sorry

My house is a disaster,

I have eaten more junk food this week than I can even believe,

Our entire family's sleep schedules are completely out of whack,

I'm a thousand times behind schedule on a million things ...

and we're still celebrating!

Later!

Christmas cheer

I decided to waste a bit of time this morning and make a fun Christmas video ...

Make sure to scroll to the bottom of my blog and turn off my music before watching!

Hope you enjoy!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

it's the most crazy time of the year

Okay--

This Christmas season is only getting busier as the month rolls on.

We got our tree up and all the Christmas decorations ...

We've got a good start on our Christmas presents ...

We're plugging away at all the Christmas parties/programs/recitals for this month...

And I've agreed to 7, yes count them, 7 musical numbers this month.

I accepted them thinking they would be spread out over the month ...

they're not.

All but 2 are this weekend.

Should be a fun/crazy time!

Hope all your Decembers are off to a good start!!

Here's a picture to make you smile!

help a girl out!

Sorry---

I'm just realizing that it has been a good long while since I've posted ...

Not that we haven't been busy.

We celebrated my big 2-7 just over a week ago. Hooray for aging!

Then, all of last week we partied out of town for the Thanksgiving holiday. (Which was a blast!--I think Mike put the kids to bed every single night while we were there. It was an amazing break for me)

We got back late Sunday night but I'm still not quite back into the routine of things quite yet thanks to what I suspect might be a sinus infection. Yuck!

I have been feeling quite behind on everything.

So, I've been on Pinterest a bit lately (wonder why I haven't been getting things done now? :)) and I've seen these adorable Christmas light baby pictures floating around ...

Cute right? I thought it would be easy enough.

I know pretty much nothing about taking pictures apparently. I think I probably took over 300 pictures of my girls with Christmas lights.

None of mine are very astonishing--

here are probably my best even though most are partially blurry.

Let me know your favorite.

1)Being stinkers

2) Eyballs

3) No more pictures mom!

4) WHAAT's hiding in the camera lens?

5) gnome beard

6) picking on baby

7) odd angle

8) nice happy smiles--except scary blurry danna

9) brynny is enchanted

10) my fav--but no cute faces looking at me :(

Help me out a little? What should I use for my Christmas card ...

black and white? Color?

or scrap all of them and just send cards with no pictures?

corn maze

So a few weeks ago we took our kids to the corn maze.

It was crazy windy day but they had a good time ...

don't you just want to eat her up! soo cute!

going for a barrel train ride

figuring out the corn maze mystery!

thought this was the sweetest thing of all time! Loving her daddy.

Then we all tried the barrel train.

It. was. not. comfy.

Hope you enjoyed the pics and your November so far!

Spook Alley

So we did a spook alley in our basement again this year for Halloween.

Remember my random Halloween obsession 2 years ago? No? That's okay. But I was seriously all over it.

And then some.

Then last year I had a new baby and it barely crossed my mind that we should do something--so we didn't.

Then when Halloween started rolling around this year, and since I didn't have an excuse NOT to do it, we did a huge party, spook alley, costume, crazy Halloween thing again.

Thanks for all who came--and for all who didn't come because our house was way too crowded. We had a great turn out with some great people but I seriously need to limit my guest list next time :)

Anyway, the downstairs kid-friendly spook alley was a huge hit. And the biggest plus was that Amber and I put it up in like 2 afternoons which seemed way easier than last time ...

So here it is for those who were not able to come enjoy it with us this Halloween!

(The pictures were taken a few days after Halloween so everything looks pretty sad ...)

The tour:

(Insert scary music here)

First, we descend down the dark basement stairs ... dun dun dun!

oh no!! What is behind the doooooooor?

We emerge in blackness ...

Around the first corner we step into a creepy fenced in graveyard .... the spirits of the dead are still haunting the dark and dreary graveyard ... it is dark, dreary, and the fog is blowing in ... (imagine fog machine going off)

(AND keep in mind the flash on the camera really takes a lot out of the scariness of our spook alley)

Next we hear bubbling and a throaty cackle! A nasty witch is beckoning you to try some of her newest concoction! Something green is gurgling and bubbling and smoking in her cauldron ... and by the looks of her table of ingredients; poison, crawling insects, poiiison and blooood; you do NOT want to try it!

(we had her pot filled with dry ice--a fun added touch)

Everything is quiet around the next corner. We turn into the haunted library, ordinary at first glance, but who is that sitting reading in the chair?

Mike sat in the chair and quoted the tale of "The soldier and DEATH!" which title you must read as if you're hearing Mike do one of his awesome crazy accents.

Everybody loved this part. --sorry the pictures definitely don't do justice ...

If that wasn't enough to give you the shivers, around the next corner was the hall of spiders. An infestation of enlarged eight-legged arachnids are hiding throughout the endless mesh of spider webs. Move quickly and watch where you step! (notice the black light fun)

Whew!! You made it!

Now we are in the last room of our journey. Here's where bodies have rotted in the dungeon for their disobedience. The rats come and go as they please and they are hungry for some flesh!

(there was also a strobe light to just give it some added creepy ambiance)

And Congratulations you made it out alive!!! Bwah ha ha ha ha!!!!

It was a good time again. Maybe we'll do it again next year :)

So yeah, next year come trick-or-treating at our house!!!

COSTUMES!

Okay, we finally got those pics on the computer so here they are ... sorry some are blurry ...

Halloween Costumes

2011!!

nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

nah nah nah nah nah nah ...

BATTTTTTTsss ...

(okay doesn't quite work with the batman theme song)..

But ...

They are still soooo cute!

(Brynny is trying to show off her wings like her sisters .. cute!)

Mom--these are my claws!

cheezin it up!

So- weeks ago I asked the girls to think of what they wanted to be for Halloween this year. Danna just HAD to be a cowgirl.

HAD TO!

It was set in stone.

Then about a week later we asked Rina finally decided what she wanted to be ...

"A bat"

Okay--A cowgirl and a bat ... guess we can do that. (though I'm totally mental in that I HAVE to make the whole family match every Halloween)

How the heck do you match a bat with a cowgirl?

A week later ...

"Okay Danna, lets find you something to wear for your cowgirl costume."

"Mom, I'm going to be a bat!"

"I thought you were going to be a cowgirl ..."

"Nope, a bat "

"You sure?"

"yep"

Okay, bat it is!

So, since I was making 2 I figured I'd add one more and make 3!

And to meld the whole family together with Sa-WEET costume matchyness (without Mike and I being vampires which I was opposed to for some reason) ...

Mike and I dressed up as

wait for it ...

Spelunkers!!!

(you know, like cavers, people who go explore caves, you know caves, like where bats live...)

kinda clever right?

So here's a ridiculous picture of me that I stole from a friend on facebook cause we completely forgot to take pictures together as a whole family. Lame.

Mike looked pretty awesome too but I don't have a picture ... dang!

until next year's costumes!