Reindeer, working for the Claus, Love their Hip Hop just because...Christmas Mice... Furanace Strikes

"Winter" break is finally Here!!!! I'm so ready for a break! I swear, the last week was a month.

I got a B in Educational Psych. The tests in that class were killer, but I am soooooooooooo
happy with a B.

Paul's work party was on the 15th. It was mainly an open house for kids. They had Santa, and a clown for the kids to visit with. Brennen wouldn't visit Santa. Shocks of all shocks, Brenn let the clown paint on him, and he wanted a spider. Anytime he saw a spider this summer he would scream. He was so animated about it, that Paul's boss took about 20 pictures of his reactions, and him showing it off. Ashlynn-Marie got a unicorn painted on her cheek. It was cute.

During church last week, or furnace went out. Dad diagnosed the problem with
Uncle Jerry on the cell phone. It was rather comical. I also called our neighbor,
Brother Thor, who use to work for Wells Fargo doing maintenance on the machines.
He couldn't find a part, so we had to wait until Monday for the place in Boise to be open.
It took until 6 pm Monday night to get heat. The kids slept on our floor in sleeping bag piled with blankets. By the time I got to work, I was a frozen Popsicle. I was looking forward to it being warm. No such luck!!!! Our brand new furnace, on our side of our little building, went out. I had on a shirt, a sweater, a zipper hoodie, and a fleece coat and I was still cold. At first, we were told that the store didn't have the part we need. An hour later, we were informed that they had found the part. And 20 minutes before the end of school, we had heat.

Ashlynn-Marie has been on break since Tuesday. They had their Christmas concert. It was really rather cute. They sang a Hip hop reindeer song, and some of the kids did some break dancing.

Ashlynn-Marie came home from school two weeks ago determined to write Santa a letter. It took us nearly two hours for her to copy it. And then it was the long wait for Santa to send a return letter. It finally came Wednesday.

Mom made me open one of my Christmas presents tonight, it is a snowman pull apart cake pan. We tried to make brownies in it but it didn't work. It cute though. Try two tomorrow.
We also made Christmas mice. Ash helped!!! so that explains it all.
Merry Christmas!!
Love you all!!

Chastized

So, I talked to Emily, and she chastized me
for not keeping up on my blog.
She said I need to update more then once a
month. I'm not that bad!!! I'm hitting
about once a week. Ok!! So, I'm busy!
My kids don't take many naps when I'm
home. We are always running from one place
to another.
I've also been making signs like crazy for the last
2 months. Pictures coming soon.
Mom said all she wanted for Christmas, was for
someone to decorate the house. So, Aim, Kir, the kids
and I started decorating the house tonight.
Love Ya,

Wahhh... Wahhh... Wahhh, Wahhh, Wahhh

Do you remember the old Charlie Brown cartoons....
Every time an adult talked, it would be denoted as a Wahhh.Wahhh.
Well that's what I feel like I listen to all day from one student!!!!!!!
It's enough to make you scream!!!!! And believe me... I want to
scream!!!!
Any who...
Brennen was sick most of the holiday weekend. Meaning
four sleepless nights for me. Which in turn, I got a migraine
from not getting any sleep.

Ashlynn-Marie is reading up a storm. She is getting good enough, that
she can do it on her own. She'll sit in our cuddle chair and read her books out
loud. Or, in her bed before she goes to sleep.
They grow up way to fast.

Love ya all!!!

Massive Photo

So, I can't get the header picture on my blog to be smaller.
I cropped it even.
Oh, well.
Em and Aim you need to tell me what to do with
this, so it looks good.
Love Ya

ASHLYNN says HI!!!

PIE DAY.... and the first snow in Nampa!!!!!

So, today was pie day.
The day we sugar the kids up and send them to their
next teacher... FUN!!!
Yesterday, I spent all day cooking pies and pumpkin rolls with
each of our classes. Needless to say, I can go a full year without
making another pie. :)

Right as the bell rang to start the day, it started to snow!!!!
YEAH!!!!!
I LOVE SNOW!
The kids were pumped...
Casey Lovell, the math teacher across the hall, let the kids
go out and play in it. They had a blast.
There wasn't much to do anything with, but still
SNOW is SNOW.

Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!!
Love Ya
Larla

Entering the Blogging Realm

Ok...I'm finally here. My sister's (EM and AIM) have
been hounding me for a blog. I don't know why, I'm soooooooooooooo
boring. Maybe just to see cute
pictures of the kids.

For the past month and a half, I've been working
on creations, using my vynal cutter, to make signs
for a bazaar my friend had at her house. I didn't do
so well on premade things(I bet you can't quess what
your all getting for Christmas!!!), but I have about double
that in custom orders.

Any who....like I said I'm real boring!!!

Maybe I'll have cute pictures of the kids soon.