December Highlights

December was filled with lots of Christmas Cheer. We had a Christmas Party with friends and Kevin decorated his skid steer trailer with hay bails and Christmas lights. We carolled around the neighborhood while Kevin drove us around in the Tahoe, sucking fumes from the generator running in the back seat. After carolling we came back to our bonus room in the garage and made gingerbread houses and played Just Dance. Kevin and Travis were all about the dancing because they were still experiencing their high from the carbon monoxide fumes. I think we started a tradition that we will continue years to come.

Christmas Countdown

I made this Christmas advent craft this week and I've had few people who want to see a picture of it. I used a pizza pan and then I made bottle cap magnets for the numbers. Today we started counting down the days until Jesus' big day.

Snow Day!!!!!!!

Avery shook his booty so hard when they announced that all schools will be closed today. For those of you who don't live in Boise, it snowed a ton last night and we woke up to 8 inches of snow. Kevin woke up at the glorious hour of 3:00 am to do snow removal and returned home at about 10. He had his skid steer in tow. As he gazed out at the winter wonderland he came up with a genius idea. He said, "I can make the kids the biggest snow mound we've ever had in the culdesac." He was on the tractor in a flash, spinning around in the culdesac. All of the neighbors came out, young and more mature. Everyone was taking pictures and one of our neighbors even brought our hot cocoa and marshmallows. The kids played on the hill for 5 hours straight. It was a great snow day memory for Great Sky Estates.

Happy Halloween 2010!

Here is our Mario and Luigi racing around the block. We have lots and lots of candy again this year. I have already eaten 10 candy bars today.

Annual Pumpking Carving

Aunt Meme, Dave, and Nana trooped it up with us again for pumpking carving. No slackers and no easy patterns. Here are this years results:

Skinning the deer

Avery is our hunter in the family. After spending a weekend with our friend Travis he has all the lingo down. Like "It smells awfully grousy here" or "dump him" or "look at that skat" or "it smells like elk potty!". Well to make a long story short he likes to pretend he is hunting a lot. He gets all dressed up and on this particular day he talked Henry into being his prey. I walked into the kitchen and caught him skinning his hunt. At least he got out the cutting board.

Holy Pictureoly!

Tis the season for taking pictures. With our gorgeous weather we've had gorgeous opportunity for great pictures. Thank you to all of my friends and family who trust me with your memories. Here are a few (o.k. maybe a little more than a few) of my favorites: