Frosty...

The redneck snowman.....

We decided to spend the day outside on Saturday. For once we got above 20 and my son is 95% back to normal. So after a few weeks of cabin fever we ventured outside to build ourselves a snowman and do some sledding. We have some crazy/funky faces for our pumpkins at Halloween time, so I pulled those out and used them on our snowman. We named him Billy Bob and I think Gavin was a little scared of him. I kept asking him to stand next to him so I could take a picture of them together and he wouldn't do it. OH well! Overall he had a great time and I am glad that the weather is a little nicer now!

Sunday was our annual baking Christmas cookies day with my family. It is always a good time, until we realized we nixed out the only cookies Greg could eat. He was not a happy camper when he realized this, but oh well! I told him I would make him his very own batch. And that is asking a lot from me, since they are Peanut Butter balls and I don't like peanut butter! As always, the kids had a wonderful time decorating (yea right!) the cookies and I snapped some pics of them and of course the winners in the contest we have every year. (We pick one of every kids, then go around the room and vote.) This year, the big winner was Pyper, she got a $1. That is how we get them to decorate, BRIBE THEM!

(The winning cookie is the bottom left side Santa- Beautiful! It was a struggle from keeping some of the younger kids from eating every cookie they decorated!)

(This is my son, doing god knows what, while the rest of the kids were decorating.)

Unsure if I will post again before the holiday, we are celebrating Christmas this entire weekend with my side of the family. This will be the first year IN MY LIFE, that I will be leaving Colorado for Xmas. We will be heading to Nebraska next Wed. for 5 days! Should be a good time. Just a little hard for me....

Have a wonderful Holiday!

Tis The Season...

For colds, fevers, runny noses, cranky babies and even crankier (is that a word?) hubby's. FINALLY, the boys are feeling better. Last week was a blur. TOTAL BLUR FOR ME. I wasn't well, we had a sick boy in bed with us for 6 nights straight and my husband that sounded like an elephant every time he blew his nose. We found out Greg had an intense Sinus Infection and Gavin had Croup along with a lovely ear infection. Always a joy to have a munchkin with a 103 temp that wants nothing to do but lay on you and be miserable. My very own hot box. They are all finally on the mend with each having a little bit of a cough still.

Since they were better, we decorated the house and the tree this weekend. Well I should say trees, we have 3. I am very adamant that we have a real tree for our main tree, but decided to scale back this year because we will not be here for Xmas, so got a 10 footer. Yes, that is scaling back for us I guess! Greg had to bring in our big ladder to do some of the lights and star at the top. He set it up and immediately my son climbed his way to the very top. He just wanted to sit up there! Scared me to death! The boy has no fear! He also took a liking to the Santa hat we have and wore it the whole day, along with the dogs jingle bells. He was pretty comical! I am so glad he is feeling better.

Finally the finished project, he only broke one ornament and of course it was the one we gave him last year for Christmas! Little stinker. As always, he is on another ladder, this time, not one so high! Now onto Christmas cards and wrapping presents. I wonder if he will leave them alone?!

Shocker

There will be no blog this week, because I have a houseful of sickies. Seriously it is a joy. Hoping this weekend will be better, we are decorating the house and our trees. My boys better shape up, or else.....