Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Crazy Hair Day

We love crazy hair day! I can remember when a few of my kids wouldn't have anything to do with it. They were so nervous to be "different". They couldn't understand that all the kids would be showing up to school looking just as silly as them. I look back and laugh at me trying to convince (more like begging and promising it will be fun) to let me do fun things with their hair.  Still this is all I can get out of my boys, but hey, they think they're cool!

Happy 8th Birthday Eli!

This past week we celebrated Eli's 8th birthday! He picked cake batter pancakes for breakfast (with chocolate chips of course), Spaghetti for dinner (his favorite) and funfetti cupckaes for dessert. Eli is such a fun kid. He has such a special personality. He is always smiling and can find the humor in most anything. He is by far the best listener and helper in our home. He has grown by leaps and bounds in school and we couldn't be more proud of him! We have been so blessed with Eli in our family and he truely makes us complete. Happy Birthday Eli!




Christmas festivities

We've lived here for 6 1/2 years and had no idea that Norco had a horse parade of lights. I was propbably the only one excited, but I drug them and somne friends along! A few years ago my kids experienced a parade "Idaho style". This means they threw out endless candy to all the kids, so my kids said they weren't interested unelss candy was involved. What...are you kidding me???? What has this world come to? What happened to an old fashioned, home town parade? I thought for sure my little cowboy would be excited. His response was, "Well, if I can't ride a horse I don't want to go." Well, I won. We went. I want to do amny different Christmas festivities this year. This was an easy one that looked fun! Well, ok. It was a little long and a little dark. The kids were cold and hungry, but when do you get to see homemade floats pulled by tractors in the dark! Priceless family time that I'm sure they'll be talking about for years! I'm already thinking about next year and how we can make it better! Chairs for sure, hot chocolate and cookies! Now that's what I'm talkin' about.



It really is hard to see the lights that were all over the horses.


Only in Norco!