Christmas 2007

So Christmas was pretty good this year. I was excited to see what Savannah thought of the whole thing. She loves all the decorations and Baby Jesus everywhere. Ripping the paper was her favorite part of the whole thing though. Who cares what's inside, mostly! The other kids were pretty happy with everything too.

Our tree and all the loot!

A stocking for each family member and one for Gaffer. The other two cats didn't have them this year. Poor Percy and Blaze!

Denver getting everyone's stockings and Savannah getting ready to open hers. Pretty neat.


Megan found a bunch of earrings in hers.

Cute Moose!

Time to stop for breakfast, I think these Smarties will do! Savannah even opened them by herself. Note, banana shoved to the side for now.

Banana in one hand, Smartie in the other!

Tinkerbell dishes

Radio and magic gloves from stockings.

Comparing the sizes of socks she got.

Daddy, Savannah, and new baby doll.

Playing with her new ball. This was the first present that she looked at for very long. She played with it until I hid it so she could open the rest of her mountain of gifts!

Hmmmmm, a Telus bag. What could be in here?

Cool, I got my own cell phone! "Hey, how come I didn't get one?" asks Denver.

From her Telus bag. Megan found Hollister perfume in hers. Then she sat there mad waiting for us to bring out a new cell phone!!!!!

Denver inspecting Savannah's new phone while she opens more presents.

Looking for something in the tree. What could it be?

Oh my goodness! It's a new red Chocolate Spin phone! Just what she wanted. All smiles now!

The after mess.

Everyone on phones, Gramma Susan talking on the speaker phone to Savannah.

Denver on the phone, with my old cell in one hand. The girls both texting away!

Hiya!

Gordon, Amber, Jackson and Deana. Jackson opening his new Little People Amusement park from us.

Ray Kuntz. Sierra on the side looking for presents to pass out.

Savannah opening her new Little People Dayhome from Auntie Amber, Sierra and Jackson

Grampa Gordon and Savannah. This was amazing, she doesn't usually go to men. As soon as she saw me she had enough of Grampa!

BOXING DAY

Like my stocking hat?

So cute.

Where'd everybody go? Savannah in a gift bag

Mum, Michelle and Jillian dividing up some bath stuff

Savannah playing on the side

Mum opening her Celine Dion tickets

Michelle and Jillian comparing yarn. They are the same!

Aunties

Daddy and Savannah opening gifts.

Scooby Doo from Auntie Jillian

Megan

Denver with his new basketball

Mum and Michelle

Auntie Jillian and Savannah

Denver in his new shirt from Auntie Jillian

Auntie Michelle and Savannah

and the new cell phone of course!

Sisters

Jillian, Michelle and Pamela

Gaffer in a Santa suit. Get this thing off!!!

2007 December Family Photos

These photos were taken Sunday, December 9th, 2007. Hope you like them!

Savannah needed a break in this next photo! At least two of the three were smiling!

Savannah loves Gaffer.

Nice kitty!

You need a kiss.

So cute.

Checking out the tree.

Denver, all smiles.

Showing off next to the fireplace. The box in her hand she was using for a "phone."

Busy, busy, BUSY!

This is in respose to an email that said we must not be doing anything new since nothing new is on my blog! All I have to say is I am MUCH too busy these days to get much on here.

Here is what our November calendar looks like:




There are also several things not on here. Like scrapbooking on the 21st, adoption fair on the 24th, making a garland and live wreath for the "Festival of Trees," and babysitting Jackson and Sierra overnight on the 24th.

Now I am busy making 12 potscrubbers for a lady that ordered them. Next is making 8 more paper quilled Christmas tree ornaments for a swap I joined again. Then hopefully I can finish decorating the house and getting ready for Christmas here. Also letters and cards need to be finished and sent to everyone!

Catch ya later!

2nd Annual Holiday Ornament Swap

http://cakeandpie.typepad.com/cake_pie/2007/11/the-2nd-annual-.html That is the link for the 2nd Annual Ornament swap. I signed up again. Just about missed it as the sign up only lasts until tomorrow!

Halloween

This photo was actually taken on September 13th, 2007. It was a BIG spider that came in on the plants I brought in the night before. Rick found it on the arm of our couch and got me out of bed to take pictures of it and then get it out of the house before the kids saw it!

Denver came home from school on October 30th with purple hair! Some kids in grade 6 or 7 were charging people $1 to do this. I think they made a LOT of money as there were several children that walked by here with the same thing. It was all out of his hair by the next morning. I still have to get a photo of him in his costume to put on here. Megan didn't go Trick-or-Treating as none of her friends were going.

Savannah at a Halloween party we were invited to at another day home. There were close to 20 children there under school age! They all wore their costumes and listened to a Halloween Clifford story. ate "spiders" made out of ritz with cheese whiz in the middle which held in pretzel stick legs and cheeze whiz dots on the top to hold on raisin eyes. I wish I had taken a photo of those. Then they had pumpkin or bat cookies as well. After that they all played with the MILLION toys in the basement and listened to Monster Mash.







This was the scene in our neighbor's yard yesterday morning. In the evening there was one more dummy in red coveralls, plus another "dummy" that was really the neighbor with a mask on. He had a smoke machine behind him that he used plus a chainsaw (with no chain) in his hands. Everytime older kids would be heading back out to the street from his house he would get up swing the chainsaw around and cut the heads off a couple of the dummies. Most of the kids got pretty freaked out. I found out later that when Rick was home he would hide behind the door with it open a little so he could hear the kids coming. When they got to the step he would throw open the door and make horrible noises. Apparently he got more screams because the kids were already freaked out from the other house and ours didn't look scary at all. We had no decorations outside, our one pumpkin that got finished never made it out on the steps this year!

Skeleton bride. I think her groom was in the window in his pajamas!

Accident scene. Little girl on her bike run over by a truck.



No wonder there was an accident, look who was driving!

My dayhome kids, Savannah and I all dressed up after the party.

Savannah all tuckered out after "Trick-or-Treating!" She absolutely LOVED Trick-or Treating. I asked her a couple times if she liked it and she would say Yep or Yes. I also would say want to Trick-or-Treat at that house and she would say Yep everytime! I finally just brought her home because her hands were getting frozen. I had a bag for the food bank in town again so it was no problem to come back. People kept giving me canned food! I told them they take candy too, but lots of people still gave me cans and someone gave me $2. The food bank will get quite a variety from us this year. I'm taking Savannah's leftover baby food too.

Isn't she cute?


After we got back the first time she was trying to put all our hand out candy into her bag!

Mmmmmmmmm Smarties!


The cutest little Tinkerbell ever. Her facepainting was done at the Tri-Leisure Center "Halloween Hoopla."


Happy baby.


Healthy snack of grapes before bed.


Oh Mum I am too tired, just put me to bed. No more pictures!



Last one. Night night.