Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Happy Christmas Eve

We are havinig a nice time in Mexico. Today we spent the day in Encinatas. It is about 50 kilometers away which is about 40 miles. We had a nice time being bombarded by little children to buy their wares and/or just give them money. I don't do so well. Dad and Marc purchased new suits for about $70.00. That was a great deal. The people are very friendly. Many of them speak english. It is hard to remember that it is Christmas. But there are a few Christmas trees around. Hopefully pictures will follow soon.

Friday, December 19, 2008

Belle Voix

The correct pronunciation is Belle vwaaaaaa. this is the singing group for Sophomores at our high school. They have been doing "gigs" at area christmas party almost every Friday or Saturday night through the month of December. They had their Christmas concert on Wednesday and this is the first I have heard them sing. They did an excellent job and she looked beautiful. Ok, my computer won't let me post a picture so I'll have to do that later. But for now this will bring me back to the top of Loras blogger list.

Friday, December 12, 2008

16th birthday for Ashlee

She received a little speaker for her i-pod(I think this is the thing she was most excited about). An i-tunes gift card. a converter to play her i-pod in the car and a gas card.
seat covers for the neon and a steering wheel cover.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLEE WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!
Can you believe it!!!!!

She can't!!!! I have an easier time.

She is going to her moms after school today and having some friends over for movies. So we aren't going to see her until late tonight and tomorrow is a crazy day. So we made her open her presents before Marc left for work.



In October I told her that since this was her 16th birthday we could do something extra special. So be thinking about what you want to do. Well her choices were - spend the weekend in St George or have a mystery dinner theatre. Well we pretty quickly ruled out St George. We have to share her birthday with her mom so that would have left an overnighter in St George. So I started looking for dinner theatre ideas. The internet had quite a few. But we luckily tend to procrastinate. So early in November she received her schedule for Belle voix performances. Pretty much every weekend. So luckily she is having friends over at her moms otherwise she wouldn't have any party at all.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Ashlee Christmas in October




Well no need to retell the whole story so see Cortnee for a full explanation of why Christmas was in October at our house. Oh yes and I should say that in addition to paint, new bedspreads we also redid their floors with laminate. With 16 years of living their floors were more than disgusting. But they look beautiful now.


I also should add that I like Ashlees room now but I really liked her room before. This new change is a little grown up for a sixteen year old. But she likes it I think. I should also add this is Ashlees third major change in 9 years and so she has been told this will be the last bedroom makeover that we will pay for. The picture of her room didn't turn out that nice. It actually looks much better in person.

Cortnee Christmas in October
















Well this is going to be a different kind of Christmas. Cortnee decided that she wanted to redo her room. So I told her it could be her Christmas. That is not real exciting but bedroom redecorating is way too expensive when you are on a budget. So she picked her colors. We had a lady in our ward help us with ideas. Cortnee had come up with most of it on her own. Liz just help us fine tune. She also painted for us. Mom, Dad and Heidi all did the quilt. They did a wonderful job. I said I want circles all over and other than that they didn't get much help from me. They did such an excellent job. I love it. (so sorry I don't know how to do links or I would plug your family quilts web site) This is the first major redo of Cortnee's room in 9 years. And I am so very pleased with the outcome. Best of all I think she really likes it as well. I guess I should finish with why it was in October. When both she and her sister decided to redo their rooms for Christmas we said great that will be Christmas. Well Marc and I decided to go to Mexico with mom and dad so the girls will be staying with their mom. I decided that I didn't want to spend the whole month of December painting, etc. So needless to say October is when the rooms were done.

Disclaimer

I just have to remind you all that when I started this I knew I wasn't going to be very faithful. So......
However, I just learned today from Lora that I get moved to the top of her blogger friends by updating. So I am going to try to be better. I hated being clear down at the bottom.
I have been working a part time job at Mervyns since last Christmas. I worked the Christmas season and then worked mostly one night a week through most of the year. Well they announced in August that they were going out of business. So I decided that I better pick up as many hours as I could before they were gone. It turns out that the extra money was nice.
Anyway, this monday will be my last day there. I have kind of enjoyed it. Not the last month or so. Too many nights and weekends away from home. But the rest of the time not too bad.