Merry Christmas

Yawnn!!

Wow, is it really all over?? I spent the morning trying to help my house a little bit. It think a tornado blew through here. Yikes.

I know I have a lot to catch up on. I just put a few photos on flickr. I’m only going to put a couple on this post so if you’re curious- click on over and take a looksie.

Christmas was pretty successful. We went to one of my Grandparents for Christmas Eve and the other Grandparent for a Christmas dinner. I think Jer has been throughly Grandparentfied but it was nice. It’s the same Christmas schedule I’ve had since a child. It’s a tradition.

This is Isaac’s drill. He loved anything he got that had buttons or made a noise. The remote control car was also a hit. Emma loved her princesses and digital camera. Kids are so easy to please. Jer wants to return the coat I bought him but oh well, he can just get what he wants. I was given some new bindings for my 10 year old piece of junk snow board. Woo hoo. They are so nice and are going to help out a lot with the ride. I wanted a new snowboard but I’ll just have to wait until we can afford it.

We were lucky because Jer got an extra day off work for Christmas so we begged and pleaded my momma to babysit while we hit the slopes. We went yesterday, and yes, I’m sore. Gosh, I’m getting old. We were so excited to hit the slopes with all the fresh powder UT has been getting lately. It was pretty cold but we had such nice rides cruising long together. I wish I had some awesome pictures of us rail sliding or getting big air but hey, I’m getting to old for that. I didn’t even want to take my hands out of my gloves to take  pictures. We did love weaving in and out of the trees though.
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Last night Emma begged me to cut her hair. She wanted it short so bad. Actually she has been asking me for a while.

I thought, “I guess I can just trim it up. It probably needs it.” So up stairs we went to chop, chop. At first, I took a wack off of it just to get it to the length that I thought would be good.

Emma all of the sudden started bawling. Waaaaa! “I’m ugly! Everyone is going to think that I’m ugly.”

“Sorry girl, too late”

A half hour later I had done the best I could with such a wiggly, sad girl. It was shorter that I had planned it to be and it was all choppy and crooked. Oh, well. She all of the sudden was so happy with it. I think it was what she wanted but was just so shocked with how much I had taken off.

This morning she woke up wondering if her preschool teacher would recognize her. I noticed how crooked it was in the back and knew I had to go get it fixed. This is the finished result. She had told the hair lady that she wanted to look like me so she put some moose in it and diffused it even though Em’s hair is a straight as a wet noodle.

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I’ve been really sick of the computer lately. All those Christmas cards must have worm me out. So in my leisure time I’ve been reading Pride and Prejudice. I am in love with the movies so I thought I’d read it. It’s been so fun. I’ve been able to get to know the characters so much better and also what really happened. Ahhh… I can hardly stand it. I have to find out if Lizzy and Mr. Darcy really get together in the end. Ahhh.. excuse me while I curly up in front of the fire. ha ha.