Christmas is here!

I love the Christmas season and yesterday we started it off by decorating the tree!  I am so excited for Christmas...music, parties, family, and food!  This year we put up both trees.

Kiss

For Christmas this year, Randy got a trip to Vegas to see Kiss in concert.  The concert is the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  He is so excited.  He gets to go backstage, meet the band, have his picture taken with the band and he gets special seats to the show.

  Just to show you what fans we are, here are pictures from the last Kiss concert we went to.  We took Alex and Preston with us and we all wore the makeup!!!

Even Connor got in on the act.  He was only 2 at the time so he couldn't go to the concert.  But he wanted to look like the "mean guy".

Costumes

Here are my ghouls.  The costumes turned out great!
Preston is a black-eyed p.  Isn't that funny?










Alex is Alice Cooper.  Can't you tell that he is thrilled?



  
The whole bunch!  Emma is Minnie Mouse.  We have a Mickey Mouse costume that went thru 2 boys and she wanted to wear it, so I added one of her dresses.  It turned out ok.  Jonah is Wolverine and Connor is the Reaper.

Can't forget the pumpkins.  This one is Alex's.

This one is Preston's.

This one is Connor's.

Last but not least is Jonah's.  Emma didn't have one this year.  She used one of the plastic ones with the lightbulb in it.

Hey let's go!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Time to dress up for work once again.  Since Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, there weren't many of us at work.  Here are the few that dressed up.

 Steve is a scented candle.

Sami is a hippie.

Amanda is Thing 1...don't know where Thing 2 is.

Blake is....well not sure what Blake was trying to be.  He kinda looked like Howard Stern with that hair.

Here's a blast from the past.  My picture from Halloween when I was in the 7th grade.  Unfortunately it wasn't much different than what I would wear to school.

Here is the gang from 1987.  Starting from the left going clockwise is: my brother Jarrod Dearden, Me, our cousins Shannon Shupe Porter, Bobbi Shupe Jones, and my sister Dawnelle Dearden Call

Emma's New Do

Today I decided that Emma needed a new hairstyle.  She doesn't keep barretts and elastics in her hair, so I thought a short cut would be way cute.  Plus it would keep the hair out of her face.

She looks so adorable with her hair this way.  It looks tons thicker too.  She sat so quietly while the stylist cut it.

We got chicken nuggets from McDonalds for being so good.

Daddy wasn't very excited about getting it cut.  He likes long hair.  But I know that he will think Emma is still as cute as ever!