Happy New Years!

Here we are as a family and the girls with Hannah Montana dolls (a favorite!) and with Princess dolls and magnetic dress up things. How fun!

Here are the hosts of our wonderful Christmas-time treats! We have a wonderful time each year at their house.












Here are the girls with Grandpa after he opened the gift from them. They got him polished rock book ends. They are really pretty - at least we thought so! I took the girls to the mall after school one day and they were so cute looking for gifts for their grandparents. They used their very own money too.

Just Christmas Pictures

Grandma had all the gifts wrapped and waiting in the basement. So, Christmas Eve, after we had eaten, everyone (mostly!) took trips down to bring them up to put under the tree. The most excited of all were the girls!

We got PHOTOS!

These pictures are from the school Christmas Concert. Aren't the girls pretty? They love to dress up in their pretty clothes. They sang 3 or 4 songs. It was a nice concert.

Shelby - the ham!

The kids program was supposed to be last sunday night, but church was canceled due to the weather.  So, instead of sunday school, we watched the program.  Shelby and Colesy had a duet.  They sang the second verse of Away in the Manger. It was cute, including Shelby elbowing Colesy to let her know she needed to pay better attention.  Anyhow, there were about 8 kids who had speaking parts. Each kid would say a line and it would go down the line, with each kid stepping to the microphone to say the line.  Well, Shelby is by far the shortest one needing to use the mic.  The director was pretty good about leaving the mic where it would work for Shelby to speak into.  On one of her lines however, the mic had been moved up fairly high, how ever the kids were able to work with it. When Shelby stepped up, so took a deep breath to say her line, then looked UP at the mic.  when she realized there was no way she could speak into it, she blew out her breath and rolled her eyes, and her face said "this will not work!"  The whole church broke out in hilarious laughter.  It was so funny!  Debbie and I were crying!  

Connie got it on her video camera, so I'm hoping to be able to get it on here and post it so you all can see.  

We'll see if iI can make it work..... 

From Colesy! :o)

Colesy worked really hard on a card for Shelby. It was too cute, and I've tried and tried to post it here for you to see, but since I can't,  I'll just type it to you  -  even though you wont get the cute handwriting and stuff. 

"From Colesy

To Shelby

I love you

I wish you a broodafle crismis 

I love you"

and she drew a picture of her giving Shelby a present.  too cute!  

Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas was a great day!  We started officially on Sunday.  We had our kids program in the morning (Shelby was the star of the show - More to come on that, hopefully).  We went to Grandma Mowreys for lunch and gift exchange there with the Mowrey clan.  Then we had our candlelight service Sunday night.  It was  a nice time, and Colesy didn't burn anyone or thing with her real fire!  (small praise!)  Monday we got up and let the girls open their stockings.  They had fun, and it was just enough of a taste of things to come.  While Matt ran to town to get some needed items, I took the girls to the boys house (Micah, Jared and Ethan) so they could exchange their gifts.  They had a great time.  The girls got Polly Pocket things and they got the boys a driving game that you hook up to the TV.  Looks like great fun!  When we came home, we had just enough time to take a nap before going to Grandmas for dinner. We had ham and too much other food.  :o)  

Christmas morning we got up and opened our presents here at home and then chilled for a couple hours. Then we went to Grams for the rest of the day.  Suzie was not able to get there til about 2:30. We went for lunch and then hung out til she go there and then we opened presents for the rest of the day.  REALLY!   There were 12 of us and we all open them one at a time. We had to take a break and eat dinner (Prime Rib!)  then finished gifts and then we finally got home about 9, leaving early since Matt had to get up at 4 this morning. 

What a festive time we had!  We forgot to take our camera to grams, but we got a couple from the morning at our house.  

Of course, Blogspot seems to have a problem with my uploading my photos, so I guess you'll have to just use your imagination!  Grrr.  

Shelby

Shelby's allergy doctor decided to do some more allergy testing in her. So last Wednesday, she got 60 more pricks in her back. on a scale of 1-5, she scored a 4 on six items. Grapefruit, apricots, mushrooms, nutmeg, Bass (the fish), and egg yolks. so, we get to cut them out of the diet for 6 weeks and see if that makes a difference for her. At her last evaluation 3 weeks ago, they changed her weekly shot to bi-weekly, so that is good. Her last one went really good. So, we're off on the next adventure.... no egg yolks is the hardest one to cut out. We're trying.