Dear Santa...

I would like an American Girl doll.
My sister would like a La La Loopsie doll (another one...)
and my mommy, she wants 7 more hours in her day.
That's all.
Merry Christmas.
Anne
(of course she didn't really say any of this...but we may visit that old beared man and see what he can do for me)

number 7....

anne lost her SEVENTH tooth last night.
cutest thing ever.
cuter even that she very daintily left the tooth fairy jar lid OFF of the top so the tooth fairy could squeak that dollar in the jar. she even PUTITBACKON as anne clara squealed to me this morning...
i tell ya. that tooth fairy, one cool CHICK!
~chat soon.

the most wonderful time of the year...

saturday night, i still wasn't feeling great. i planted my rump on the couch, under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book.
adam wrangled the girls in the family room for a movie.
awhile later i hear the floor crack...it was anne.
she said, 'i'm not going to bother you...i just can't stop looking at the tree.'
me-it's beautiful, isn't it?
anne-yes, it makes me want to scream a little.
me-really? scream?
anne-yep, sometimes when i think something is really, really great, i just can't help it. i want to make a noise.
with that she crawled under the blanket with me and we gazed at the tree.
she talked about nearly every ornament and explained the true story of Christmas.
if i could have sealed up that 7 minutes of bliss and stuck it on the shelf, boy oh boy, i would have!

~chat soon.

decorating...

 

so as i said in the last post, i had a little bit of a stomach bug. but we still needed to get things done. the things on the list included seeing santa at my school.
i practiced my robot mode and breathing deep, we saw santa, did some crafts, and  got the tree decorated.
this year the girls really got into the whole thing.
kate wasn't super excited about seeing santa, but i told her he would have no idea what to bring if she didn't tell him, and anne was 'super brave' if you look closely at the picture above, i think her skirt tells a different story.
when we got home, we started the tree.
i gave them each their ornament boxes that we add to each year.
they laid each one and out and carefully inspected them all.
anne has a memory like a trap so she 'nearly' remembered all of the ornaments and loved the fact that she could read most of the words on the ornaments.

blurry but you get the idea...this is kate's box

~chat soon

the tree

we successfully got to the tree farm this weekend.
we successfully found a tree, and cut it down.
adam tied it on top of the car (he HATES that part) he is a master at tying flies for fishing, but not so hot at tying knots for holding things on atop of a vehicle that will be traveling 70 mph down the highway. always a funny story.
i successfully got a stomach bug of sorts on the way to the tree farm.
felt like i had a roller coaster belly.
we picked the tree as a family, but i was more like a robot...just concentrating on one thing...keeping it ALL inside my belly.
yuck.
the tree is up.
it looks great.
i love odd trees.
makes me think of my grandparents house when i was little.
~chat soon!

this was the first one we chose, we picked a different one in the end

i know...anne is holding the saw.  didn't even realize it...i'm telling you i was in robot mode saying....'don't poop in the forest'

the one

all loaded up

journey is almost complete

he's laughing...which is good, usually he is cussing.

hey guys? what is takin' so loooooong?

Friday...

thought i would stick with the days of the week theme.
it's friday.
that is good.
have been very excited about the weekend ahead.
tomorrow we go to the christmas tree farm and chop our tree down.
we tried to go last year but this is what happened instead.
i'm praying that it isn't quite that kind of memorable. :)
we are going to decorate the house.
i always think it will take forever and before i know it it is done.
with a whole bunch of mess with it, but that is easy enough to handle.
i can't wait.
we (i) put up outside lights last night. in the dark. it was cracking me up.
i thought it would be easier since the lights would be on and i could see where i was going with the strand.
next year i will do it during the day.  note to self.
i do however need to track down the wonderful inventor of the lights that are a net style.  OHMYGOODNESS! i will KISS THAT PERSON!  GENIUS!  the hardest part was wrestling them out of the box.  love it.  threw it over the rose bushes and VIOLA christmas light perfection.
so all in all, it will be busy.  birthday party tonight for a classmate, tree cutting tomorrow, santa lap sitting at my school tomorrow afternoon, tree trimming, maybe some cookie baking.
can't wait.
just can't.
hope you are having a fun weekend too!
~chat soon!

thursday....

today is thursday.
i have had two nights of continous glorious sleep.
its amazing how much things change when your eyes (and brain) are clear!
happy thursday!
~chat soon