Merry christmas 2012

What a wonderful time of Year. Our house is warm, the food is good, and the nights are long and cold outside. Our family is so thankful for all our blessings, of which we have had many! Thank you all for your love and generosity, we love you all!

Too much fun stuff to mention this morning, I'll add a update later when we get a chance to decompress.

The big news is... we are now one more strong here in the Orchard House. One wet nosed, black, brown, and white, 3 lb beagle arrived Via Santa Nelly (AKA Sister Rhodes). she has already gone potty outside once and survived a constant handling by the crew.

 Aaron made some videos of the chaos...

Ethan in his new fish pajamas gettting ready to start the paper mess....

Ivie playing Just Dance 4, she has played all of JD3 so she is excited about the new challenges.....

Amelia loves her Lalaloppsi doll and her "Brave" Dress up that Ivie Gave her.....

Ivie and Elise with Monster High dolls, they both light up, one is like a glowing ghost (along with a Creepy noise) the other is a "Frankensteins' Monster" complete with bolts in the neck and it lights up to reveal the inner skeleton....

Snoopy houses and all that

We had another really fun family night this week when we got a ginger bread house kit, and the kids put them together at the kitchen talbe.

 Ivie and Amelia were on one team

 Ethan worked on his own creation, notice he is using nutella insead of gross glue frosting?

 Me and Elise worked on this snoopy house...

 I did the structure and Elise did the decorations...

 Isobell and Lara worked on another one...

 Aaron's snoopy house was uniquely Aaron... sorta Charles Schultz meets Tim Burton.

 2 proud sisters

 Elise's final decorations... and goofball smile

and Ethan's creation with a "generator" on the far side......