Card's

It's time to send out Christmas cards! I don't know what I did with my list from last year so will you PLEASE send me your address at ashleejo@msn.com so I can send you one? Thanks so much!

Where does all the time go?

We have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to blog even though there have been many post-worthy things that have happened lately. The following is a quick review:

I was recently released from my calling in YW. I have felt since the beginning of summer that it was time for a "change"... and it finally happened last month. I am now the Sunbeam teacher and couldn't be more excited! Is there a better place to serve than with 10 four year olds (only one of them is a girl)? J. is a sunbeam and I just realized that he'll move on to another class soon, which is disappointing to me. At least I got to be his teacher for 1.5 months!

Of course there was Thanksgiving, which was wonderful. There were lots of us here this year and we ate tons of good food...It doesn't get much better. :) Hubby, J., and I got up early Friday morning to do some shopping and came back with a few things but nothing that we were hoping to get. I guess that's what we get for dilly-dallying!

The hubby has been extremely busy with work and school. He is very ready for the semester to be over (as am I)! Too bad we have at least 2 more years before he's finished...

I have also been doing vinyl like cRaZy. I think this is what's occupying most of my thoughts and time but I can't complain...who doesn't need extra $$ at Christmas time? Most are readers of this blog so I just want to say a quick THANK YOU! to all of you who let me make signs for you. I've had a lot of fun and I'm impressed with your ideas/creativity.

The Fall decor came down and the tree went up last week. I love the excitement and cheer J. brings to our Christmases. We had lots of fun listening to music while decorating the tree. I love this time of year!

I think I've mentioned this before, but J. HATES having his picture taken and never smiles so we try to do a "funny face" picture and then a "happy" one. This is one of our silly ones...too bad we never got him to do the happy face :).

We have 4 tall trees in our yard and this last Wednesday afternoon I noticed that 90% of the leaves were still hanging on and they were still there Thursday morning. By the time Chad got home from school at 11 they had ALL fallen off. Wouldn't that have so fun to see? Thousands of leaves fell in a matter of hours and I missed the whole thing! Needless to say, we have a yard full of leaves...so we took advantage of it and had some fun.

Shouldn't the Fall pictures come before the Christmas ones? It's crazy to me that it's December and we are just barely playing in leaves!

The Hubby chasing J. around the tree...

It might seem strange, but I love this picture. It's weird ;). That's J. under all those leaves.

J. took this of us...he did a good job! It was nice having someone to take our picture. Usually we have to do one of ourselves but they rarely work out.

By the way...Costco puts 5.5 lbs of frosting on their cakes which is a TON! You know those huge containers they use for cookies? It was almost full... gross!!