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Christmas 2010 – Ready, Set, Go!

Meeting Santa

Caroline’s favorite baby in the world – Baby Eli

Eating Lucky Charms under Grandma’s kitchen table

Eating Lucky Charms in a high chair

Santa brought a marble machine!

Santa brought a car seat!

I made quiet books for the girls!

Allow me to give you some unsolicited advice.  Someday, one of your friends may approach you and ask if you want to make a quiet book.  Her idea is to find 12 people who want to make quiet books.  Each person would choose one page to do and then make that page 12 times.  Then all the participants would exchange pages and voila!  A quiet book!

If somebody ever asks you to do this, the correct answer is no.  You do not want to do this!  You don’t know it, but the quiet book will destroy your will to live!  You will think you’ve chosen an easy page to make, and it won’t take much time at all, but you will be wrong!  So very, very wrong!  Do you know how long it takes to cut felt?  Do you know how long it takes to sew felt pieces together?  Do you know that by the time you factor in all the time you spent making the book with the cost of materials you could probably have purchased a dozen quiet books from a store and still come out ahead?  Yes, the books will turn out darling and your girls will love them, but can you guess what consumed my life in the weeks before Christmas?  Can you guess the state of disaster my house was in?  Probably not.  Luckily there are no photos from that dark, dark time.

Ahem.

Sorry about that.  Back to Christmas.

Is there anything sweeter than watching a little baby mother a toy baby?  I think not.

Play-doh machine courtesy of Grandpa Golden

Another hit from Grandpa Golden – a Magna Doodle

Dallas and I obviously need to do better at documenting people other than our children.  You wouldn’t know it from looking at our camera memory card, but we actually went to several family parties and saw nearly all of our close relatives.  Perhaps next year we’ll obtain photographic evidence of those endeavors.  Until then, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Candy Window 2004

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This morning I was thinking about the candy window we did back in 2004.  I was looking at the pictures and I thought I would share them with you since we didn’t have the blog back in 2004.

ZCMI in Salt Lake used to have window displays during Christmas that were made entirely out of candy.  When ZCMI discontinued it Provo City took over and had the candy windows in the windows of businesses in downtown Provo.  We participated for a couple of years.  This was our entry.  It was a lot of work.  You might notice the picture of me and Rebecca on the fireplace and on the bookshelf.

Every surface that you see had to be made from something edible.  The pictures of us were coated with sugar.  The walls were frosting and gum sticks.  The floor was dyed coconut.  The fireplace was rock candy.  The bookshelf was rolled out Tootsie Rolls.  The door was pretzels.  The tree was sour straws.  The man was mostly fondant.  The popcorn strand was nerds so we had to buy a large quantity of nerds to sort out the white ones.  You can imagine where many of the rest went.

I can’t remember what award we won for the window but it was featured on TV and on promotional posters.  The theme for this year was “O Christmas Tree.”  We called our window “O Blasted Christmas Tree.”

Maybe tomorrow I’ll do a post about other candy windows.

Halloween – 2010

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This year I wasn’t planning on doing anything extravagant with our costumes.  You remember last year’s costumes? Well, this year I had no such motivation.  However, I had an idea last minute and went with it.

This costume is a little more…shall we say…revealing…than costumes I’m used to, but I couldn’t resist:

I don’t know how you’ll react, but this costume has been enough to freak me and Dallas out.  Talk about scary!

With that costume as inspiration, we turned into a skeleton family.

Brooke and Caroline at our Halloween playgroup party.

I’m mad Caroline is blurry.  Turns out Brooke doesn’t have a black shirt, and I didn’t want to buy one.  Luckily, someone at the party happened to have a skeleton shirt just Brooke’s size and they let us borrow it.  How nice!

We met up with our friends, the Fraziers, and trick-or-treated with them at the mall.  It was crowded, but we preferred that over getting rained on!

Check out the Fraziers’ costumes:

Don’t you want to be their friends now, too?  They are the characters from Alice in Wonderland – Alice, the White Rabbit, Tweedledee, and Tweedledum.

Tired girls after our evening trick-or-treating.

These next pictures show our annual Halloween party with my Mom’s side of the family.  This is mostly for my parents’ benefit as they were not there to see the costumes since they were attending the First Annual Glen Thomas Family Reunion in Omaha, Nebraska.  Some of us didn’t like the idea of a fourteen-hour car drive merely to visit our siblings whom we never see, so we didn’t attend.

While I was taking pictures of the costumes, someone said, “You should take pictures of the food!  That’s what your Mom will really be sad she missed!”

There was tons of food and this dinner was deemed by all as the most successful potluck we’ve had to date.  So, Mom and Dad, was the visit to Omaha worth missing this?

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