Look what I can do.

I wanted to clean out my china hutch and took a picture of my slowly turning to dust wedding bouquet because I was going to trash it.  As I was taking it to the trash Stephen stopped me and asked what I was going to do.  When I told him he said no I want it.  So I thought I should at least keep some part of it.  So I broke off the roses and trashed the rest.  When I brought the dried roses back in I tried sticking them in this metal ball I had and it looked really good.  So it is still living in my china hutch but with a fresh new look.  Thanks Stephen.

This is a baby shower cake I made.

Megan is getting so big.

Henry turns 5!

Henry had a Lego Ninjago birthday party this year.

We had a Ninja training center that started off with an obstacle course.

One of our games was keep the bad guy balloons away by keeping them in the air with chop sticks.  It was all fun and games till two kids got stuck.  I should have seen that coming.

Another part was to learn to use chopsticks.  I found chopstick helpers that the kids could operate.

This part of the training was to karate chop a graham cracker in half.

Just the Girl.

Megan is all ready for bed Christmas Eve.

My very own Elf on a Shelf.

Megan's Christmas dress.

Megan got a princess crown made for her baby.

How cute are these boots???

Santi Clause Why? Why do you make my children cry, why?

This years visit to Santa started off good.  The kids got to see a really neat marionette show then they got to get a treat and were waiting very excitedly for Santa.  When Santa came Norman went first and got to ask Santa what he wanted for Christmas and Santa let him pick a toy from his sleigh.  Then he had all my kids come up for a picture and forgot to ask the others what they wanted and gave the others a toy from his sleigh.  Stephen decided he did not want the big doll Santa gave him because it was a girl toy so Santa nicely gave Stephen an elephant but Stephen thought to push the limits and say he did not want an elephant and almost got put on Santa's naughty list.  So Stephen said fine, he would take the elephant.  Henry got a mouse and ran away in hysterics because he did not want the mouse.  Then we tried to do a photo with Megan and she was not having it so we grabbed the kids and left in a hurry for home to have hot cocoa.  Boy was that not fun.

The Nativity

Norman is Joseph.

Stephen is a sheep.

This is Stephen pretending to eat what was in the gift Henry, the Wise Man, gave to baby Jesus.  Stephen told me he had done this but I did not realize he was talking about that he had done it while they were on stage till just now as I am going through the photos.  I knew he had done it during rehearsal.

Henry the Wise Man.

Quads and Camping

We have gone camping and we have gone quad riding but this time we put them together for a fun time of quads and camping.  Cheyenne even got to come along and ride in the dune buggy.