Oh Christmas Tree

Tree decorating

My husband assembled Ben's gingerbread tree, Ben decorated it. We decided to forgo the usual houses this year and try some new shapes. My sister took all the photos, view her photo stream here:

http://www.flickr.com/lallalori

Chocolate-kissed choo choo

Chocolate-kissed choo choo

Here's Abby's gingerbread creation. I assembled this one for her, she decorated it.

You must be really proud of him, Robin

You must be really proud of him, Robin

My sister took this photo today while we were making gingerbread houses with some friends. I know, it has absolutely nothing to do with gingerbread, but it is just a great photo. My daughter had made this paper chain to decorate the house for Christmas, but the only thing it was used for was decorating my husband.

View the original here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lallalori/3109268866/in/photostream/

A Christmas Card

 

Here's one of the cards I considered sending, but instead saved it for this blog. E-mail me your address if you want the real one.  We set up the Christmas tree this week.  Well, mostly the kids did.  I took pictures and laughed a lot.  We went through 3 tree toppers before we found one that fit (at the store).  Either the tree was too tall, or the branch too fat to fit what we had already, so I had to go buy a new one. 

When we went to buy the tree Ben feel asleep in the car so just Sonny stayed with him and Abby and I had the job of picking out the tree.  I let Abby decide which we should get, and I think she did a great job!  Now we just have to wrap the presents and send out our cards.

Parent Teacher Conference

We had a chance to meet Ben's classmates at his Parent/Teacher Conference last week. I thought they were a great looking bunch, except for the little guy who was under the weather with chicken pox.

Like Father, Like Son

Ben's trying again to grow facial hair like his dad. The first time he took a brown marker and drew one on. This time he thought tape on the chin would make him look more like dad. I think I might have to get this boy involved in sports...he just has too much time on his hands.

Halloween

Ben dressed as "Pikachu", Abby dressed as "I was supposed to be Sharpay, then I decided I didn't want to dress up but my mom told me I'd have to pay her the $24.00 back for the costume so I'll wear it like this and beg for candy and look happy because she threatened me if I pouted".

The Spider Song

Ben learned a new song at school and recorded it for everyone to see:

Sonic the Hedgehog

Abby wanted some new nail polish this summer so we went to the local beauty supply store. As we were wandering the aisles we walked past the aerosol cans of hair color and Ben and I thought it would be fun to try out the blue. He said he looked like Sonic the Hedgehog . I tried to convince him to wear it to school for just one day. He's just not adventurous enough to do it...probably a good idea because it would be awfully distracting to the other students I'm sure.

Hey! She did it again!

 

This was printed in our local paper this week, celebrating the first week of school.  Abby is in the back on the left.  She's 8 years old and has been in the paper about a dozen times already.  She's a SUPERSTAR!!!!