7 Quirks. Do I have 7?

So my sister-in-law Olivia tagged me and now I have to list my quirks and tag other people. Here are the Rules

1. Link to the person that tagged you http://togetherwithglue.blogspot.com/
2. Mention the Rules on your blog
3. Tell 7 unspectacular quirks about you
4. Tag 6 bloggers by linking to them
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blog letting them know they've been tagged

My Quirks - Let me know what my quirks are I have no idea. I'm asking a few people

1. I touch my lips a lot (from Hannah)
2. I'm not passionate about anything, meaning I'm not into anything so much that I have do it all the time I like to change things up.
3. I like to play fight hitting and arguing for fun-feisty (from leah)
4. I don't like my wrists grabbed
5. I don't have any quirks (from mom)
6. I can pick up things with my toes (from olivia)
7. Can recite an insane number of kids songs from memory (from olivia)
8. Olivia also said it is quirky that I like toe rings and New Kids on the Block so I had to add that one too
My Tags
http://www.farleyfamily.net/ Tia
http://lizandbobbyg.blogspot.com/ Liz
http://ryanandsarahsteverfamily.blogspot.com/ Sarah
http://meybarra.blogspot.com/ Michelle
http://waynable.blogspot.com/ Jesse

Decorating

So here is our Christmas tree all done up. I prefer a blue and silver theme and it works in our living room. The kids only help with the ornaments and I put everything on the night before when they're in bed so I can just get it done.



When the Christmas boxes come down from the attic the kids like to go through everything and put stuff up on the mantel which I allow them to do. I put our Christmas cards at the back of the mantel. They like to talk about the items they remember and also try to remember where it goes. I remember doing that as a kid especially with the ornaments on the tree mine always went top middle of the tree and it still does today at our house.

The most special of all our Christmas decorations is the nativity. The kids have been interested even more than usual this year. We had one night when each of the kids wanted to hold and look at each piece. I took the pieces down one at a time and let each child hold the piece and then we passed them around. They liked baby jesus best. Meghan held him and rocked him and then put him in his manger. Lennon took baby Jesus and put him in Mary's arms which I thought was sweet. I was a little nervous about it though but I held back. I don't want this set broken! It's a pretty good one from Costco but they haven't had the same one since. I really like the angel because it isn't hanging on the stable and she is pretty.

The one item I didn't take a picture of is our advent calendar it is this awesome wooden house with little doors with plenty of room to fit candy in. I got that at Costco too it is super cute. Each night one of the kids opens the door and passes out a piece of candy to the other kids. I tried to start with whoever opens the door that night gets the candy but it was "no fair" according to the other kids not getting a candy so I put 3 pieces of candy in each so everyone can have one. They like counting how many doors are open and how many they have left. Just in case you are wondering we have 17 doors opened and there are 7 left (it goes to the 24th).

Leah

So Leah, are you happy with my updates? Love ya-Rach

Veronica is Born

I am an aunt again! My sister Elizabeth had her baby. Her name is Veronica. Here she is. She is soo cute. I just loved to hold her.

Christmas Tree

We got our Christmas tree on Monday December 8th. I just wasn't ready to get it the first of December. I dont' think I was over Thanksgiving yet. We had fun. We went and ate at Garcia's and then got our tree at Home Depot. It took about 2 minutes to pick out a tree. This is one of the two times during the Christmas season that Bill will allow Christmas music playing in the car while he is in it.

Christmas Dinner

Every year my parents host a Christmas Dinner for all of their adult children. We get babysitting for all of the kiddies. When we first started Mom tried to make a nice sit down dinner, but it made her stressed out. I beleive it was Jessica who suggest getting pizza and we all were happy with that. So the past few years Mom and Dad have gotten Round Table. We never get that ourselves except on special occasions so we are overjoyed. We ate to our hearts content and played that gift exchange game. The funniest gifts were the one Joe and Jessica brought which was giant underwear and a jump rope (teasing about a gift my grandma got me when I was around 12 years old maybe older, she got me some sexy panties and a jump rope wrapped in the same box), and Houston and Elizabeth's book about the "hot" guys of the 80's. It was super funny, pictures of Tom Cellic, Arnold Schwartznegger, and 80's rockers and stuff totally gross. Mom and Dad gave us all the Charlie Brown holiday DVDs which was really nice. Bill and I took a picture together for our Christmas cards.

All Out War

The day after Thanksgiving Mike and Kerry took the guys and Liz out paint ballin'. Bill had a lot of fun. I don't think I would do it because I don't want to get hurt. Bill came home with quite a few welts. Not sure how he feels about me plastering his naked body all over the internet but here it is. Everyone then met up at Chuck E Cheese's for Jace's 4th birthday party. Everyone had tons of fun.

Thanksgiving

Sorry, I forgot my camera for Turkey Day. We all went to Grandma Shirley and Grandpa Bill's house and ate and ate. Everything was great. We enjoyed visiting with the fam.
After Grandma and Grandpa's we went to my parents (the Elmer's) for pie and also ate some more. My assignment was pumpkin pie and I made it myself this year. I've always just made a frozen pie. It was really easy to do the pie. (No, I didn't bake a pumpkin I just used canned). I also made a caramel apple cheesecake that was good. All in all a great Thanksgiving.

