Family Times

We went to Red Lobster for Dinner. YUM! Glen and I shared king crab legs!

The guys made salsa while we made our tile pictures. The salsa got so strong that we all started coughing and had to open the doors and windows.

My cute grandma. She's 94.

Holly brought her snow flake beads so we could make snow flakes. We like doing crafts when we get together. We really missed my other sister Wendy. She lives in Texas and has already flown up to visit a couple times this year, so we didn't get to see her at christmas. :(

Craft time!

My mom and sister wanted to learn how to make tile pictures like the one I made several posts ago. I brought up all the supplies and showed them how to do it.

This is my mom blowing out the itty bitty bubbles that form once you pour the poxy stuff on.

Ta Da! They did a great job. The pictures turned out nice!

Christmas (phase 1)

We opened our presents to eachother before heading up to Washington. Glen was pretty proud of his new sweater. :)

We got Ginger a rocking Giraffe. She was so cute on it. It looked like she was having alot of fun on it, so I thought I would try it out.

It was a squeeze, but I managed to fit and actually do a few rocks back and forth. It didn't last long though because my feet were cramping up. hahhah

Winter Wonderland Wedding

This is the cake I made for Kristi's bridal shower. It was cherry chip cake with cherry flavored frosting.

This is her wedding cake that Troy's mom made. Somehow I missed out on getting a piece of that. :(

The four string quartet played for the ceremony and reception. That made it really nice.

Chandler-Blackburn Wedding

Dale and Kristi walking down the isle.

The ceremony was really nice.

Kristi was beautiful and Shari did a great job managing the whole wedding.

Troy's mom made the cake. Everything was just so pretty! They did a great job transforming the gym into a winter wonderland.

Service

I just had to make a post about what I read on my dad's blog. If you want to read a touching story about service, go to his blog at http://geezergab.blogspot.com/ . It's kind of weird to read about all this flooding and know that we use to live there. He also made a post of the article in the newspaper that they had about the LDS church. After reading it, you'll feel thankful to be apart of such a wonderful organization.

The 10 minute Birthday Party

We finally celebrated Ginger's first birthday. We had planned to do it on her birthday, but I was sick with the flu. Sadly, the evening of her birthday party, Ginger came down with a fever.

(This is me trying to put on a happy relaxed face and look as if I'm enjoying myself and in no hurry whatsoever. Ginger was good considering we took her to the ER that night with a fever of 104.5. That story is for another post though)

She perked up when Glen served the cake.

Since we had a meeting to attend later that evening, I did all I could to make sure that her little party wouldn't be rushed. But to no avail, we ended up having a fast 10 minute window to open presents, gulp down the cake and go. Disappointing, but I spose it was for the better. Ginger wasn't up to visiting much anyway. ( I spose I made up for the short party by spending so much time decorating the cake.. . ..)

She was afraid of the dolls I made.. .. especially the smaller one (Glen thinks it looks like a voodoo doll.) :(

(Now hurry! Everyone get together and smile and act like we're having a good time!)

Shari made a really good dinner. It was a bunch of vegetables and meat cooked in a pumpkin and Kristi made home-made dinner rolls!

Custom Stockings

I wanted to make Ginger a stocking since she didn't have one yet, but I ended up making us all our own custom stocking. It was fun. Ginger's is the GingerBread stocking. Mine is the snowy white stocking and Glen wanted a stocking fit for a king! ahhahah Glen was so funny. He was all excited to go to Walmart to pick out the fabric and decor he wanted. I teased him for wanting "jewels" on his stocking.

Ginger can wear her stocking.

Silly Baby

I was surprised to find Ginger like this when she woke up from her nap. Somehow she got her arm out of her sleeve all by herself. Silly baby!

Gingerbread house

I've never made a gingerbread house, so we thought it would be fun to make one from scratch...(that's why the house is crooked and lop sided). It was fun. I layed the frosting foundation and put up the walls and Glen put the mike and ike shingles on. He also built the Andes mint chimney. After we built it, we didn't know what to do with it and we felt too guilty throwing it all away, so we decided to give it to Mark and Liz and their kids. We figured they would like it ..at least their kids would. (Sorry Liz, you probably weren't too excited to have a bunch of candy sitting around for your kids to eat.)

It even has a porch!

Gift Idea!

Last year my mom and sisters all got this stamping nail art kit. It's so fun and looks professional! There are lots of discs to choose from with all kinds of designs. It's quick and easy to use. It took me about five minutes to put the design on all my nails. If you want to order them online, it's called Konad Nail Art.

Toe Socks!

My sister Wendy sent these toe socks to me along with Ginger's birthday present. I never thought I would like toe socks, but I do. They are perfect. I can still stretch my second toe without taking my socks off! (Wendy, is that why you sent them to me? How thoughtful!) :)

I love my new stretch-toe socks!

My Favorite thing for This Month

Ali had a great idea of sharing her favorite thing, product, activity, restaurant etc. the frist friday of each month. I want to do the same and hope that you other bloggers will want to also. It's a great way to share info. Anyway, my favorite thing this month is Pandora.com. My dad told me about this website a few months ago. Pandora is a free online radio where you can create your own stations. Right now we love listening to free Christmas Music. You can share stations you make with your friends. Pandora is easy to start. I like it because all they want is a username and password. You don't have to give them any other personal data or money. Just go to www.pandora.com and enjoy!

This one's for Kaela

This used to be Kaela's neighbor and my dad thought that you would like to see her all grown up. She's with my sister Holly and her Husband Greg.