Christmas With the Boys

It's great having David and Josh back home for Christmas!

A shirt from Nathan

Oh, happy boy!

Amy's oil lamp from Mom

Felicity's riding outfit and an American Girl doll hairbrush

Blankets.....

And the best kind! (check out those eyes!)

A clock for Dad. And yep, were hopelessly Farmall farmers.

One of the things David got....

Nathan's satisfied

Mom's had her eye on this sign for awhile

Concentration on his toy

David's family gift to us-Carrom! We are all hopelessly bad at it and he's the pro!

Opening gifts is hard work, you know

Jo with her kitties

Josh seriously ate way too much sugar!

Mom doesn't like being the shortest of the family :/

Ok, so who's really the problem??

Sorry, the boys never cooperate for pictures very well.....:)

Josh is standing on a piece of firewood to make himself look taller, David looks extremely uncomfortable and Micah is falling out of the picture. But that's us.

So MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOD BLESS!!

Recording For Lauren's CD

It turned out to be a fun but a little bit of a stressful day. :/ We recorded in our living room because of the high ceiling and took out the rug and a bunch of furniture.

Listening to a practice run

Anyone else want to listen??

Oh Em, what would we do w/o you??!

More listening

How does it sound?

Mug shot of the celloists. We had to record, listen and then move the cellos around to get the right sound. They were WAY too loud at first so we stuck them up in the kitchen.

We tuned several times....

A worn-out violist(who played the part on a violin! Good job Nina and Em!)

Poor Hillary....the song was really getting to her. We played and recorded Holy, Holy, Holy at least a hundred times , I think and we were SO tired of it!

Listening...

There were violins laying all over the floor

The recording device. It was put on a scarf to prevent it from picking up all the vibrations on the floor and all that good sort of stuff. :)

If you want to see more pix click here

For Alaina :)

Here's a couple pictures of Jojo's cat's kitten, Greta. (make sense?:) I think she's a couple of weeks old.

For a kitty, she's pretty cute :)

(and we're not a family of cat lovers either!)

Soft Pretzels, Anyone?

...and no, we didn't sprinkle popcorn on them....

Dipping them in the baking soda water...

The finished product!

We ate them plain, with cheese sauce and with butter and cinnamon sugar. Yum!

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*Thanks Lauren, for the smashing idea and helping us make them!

The Amazing "Rockett" Taffy Pull

Yup, that's right!

Amy, putting in the vinegar

Uh oh, getting corny already!

I think we're pretty good at that

It's almost ready

Em and Aim w/ their two pans of taffy. One is regular the other is mint.

Thabeh Tuba(or Thabeh Trombone Telephone,whatver you prefer) and Jojo

The queens of taffy

"Help, I'm stuck!!"

Stuck to the floor with taffy

Micah and Amadu with their sticky taffy

Jo and Ads pullin' away

They were supposed to be looking mournful b/c their taffy turned out like junk. I think they used way too much butter!

We've got the real deal

I know, we were totally crazy that night

Taffy Teeth!!!

"Oh no! Our taffy fell on the floor! What do we do??!"

Streeeeettttttccccchhhhhh

Ooo, is anyone sick of us yet?

Even the dog likes taffy!

Too much taffy boys?

Miles, upon miles of taffy to cut and wrap

Kayla the Crusty Caterpillar feeling taffied out

Chop, chop forever and ever amen

We're sick of taffy

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And now everyone, thank you for bearing with us on another crazy post. We are very normal at times believe it or not!
Good night!!