Sunday Dress and Coat

This cute little outfit is also what Elle wore to her choir concert back in December.
She hasn't worn it since, so I thought it was high time she did!

Here's Elle in her Mink Stole






Actually, she thought she looked like a ghost in this coat, (you can't see her feet--she's floating! Wooo-ooo) and wanted me to take pictures accordingly.
We spent a good half hour trying to capture her mid-jump so she'd look like she was floating. That's how she got the mink stole in the picture above. :)

This is her "ghost face" Very creepy.
It's too bad I don't know anything about my camera, because Elle wanted me to take a spooky dark picture of her.
They just all turned out fuzzy instead. :(
Someday I'll have to read the manual.

We finally got our ghost shot though!

Winter Highlights

It’s been a long time!

Here are some highlights of winter:

I had my EE birthday! (It was supposed to be 33, but someone got confused with the sprinkles.  We turned the cake upside down and it worked out)

Elle’s dream come true—both sets of Grandparents in one month!

This is the highlight of Christmas—Elle (with help from G-ma and G-pa) sewed a nativity set for my sister!  All of Elle’s gifts were so thoughtful!  Another of my favorite was  for my dad.  He retired last year, so Elle  made a paper chain with ideas of things he can fill his day with! “read a book, write in your journal”etc.)

 

Matching PJ’s with my sister

 

SNOW!

a few days later

We somehow convinced Elle to wear this adorable outfit!

Unfortunately, this is the best shot.

 

We convinced her to wear this too!

She loves it when we make her wear cute things!

And a new dress!  Now that we have 9:00 church, we don’t really have time for the “hair” part of “Sunday dress and hair”

I’m sure I missed more highlights, but that’s all I can think of for now!

 

And since this is such a long post anyway, I’ll add on one more thing--

Yesterday, we took pictures of all the primary kids.  Since we’re a new presidency, we want to memorize all the kids.  I’m doing pretty well considering we have almost 100 kids in primary and 25 in nursery!  I feel so bad when I’m doing sharing time and I want to call on someone, but I don’t remember their name!

(BTW- I’m second counselor now—I miss Activity Days!*sniff*)

Here are some choice pictures:

And that’s all for now!

Sunday dress and hair

 

We are here in sunny California for Sunday dress and hair today!

Kristen was in hair heaven, so she styled Elle's hair for church :)

She wanted to do something even fancier, but alas, she was lacking in bobby pins.

I think it turned out fabulous!

I am Thankful

Here is our annual Thankful Turkey
He looks amazingly normal this year
(except Elle decided to make him into a Native American turkey--
which is fitting I suppose

And now for a SNOW update

Here's a picture of the car out front yesterday afternoon

and here it is today!

Elle's snowman is unrecognizable except for his little arms

I called Chris at work yesterday at 4 to tell him how crazy it looked up here.
He decided to leave for home immediately.
Two hours later he came home.
Some of the buses were running, some weren't.
Thankfully, Chris was chatting with a guy who happens to live near us.
He was going to catch a bus, then meet up with his wife in a 4 wheel drive vehicle (I have no idea what kind)
They were kind enough to take Chris along.
It turned out to be a symbiotic relationship since Chris used his phone to navigate.
Roads were closed because cars had gone up, then gotten stuck on the side of the hill.
Chris and the nice neighbors found an obscure path that only 4 wheel drive vehicles could manage, and came home!
Our friendly neighbors were one of the first feathers on our thankful turkey last night!

I am thankful for friends in California
It had better be nice and sunny for us!

Sunday Dress and SNOW!

I thought this picture was rather symbolic--

The last leaf on the tree while the snow is falling

this shows the snow a little better
Crazy, huh?!
This is what "they" have predicted is our fate for the rest of the winter
Cold. and. Wet.
Elle is thrilled!  She's already planning what to use for snowman accessories :)

Way cool blog post!

So, I know most of you who read my blog also read my three sisters-in-law's awesome and cute and clever blogs too, but just in case, you have to check out the Lunch Lady's blog from, like, a month ago:

http://sacklunchconspiracy.blogspot.com/2010/10/cougar-pride.html

I'm proud to be a "coug" too!  :)

Happy Halloween!

Elle made her dollhouse into a haunted house for Halloween.

I thought she made it look pretty spooky

 

Annual pumpkin carving.  I did the candy corn, Chris did the monster, Elle did the haunted house complete with 3-d ghost! She wanted to carve her pumpkin all by herself this year.

She did a great job!

 

 

We were the Waldo family for Halloween this year!

Chris was Waldo, and Elle and I were both Wenda.

A woman in our ward put together a map of all the members who wanted to participate in a Saturday trick-or-treat so we wouldn’t have to miss out on all the fun, and we could keep the Sabbath Day Holy.

There were 37 members/participants right in our neighborhood!

Elle invited a friend to go along with us.  They even agreed to go in on the fun by giving out treats on Saturday too! We were out for two hours, and we didn’t even get to all the houses!

The picture we had taken at the Ward Halloween party on Friday didn’t show mine and Elle’s cool socks, so I decided to post some of Elle on the night of her MONSTER CONCERT!

Her piano teacher and teacher’s friend pooled all their students together and had a recital with three pianos. (two kids per piano each playing a duet).  It’s pretty cool.  The kids only practice with their partner one time before the concert.  It is a good exercise in listening.  All three pianos are playing the same duet, so they all have to listen to their partner, as well as the pianos around them to stay together!  They did a great job!

 

ps I was a “beater” helping to keep time, and a page turner. That’s why I’m peeking out from behind the piano.

 

AND. . .

Today we decorated cupcakes!  Elle got a cupcake decorating book for her birthday, and she’s been anxious to try it out.

We finally did!  Elle frosted the pumpkins, and Chris made the faces.  Elle and I did the spiders together.

It was a fun day!