These boots were made for walkin....Part Deux

So there are a billion-gagillion things I need to do. I need to wrap some presents (I plan on doing that here in a while after the crazy one goes to bed). I need to wash about 3 loads of laundry and put away about 10. Maebree's room is a wreck as well as ours. Vaccuming is WAY overdo, and the kitchen could use a good clean-up. And I don't even want to tell you what our kitchen table looks like......

But instead what am I doing? Well, the girls and I made a batch of sugar cookies (store bought dough) with icing (homeade) and sprinkles and then decided to torture our dog some more. Since it's like 5 degrees outside, she doesn't enjoy going out, and I read somewhere that a little dog loses most of their heat from their paws. In my last-minute shopping today, I found some dog booties complete with a blinking light-up feature for those great night dog-walkers. (Im not one of those...probably why our pup is about 3 pounds overweight....that's huge for a dog that is supposed to be 5 pounds tops:o)

Anyway, for your viewing pleasure.... If I only had a video camera you could acutally see her trying to walk!

She finally decided to give up and beg me for mercy....

If she could speak, I know she would be calling me cuss-words. But I haven't laughed that hard in a long time, so totally worth it:o)

Dirty coats

Ok.....Winter is here. And it stinks. I love snow and coldness and pretty, white conditions, but only from like Christmas Eve through January 1...then it can become 70 degrees and sunny the rest of the time. But what I hate most, is that all the dirt and junk from the roads gets onto your car and then transfers to your coat as you are getting kids in and out of cars! What is with that! I have a lovely lime green ZeroXposure coat, and it is the snuggliest, best, warm coat that I got super cheap at Kohls (like $25 bucks I think!) and it just gets FILTHY! And I cannot get it out! I have washed and scrubbed and bleached and repeated twice tonight, and still, those dirty stains are around the bottom and the sleeves.....

So yes, I know that I haven't posted anything for a week, and yes, I know all of you were anxiously awaiting a life-changing post from me, but man alive, this coat thing is all I got right now!

Any ideas?

Christmas programs and hair color

This past weekend was pretty stinking busy. Friday was my big hair appointment. I decided to change it up and go with a different color. I have been blonde (and many variations of blonde) for my whole life. I hadn't had any color in my hair for a while now, and last year, Russ suggested red. I didn't want to go brunette because my whole family went brunette, and I wanted to be different, but red kinda scared me. So a whole year later, I decided I would try. At the salon, I discussed it with my greatly talented hair stylist Britt, and we decided on a mix of the two, brunette with red undertones.....so....I guess you would call it an auburn-ish. (don't mind the self-portrait.....its not that easy to do with my camera...and I'm not photogenic:o)

I think I want to go with more red next time. I will probably go back to blonde in the spring or summer, but for now, its fun. And it makes my eyes look bluer, so that is always good.

Saturday we worked at the Center and went through clothes with my mom, and I took the girls to buy Christmas dresses for their concerts the next day (thanks Aunt Marilyn!)as well as a gift for Russ's Christmas party. It was crazy! I couldn't even get down the aisle at Target without having a mini-meltdown due to the massive amount of people there, so I chucked the whole thing and went to Wal-Mart in Urbana where it was not quite as busy. My sister loving refers to it as the "Lonely Wal-Mart" which seems appropriate.

Sunday we had church in the morning, Emmy's Christmas program at 1:00, Faith's Christmas program at 5:00, and Russ's Christmas party right after that at Alexanders. The girls were adorable as usual in their new dresses......

...and they both did a super job at their programs. We rushed them to mom's soon after Faith was done singing, and went to Alexander's for Russ's turn. It was a good night, but I wouldn't probably frequent Alexander's due to the extreme cost of our dinner which was good, but not exactly worth $75 it cost to eat.

So how was your weekend?

Winter is here!

Winter is here, and with a bang I might add! We had a grand time at Thanksgiving (we actually had two dinners because Russ had to work on actual Thanksgiving) and even managed to get our whole family together for a picture....which is amazing because that never happens!

Anyway, Russ and the girls managed to make some snowmen outside that first night it snowed....by the way on a separate note, they say the day it snows for the first time is the number of big snows you will have all year....it snowed on the 30th...I hope that is not true!

This masterpiece is my husband's....notice the defanition in the abs....I thought it looked like an alien:

And finally the girls snowmen. What is disturbing is that the next night some dumb kids knocked theirs over..actually came into our yard and knocked over a 5-year-old and 8-year-old's snowmen....I wanted to hunt them down and stick them in a snowman for 24 straight hours. I get kinda violent when people mess with my kids stuff:o)

More pictures to come of our lovely decorated house!! It looks so pretty. Christmas here we come!