Dancing Boy!

Jonah has discovered music!  He's LOVING dancing and singing.  And of course the sisters are loving him loving it, he's just not quite ready for their dancing yet.  But I'm sure it won't be long.

Tonight, Haley gets to sleep in the tent her dad made her.  Only, I super charged it - by putting twinkle lights all inside!  {and I moved her bed to put it on top of her bed/ dresser}

 She's so excited, she'll read all night.  

Christmas Crafting and fun

WOW!  This Christmas I was a little over-achieving.  Let's just say, Pinterest has taken over. :)  I have had so many ideas from Pinterest that I've wanted to work on.  Lot's of Christmas presents were made in December, and our house was taken over by my crafting.  Let's just say, Jeff is very glad our downstairs is somewhat back to normal.
Here are some of the projects I worked on:

Kid's Felt Christmas Tree:
Just realized I didn't take a picture of this one - and it's already put up for next year.  It was a 3 1/2 ft tall felt tree stuck to the wall.  And I cut out shapes of more felt in many more colors to decorate with.  The kids LOVED it!

Picture Ornaments:

Tile Coasters:

Refrigerator Magnets:

Canvas Photos:

And then there are the yummy desserts.  We made my famiy's tradional favorite Christmas cookies; sugar cookies all decorated.  And gave many of them away - including a huge bucket of them to my brother for his long drive back to Montana.  Lots of chocolate covered goodies this year; pretzels, graham crackers, nuts, popcorn, apples, just about anything that we could find.  Turtles were a new one - pretzels with rolos on top, warmed in oven, then a pecan smooshed on top.

Photo Challenge, Day 5 and 6

Day 6:

Low Angle

Assuming this is close to what Jonah sees daily.  

Although he does a lot of looking up too.  But these are from his domain.

 Why is it that little feet are so stinking adorable??  I just love them!

There are always a pile of books and toys on the floor.  

Yep - more little feet!

Day 5:

High Angle

This one was hard to do.  So I ended up looking out my bathroom window, and this is what I saw.

Bonfire

Somehow this post got missed and saved instead of published.  oops.

Tonight, we decided to make a bonfire with all the sticks we've been collecting over the summer.  Last year Jeff replaced the fountain in the back with a wonderful fire pit.  Tonight's dinner - roasted hotdogs and smores!!  Woo Hoo!!!  I love fall!  Jeff was watching the UT game tonight and eating chili, so us girls had a night outside (and Jonah joined us too).  

Haley and Caitlin having some sweet sister time!  They were having so much fun.

How incredible is this?  YUM!

Woops - we let a little marshmallow spill on the bricks

She really enjoyed that s'more

Jeff came out for a while to enjoy the big fire

Well, looky here.  ... Someone gave Jonah a chunk of their chocolate bar.  He LOVED it!!!  I tried giving him dinner after this - he'd have NO sweet potatoes.  "More chocolate, please!"

Love me a fall bonfire!!!!

Photo Challenge: Day 4

Day 4

Something Green

I decided to go around the house to see what green things I could find. 
I thought it would be hard, but apparently I like green.

Haley, my favorite 7 year old, in green pj's and in our green kitchen.

The moss on our front rocks.

Some of the lst green leaves falling to the dead ones.

My favorite 2 year old.

My favorite coffee mug 

Jeff's cigar and football watching chair.
*Note:  this chair is NOT my favorite, more of the opposite, but my favorite person likes this chair, and he uses it very often.  So it reminds me of him.

Photo Challenge: Day 3

Day 3

Clouds.

Today was a overcast day, specs of sun, but mostly grey clouds.  Perfect day for a picture?  The clouds near me were almost too faint.  Hard to get a good picture of them.  My first try was out the front porch, but we have tons of trees, so you could just see light grey.  

Then out the back, still, just grey.

Finally I drove down the street and found some with a little color difference.