A quiet Christmas

We didn't have to dream of a white Christmas this year, the snow came and was very plentiful! Our Christmas was nice and quiet though. I made a big dinner Christmas Eve and then on Christmas Day, we went over to Chris' parents house and had a fabulous meal there as well.

The girls enjoying a roaring fire

Miss Moo showing off one of her homemade ornaments

Alyssa lighting the candles for Christmas dinner

Carving Henry the turkey

Alyssa's "big" gift was a Nintendo DS

Christmas Day at Grammie and Dofe's wore little Sophie out!

Like my pair of three mismatched socks? :) Along with my dislike for winter, I'm not a huge fan of wearing shoes and socks. In an effort to become more at peace with my surroundings, I have taken to wearing crazy socks. My sweet husband found me these wild socks for Christmas and I LOVE them. Makes winter a little more bearable.

Introducing.....

Miss Pinkie!!

Miss Pinkie is my Christmas present from my very sweet husband. Doesn't look terribly romantic does it? Here's the thing, I asked for a "girly" skull shift knob for Lemon Joy this summer when we were getting LJ's body work done. Our dear friend Jeff makes amazing skull shift knobs for rat rods and I've always been fascinated with his work. I had mentioned the idea of a "girly" skull once, but didn't think anything else about it. Well, Chris thought something about it and here she is......courtesy of Mr. Jeff Bates and BoneHeadCustomZ. :) I love her!

Being irresponsible......

Winter decided to settle into our mountains last week and just dump the snow on us. Slightly disturbing, but in the course of 2 days I got to pull 3 people out of the ditch so that's always a party. The real fun came last Thursday though. We were supposed to run down to Farmington to go Christmas shopping, but after passing 8 cars/trucks in the ditch just between our house and the highway, we put the kibosh on that idea. About mid afternoon, the wind died down and the snow lessened a bit so I took it upon myself to call our buddy Jody with a full size Bronco and off we went to terrorize the neighborhood! Any unplowed street was fair game and with all the V-8 muscle, did we ever have fun. There was snow everywhere in Lemon Joy, we both ended up stuck, Jody lost every gear but 2nd, Lemon Joy started on fire, then she over heated, BUT, we both made it home under our own power and we had a hoot!!

Bwahahaha! Let the fun begin!!
40 inch tires are sexy!

The downside of no windshield wipers in a blizzard......it was a bit awkward, but we made it.

Look at the tire spitting out the snow!

Jody and the Mud Puddle Monster

The snow was a bit deep in spots

You go girl!! WOOHOO!

Look at those cuties!

In case you were wondering......

this is what a VERY stuck rock buggy looks like! :)

That poor girl. And she really hates getting wet.

Eye candy!!

Jody wanted to be cool like us so he got stuck too. :)

Watching the sun set on the drive home

Note to self:

When going out in a blizzard in a completely open vehicle, it would be wise to wear a hat.

Christmas tree shopping

Our family welcomed December with our annual trip to our "tree lot". There is a fabulous section of forest about 40 minutes from our house that has the best Christmas trees! Now, the only downside is the final section of road doesn't get plowed, but thankfully, we had hardly gotten any snow at that point so Miss MaKenzie did just fine! We headed out with Mike and Sarah Bir and thoroughly enjoyed an afternoon in the mountains.


Look at those cute babies!


Ohhhhh....I love trucks....especially mine!! :)

Yes, that is forest ballet, thank you very much!

Sophie Divine was thrilled to be exploring again.

That's the tree: Isadora Fir!

Alyssa doing her part

Brendon took over when Baby got tired

The pink girls!

Mike found the biggest tree in the forest and decided he liked that one!

That tree was HUGE!

"Where you gonna put a tree that big?"

So maybe our tree was a tad on the big side as well!

The view from the top as a storm was blowing in.

Ready for Christmas!

The finished product!

Christmas Babies

I've been blessed with two extra sweet babies in my life. Jody and Barbara live right around the corner from us and are kind enough to share their children with us. I've been watching Dominic since he was a year old and he'll be 4 in January. As far as Tamara goes, I've been loving on her since she was in her Mama's tummy and she'll be two in March. I'm the crazy Aunt Pink who gives them chocolate before bed, chases them around the house growling, and teaches them new expressions like "I'm gonna get you sucka". It's a good job. :) Brendon and Alyssa love them as well, although poor Dominic thinks he has a bossy older sister!


My Christmas reindeer

Look at those cutie patooties!

Tamara Hope is a little angel!

She's definitely more of an angel than I am, but she loves those antlers!