so long, sixty degrees!

60 degrees on Monday gave way to snow on Tuesday.





Evyn asked if she could take a photograph of a picture in her album. She says she wants to take it to Great-Grandma next time we visit her, so she can remember Great-Grandpa and be happy.



After setting aside our baby name lists for the last month we're back to working on them. At the moment we have 5 boys names, and 7 girls names.
Boys: A, M, S, B, M
Girls: A, L, C, J, L, J, M

briefly -

1. new bedroom is going great. except that the school bus stopping across the street wakes Evyn at 7:47 every morning. which isn't so early, I guess, but we're so used to her sleeping until 8:30 - 9:00!
2. got the estimate from the second builder. $9k more than the first guy. but the first guy didn't give an itemized allowance list. pretty sure we're going to hire the first guy, if he can supply some more details and tweak the plan for us.
3. Evyn has croup. she's doing well but every time I hear her hoarse little cough it sounds so awful I want to cry.
4. 60 degrees here today! we got outside, did some raking, fed the birds, Evyn got muddy. fun!
5. Christmas party season starts this Saturday! we have two events to attend that day. and we haven't even started our cards yet!
6. no photos, sorry. here is one of Evyn's computer drawings, just to pretty up this post :)

it's beginning to look a (little bit) like Christmas

not happy to have to wait for the lights to be strung


finished! a real team effort.

Turkey Day practice run

I had to post these for Grams & Pops (Scott's parents). Sunday they hosted an early 'Thanksgiving' meal for us, Scott's sister & Rick, and Scott's grandparents.
While we were there I noticed a huge stack of papers - copies of our blog that "Pops" prints to take home, since they don't have internet access at their house.
I figured if they are going through that much trouble to keep up with our page, I should take a few new photos to post just for them!

After dinner, playing a hanging monkey game - the adults got a little carried away with strategising over a kids game!




And for my friend Diana, one of the rare recent photos of ME (Julie), taken by Evyn as I was posting last night's post-dinner blog entry: