{lights at Dale's Nursery}

After meeting Santa for the first time we walked around and enjoyed the lights.

  

  

Then of course it was time to get cookies and hot chocolate.

And it wouldn't be a good time if we didn't give mom a stupid photo.

  

 

 Happy holidays to your crazy family too.

{kids and santa}

Up until this year we have no photos of the youngest two with any holiday characters. 

Why?  

They have always been terrified of costumed people- 

be it Monkey Joes or Chuckie Cheese - they don't like them.

We went to look at the lights at the local nursery and Santa was there.  

Just like every other year, I asked," do you want to go see Santa? " .  

But to my surprise, Sophie said - " I'll try". 
   

 So proud of them.  I just wonder what crazy things they asked for. 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

May your day be filled with family and food. 

May you be blessed with happiness.

happy thanksgiving from us to you.

A girl and some tags.

My daughter and I are really into crafting together.  She wants to sell things and we are trying things I think she can excel at and will sell.

This afternoon, after homework we moved onto a new project.

I have seen the clay tags all over the blog universe and thought that is something we could do together.  She also added to her pile a few ornaments for the tree later on.

Here she is busy at work:

 

She is so concentrated when working.

Then I got to making some also:

And I'll leave you with a close up:

They are now drying so I will show them after their final phase when completed.

Happy Veteran's Day Daddy

From two of the best little military brats out there to their daddy. 

following in her mommy's footsteps

My little girl has sold her first craft piece and her second and third.  

She is always working in my studio with me.  And she and her aunt came up with an idea of things to sell that she could do.  She and I sat down Sunday to work on them.  

She painted them and came up with the whole idea of how to do it.  

I merely did the hot glue gun.  And I have the huge burn blister on my finger that proved to her she at the age of 6 is not old enough to tackle the glue gun. 

Take a look at her blog to see her creations.  

She is showing her logo today and will share her creations tomorrow.  

I couldn't be prouder of my mini me. 

Love her so much.

Here's to my partner in crafting:  

Halloween 2011

Well we started the day with school  Since we are no longer allowed it seems in American schools to celebrate Halloween..ridiculous if you ask me- Sophie wore the Halloween clothes we had amassed.

 Then we got ready for the real event..trick or treating.

 

 

Then the rain started.  It was already cold but we didn't need the rain.  

All in all it was fine by 6pm.

And the witch came out.

 

Her Aunt also came wearing her witch outfit.  Though no one got to see it after she arrived as she spent the evening sitting on the porch in her jacket and covered with a down throw..sad right?

 

Jack could not make up his mind..go with the werewolf or the skeleton?

 The skeleton won out. 

It was a great night-. lots of kids came to the house.  We scared most and made some cry.

We ran out of candy which means it was busy.

Now, how do we top it next year? hmmmm