Office Supplies in the Holy Land

Our youngest loves to sing. She really loves to sing Christmas songs, and is pretty good at remembering all the words to a song after hearing it one or two times. It is really entertaining to hear her do the soundtrack to "White Christmas"...the girls favorite holiday movie. The thing is, sometimes our little one gets the wrong words. All of the time, it is hilarious. Here are a couple of examples for your enjoyment:

The real words: "Picture a stable in Judea..."
She sings: "Pictures of staplers in Judea..."


The real words: "Oh, Ho, the mistletoe, hung where you can see, somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me!"
She sings: "Oh, Ho the mistletoe, hung where you can see, somebody waits for you, Chicken.......of.the.sea!"

Speak of the devil, the little cutie just woke up and wants breakfast.

Hope you all have a happy weekend!

Baptism Pics

This month our beautiful Daughter was baptized. It was a beautiful day. We love her so much and are so proud of her! It was great to have family there and spend time together.

The cake I made her. She decided she wanted an oreo cake because, "I'm not really a cake girl, mom, but I am an oreo cake girl"


All the pics with me in them are very blurry. Who took those?? This is the best one. We didn't get a good one with all four of us.

The second white dress I made her. We're buying the next one. But not for about 15 more years.

More baptism pics

With cousin Kota

Before

After

clarification

Due to some feedback I have received on my last post, I feel I need to make some clarifications.

My children are not political geniuses. One chose Obama because he was "handsomer" and the other chose McCain because Barack sounds like broccoli, and, "who wants a broccoli man for president?"

Also, it took much less time to recover from McCain's loss than it did for her to recover when David Archuleta lost on American Idol...

This morning at Some Girl's house...

Was quite interesting. We involved the girls as much as possible in this year's political race. They watched the debates (and SNL clips on the news...my 4 year old saw a pic of Sarah Palin this morning and said, "that is the funny one, right, Mom?") and heard my Husband and I discussing the issues. Sometimes they would even weigh in with their thoughts. We encouraged them to decide who they would vote for, without us telling them which candidates would be our choices. (the idea was that they would learn to make their own informed decisions when voting) I took them with me when I voted (early). I even taught them about secret ballots...we probably should have done that at our house, too.

I felt like we were being all star parents.

Then, one chose McCain, and one chose Obama.






My role this morning: Diplomat.

Happy Halloween

This year's Halloween Costumes.... A "scary but kind of beautiful"vampire...

and Word Girl. A superhero who foils the evil villains with her...VOCABULARY! (I did not make this person up. Check here if you don't believe me)

I felt so cool when some random kid shouted, "Look, Mom, There's Word Girl!"as we walked by. (I made both the girl's costumes)*together at the costume party*

We hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!

Love,

Some Girl and her Family

Hello From Idaho

Greetings from Idaho! We are enjoying a fabulous weekend with family and our new nephew. I will post pics soon, but not until little Kota goes to sleep! I'm off to get more cuddles!