School Concert

Friday the girls had a Christmas concert at their school and did a wonderful job singing some festive songs. Macy's class actually sang one song entirely in Spanish and as beautiful as it sounded, I have no clue what was being said.

You did a wonderful job Abby and Macy!

Abby with her good friend, Alma.

GNO Par-tay

Thursday night was a GNO (Girls Night Out) with my cousins and aunts, and can I just say I have the absolute funnest cousins and aunts there are! We had so much fun. All of us were laughing so hard that most of us were in tears by the end of the night.

We played dirty Santa with white elephant gifts and while some people brought actual white elephant gifts, others were very generous. My favorite Aunt Linda brought one of her old wigs as her gift and her daughter Laura opened it up. We had a good laugh! Check her out with her new do. Love it Laura!

Happy Birthday Abby

Our little princess turned six today. Wow! I can't believe how grown up our kids are getting. I remember Abby being born, at 2:00 in the morning. She just wouldn't let me get any rest and had to come right smack in the middle of the night!

We had a little party for her today and she invited 4 of her little friends from school. All the girls showed up in their dresses and we had a wonderful princess party. For the first 15 minutes all they wanted to do was twirl in their dresses and dance to music. Too cute. It was a party filled with princess games and instead of pin the tail on the donkey, we played pin the kiss on the frog.

Happy Birthday Abby. We love the sweet little girl you are.

Our Thanksgiving Weekend

Just to fill you in, late, on our Thanksgiving weekend. We had a wonderful time in Idaho with Grandma and Grandpa Udy. The kids ran around like crazy outside with their cousins and it was nice to be in the country and to be able to let them run free.

We first stopped by Pocatello to visit our good friends, the Abercrombie's, and then it was off to see the Udy's. Clint's sister Kathy and I made our annual after Thanksgiving shopping spree and left to get to the stores at 4:00 in the morning. That made for a very long day but we did get some nice deals.

With the Abercrombie's - Clint and his good buddy, Joe

While we were out spending shopping, the guys took the kids into the mountains to get Christmas trees. They loved it! I have to say, Clint did a nice job picking out trees this year and we strapped a real beauty on the top of our van and brought her home. Clark Griswald would be proud!

Thank You Clint!

For several weeks now I have been mentioning to Clint that I "need" to go shopping. Like every other girl out there, I have no clothes to wear. So graciously Clint told me to take the whole day, this last Saturday, and spend some time at the mall. I left the three older kids with him and took Tyler along with me for a day of some well needed shopping. It was wonderful and so nice to be out of the house and to have no kids in tow, except for Tyler of course.

Thank you Clint for letting me have a day of relaxation.

I've Been Tagged

My friend, Sarah, tagged me so it's my turn to share some odd things about me, with you!

#1 - I can not make a decision to save my life, especially when it comes to buying things. I am known to take things back, often. I will buy something and think I love it and the next day my mind has changed. I am actually surprised that I ever made the decision to get married; that's how bad I am with making a choice about something.

#2 - I am OCD about my house being burned down. I have to check the stove, heater, curling irons, etc. every time before I leave the house even if I never even used the stove that morning. I will check, recheck and have been known to drive back to the house after leaving to triple check and make sure nothing was left on!

#3 - I have a major sweet tooth. I have to have some kind of sweet in the house, just something to satisfy my craving. Cookies, candies, cake, anything. I guess that is why I can never get rid of my last 5 pounds!

#4 - Call me an optimist but I always think I will win a contest if I enter. Although I never do, there is always that slim chance that I will win the prize. Because of this positive outlook I often enter contests in the hopes of winning!

#5 - I am secretly obsessed with celebrities and have to know what they are doing. It's like I think we are friends because I always like to know what they are up to, where they are shopping and where they are going on vacations, etc. I enjoy watching the Entertainment Tonight shows so I can have my celebrity fix. Shhh, don't tell!

#6 - I guess this goes along with my OCD, but I have to double check on the kids every night to make sure they are okay. Even hours after they have gone to bed, I have to go in to make sure everyone is tucked in safely.

#7 - I used to be terrified of roller coasters, but now I LOVE them! Growing up I absolutely refused to ride them because I always felt too afraid and scared as well that they would fall apart. Now I enjoy them and will scream the "entire" ride, my sister can attest to that. I am not too sold on the ones that go upside down but the others I am game for!

I am now tagging Becky U., Becky H., Layna, Tamra, Emily, Jo and Stacee

A Fun Halloween

This year's Halloween was filled with lots of fun, activities and too much sugar. Grandma Nana sent the kids each a Halloween shirt which they all loved. Thanks Grandma Nana for thinking of the kids and for the special surprise. Tyler's shirt would light up anytime he moved, and this presented a problem during his nap time. He would wake himself up anytime he moved because the light would set off. We had to have a wardrobe change for those sleeping times!

Our carved pumpkins this year were better than in years past. Our wonderful neighbors let us borrow their pumpkin carving kit which allowed us to create intricately carved pumpkins. I would highly recommend getting a kit. In fact, we later went and bought one to be able to use for next year.

Trick or treating was great despite the rainfall. The kids loved running around the neighborhood with dad while I manned the house. We had so many kids especially during the first hour. I didn't even have time to sit down in between the doorbell being ringed. I just sat on our steps and handed candy out lunchroom style. They lined up and I served them!

Macy and Abby wore their Chinese outfits Pops brought back from China while Blake insisted on wearing my old jailbird costume from when I was a little girl. He refused to wear anything else. And then there was Tyler, our little Spider. He did not like wearing his costume. I think it was on him a total of 15 minutes!

Tyler enjoyed his first Halloween treat, a sucker! He "loved" every minute of that sugar on a stick.

We hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween!