Sierra Vista Christmas

It is 3 AM and I can't sleep for some reason, so I decided to do some blogging while watching 3 AM television, which is really bad.  It's either infomercials or a really old Die Hard movie.  I've also been trying to change the background and fix some issues I'm having with Blogspot, but since I am no IT guru, it's not working and the blog has weird fonts, colors and other problems, but I am giving up on that for now.  Our computer has been broken for a while and I've been waiting for Isaac to have time to fix it and for new hardware, so I haven't blogged much or even been on the computer much lately.  And once again, my favorite list got deleted, so I don't have any one's blog address, if you want to send it to me.

We have lots of new news!  Isaac interviewed for a new job here in the IT department on the army base and found out this week that he got it.  He is going to be an Intelligence Specialist, whatever that means!  Basically who looks at who is trying to hack into the army website and decides who is an actual threat or not. He'll be with a new company and be a permanent employee starting his first day, which we are really excited about because his current job is temp-to-hire and he still isn't permanent (which mostly has affected our insurance options - and since we live and breath insurance drama, this is big for us).  It's a good opportunity for him - or so he tells me.  I'm still clinging to the dream that after a few years, he'll have enough experience that we can get a job elsewhere though.  Fingers crossed.

Meanwhile we've been enjoying some of the things Sierra Vista has to offer during the Christmas season.  We went to Santa's in the Park, which I actually really loved.  There are 50 of beautifully painted Santa's, with descriptions about Santa's in different cultures and Santa's meaning throughout the years, scattered throughout the park.  And we had to bundle up the kids because even though it's only in the 50's in the evening here, my kids think that is really cold.

One of the 50 Santas at the park

Real Santa at the church Christmas party this week.

Eli's Many Faces

Today while we were playing outside, I started taking some pictures of Eli.  It was like watching America's Next Top Model - Eli style.  I would snap a picture and a 1/2 a second later he'd strike some sort of crazy pose, usually involving his tongue sticking out and his hands in monster poses.  He was making me laugh like crazy.  Here's some of my favorites:

 And if you notice that he's totally bundled up, it's because it dropped from the 80's this week down to the 50's, and we are freezing!

Holiday Skirt and Other News

I got some cute material for a little holiday skirt for Isabelle.  The pattern swore it was easy. . . and it actually wasn't that bad, but mostly because my friend Margaret helped me sew it.  My sewing machine is pretty cheap little guy and it definitely would not have been able to do this skirt, since it required sewing with tulle and a ruffle foot and some other tricky stuff.  Luckily Margaret had a serger, as well as a ruffle foot and a good sewing machine.  And since she had 2 machines, we tag-teamed it and sewed it together.  I think it turned out so cute!

 And in even more exciting news, this little girl is on the go!  This week she has started taking 4-5 small steps on her own, as well as pushing her little therapy wagon on her own down the hallway.  Go baby girl, go!

 I just had to add these pictures because all of the sudden this week the temp dropped about 25 degrees and my kiddos are freezing!  This was us playing outside today.

Happy Halloween

Here's some pictures of my cuties on Halloween.

Eli, Isabelle and Hannah - I need a good picture of his cape.  It has the Batman emblem on the back with an 'E' in the middle.  He loved it.

Batman in his Batmobile

Mother Nature's Farm

Just some pictures from the farm.

Kamrynn, Eli, Isabelle, Kaden and Hannah

Eli and his cousin, Hannah