I have a vision for my Christmas card this year, and I needed a white on white photo shoot to make it happen.
Good thing Benny took about a million pictures, so we could get a few decent ones.
But until I solidify the good ones, here are a few of the outtakes:
Nobody quite gets my vision, so I drew it out.
Just picture the above card, with an amazing artist at the pen.
I’m crossing my fingers it will all pan out.
The easiest mornings for me, are the mornings when Icka slept in curlers the night before.
Good thing I have a mom who tries to set her hair, as often as possible.
If I had known the hours of enjoyment, a huge white piece of paper and a box of pens would have provided….I would have put them out wwaaaayyyy sooner.
I think these kids were out there for about three hours just drawing and drawing.
And it all happened very randomly….Benny Ek wanted to cut off the bottom of his backdrop he had brought over. So rather than throw it away, we created a work space. And the next three hours were a creative frenzy of three cute kids.
I love a relaxed evening where it is just our little family hanging out.
Tonight, Scout was perfecting his Chinese yo-yo skills, while the others were making castles, fortresses and temples.
My kids love Christmas lights time.
Not because they love the finished product.
Not because the lights indicate Santa’s coming.
Because their dad lets them climb out on the roof and live dangerously for about five minutes.
After a yummy breakfast, and a sweet manger reenactment, the chorister with the morister brought Santa to the church building with some lively Christmas songs.
My kids were stoked.
Pippi was a trooper — even giving Santa an extra hug for her own candy cane.
And on our way out, Scout told me of his science experiment — where he swiped a balloon from the decorations, and weighed it down.
He said according to his calculations, it would go up, but would come down.
So he sent it on its way, and it went up, up, up.
And they we both started cracking up, as we watched it go a little too high for his experiment.
But while we were laughing, that stinking thing came down, down, down!
Nice work Science Sam.
We picked out our tree in less than 10 minutes this year.
The first one we opened, was perfect.
It was full, without holes.
It was the perfect height.
It was really heavy and fresh.
So while Micah got that tree paid for, and loaded up, we played around with some photo ops.
And then we drove home….
only to find out that we had picked out the worst tree on the planet.
The so-called perfect tree, had a trunk that went right up the side of it…making one side’s branches a foot long, and the other side’s branches about three feet long.
Our tree had to be tied to a post just to get the stinking thing to stand up straight.
Well, I wish us better luck next year.
When we go to the mall, my kids like the playground first.
Second place goes to Pottery Barn, where they literally think they have free reign to play as if they were at home.
Tied for third place is definitely the Lego store and Disney Store.
And coming up in the rear, my guess is that they would choose See’s candy, or anywhere they can play their favorite mall game — “Spies”.
(Spies is where they hide in every rounder, behind every mannequin, or under every table while spying on me. But when I call them, they don’t come. So my heart panics like crazy until each of them is rounded up.)
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The most hated stores — Zara and Baby Gap.
Today was pajama day at school….and Dr. Hada’s office.
Everything was peaceful, and went smoothly.
Navy needs the standard sealants.
Dash has great looking teeth.
Scout only has two cavities!!!
(That is a downgrade from past visits — and they are both old cavities that may not have been treated very well. I was a little surprised, since we have been taking him down to Santa Ana’s finest dentist sweatshop.)
And Pippi found a sweet grandma in the waiting room that liked to read every book Pippi brought her.
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Like I said….everything went great!
Until…I got a quiet wave over from the hygienist.
This group Email I sent to my family tells it all!
HAH!
All of my kids just look like they are dying for a bite to eat!
(Except Pippi….who actually does look like she may be malnourished.)
I’m hoping she didn’t feel obligated to call CPS.
Read them and weep folks!
Just back-to-back perfect spelling tests!
And check out that penmanship that has improved about 600% since last year!
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