Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

Decorating the Christmas tree...

Her upper lip is all red and sore from an endless runny nose. Winter is a bad time of year for her health wise. She has been sick off and on since before Thanksgiving.


I was so happy when I found this beautiful Christmas dress for Allary. And, just to add to the cuteness, it came with a matching dress for a doll. Here are Allary and Tinkerbell showing off their dresses.


I was going to use this for our Christmas card, but decided on a family shot instead. I still love this picture though.

Thanksgiving

The further behind I get, the harder it is to get around to catching up.
Here are my pictures from Thanksgiving. Jason was able to take a whole week off work, which was awesome because we had seen so little of him through October and November. We went to my mom and dad's house along with Trisha and her family and Kevin and his family. It was a big group and we really had a lot of fun.



I had my mom snap some family pictures for us on the back deck. For some reason, Allary was not in the mood to smile.

I know, I know...

... it's been awhile since I posted anything. I am just doing my best to keep up with life right now. We were out of town for Thanksgiving and again for a big family Christmas party on Jason's side and I've just been running around finishing up Christmas shopping, basic errands, trying to get my Christmas letter and cards ready to send, working on my family DVD I make every year, and trying to update our adoption info for the new itsaboutlove.org profile website they are building (the paperwork never ends!!!). This month and last month were supposed to be slower at work for Jason, but it is proving to not be so. He is still working late nights and weekends. Ugh! It is snowing like crazy here today. I almost could not even make it up the hill at the end of our road to get out and do the things I had to do today.
Anyway, I will post some pictures and more updates later.

Working From Home

This is a photo of Jason attempting to work from home.

I think this photo is a good representation of what it's like to try to get anything done with a 3 year old around. :)

Fancy Hair

Okay so maybe this post is just me showing off a little bit. My sister found a blog with some really cute hairdo ideas for little girls: piggiesnponies.blogspot.com. It has lots of cute ideas for hairdos that look really fancy, but are fairly easy to do. Allary is a great sport at letting me do her hair every day.

This is one I did for her ballet class one day, just pull-throughs, criss-cross into more pull-throughs, and back into two messy buns.


I love this one. It does take some time though.



This do is my favorite. I know you've all seen this photo in a previous post, but just admire the hair for me one more time. :)

This one is four top braids criss-crossing back into two messy buns. Both sets of braids are supposed to criss-cross, but Allary's braids weren't quite long enough. It was still cute though.


I just left the braids in overnight from the previous hairdo and pulled them all back into a bow for a quick and pretty hairdo the next day.


This one is the fanciest of them all, and still, not that hard to do. Although Allary's naturally curly hair really makes it easy. I just did some pull-throughs on the top, then divided the rest of the hair into three ponytails on top of her head. Then I used little butterfly claw clippies and just pinned the curls all over to make it look full.


Here she is looking so beautiful for church. I know I am biased, but I just think she is gorgeous.


And, to top it off, your basic end-of-a-long-crazy-day hairdo...

Trick or Treat!

Allary was so excited all day to go trick or treating. It was hard to get a very good picture of her here on the porch because she was jumping up and down with excitement.


The nose and the whiskers are stickers with rhinestones that came with the kitty accessories.

Once Allary figured out people were giving out candy at every door, she was all over it. We ran into a whole group of trick or treaters from our ward and so we joined them. After that, Allary wanted to go up to the door with the kids and she wanted Jason and me to wait on the sidewalk.


This is Elly, one of the only little girls in the ward that is around Allary's age.


I know this one is dark and hard to see, but I wanted a picture of Allary being her little independent self. Even at the doors we went to without the whole group, she would have me come ring the doorbell (only because she couldn't reach it) and then she would tell me to "go away, please Mommy." :)
We went to one door where a lady who had a really great witch costume answered the door with a very loud witch cackle "Eeeh heeeh heeeeh!" I was standing in the street visiting with another mom when I heard the cackle, followed by a very loud scream and wailing. I immideatly recognized the cry as Allary, and Jason ran over to rescue her. He said Allary had dropped her treat bag, was frozen in place and just shaking and crying. The nice lady witch felt so bad. Poor Allary asked me at every house after that, "is there going to be a witch in that door?" It was pretty funny.

This is Allary showing off her spoils from the evening.

Spooky Storytime

Our library has a fantastic storytime program that Allary and I go to every week. They had a special spooky storytime on the morning of Halloween. They read Halloween books, sang Halloween songs, danced, and did the "hooky spooky" (as opposed to the hokey pokey). It was really cute.