don't have pierced ears

Q20. How do you know your mom loves you?
D: she drives me everywhere I need to go
S: does my laundry
H: she snuggles me

There you go! That was fun! I think we'll do it again in a year...if I'm not too busy talking on the phone! :) Happy Thursday everyone!

Happy Seventh Birthday Haylee Jo!

Thursday November the 6th Haylee turned SEVEN! WOW! I can't believe the last year has gone by so quickly!!! This year we started a new birthday tradition...Birthday Wishes. You get a wish for each year you are old. Haylee was really excited to spend her seven wishes

Wish #1 Pancakes for breakfast

YUMMY!

Wish#2 NO SCHOOL! -there aren't any pictures of this one

Wish #3 a luxurious bubble bath

She was in there for an hour!
opening presents - no wish needed here -

Pokemon Cards! Yessss!!!

A chemistry set from Grandma Chelle!

And drumroll please..... AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR! She wanted one of these so badly!

Very exciting!

Look at that awesome pink!

-that awesome pink set me back 10 more bucks than just the plain one!

Dad rockin' out before he left for work. Oh yeah and now he's BALD!

Bad haircut = shaving your own head totally bald! :)

Wish #4 - making things explode...well not quite.

Wish #5 eating dinner on the couch while watching TV

-Usually a big no no!

Wish #6 was an extra bedtime story - no pictures of that one either.

Wish #7 was to go see Madagascar 2 on Friday - it was HYSTERICAL!

So the wishes were for the actual day of her birthday today -Saturday- we had her party. It was a carnival theme and we had a BLAST! The pictures of the kids actually playing the games were pretty blurry -Joe wasn't using the flash - but here is what we did...

The first game we played was "Lucky Cups" throw a ball into the cup

and try to hit the colored ones for points.

Then we did a bean bag toss.

Here is a random picture of the cake. I have never in my life stacked

a cake and decorated it. It was fun!

What do you think?

The table

the decorations

the cupcakes...decorated by Haylee

the adult friends from r to l

Eric, Ally (little friend), Lisa, Troy, Erica, Meta, Sheena, Hermione, and Matt

What a fab group! T and E drove all the way from Pennsylvania!

The kids picking their bean bags. Sierra and I made them.

The cake with the candles

Singing to the birthday girl

The mysterious fortune tellers. You should have heard some of their awesome predictions.

*If you put on your coat....you will be warm.

*You will recieve presents on December 25th.

*You will recieve a treat before the end of the day.

Scary how right on they were!

Here is the mysterious fortune teller on another day. I mentioned above how Sierra and I made the bean bags. I have been teaching her how to sew and she is LOVING it. She is making a rag quilt for a Young Women's project. I have had such a great time teaching her.

She is doing GREAT!

Cutting fabric while grandma was here.

Halloween 2008

Happy Halloween everyone! We had a really fun Halloween and I think we ended up with more candy than we started with!!! Yikes! I think we will be giving it away as Christmas presents! I don't have any pictures of HD and Sierra as they are way too cool to hang out with me long enough for that! :) HD trick or treated with his buddies they all wore capes and went as teenagers wearing capes. Ha Ha! Sierra was a pirate and had a really cute costume but she was at Bolling AFB with her friend Tasha they trick or treated over there and then had a sleep over. I talked to her last night and she said they got a ton of candy and had a blast. So that leaves me with my youngest - thank goodness she's still too young to ditch me!- Haylee was Indiana Jones. Her favorite part of the costume was the whip. We went out with our friends and ended up having about 10 kids in our trick or treat party. We were all worn out last night! Hope you all had a fun night as well!

Indiana Jones and her sidekick Daisy Can you tell how much Daisy loves wearing this hat?Indi at sunsetKeeping the front porch under control!Whapsh!And now kind of an added post with pictures of our sweet Daisy dog.
I honestly don't know what we would do without her!

Our sweet girl.

I have pictures from carving pumpkins too but that will have to wait for another day! :)