Indy Children's Museum FUN FUN FUN!

These are all from our trip to the Children's Museum.

Christmas Card Outtakes

These are just some of the Christmas Card attempts I thought were cute. You can see why I had to make the picture black and white.....I think Sophie has Ravioli sauce on her face in some of the pictures.

Lola is tired of getting her picture taken.

Must be the Red Hair

Every year before Christmas, Brian and I go through the girls rooms and clean out the toys they don't play with anymore and give them to Goodwill. This also gives us the opportunity to rearrange the girls bedrooms, which they always love! This year we made the girls help us and pick out the toys they wanted to donate. They were very sweet and found all kinds of things they decided they could live without. I think Mommy, the pack-rat, was more emotionally attached to some of their items than they were.

While cleaning, I came across a book under Lola's bed. It is a book that Maw gave to Lola. It is about baby animals. Throughout the whole book Maw labeled the baby animal as Lola and the grown-up animal as Maw. Lola LOVES this book! She goes through it over and over and points to which one is her and which one is Maw. On the last page there is a picture with two babies and a grown-up animal. In this one, Maw labeled herself, one baby as Lola and the other as Sophie. Apparently, Lola wasn't too crazy about this and took it upon herself to change the story. Sophie's head has been ripped off and now the book is satisfactory as far as Lola is concerned. Should I be worried?!?!? ha ha

Xmas Gifts

I made this for my niece Samantha. It is an earring holder. You just push the earrings through the tulle and then you can put the back on to hold it in place. I also added hanging hearts at the bottom for hoop earrings or necklaces or bracelets.

The tiles below are from the bathroom at Granny's house. This is Agnes Rose Matthews' house that was torn down last year. I painted them with an "M" for Matthews and glued a ribbon on the back for hanging.

These are some of the bean/pea art that I made for Xmas presents this year. I should have taken pictures of all of them before I gave them away. But maybe I can get the recipients to take some pics and send them to me. (Hint Hint Cindy, Donna, and Kathy) I will have to say I think they look much better in person than they do here.

This one is for Tommye (my mother-in-law). Granny's house was filled with ladybugs. Tommye said that she hoped she wouldn't see another ladybug once they moved to their new house. I just couldn't let that happen.

Here is Joyce with her artwork.

Last Minute Christmas Card

I was pretty slow getting around to my Christmas cards this year. I took this picture last week. Then I made the card in about an hour and had them ready to go the next day. Sometimes last minutes things don't turn out that bad.

The saying is what the Grinch says when his heart grows three sizes from the Dr. Seuss story.

Shelton Xmas Card

My sister got an excellent picture of her kids for their Christmas card this year. However, this was the first year that she didn't attempt to include the pets. So she asked if I could take some pictures of her animals and photoshop them in. Here is the finished result of the Christmas card I designed for her. She hasn't decided between the snow all over or just the snow in the box yet.

Dicken's Village Mystery

The car the always "magically" appears in my Dicken's Village every year. hmmm Who knew Scrooge was rich enough to afford a car before they were even invented.

School Picture

Sophirella's First Grade Picture
She is in Miss Monserud's class this year.

Baking Cookies

We made some Holiday Cookies. Sprinkles were EVERYWHERE!!!

Sophie is STAR of the WEEK!!!

Every kid in Miss Monserud's class gets a week where they are the "STAR of the WEEK!" Sophie's was the second week in December. She was so excited the Friday before because she got to bring home a poster to decorate and take back to school on Monday and show to all of her friends. The star of the week also gets to be the teacher's helper and the line leader throughout the week.

Here is her poster.

She had to find pictures of things she does NOT like and stick them here.
Her items included Brussel Sprouts, Cleaning her Room, Spicy Foods and Monsters.




Here are her Statistics.


Next she had to find pictures of her favorite things. Sophie thinks Google is the greatest thing ever so to find all of the pictures she wanted, we googled the pics, printed and cut them out.
Her favorite things include Lola (which Mommy thought was very sweet), O'Charley's, reindeer, horses, stars, reading, and macaroni and cheese.



Here is the picture she drew of her family. Check out Daddy's mustache. And in case you don't know we have two dogs and two cats.

Her 3 wishes:
1. I could fly. 2. ..it would stay winter all the time. 3....I would be a teenager now.
(Mommy is glad none of her wishes have been granted.)


When she grows up she wants to be a doctor that also trains horses. But she said that was too much to write so she just put down doctor. She is the one smiling and the patient is on a "thing" that goes up and down and isn't happy about it. I think this stems from her seeing mommy at work and watching my patients have to run on a treadmill. She remembers that it inclines quite a bit and the patients didn't like it. Its been a while since she has been to work with me though so some of the details are kind of foggy.

She also had to take in a couple pictures of her to post in the classroom. These are the ones she chose.

Wearing Kate's glasses...

...and her cowgirl outfit from Halloween.

Girls Picnic

Our best friends Kate, Anthony, and Natalie were in Noblesville for a visit.

We have a picnic basket that the girls play with in the front yard all of the time. But this time they decided they wanted to have a REAL picnic with Natalie. Easy enough add some juice and sandwiches and VIOLA...our Mommys ROCK!