Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful...

But the fire is so delightful. It was cold today and the kids have been asking to make a fire. We have a bunch of wood so I figured today was as good a day as any. I got some wood from the back, which was just a little wet from the rain we had Saturday and made my little fire. I do have to say that I got it started with ONE match. I was pretty proud of myself.

We also had our ward Christmas Breakfast Party on Saturday morning. It was really fun. The theme was The Polar Express. The conductor was perfect and they showed some of the movie and then all the kids went and saw Santa. Well, all the kids, BUT McKinley. She has never sat on his lap in her life. She will not go near him. She was pretty cute. The day before in school her teacher had helped them make some reindeer antlers and painted their noses red. She loved it. She asked me to paint her nose again for the party and were her antlers. She is so silly.

Merrill Santas 08

We, like almost all other Mormon families, put up our Christmas tree on Monday night. Why do you ask, am I just now blogging about it? Well, it is because I am just now recovering. J/K. I am still not done, but my goal is to get the final touches up today. It started out out bad and we should have just stopped there. We told the kids they had to get their chores and homework done and then after dinner we would read scriptures and eat our yummy German advent and then we would put up the decorations. Carter would not eat dinner. He had a few bites and drank like five glasses of juice. Why we let him do that, I dont know. I guess it was just a hectic day. So we do all of our stuff and I am just on the verge of screaming by this point. I have no idea why I have to beg my children for everything. The kids are excited and running around as we start to pull the boxes out. Carter starts coughing and all of a sudden-He pukes. Mind you he had just drank red juice. Nice. It landed right on Jack's head and splattered all over Trevor. "Luckily" that happened because very little then landed on the carpet. Trevor ran and gave the kids a bath and I cleaned the carpet, then we put up the tree. All in all it was fun, but seriously does everything we do have to be a production.


I have to add one more picture because it was so funny. Carter came out of the bathroom with a "scarf" on, if you can't tell, it is a long piece of toilet paper.



Also my camera quit working, the battery died and it will not charge so when I get that fixed I will take some pictures of the finished product and post.