Monday, December 31, 2007

Best Backyard Ever!

Our backyard is great! It's a park. We just open the gate and slide down the hill and we're at the park. Carter and Jeremy had a blast sledding this afternoon and even Will got in on the action. It's great to have a house and even better to be able to play outside.

This is Carter enjoying the cold.



Carter's favorite thing to do outside is to "knock Dadda off."
Here's Will sliding down the hill with Jeremy. He had a huge smile on his face at the bottom.


Will is such a happy baby. As long as someone is holding him, he's got it made:)

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Merry Christmas


We had a great Christmas together. We visited our parents and grandparents and ate a lot of yummy food.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Christmas Quiz

I have been tagged--twice. So here are my Christmas quiz answers.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper is much more fun.
2. Real tree or artificial? Real all the way. This year we have an eight foot Grand Fir.
3. When do you put your tree up? Usually around Thanksgiving, but this year we were a little behind.
4. When do you take it down? Usually a week after Christmas.
5. Hot Chocolate or apple cider? Hot chocolate.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A cabbage patch doll that Santa brought me when I was five.
7. Do you have a Nativity scene? Grandma Dall just made us a really awesome one and RoseAnna brought one back from Ecuador for us.
8. Hardest person to buy for? Jeremy—he’s kind of picky. My mom is hard too.
9. Easiest person to buy for? My dad. He likes everything—or at least he acts like it.
10. Worst Christmas gift ever received? I can't think of one.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail. Email seems so impersonal, even though it’s easier and cheaper.
12. Favorite Christmas movie? THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL. I also like the new Miracle on 34th Street, Seasons of the Heart, and Harry Potter Saves Christmas
13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I don’t think so.
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Sugar cookies, raisin bread, ham, rolls, potatoes, breakfast casserole, sweet rolls, caramels, sticky Chex mix, raspberry swirl.
15. Clear or colored lights? I like colored lights on houses.
16. Favorite Christmas song? I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day—it was my piano teacher’s favorite Christmas hymn and now it’s mine.
17. Travel or stay home? I would much rather stay at home.
18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, Rudolph, and Olive.
19. Angel or Star? Star because it reminds me that God keeps his promises.
20. Favorite Christmas memory? Either my mom reading Christmas stories to us or my brother and sisters all sleeping in the same room and watching The Muppet Christmas Carol before falling asleep on Christmas Eve.


I tag RoseAnna and Circe

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Christmas Stockings

I am amazing. I knitted Will a Christmas stocking. My Great-Grandma Barker made them for everyone in the family and after she passed away, her daughter, Aunt Linda, has been making them for everyone else. It is one of my very favorite Christmas traditions. I have loved feeling connected to my great-grandma.

This is me and Will's stocking.
Now we all have matching stockings to hang on the mantel. Merry Christmas!

Monday, December 17, 2007

Merry Christmas New House

So, we bought a new house. Hurray! We've been looking for about a year. It's nice to have more room than we know what to do with. I'm sure we'll accumulate enough JUNK to fill it up soon though. I would hate to have things organized for too long--not that anything is organized right now. Christmas is the stupidest time of year to move.


Here we are in front of our old apartment. Carter keeps asking if we can go back "home." He doesn't like the new house at bedtime. He misses his friend, Ella. She lived next door and they played a lot together.
This is our Christmas tree that we got from my cousin, Joel. It's an eight foot Grand Fir. It's so pretty and smells so yummy--I mean good. If it smelled yummy than we would want to eat it and that is a little weird.

This is sort of a crummy picture, but I wanted one with the lights so I used my fireworks feature on my camera.
These are our little goofballs. This was one of the many pictures we took for our Christmas card. The bribe of M&Ms only goes so far.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Dial-up Dilema

We moved to a new house--a GINORMOUS thanks to Jeremy's family for helping us! We won't have our Internet connected for a few weeks. We'll still have dial-up but it takes too long to post anything on our blog without high-speed Internet. So, we'll post pictures in a few weeks. Love, JBC&W