This 'n that...

We've been busy the past several days...rehearsals, performances, shopping, tree hunting and more!

On Saturday Sweet-Pea had her 'all afternoon' rehearsal at church for the kids Christmas musical. She came home exhausted and was ready to go right to bed, when I told her that she had to shower and I wanted to rag-roll her hair. Ugh....it was like pulling teeth. She eventually showered and sat still (sort of) while I busily rolled her hair into spirals all over her head with t-shirt rags. She looked oh so pretty silly!

That evening it began to snow outside. It was gorgeous, but by morning the roads near us were very slippery, so we stayed home.





Cody wasn't too sure he liked the snow...every time he'd smell the ground to find 'the perfect spot' to do his business, he'd end up looking like this...


Sweet-Pea's musical wasn't until evening, so we knew we'd get there without problems...which we did. In the mean time, she got ready...still with the rag rolls in her hair...after 18 hours!! Oh my!! See exhibit 'A'.

Exhibit 'A':


I began to undo the rags when I realized that one side was rolled much tighter than the other. I don't think I was paying too much attention the night before....oops! Anyhow...you can see here in exhibit 'B' and exhibit 'C', that she has longer loose curls on the left side than the right. Oh no...what to do!?! I also noticed that I need to roll the curls closer to her scalp...nearly cutting off her blood supply...but the look would be so much prettier in the end. Don't 'cha think? = )

Exhibit 'B':


Exhibit 'C':


No problem...Mommy worked it all out and by the time the hair was pulled back on the top...everything looked fairly even. A little pulling and tugging loosened the tight curls right up. "Sorry Sweet-Pea...maybe your head wounds will go away before too long." No one ever said that having long hair was easy!! It's so hard to take care of it, but we're managing...sort of.


The Christmas musical at church, was wonderful!!! The kids all sang their little hearts out and the acting was superb. Sweet-Pea didn't have a part this year since she's only in 2nd grade. Those parts are for the 'big kids'...3rd-5th graders.

Here she is singing with the choir...front and center (the one with the perfectly rag-rolled curls of course!)




Fast-forward to yesterday.... (huh?)

The snow was still on the ground a bit. We were going to go cut down our Christmas tree a few days earlier, but we're so glad we didn't. With the snow still on the ground, it was much more fun and a whole lot prettier to look at!

Here are the kids at the top of the hill at the local tree farm...



Lionel looking for a tree...acting silly as usual!


Sweet-Pea sporting her new gloves, her wellies and very cool walking stick.


Here, the kids are posing beside the tree we picked out! It's very tall but also very pretty!


Daddy, cutting down the tree. T..I..M..B..E..R!!!


Lugging it back down the big hill. Fortunately Edward brought a tarp and rope, so the boys were able to pull it easily on the snow.


Tomorrow I'll add photos of the tree up and decorated...if we get it done! We put it up today and put the lights on it, but that's as far as we got. We all feel just like Cody looks in this photo....exhausted!


Until tomorrow...