I've been tagged!

This is my first time being tagged! I've been tagged by Rae ann. I have to list five of the weirdest things or habits about me. So here it goes:

1. The toilet paper has to hang on the roll facing the correct way. The paper should roll over the top, not come from underneath the roll. And yes, I have been known to change the rolls at other peoples homes.

2. I don't like steak sauce, any of them. I like ketchup on my steak. But, if there isn't ketchup on the table already, I am too embarassed to ask for it, so I eat it plain.

3. I prefer overhead lighting to lamps. Lamps are for using in the evening. Overhead lighting is for everything else. I have been told that this is weird. Although I don't understand why.

4. I have two girls and I used to hate the color pink. It has grown on me over the years. I'm still picky about the shade of pink. Purplish pink is good, pepto pink is bad. Pale pink is the best.

5. If I get close enough to a real tree, I touch them. Especially Oak trees. They make me feel good.

I'm not sure who hasn't been tagged yet, so if you want to do it, leave a comment and go for it!

Holiday

This week has been full of holiday stuff. Thursday night was T's ballet class party, I posted a little clip of that yesterday. Friday her class at school had a pizza party at lunch time, but I didn't get to go to that because little B wasn't feeling well. She's fine now. Saturday morning was T's tap class party, I will post a little clip of that later in the week. Lunch on Saturday we did the holiday thing with my husband's family.

We all met at Mandarin House for the buffet. Now this is no small thing here. We have hubby's parents, his FOUR siblings(two sis, two bro), three sibling's are married, with two kids each, plus our family of four. Now, for those of you without a calculator that is 2+4+4+4+1+4=19. Three of those in highchairs.

After lunch we went over to hubby's youngest brother's house to open gifts. Then it was dessert, kids playing, and grownups talking, the usual.

Holiday stuff is fun, but it's kinda nice that there isn't a lot more to plan for! We have to go see my sis who just had the baby for a short visit. A Christmas Eve service at church. Then of course the kids open presents Christmas morning. Then my mom is coming over for dinner after church (which they are having a little late, it is a musical program by the choir). So most of the business of Christmas is over, and now we can just relax and enjoy the fun part of it. That reminds me, we haven't gone cruising to see Christmas lights yet! Another fun, no hassle Christmas tradition of ours. My youngest is just big enough to see and enjoy them!

Ballet Class

Here is a bit of my oldest daughter's ballet class Thursday night. We get to watch them on the last day before Christmas break. This is her fourth year with this particular dance studio.

Christmas Dancing

I have used all my creativity up on Christmas. So instead of fiction friday, I give you this.

Who me?

I have seen this on a bunch of blogs, and of course I had to try it!

Movie maker

I came across HizzleThizzle's blog, and she had made this fun movie at D.FILM. So I made one too. I'm such a copy-kat! Go see my movie here. It is really corny, with bad dialog, but I had fun making it! Everyone should try it!

Christmas Pageant

We had our annual Christmas Pageant at church, followed by dinner and a visit with Santa.


T was a shepard.











B was a little lamb.









Here is our shepard saying her line with the little lamb crawling behind her.




Let's not forget the magic moment with Santa!

NEW ARRIVAL!

Here is my sis, the lovely mommy holding our newest family member. She was born Wednesday night. 8lbs, 1oz. These pictures were taken Thursday afternoon.





Here is my oldest peeking at her. She has dark skin and a full head of black hair. She also has really long toes just like her mommy who got them from our grandmother. My oldest has the same feet too! How neat for them as cousins to have a feature that matches.




Here is my hubby holding the baby and my little one. The baby got upset and B was trying to soothe her, we think. She was very gentle when she touched her. I was very proud. She can't say the baby's name yet. She can't say her 'L's yet. So she just calls her "baby".




Check out that dark hair. She's even a bit more red than my babies were when they were born. We have a bit of Cherokee in us, mostly no one notices, but we have a few tendencies we inherited from that branch of our family tree.

Decorating for the Holidays

We put the tree up this last weekend. Here is a picture of the baby "helping". I also put lights up on our back fence. I wanted to put lights on the roof, but our new house is a two story, and we don't have a ladder tall enough. Guess I had better put that on our wish list!















Here is T. showing off her science project. Her report grade was a 105, and the project received a 100!
















Little B. showing off her new house shoes.

Christmas music

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WHERE ARE YOU CHRISTMAS (Faith Hill)

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Meowy Christmas!

I love Calvin!

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Flashback!

Your 80s Heartthrob Is

John Stamos

Who's Your 80's Heartthrob?

I have seen this quiz on several blogs and thought it would be fun.

Fairy quiz!

You are the raven fairy, always associating the world
with death, you like being alone but do have a
caring side as well.


What kind of fairy are you?
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I was going to credit the blog where I found this the other day, but now I have forgotten where I found it!

Fiction Friday ~ A little late

Gretchen had taken all she could stand. Henry, her husband of two years had done everything wrong again. The toilet paper was facing the wrong direction, she had to fix it. When he brushed his teeth, he had squeezed the tube from the middle, again. After all that time she spent carefully pushing the toothpaste out of the end, her hard work was completely undone. And then there was the worst offense of all. He had left the toilet seat up, again.

After she picked up his dirty clothes and put them into the hamper, two feet away from where he had left them, she took the toilet seat and lid completely off the toilet. If he wasn't going to use it right, he couldn't use it at all. She was carrying the heavy seat and lid into the living room when she tripped on something in the doorway. The seat flew out of her hands as she went to catch herself from landing on her face. She pushed herself up to see what she had tripped over. Henry's shoes were lying in the middle of the walkway.

"Henry, help me. I think I've sprained my ankle." She waited, but there was no answer. So she called again, louder in case he was in the kitchen. "Henry!" Still, no answer.

She pushed herself up and hobbled over to the back of his recliner. There he was, in his seat as always. The remote control was in his hand. The heavy toilet seat was perched neatly on his head, his eyes blankly staring at a TV he would never see again.

The Medical Examiner filed it as a household accident, the strangest one he had ever seen. Gretchen was so upset when police and ambulance arrived that nobody doubted it was anything but an accident.

For the rest of her life, when she spoke of Henry, she would always end with "If only he had put that damn toilet seat down, he'd be alive today!"

What the guys did.

Here is Bubble's hubby and a friend in the living room before they started working.















The old wall comes down.















The new wall goes up.















Here it is mostly done. You can get a pretty good idea how it looked.















And of course someone had to test the brand new toilet seat out.

Madonna

Human Nature
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