Humor at it's Best, I guess!
About three weeks about three weeks ago I was getting dinner ready and Ellie walked in the kitchen with her hair looking like this....
And this...

And this...

And my front room floor looked like this. I about died!!! Those of you who know me know that I am very partial to long hair. To make the story even better, her little brother Ashton is the one who cut her hair, but under her direction. What do you DO!! Thankfully I have a neighbor across the way who was home and took the time to fix what had been done.

Thankfully it is cute but let me tell you people, I don't have 20 extra minutes Sunday morning to round brush my 5 year old's hair. BAH!!! Ellie told my friend Lisa something like this, "yeah, I wanted short hair but I knew my mom would say no, so I had Ashton cut it." For those of you who know Ellie, this isn't that shocking. All I can say is I love my daughter! I am pretty sure she figured that Ashton would be the one in trouble, since he did the cutting. Who did she think she was kidding?? Poor Ash was the innocent bystander. What a fun day!

Christmas Happenings

We had so much fun over Christmas so I thought I should post some happenings. We spent Christmas Eve at my parents with all the family.
Brax, Maggie, Burke, Ellie, Josie and Cora.
My sister Molly and her family came from Missouri for two weeks and it was so fun to have them here. Rebecca wasn't there yet for this picture and we forgot to take one when she came. Duh!!

After our lesson about Christmas we went out on a caroling hayride. It was so fun!!! It was cold, but so fun to carol together to the neighbors.

Me, Brad and Ash.

Rebecca and Colby

Molly and Burke

Brigham and Lily. This is sheer excitement.

This is just one of my favorite pictures from Christmas day. My sweet Bradley.

What is better on Christmas than p.j.s and cousins?

Classic cousin pic. Brad, Ash, Maggie, Josie, Savannah and Ellie.

On Christmas day we had a surprise visit from Santa Claus. He was very tired after such a long night. It was so fun to see the reaction of the kids when he showed up. They weren't sure what to think of him, but they were excited he came.

Our favorite winter activity is to pull the kids on sleds behind the four wheeler. This is about a week after Christmas when it snowed a ton.

The kids can't get enough of this.

Nothing like a lap full of snow to cheer you up!

Ricky took it up a notch and used 5 sleds this year instead of three. We had Molly's girls with us and they had a blast!

Ash and I played in the snow longer than anyone else. I am a snow lover and loved playing with my little buddy!

This was perhaps my favorite day of Christmas break. We went to Sundance on New Year's Eve and it was the BOMB!!! The snow was amazing and I got to be with my dad, Molly and Ricky. All I can say is I love Skiing.

My own personal heaven would be to have all of my kids old enough to ski and spending time together doing just that. We saw a family getting out of a suburban and there were like 6 snowboards on the ground. Someday that will be my family only with skis of course.

The evening of New Year's Eve we went to Salt Lake to a Pow Wow were we saw Tanner perform. It was so neat to see him do what he loves to do. His mom made all of his costume by hand. It is beautiful! It was so neat to participate in his life.