School Thanksgiving Parties

At the school before Thanksgiving Abby's class had a Thanksgiving dinner with the 1st grade class next door. The first graders dressed up like Pilgrims and Abby's 2nd grade class dressed up like Indians. They shared a meal and a short program together. Abby's class shared some poems and a song.

For Lennon's class I took our Garfield Thanksgiving movie and made some homemade popcorn to share with his class. I felt bad that they didn't have a party planned. I guess 4th graders don't have much in the way of parties. The class enjoyed the movie and popcorn.

Pre Thanksgiving

Abby's class put on a play. I think it was called "A Mushroom in the Rain". It was about a mushroom and all these animals that come and hide under it from the rain. A rabbit comes and hides from a fox. Abby was a narrator and was just so cute and did a great job.

Trick-or-Treat

We had a fun Halloween this year. We went to Aunt Patti and Uncle Ron's house for our traditional feast of pigs in a blanket, baked beans, chips and dip, chili with Freetos, cheese and onions if you like. we also had doughnuts and cider. Basically stuff you should only eat once a year. We went and crashed their ward party for a few minutes and went trick-or-treating up and down their street. I dressed up as a vampire this year. Abby was a vampire as well, she was going to be a witch but changed her mind after loosing her fourth tooth at the top so she only had her fangs showing. Lennon dressed up like several things this year, something different for each party we went to. This costume is supposed to be Indiana Jones. He also dressed up as Cyclopse from X-Men and The Emperor from Star Wars at another party we went to. Meghan is a darling Cinderella! Dad doesn't dress up so he took the picture.

Pumpkin and a Train Ride

The train takes you around the pumpkin patch. We saw tons of huge pumpkins. We also saw a walnut trees, apple trees and some horses.



All of the girls were enjoying the ride. Lennon sat at the back of the train by away from all of us, so I didn't get his picture.

Iris sat next to me. She didn't like the toot of the train. It was too loud for her.

Joe, Jessica and Jake sat infront of us, but my back was turned to them. This was a tricky picture to take but it worked out ok. Sam, Olivia, Owen and Luke sat infront of Joe and Jessica.

Lennon had a good time at the pumpkin patch. He was really fun to watch. He like exploring this pumpkin.

Petting Zoo

One of the kids favorite thing was the petting zoo. They spent alot of time feeding and petting the goats. We also looked at the pigs, cow, donkey and chickens among other things.

Jail Time

At Bishop's all of the kids had a little jail time. The kids all got in the jail. The parents really enjoyed this from the outside. We thought is was a good idea if we just left them there for awhile!!

Bishop's Pumpkin Farm

I took the kids to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm with Sam & Olivia and their kids Isabella, Ava, Iris and Owen. And Joe & Jessica and their kids Jacob and Luke. We had a lot of fun. The kids are on a train car in this picture. It was really cool inside. There we're plenty of photo opportunities like this bus.









I love this idea. I wish I had a real one of these at home! ha ha. The kids seem pretty happy about it.









The kids are growing so fast. They are just too cute. The sun was right in their face but I just had to get these. It doesn't seem like they grow that fast but they really do.







The kids are enjoying the silo. We all went in and were yelling and banging on the walls. There was a loud echo inside.

Another Meghan funny

So we are getting out of the car to take the kids to class and Meghan gives this big yawn. I said "Meghan are you too tired?" She replied "No, I'm not two tired I'm three tired"
cute girl

Apple Hill

On Friday we went to Apple Hill. I took the kids and we went with Leah, Mason and Ali and Elizabeth and Houston. We had fun. We enjoyed the first rain of the season too. Good thing we brought our rain jackets. The kids liked the Kids Inc. farm. They had a corn maze, and farm animals. We ate a pie.
The train was closed at El Dorado but no matter. We were still able to get chased by a goose. What could be more fun than that. This goose was mean. Meghan started crying and I turned around and this goose was flapping his wings and honking at her. Lennon honked at the goose and that made it mad. He honked and chased Lennon. We got out of there quick.
Then we ended up at Hill Top and went to the Fudge Factory and got a treat. We also hung out at the trout pond and fed the fish and ducks. The fish were really cool. They jumped out of the water a lot.
We got our apples and apple juice then all enjoyed hot chocolate and apple cider. What a great day!!

Miss Meghan

Meghan said the other day "Mom can I have some fruit by the toe" I thought it was so cute. She was talking about fruit by the foot!

I just can't keep up

I just can't seem to keep up with this blogging thing. I always forget about it. Anyway, the kids are back in school of course. I am doing PTA this year and helping out in the classrooms. It's busy.
Bill and I are going to join the world of cell phone users. We finally decided to get cell phones.

Lennon had his birthday on the 24th and we took absolutely no pictures. I feel so bad.

Bouldering

Bill went bouldering for the first time at camp in his new rock climbing shoes. He was awesome to watch.