baby deer and gingerbread houses

long time no talk huh? life has been ubber crazy, plus trying to get christmas stuff ready...and done. i've been thinking about making cookies (haven't done it yet, but thinking about it has to count for something right?).

ryan got a couple days off this week, with the freezing cold they got shut down for a couple days...the nice thing is they actually called him while he was at home to let him know so he didn't drive all they way up north for nothing...he's thinking that it won't be too long before he's done (secretly hoping!). they're starting to get a little wimpy with the cold..so hopefully they'll decide to cut them off! it'll be nice to have him home for awhile, but at least we get a couple days as he doesn't have to work until wednesday night now...did i mention he was on the nights crew, who knew there would be so much road construction work at night!

since i have mondays off we got to spend an extra day together which was wonderful! we even had some baby deer venture down our road! at one point they were digging for some food, then they would go up on their hind legs at eachother.

can you spot it? to the left of the tree....so cute!

they were trying to cross the road, slipping on the ice



they're were three little babies..adorable!

 we also had some hungry, hungry squirrels in our crab apple tree, there were 5 of them hanging from branches, shoving their faces...they were fluffy little things!

we wrapped up the day building our own little gingerbread house. brooke was begging to do one after she saw the art teachers during class, i gave in...we had to run to the grocery store anyways and knew the girls would have a blast with the project, they did!

notice the pic on the box in the background? i don't think we did too shabby!

the master decorators!

there was only one fatality...someone dropped him on the floor...

it turned out wonderful! and only a handful of candy was consumed during the construction of the g-bread house!

it was also hannah's christmas program for school this past week...yeah so i'm a little slow! here's some pics from that sweet treat! the big production of "north pole musical"...

is that you mom?

yep it's my mom!

hannah's big debut!

take a bow!

it warms my heart to watch my kiddos do these things! i feel so proud of them! hannah did wonderful, she sang her little heart out, did all the actions....there was one boy who just stood there the whole time with one peeved look on his face...i had to giggle, i was going to take a pic of him...but not sure if that's considered "ok"...

brooke's is this friday...so pics will follow of that later this week!

well back to watching this poor excuse of a football game...we're on QB #3! we don't have any left!

happy monday!

XOXO,

Erinn