Getting Back Into the Trend

Some of you may recall the last time we did this little routine...

I love her little feet!

Maki started tearing holes in her stomach again this week so we went to the vet for our annual cortisone shot which will fix her need to bite her stomach.  The onesie is so that she'll stop licking her current wounds to death so they can actually heal.  Lucky for us the onesie on clearance at the store was hot pink and says "genius" on it.

Happy Christmas

This rendition of this story is something that I revisit each Christmas and I thought I'd share it today.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

A Magical Night

  I had the incredible good fortune of attending this year's Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert last night.  Honestly during the Christmas season there is little to rival this concert when it comes to how much I feel the magic of Christmas.  The entire production is so well done, entertaining, moving, and joyful.  

This year's special guests were the Sesame Street Muppets and Santino Fontana. Santino Fontana is a Broadway singer that recently won the 2013 Tony Award for best Male Performance in a Musical.(He was also the voice of Prince Hans in Frozen).  He's very talented energetic and sweet.  The Sesame Street Muppets in attendance were Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Grover, Abby, Rosita and The Count.  They were so much fun as they participated in the musical numbers, caused havoc back stage and taught the lesson that Christmas is about what is in our heart and how we share it with others.  

It was a fun whimsical night with beautiful music, dancing, special effects and the spirit of Christmas in abundance.  Some highlights of the night include: Mac Wilberg allowing Big Bird to lead the choir and orchestra which was quite a sight to see.  Cookie Monster's tireless search for cookies even interrupting the night to beg people to look in their purses for even a crumb of a cookie.  Santino ended up singing the "C is for Cookie" song with him and trying to help Cookie Monster think of other things that started with C..."C is for Christmas", "C is for concert", "C is for choir" etc.  

Shown here:

Don't worry he got his cookies eventually! 

Here, Santino, Ernie, Bert, Big Bird, and the children's choir are singing "Sing, Sing a Song"

Perhaps the favorite of the night was the 12 Day's of Christmas, of course counted out by the count and accompanied by Richard Elliot on the big Organ.  It was simply amazing!

It was a fun and inspiring night.  There were moments of laughter/joy/excitement and moments of being emotionally moved.  The magic of Christmas is real for all ages.  Merry Christmas!

"And Wonders of His Love"

Day of Thanks, Family and Food!

Tilly took this one.

Inside me a voice repeating the phrase, you've lost it you'll never get out of this maze!

Daylight Saving

Alpine Loop

 I heard rustling when I was taking this next picture so I looked up and found this friend!

Tilda Turns 3...and she's pretty happy about it.

 It was fun to watch a 3 year old get so excited about everything.

I was excited about giving the characters nose jobs.

Nana and Papa Kitty 

 Blowing out the candles.  Matilda actually asked for her cupcakes as soon as we sat down to eat dinner and was disappointed about the formality of having to eat her "meal" of pizza and veggies first.  

At long last, and it looks like they were still good.

 This one however was not informed until after eating her dinner that she would not be getting a cupcake...you can see how that went over.

 And then this miracle happened...Rose actually let me hold her(for quite a long time) and I even got some smiles out of her...eventually.

Happy Birthday Tills!