I need your help

So, I'm the enrichment leader in our ward at church. For our Christmas party this year we're going to give all the women books with Christmas stories in them. I've pretty much exhausted all my resources to find good Christmas stories and am still in need of much more. So, I'm wondering, what are your favorite Christmas stories?

A little bit of Kirsten

The other day Kirsten went behind the couch and said, "don't look", when she came out like this and said "look I'm old". For some reason she thinks old people wear their pants up to their chest.

One day I was asking Kirsten what she wanted to be when she grows up, a doctor?, a teacher?..."no", she says "I just want to work at ConocoPhillips."

Today was Kirsten's last day of Ballet


The whole class


At the end of ballet Colton gets to come in for freeze dance.
Kirsten loves getting her little brother to crawl and run around with her.

Finally a Haircut

I've been growing Colton's hair out for a little while. Mostly I was just curious to see if it would ever actually lay down or if it was possible for it just to get bigger and bigger. I must admit I was a little sad to see his little mop disappear.


But I think he looks pretty cute without it too.

Halloween Week

Warning: this post has lots of low quality phone pictures.

We started out by going to another party at the library during story time. The kids made treat bags and went trick-or-treating to all the desks in the library.


Kirsten wore her tutu to the Y and school on Thursday. On Friday the Y had a little party for the kids.


On Thursday we went to Daddy's work for some trick-or-treating. Colton finally wore his sheep costume and amazingly enough did not pull too many cotton balls off.








Hanging out in daddy's office after.


On Friday night our friends came over to carve pumpkins.


Kirsten wanted to do it all by herself. She cleaned the pumpkin, colored a face on it and I let her carve it with a butter knife.


It actually turned out pretty awesome.




Saturday night was the ward carnival and trunk or treat. The kids ate hot dogs and played lots of carnival games. Their favorite was digging through the wheat for some treasure. I must say Halloween in Midland is kind of lame. Every church has a trunk or treat on Halloween and hardly anyone is home for trick-or-treating. But, me being the traditionalist that I am, I could not go through Halloween without trick-or-treating door to door like you're supposed to. So we walked up and down the streets around our house hitting everyone with their lights on.


And actually ended up with quite a bit of candy. The girls took the kids trick-or-treating while the boys stayed to pass out candy. Although only about 4 people came by our house. It was a great week!