Tootsie Footsies

Jocelyn was actually walking around on these, and it looked like the tippy toe ballerina shoes. They are the Tootsie Roll containers that come with Tootsies in them, then you can save change in them. Jocey had other plans for hers. She was walking around like she was going to be the first Tootsie Footsie Ballerina.

About a year ago the clouds were hanging low, so low that I had a bright idea. My idea was to pack the kids up in the car and drive up the mountain, so we could go up into the clouds. It was just up the road since we were at my mom's and she already lives in the perty mountains. So the kids and I headed off into the clouds. We were just going for a short drive, so the kids didn't need any shoes, right? Wrong. The paved road suddenly turned into the muddiest dirt road ever, and it started raining really hard. I thought "I probably should turn around". So that's what I did, and we got stuck. Not only did we get stuck, the back wheels began to sink. We were on a desolate road that NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY goes on. I began to pray really hard, and at that very moment I saw a red truck coming towards us. I got out and flagged him down, and he gave us all a ride to my mom's house. The next day Clarence helped me tow it out of the mud.

So now we don't leave the house without shoes and we won't go drive on muddy roads in the boonies.

Blogging Marathon

So I haven't posted anything for a long time............that is until today. I guess I am on a BLOGGING MARATHON. Today Jocelyn fell asleep at dinner with her food in her lap, and her fork in her hand. I thought it was so PRECIOUS!

Pinecone Christmas Trees

We LOVE Christmas!!!!!!

Brooklyn, Jocelyn, London and Hailey amazed that they

created such fun Christmas decorations.

A few weeks ago we went outside and gathered as many pinecones as we could find that had fallen on the ground. I bought some small terra cotta pots, and they painted them red, covered them with glitter and turned them upside down. Then they painted their pinecones green and covered them in sparkling glitter. After they dried I glue gunned the pinecones to the upside down terra cotta pots. I would put a dob of glue on the pinecones while they put their beads on the dobs of glue.

It was a blast! I try to do an art project with them at least twice a month on a Saturday. It's great because we like to create things, and we get to spend time together.

Santa Clause & My Cuties

Jocelyn wants a Baby w/Stoller
Hailey want Baby Alive
(the one that goes potty and washes her hands)

London wants a Barbie Cruise Ship
and Art Supplies



Brooklyn wants a Digital Camera

and a Persian Cat Webkins

We went to go see Santa today!! The best part was the hot chocolate and the yummy glazed donuts. Santa handed out cute little cups with paper lined in the inside so the kids could color and decorate their own cup. Oh what fun they had!! They also loved all of the snow that fell this morning..........until they realized that snow melts. They came inside and warmed up in a steaming hot bath. That's the best when it is FREEZING COLD outside.