Great Reactions

Lydia can really turn on the energy. While opening her stocking and some presents for Christmas, she flipped out with every present she got from her Christmas list. Her eyes light up, she starts jumping around, and usually starts to scream. We captured a few moments on video this Christmas to share. Priceless!

My Amazing Husband

When we moved into this house, we got a dining room table and chairs off of KSL.com classifieds. At the time we had a 2 year old and a 5 month old. I didn't think much about the white fabric on the chairs except that it looked nice. A few months later, I realized that the white was a problem and that it no longer looked nice. I started to recover the chairs with new darker fabric, but by the time I got to the third chair the first one was filthy again. I thought about making slip covers that I could take off and wash, but I'm not a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination. So, I asked Tim to make new wooden seats for the chairs. Now he has never done anything like this project before, but that doesn't stop him. With a little asking around and the borrowing of a few tools that he now desires to own, he made me some beautiful new seats for the chairs for Christmas!! I love this man. Here are the stages of his work and the final product!

The raw maple.

Cutting out the shapes.

The seats cut out.

Routing the edges.

Staining and finishing.

The before and after.

All done! Thank you honey, they are just what I wanted, and you are amazing.

The Camera is here

We didn't mention this in our last blog but our new camera/camcorder has arrived! Hence, we can post pics again. Yeah!

Choir and Dance!

Lydia's school choir had a concert this week. There are only 3 kindergarteners, but I think she holds her own. She loved being on stage and getting all dolled up for the performance. This song is the one she sang around the house everyday.



Ali had her first dance recital today. The theme was "T'was the Night Before Christmas" and she did a tap dance to "Suzy Snowflake". Two of her best friends are in the class with her, and she loved putting on makeup and getting her hair done too. My girls are prima donas. Here's Ali's dance.





After the performance, Santa came. Here are our three little ones. Bryant tried to pull Santa's beard. I hope that doesn't mean he gets coal now.

We're getting a new camera

It should be here next week. We can't have Christmas without a camera. I'm sad about all of the pictures that are lost. I still hope the old camera shows up again one day. At least some of them are on this blog. So, more things from us to come as soon as our new camera arrives!!

I Lost My Camera

I have some great blogs to do, like going to the Gateway to see the Christmas tree lighting, Thanksgiving, the zoo...oh so many good things! But I have to wait until I find my camera. I will be very sad if it is lost forever. Stay tuned.