Merry Christmas!

This is another long one, but better than scrolling through all my pictures! We had a Christmas eve dinner with all 15 of us! Carlos' parents and 3 of his sister's with family, and Sarah and Evoly! Sarah went up to her sister-in-law's after.
Christmas morning was stockings with just Grandma, Grandpa and us until the rest of the fam got there! Then it was presents and eating!!! We had a fun day of games and lots of eating! LOL We still had snow for most of the day. It rained, so after the day was over, the snow was gone. But it was so fun to see snow that day!!

Holiday Baking!!

This year I had Cindy (mother-in-law) to help with the baking! It was so nice to have her expertise! I made the cookies and chex mix but she made the others! :)

Dec SNOW **edit**

Richmond hasn't had December since I think they said, 1917. From the NBC12 site
"In the Richmond area, the last December winter storm event with at least 6 inches of snow occurred in December 1982.

The last December winter storm event with at least 8 inches of snow occurred in December 1966.

The last December winter storm event with at least 10 inches of snow occurred in December 1917."

This time around, the amount is ranked in the top 10 since records began! We made a cardboard sled for Laurie and I didn't get a picture...hmmm oh well.

December so far

This one is long! Livvy has some pictures of when she made Elaine into a princess so maybe she can put them up! :)

November

Desired birthday

I got the desired reaction. She also said "poopy" when she opened the gift from the Reyes' of a Pooh coloring book! :) So fun!

In the Spirit of Thanksgiving

My friend Emma posted this and I liked it. Here you go! :)

In the Spirit of Thanksgiving

Today

I am feeling very grateful today. Carlos is such a wonderful person and husband! He has a good job and provides well for us! My girls are great! I started listening to Jim Brickman's Christmas CD. I am having fun with Scentsy, I got the snowman warmer JUST in time! I teach a great Sunday school class. My birthday and Laurie's are coming up in a few weeks! I get to see New Moon tonight with friends and sister. I get to see my mom in FL next month. I get to chat online with my Dad. My great in-laws are coming for Christmas. I have good friends and awesome family! Pretty much my life is good! I know that when I have troubles, worries, doubts, that Heavenly Father will send his comfort through the Holy Ghost and remind me of His love and my worth!
And I found this picture of a quilt on my friend Katie's blog! I love snowmen!

Through the years

Inspired by FINALLY starting course 3 of the Wilton cake decorating classes, I thought I would make a slide show of the cakes I have made through the years. Some are pretty pathetic and one I am certain I don't have a photo of! It was for a wedding of a friend at church and I think only the photographer, Marlise, got a shot of it! OH WELL! Here they are! Also this year's(2009) cake for Elaine was a MUCH better pink princess cake, but our digital was broken so I have only photos of it. Need to scan later, maybe they are on the blog...?
I am not sure what to do for Laurie this year as I will be just finishing my course 3 tiered cake and I don't know if I will want to make another! BUT She sure does like Winne the Pooh so.. ;)

Songs

So who do you think she looks like when her head is turned?

Virginia State Fair

Erin went with us to the fair this year. It was on new fair grounds. It was fun. I had the camera and I am sorry it took this long to upload pictures! We had a good time but wished we could spend more time there! Sorry there aren't more pictures!

September fun

We tried to do a few fun things before school started. We went on outings to the Zoo, Bass Pro shop, Chick-fil-a on spirit day for free sandwiches, and the beach!! And we got our pumpkin early which by Halloween was completely rotten! LOL

October Happenings

So here are some pictures of our adventures in October. We watched conference and while I was printing activities for the girls to do, I was also printing labels for Scentsy and I accidentally printed the activity on my label sheet. So the girls had conference stickers! LOL
I joined Scentsy as an Independent Consultant and have so far had a good time.
Sarah and I took our little girls with us to Florida. Grandma and other Ogden Family members came to go to Disney so we drove down. For some reason we don't have any pictures with Livvy and fam but we did hang out with them! We had a lot of fun although the trip was quick and long! Evoly is so funny and likes to put things to 'bed'. while we were in Florida, it was her diaper! LOL
I helped out at the school for picture day and it was great! Sarah came and watched miss Laurie.
Our floors in the kitchen/bathroom got damaged a while ago from the A/C and dishwasher leaking and it took us a while to replace them. We finally had a friend do it for us, and while I still don't have pictures of everything back in place, they look great! I will hopefully get some pictures, but my house just can't seem to get clean enough! LOL I never thought having my kitchen upside down for a week would be so stressful but IT WAS!!!!

Catch up

So I have a lot of blogging to catch up on but I need to post these pictures of Halloween first, then I will get back to the rest of the pictures!

Caught Red handed!

and Bejewled

AND yellow faced!! LOL
proud of myself
hiding??

school pictures

at school
on my way!
My seat!
My teacher!
My seat right next to Mrs Collins desk! YES!
waiting for the bus
still waiting....