all the smiling faces

Here are just a few of the awesome pictures taken this weekend!! So many smiling faces.  Friday night was my c-group (10th grade girls) Christmas party! I taught them to crochet.. Sheri taught them how to make potholders and we all had the privilege to laugh at ourselves playing Just Dance 2.

Then Sunday was the Tacky Sweater Party at Church for the youth! These kids are awesome!

Please tell me you have noticed “THE HAT” in almost all of the pictures.  This was my first finished crochet project last year.  It turned out to be HUGE!!  The girls love it and take turns wearing it around.  It’s too funny that it’s my most embarrassing project ever!  I mean the stitching is good but its just like an enormous bowl!

Then Mike and I went to my work party and when we came home… Avi decided that she wanted some snuggle time.  This is the picture of her waiting anxiously for mom to join the daily family snuggle ritual. And meet “Moosen”… the new addition to Avi’s toy collection.

now that’s a wrap.. completed

Just wanted to share the “final” product of this year’s Christmas wrapping theme… Here’s the link to the original post where I got the idea from…now that's a wrap

I think it turned out really well.  When I went to buy the “brown paper” at the craft store.. the guy asked what I was using it for and I said for Christmas wrapping.  He looked at me like I had three eyes… and said well I guess if you put some stamps on it or something.  Little did he know that it would turn out to look beautiful without much alteration!

And Avi supervised the whole time =) So… if you get a little piece of Avi hair stuck in the tape, don’t think that I didn’t clean before I began wrapping.  You’ll just know that she loves you and helped me wrap the gift!

THE holland patch

Mike recently decided to grow out his soul patch.  It’s the little patch of hair just below the bottom lip.  He has done this a few times just for fun and each time it grew in blond… so he calls it his holland patch.  Just wanted to share the documentation with you so that you believe me.

 

 

I guess there is a chance we could have a blond headed child!! who even knows!

 

 

And here is the second hat of the season I have made =)  Pretty excited to keep making a few more before the season ends.  UMM what a good looking model! He really wasn’t intentionally trying to have squinty eyes but it was late when we took the picture and he said the flash was bright =)

official sightings

 

 

of the new sous chef at Bishops Bridge Road. I was making a double batch of Chex Mix and had it all cooling on the dining room table. I had to blockade the table from my sous chef so as not to have any cross contamination. =)

 

 

 

 

 

… of snow at Bishops Bridge Road before Christmas! Ok we only ended up with less than 2” of snow but it was still pretty

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that’s right, there’s snow in Minnesota

Just a little good humor for the morning.  Here are some pictures from the weekend with Dad.  I flew up Friday morning starting at 5:15 a.m. and arrived around 10 a.m. with no glitches.  We stopped by the Mall of America (yes its super huge and no I didn’t buy anything) and looked around for a while and looked even longer to re-find where we had parked the car. =)  We then headed to the salon so I could get my hair cut.

The snow started falling around lunch and didn’t let up until after we went to bed.  MN already had some snow on the ground but the new snow was beautiful… light and fluffy and no good for making snowman! 

Saturday the girls, dad, jessie and I all went out and played in the fluffy snow! It was lots of fun to watch jess run after the girls down the hill and help bury the girls in the snow too.

 

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After warming up, we all went to the salon and I got some new color in my hair and then even got it straightened! (just temporarily) We had a great time. Later Saturday, Dad, Kim and I went to a party.  Then on Sunday after going to church and hearing a wonderful sermon on being ready for Christ to come back, the girls and I took some crazy pictures just for fun.

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We opened presents and I got some great things!! new flips and hair products and new warm winter socks which totally rock my world! Anyways, I had a wonderful time hanging with the family and enjoying the snow and just having a relaxing weekend.

Here’s the album in it’s entirety.