Sabrina's "brown" hair from Halloween ended up leaving her with pink hair for about a month! It's kind of hard to see in these pictures, but trust me -- cotton candy pink!
November snow. Beautiful, true. The precursor to a long, cold winter.
Wild family party at.... the grocery store. Yup. Face painting, balloon art, samples, and more! At the grocery store. :D
Clockwise, starting top left corner: 1: the end of the rainbow. 2: Sabrina wearing a hat made out of an old tee shirt by Kate, Daddy's sunglasses, and a sucker. So very gangster. 3: One of several times this winter when we had to remove snow from some of the trees and bushes so they wouldn't be crushed by the snow. 4: I'm sure the winter of no Twinkies will go down in history books. Sounds like they should be back this summer. 5: Smiley sticker on Kate's knee, 6:Michael with two girls (sisters) in nursery. We have been released from Nursery now and miss it terribly. 7: One of our nursery boys got so sleepy he used a plate as a pillow to take a nap, right in the middle of the floor!
Sabrina, missing 3 teeth at once! Sabrina's page about frogs: "A frog has smoth skin. A frog is sgkney. A frog can be poysinis. by Sabrina Southern" (A frog has smooth skin. A frog is skinny. A frog can be poisonous. by Sabrina Southern) Also, Sabrina intentionally drew the craziest looking girls she could.
The girls set up beds for a "sleepover" on night; books and all. Since my hair has gotten so very long the girls have enjoyed playing with it.
Sammi (the tuxedo cat) lived with us as a foster cat for a few months. Unfortunately Ginger would not leave the bigger, older cat alone. After trying everything possible to ease the transition, we ended up sending Sammi to another foster home.
Bottom center: Thanksgiving break, watching movies in the break room at Daddy's work.
.Grandpa and Grandma Southern moved from Saratoga Springs to Provo. Yay for having them so much closer! About 5 tons of wheat (give or take several tons) was moved into our dungeon. The girls did an awesome job helping to move things. Stuff moved into the new basement was mostly passed down into a window well as a more direct route. When we put the cover back on the window well the girls shut the window and made it a kid aquarium :P
On my birthday the sisters got together (sisters-in-law is the same, of course). We did some curtain sewing (right? I think that's what we were doing. A good family sewing project is fantastic.). Marisa made a beautiful lunch for us served on the best dishes. Broccoli soup, bread, herbal tea, and a lovely apple-cinnamon cake!
For my birthday we took the girls to Tucanos. A very fancy dinner, indeed! I used my free birthday dinner there. We topped the extravagance with a stop at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.
...then we came home and had cake and ice cream! Oh, on our way out we stopped by the school so I could run in and vote (2012 presidential elections). The line was only 20 minutes long instead of 3 hours as it had been earlier in the day when I tried to stop by. If only they'd had a shorter line for people who were celebrating their birthday ;)
Michael even wrapped my present with paper and tied on the ribbon. The paper may have been closed with masking tape, but look at the cute "v" shapes he cut at the end of the ribbon! I got a pair of sock monkey footie pajamas (editor's note: I now have 3 pairs. I love them. A lot.) and some fancy eye-things (sleep mask). The girls made all sorts of beautiful cards for me and collected some of their favorite doo-dads for me.
Thanksgiving was lovely. We had dinner at the new Southern Parents' home and stopped by the Jasplund home for pie later. (I have to include those details so next year when I look back to see whose year it is for dinner I remember ;))
