Our gingerbread house!

This year is a first for many things with Lucy and Ava, and making our Gingerbread house is no exception! I think they may have helped eat the candy last year, but as far as actually helping to decorate and make the house??? I don't believe they did. :)

Christmas caroling!

Lucy was so sweet looking at this nativity scene in one of the neighbors
yards. After looking and Mary and Joseph, she bent down to give baby
Jesus a kiss... Ahhh.. It was such a sweet moment.

Sacramento, SNOW? Let's see if this prediction is right!!!!

Monday

Snow mixed with rain at times in the morning then rain likely in the afternoon. Highs 38 to 44. Total snow accumulation 1 to 3 inches. Light winds becoming northwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.

Updated.... I heard and saw on the news that it did indeed snow in Sacramento, in fact, it snowed everywhere except our neighborhood!!! I woke up really early, all excited about the snow, and guess what? There was pretty much no snow...... Then my friend, who lives about 2 miles from my house, writes me at like 6am telling me all about the snow at her house! Seriously, the snow fell everywhere by here.... Oh well...

Cookies with Santa

We had our annual decorating of the Christmas tree last night. It was so much fun to have Lucy and Ava actually participating this year! We made lots of cookies, had some lovely chistmas music playing, and decorated away. Chris took his usual spot on the couch to "watch" and drink his adult libation. His job is to hang the lights up on the outside, our job is decorate this inside. LOL What a great night!

Having fun with fall leaves

Poor Bailey...

Yesterday around 4pm, we let the dogs back in the house from outside. We noticed that Daisy had blood all over her ear. What? After searching and not finding anything, we realized that Bailey also had blood all over her leg. We looked at Bailey's leg and sure enough she had a really large, deep laceration. I have no idea where she got it, but after Chris and I looked at it we agreed that she would need stitches. Sooooooo, we called the vet and they got her in right away. Bailey came home with 8 staples in her leg!! Poor Pup!
That night, Daisy would not leave her side. It was really sweet because Daisy usually likes her space... she's old and she is just not that into the new dogs. But tonight she cuddled with Bailey and let her know that she really did love her. Ahhhhhh...

18mm

135mm

200mm

18mm

135mm

200 mm

I got a new lens! I pretty much love, love, love it!!! My old lens broke, I have no idea how, it just didn't work one morning! This happened to be a morning that I got the girls dressed up in their Christmas outfits, did their hair all pretty, and was going to take our Christmas card photo..... I was so upset that my lens broke that I almost cried!!

Anyway, I have really been enjoying this new lens, and I thought it would be fun to take pictures of the zoom this lens has. The first is wide open at 18mm, the second is at 135mm (which is the lens I almost got), and the third is the closest zoom at 200mm.

Happy 8th Anniversary!!!

I can't believe I have been married to my wonderful husband for 8 glorious years! We have been together for almost 10, and I have been loving every moment! We have been through so much during these last 10 years, we have had some wonderful memories created, and I really do believe that we have out best years ahead of us. I am giddy at the thought of spending them with my husband and three beautiful daughters.
Thank you Chris for a delightful night, the company was great. And thank you for being such a wonderful husband, friend and father, thank you for being you. You truly are the best! XOXOXO

Halloween!!!

The next set of pictures are from Maddie's Halloween party at
her friends house.




It was Halloween overload this weekend! We had a school party on Friday, then a Halloween party at Maddie's friends house on friday night. Saturday Maddie had a Halloween soccer game (see http://desertflames.blogspot.com/) and then we had friends and family over Saturday night for Halloween festivities! Complete of course with trick-or-treating. The girls had a blast all weekend long and I am sure that they have enough sugar on board to last for the next several weeks!