The Hobbs family as elves

These are the best moves Rob has ever had!

Christmas decor pics

Here are a few pictures of the house after the Christmas decorations went up. We put the skinny tree upstairs, the fat one downstairs and I got all my Christmas dishes in our new/used China hutch(we got it free from a funeral home and I had to scrub it thoroughly before my family was satisfied that I got the "dead smell" out).

I'm on a roll

I'm officially caught up on my scrapbooking pictures/pages. Good thing Christmas is coming to give me something to do. ;) Speaking of Christmas, I got all my decorations up this past weekend. The guys put the lights up outside and helped with the tree and I finished the rest. No pictures of that yet, though. I like this years arrangement better than last year. I guess I needed a practice year to figure out what I wanted/needed for this house.
On an unrelated topic, guess what my apparently non-women's lib daughter said to me today. We were in the car picking up Kyle from school and got to talking about some birthday presents that she had gotten. Here is the next part of the conversation:

Emma: I got you a present for your birthday, Mommy
Me: Oh yeah, what's that?
Emma: a new cleaner bottle
Me: You got me cleaning stuff for my birthday?
Emma: Yes, and a new mop too
Me(clearly not sarcastic enough for a 5 year old to understand): Wonderful. That's just what I need for my time travelling trip to 1950.
Emma: You like those presents, Mommy?
Me: Yes, honey, they're great.

Most typical Emma pose ever

Some pages

I got some new scrapbook pages done this past weekend. They were pages that I'd made awhile ago and just needed to add the photos, so it was kind of cheating. But still......they are complete and that's all that matters. I got all of Halloween done, most of fall and soccer. This weekend we have an all day crop at the library and I'll be finishing up fall and Emma's birthday. Tonight we are going to take the kids to see Celtic Woman at Wells Fargo Arena as a birthday treat for Emma. She LOVES Irish music and calls the Celtic Women her "girls". :) Here are some of the completed pages:

Emma's birthday

Emma turned 5 years old today. It's hard to believe it's been that long since we've had an Emma in our lives. ;) We had a little family party on Saturday. The theme was Tinkerbell and here are a few pictures of the cake I made and Emma with some of her gifts.

Wii

I got a Wii a couple of months back and have kept it hidden as it is a Christmas present for the family. Rob and my brother know where it is and this weekend convinced me that we should get it out and use it. You know, to "check and make sure it works alright" wink, wink. The kids were at the in-laws this weekend, so I agreed. We only had the sports game that the system comes with, but we played for hours. We were up until 3:00 am, 2:00 with the time change, thankfully. That thing is just a shit ton of fun. My shoulders were sore yesterday from all that tennis. ;)