Happy THIRD day of Christmas

Today's challenge- Eat some french toast, french fries, or some eggs!
~lena

Second day of Christmas

Happy second day of Christmas! Todays challenge-eat a Dove chocolate! *thanks Rebekah!
~Lena

happy first day of Christmas!

SO, a partridge in a pear tree huh? Today's challenge- eat some poultry or a pear. :D
*I had chicken for lunch;)
 I will try to challenge you each of the 12 days of Christmas....we'll see how that goes..:) Have a great day!
~Lena

Christmas is Coming!!!!

 Here it is. The annual decorating of the Christmas tree! Its one of my favorite things about Christmas, our funny little ornaments, all of which hold some sort of memory:) Every kid has a bag full of THEIR special ornaments (or in Jake's case, a box, of which he likes to point out every year:) And slowly, we put them on the tree while listening to Christmas music. It always turns out a little lop-sided because of all the ornaments crammed in the front (well nobody likes theirs in the back!) but I rather like it. Hope you enjoy these pictures!

Here come the lights!

Ta-da! The lights are working then....

Here come the ornaments

And of course the tree topper!

"Later on, we'll conspire, as we dream by the fire....."
Have a WONDERFUL Christmas!

Looking back on Little women

*sigh* Well its over and done with. Little Women was by far my favorite play to be in (ok maybe I am a little bias because I some supper cool skirts and a wicked sword) that is, so far....:) Here is a little memento of our Little women days. It was literally the most beastly play ever! and I was obsessed with it:) Lol.
~Lena
P.s Thanks to Megan for the awesome pic:)

What in world am I?

Kudos to you if you can guess what I am going to dress up as tonight! Post a comment if you know (Caeley you are not allowed to guess;).

Little Women Update!

Little women practices are going well, it is going to be a FANTASTIC show! I hope you all can come see it! Again, if you want to come see it click on OAT's to get tickets. Here are some pictures I took at practice, sorry they aren't the best, its hard to take good pictures because of the lighting:( 

Have a good week!
~Lena~

James' is 1!!!

 It’s official. My little brudder is now 1 year old. I really cannot believe it is already a year since he was born!!! Now he is crawling, *almost* walking, eating foods, and I am SURE he said my name (no laughing now ya’hear). When he was born I wasn't sure what to expect, I had had only little sisters since I could remember (I don’t remember much of when Joe was a baby). I always thought of myself as a baby girl person and I wasn't prepared for the “crazy energetic little boy” I had imagined. Boy was I wrong. He is so much more relaxed than *ehem* certain little girl babies I have knownJ He is the most wonderful little baby in the world. I assume he will not stay so relaxed once he is a toddler but I’ll try to enjoy every minute of it..:D If you will excuse me now I shall go cry in a corner...*sniffle*

   I have more posts coming!

~Lena~

This is the VERY first picture I took of him!

He got to see the Cardinals win the World Series last year!

At his Baptism

What? You are so weird!

Look at them rolls!

He's a St.Pats baby alright!

Ahh those big blue eyes

"Now wait, I'll tell you how this is gonna go...."

AWW!

His first time eating Ice Cream on his birthday! He liked it I promise!:)

The Farm

Today we went to our farm house for a couple hours and I brought my camera along. I love how these pictures turned out! 

"We can't wait to get to the creek!"

*in a singing voice* "Sisters, Sisters......"

Awww:)

Does it scare you that this was our old tree-house? (the top part, not the bottom!)
Hope you enjoyed these! Which one is your favorite?
~Lena

Your daily laugh

Haha! This cracks me up every time I see it! Hope it made you laugh today:)
~Lena 

                                 

Little Women the Musical!

 Well here comes another FANTASTIC musical! As you can see Little Women the Musical is coming to OAT and I shall be in it! I am SO excited for this one! The read through was on Monday and yesterday we had a music rehearsal! I can tell you it will be an AMAZING show! I play Clarissa, the heroin in a story Jo writes. She is quite an interesting character and I am excited to play her up a bit:D That is as much as I will say so you must come see it if you want to witness all the Awesome talent that is in this play! Tickets are on sale now so hurry and get yours at OAT's Page before they are sold out! No joke! They sell out fast!

Our books!

~Lena

This is what friends do in their spare time......

We should have no problem finding husbands:D

The long expected party...

 The long expected party has now come to an end:( For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, let me explain. The group that has been doing the English country dances that we go to celebrated their 10th anniversary yesterday! While trying to come up with a theme for their 10th anniversary ball, they discovered that they had held their first dance on none other than Bilbo and Frodo Baggins' birthday! And so of course it was a LOTR themed costume ball! Here is how it turned out....

Everyone in our family dressed up in costume (much to my surprise!) 

All the girls! Plus our friend Sage got to come with us! Double the Fun! She came dressed as Rosy and she looked so beautiful!

Madeleine came as an elf/hobbit. (she could't make up her mind:) 

Katie came as an Elf princess, although I don't know if you can see her tiara .. 

I came as the offspring of Aragorn and Arwen, so half elf and half man (or is it woman..?) Hence the rounded ears and the lack of powers:P 

Mom and Annalise were Hobbits

Jake was a Hobbit as well and took great pride in his pipe. 

Jake and Caeley dancing. I'm thinking they had fun...:)

Dad dressed as Gleaver, son of Weaver, from the house of the Believers...he made that up himself

Caeley, Me, Jacob, Katherin, Sage, and Katie

Tess and Spencer dancing the Scottish

Jacob and Katherin dancing the Scottish

Mr. H and Erin dancing the Scottish

The Scottish with our wonderful photographer Caleb taking pictures

Awwww!
 (is it just me or does that person's crown in the back look like a puff of smoke?!)

Mrs. M and Annalise:) 

 Well that's all for now! I didn't get a picture of Joe's outfit but he was dressed as a Ranger. It was a most marvelous party and there were costumes from all over Tolkien's books! From Hobbits, to Elves, to Riders of Rohan, to men of Gondor, to Ents, to Dwarves, and even the wonderful band dressed up as Tolkien himself! I can't wait till the 20th anniversary!
~Lena