The Weekend.....Christmas Sugar Cookies........Basketball

Picture of our tree, in the house & decorated. I'm not the best picture taker but I like my tree!

Wow! Minus 13 degrees today! Wow, that is cold.

This weekend we helped our friend move his cows home, it was cold cold cold, super cold! I didn't think I would ever get warm. But I did! Not only was it minus degrees but the wind was crazy, blowing & COLD.....again....COLD! The cows moved pretty good though, because it was so cold, so that was a plus!

On Sunday the kids finally rolled out the sugar cookies & we frosted & decorated them. It was great fun & I got some cute pictures of them in action. I love Christmas time for so many reasons but baking & making all kinds of treats is one of my favs! Love it!

Last week, on Thursday both of the kids had basketball games. Emmy did great & Tennyson had a double header, that is a long night of basketball. He is getting so good, I'm so proud of him! He is such a hussler! I have some pictures of them playing b-ball too.

I am excited for this week, Emmy has her Christmas program on Thursday & then we are out at 1pm on Friday for 2 weeks....yahoo! I'm so ready for a break! I love Christmas Break, I can spend the entire time with the kids and we can just hang out and be BUMS! I love being a bum!

Merry Christmas Everyone! I love this time of year. Enjoy the treats of the season and the music all around us.

Have the time of your life!

Candice

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree

...............or if you are from Canada! O Tannenbaum O Tannenbaum!
I always thought this was a French Origin but I just learned it is German?! Huh, since we learned it in school, I just assumed french!

We finally went & got our tree on Sunday. It was great fun, of course we cut down a huge tree & had to cut about half of it off! But we have some great boughs to use. I love having a tree! It is so pretty and it looks so festive. Emmy & I decorated it and put all the decorations. Dave cussed the lights, I make him put the lights on because he is way more patient than I am. ha ha!

Here are a few pictures of us getting the tree.

Emmy & Tenny sledding while we were getting a tree

Tenny & Emmy in a tree!

This is the TREE! Imagine it about 1/2 this size...in my house. I'll have to get a picture of it all decorated now.

Onto another SUBJECT.......................
I'm all finished with my classes this semester & keep your fingers crossed (or at least, I will be). I'm hoping for my first ever 4.0......i've gotten close before but stupid B+'s and A-'s keeping screwing up my chances! ha ha! It was a tough semester and was alot of work with projects. I am soooo looking forward to a break. I have a break until Jan. 14th. I'm going to love the month off! For work, we have 2 weeks off for Christmas Vacation, so the kids & I will have 2 weeks off together with NO school or work! I cannot wait.
This past weekend was the STROLL in Downtown Deer Lodge, I was busy finishing up a final but managed to make it just in time for the parade....of lights. It was cute. Tennyson was his 4-H float, those pictures did not turn out but Emmy's did from the Church Float.

I am looking forward to NO school work & baking cookies, wrapping presents and spending some quality time with the family!

Have the time of your life!

Candice

Emmy on the Church Float - Christmas Stroll 2008

It's beginning.....

Tenny & Emmy at the Wild Life Zoo in Phoenix...Feeding the Giraffe's

............................To FEEL Alot like Christmas.

We made it home safely from Phoenix. It was a LONG road trip but it was great fun. My kids are such great travelers, it wasn't even that painful. It was just hard sitting for so long and trying to sleep in the pick-up....NOT fun!

I have some pictures from our adventures while in Phoenix. Some road-trip scenery pictures that Tennyson took while on the way home. Some pictures while we were at the zoo and cabela's. I think of the highlights of the trip for me was jogging outside in the mornings with just shorts & a tank top! I could get used to that! There is no jogging at home, with tanks & shorts....too cold.

We finally got some white stuff on the ground, very little though!

But at least it's starting to look a little more like Christmas.

This week is finals week, so I have been burning the midnight oil, trying to get all my projects/papers/exams completed! I'm tired and can't wait until Wednesday of next week, all will be turned in and completed.

Because I have been so busy with school work, we don't have our tree yet. I think we'll get it on Sunday, after church. What a fun way to spend an afternoon..right? But I did manage to set out a few decorations on Sunday night before I went to bed. I wanted to wake up on Monday, December 1st and have it feel like Christmas. The stockings are hung, and a few decorations too. It's minimal but it will due until next week! I have been blasting the Christmas tunes since Monday! I love Christmas music....love love love it!

Well, here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving weekend in Phoenix. Enjoy.

Make today GREAT. Have the TIME of your life.

Candice

Tenny & Emmy in front of Cabela's in Phoenix

**More pictures on my facebook! Check them out, pictures even include Turtles Mating, who knew that could be so entertaining!