My Christmas Present for Myself

I am part of a reborn doll forum to try and see if I could sell some of my creations.  One of the ladies in Australia contacted me about doing a swap. 

This is what I made for her:

3 child sized animal hats

8 pairs of Mary Janes (the little boy slip ons were an extra I threw in)

4 fuzzy sock monkeys

5 smooth sock monkeys

And this is what I got:

I did a little Christmas photo shoot with things I had here:

The kids really like him:

School Christmas Parties

The girls' last day of school was Tuesday, so they had their classroom Christmas parties that day.  I was going to help in both girls' classes again, but Sarah's teacher wrote a note that said they weren't going to be doing any crafts or games, so I figured they didn't need help.  I guess they did do some games afterall!  I did go in her room for a while, but at that point, they were just watching a movie. Emi's class had a "Grinch Party" and they wore green and did Grinch activities!

decorating cookies

making ornaments

Sarah's class wore their jammies for the movie

Girls and Curls - Part 2

The girls like to have curls in their hair and I blogged about it before. After I got my perm , the girls said that they wanted to get perms, too.  I told them we would during Christmas vacation.  So today, we went to Grandma's house and did perms!  Last year, (almost exactly) we took the girls to get their ears pierced.  I wonder what big thing we'll do next year! 

Emily with the before perm conditioner

getting rinsed

Rolling up the curlers

All set for the chemicals

Not liking the chemicals!

Taking out the curlers

All done!

Zonked out on Grandpa ☺ (getting a perm is hard work!)

Sarah with the before perm conditioner

Getting rolled up (Mom)

Getting rolled up (Grandma)

The lovely chemicals

Waiting

Getting rinsed

Neutralizer

Taking the curlers out

All done (and Emi is still zonked!)

It only took each girl an hour start to finish, so that wasn't too bad!  The boys got hair cuts this morning, too, so we're all ready for Christmas pictures!

2011 Church Christmas Program

Yesterday was the Christmas program at church.  The kids sang "Away in a Manger" and the choir sang 4 songs interspersed with special music numbers and scripture readings.

Sarah is on the left in the back row and Emily is 2nd from the left in the front row. 
William didn't want to go up and sat with the director instead

In case you aren't sure, that is me in the front row next to the men

2011 Carriage Rides

Okay, so since I mentioned the carriage rides yesterday, I figured I'd best get on the ball and post the pictures!  My kids have done it enough times that they had started asking about when it was time for the carriage rides!  This year, my younger sister and 3 kids came along, so we had to "share" Grandpa and Grandma.  We got Grandma in our carriage and they got Grandpa ☺

This is the ride before us, but the carriage we rode

"Our" horse, Nemo

This is the carriage that my sister's family rode on

They had the top down this year

The kids really enjoyed looking at everything

This is my sister's family and dad's carriage

"Bye, Nemo"