up and coming Beautician

Aleah has officially tried out her hair cutting skills.
She gave a few barbies, Nani and herself a haircut. I knew sooner or later it was bound to happen. Luckily it was a rather good job and she refrained from cutting off a ponytail.

Gave this barbie some layers.

Wow, going for a little more of an artistic look here.

There were 2 other barbies with a haircuts, but one was just the head, so we threw that one away, and the other, you can barely even tell.

Now, for Nani, she has some bangs. Sometimes they look funny, but for the most part she wears them pretty cute! It must be that squishy kissable face!

Not too bad eh?

I guess Aleah is for hire, any takers?

(btw, no pics of Aleah's haircut because you can really tell unless we separate the hair she did cute from the uncut hair)

Oh, and yes, both I and Matthew were home and so naive. Aleah and Nani will often get something set up, or get dressed, and not want us to see until they're all ready. I guess it was the same in this case too. Several times we were told by Aleah and Kanani,

"Don't look yet, don't come down stairs."

So we didn't.

We found out the barbies had their hair cut when we went to clean up the toys in the basement, but still didn't notice their hair was cut. It was until a little while later when we were eating dinner that I was looking at Aleah and noticed a few strands of hair look freshly cut.

So there you have it.

Thanksgiving 4: Movies and Santa

Saturday after Thanksgiving, we went downtown to a cookie shop and a bread shop, then we visited Santa and then went to a free movie. It was a good time with the kids.

If it's not obvious in the Santa pics, my kids are not yet willing to sit on his lap. I don't even think that we tried last year. I guess they like him more in theory.

Nani is hugging Daddy with her whole body trying to stay away from Santa.

This is Aleah gripping on, thinking, " No Mom, please No!"

We like to see if they'll sit on his lap, it's kind of funny. We don't make them.

Thanksgiving 3: Black Friday

YAY! Black Friday, it's just so much fun to join the masses! This year I was able to still go and I went with my BIL and SIL. It was good times. Matthew even joined in on the fun at about 7:30 after his parents came to watch the kids.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for watching the kids and thanks Mike and Elena for taking me with you. And Babe, thanks for joining in on the fun!

Freezer paper stencil

For those who wondered about how to freezer paper stencil, here you go. This is a tutorial from MADE. She's got a great blog with tons of cute ideas and tutorials.

And here's another tute from LLB that has a freezer paper stencil plus more.

Thanksgiving 2: The Turkey hunt

At Matthew's brother's house, they do a turkey and buffalo hunt each year before the Thanksgiving feast.

The kids colored turkeys and buffalo and put them on popsicle sticks and Uncle Mike puts them out in the yard. Uncle Mike also made these cool PVC pipe mini marshmallow blow guns. Then each kid gets a gun and a little baggie of mini marshmallows and then the hunt begins. I think the adults have more fun than the kids. We ended up chasing each other and shooting marshmallows at each other.

Good fun!

I should have taken more pics, but I was having too much fun playing!

Thanksgiving 1

The kids' table.

The grown ups' table.

The turkey.

The deviled eggs...and that guy eying them.

We went to Nebraska to Matthew's brother's home! It was a good time!

The food was great and the company even better! I love family!

fall skirts, for winter

A couple weeks ago I made these skirts. They were supposed to be for fall, but I guess winter will do. Aleah is also wearing a really cute shirt that has a bird that matches her skirt. I did a freezer paper stencil from the bird on her skirt. Sorry no pics. Neither one of them were in the mood for pics....are they ever?!
Regardless, they're still cute girlies!