Christmas Time is Here!

I love Christmas. I love the decorations, the smell of Christmas candles, the snow, the music. I love it all. It's been fun decorating my new house this year. I have a vision of what it will look like one day, if I ever have the funds. But I'm pretty happy with what I've got so far. Here's my new tree. I wanted to put it in front of the windows but it's too fat. So we put it in the corner next to the fire place. Decorating the mantel is my favorite and as you can see, I love red. And here's the little tree that the kids decorated. They did a great job. I just put the garland on and few ornaments at the top. Taylor had his Christmas Concert at Barnes & Noble last week. It was so awesome. That little band is so adorable. Taylor plays the electric guitar. It's been interesting though, because his teacher knows nothing about the guitar and expects the kids to learn 100% from a book, which is extremely difficult. So most of the guitar players have dropped out or have moved on to banging sticks and tamborines. Pretty laim, I think. So anyway, Taylor is pretty much the only kid who plays at all. So he had a solo and he rocked Good King Wenceslas!

Is he stinkin' adorable or what?

James took the day off last Friday and went Christmas shopping with me. We got almost all of it done. Just a few more things to buy and lots of baking to do and I'll be ready. Enjoying every minute of it. Hope you are too.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas.....

It's been over a month since I updated. A lot has happened but I'll keep the text to a minimum and let the pictures speak for themselves.

Halloween Time (I loaded them in order but they shuffled themselves! Why??!!!)











Chase literally passed out after trick or treating


Taylor had his first concert. They played at Barnes & Noble during the Book Fair. Is that fun and cute or what? I thought it was an awesome idea. I, however was unable to attend and was completely bummed.



I auditioned for a musical with South Jordan Community Theatre and got cast! It's something I've wanted to do for a long time but never had the guts. I was so excited when I made it. And wow, what an experience. I met a ton of awesome and amazingly talented people and had so much fun. It was an enourmous comittment. Much more than I imagined. I really missed being home with the family at night and was ready to be done when closing night came around. We rehearsed every Sat. from 8 to 5 for 3 months plus I was gone 3 to 4 nights a week rehearsing as well. Craziness. I'd like to do another one sometime. But not for a good long while.

Costume sewing party at my house. We worked from 6 to 11pm!! Thanks girls. I learned a lot about sewing:)





Building sets



Michelle, Dawn and Me.."The Lovely Boylan Sisters". John played Bert Healy. Everyone in this scene was hilarious. Oh how I miss them.




One of the servant scenes


And here we are and it's Christmas again! So you may have noticed I posted our annual Santa photo! Turned out cute as heck as usual.

So that about sums it up for now. Things are good. Life is amazingly great:)