Rainbow Brite dresses herself

Annalise definately has opinions on what she wants to wear. It usually involves one of her 2 favorite dresses and tights. Well, yesterday she wore one of them, she calls it Rose. Today she choose to wear the other favorite dress. I like to call this ROY G. BIV. Get it? I insisted that she wear leggins instead of tights because it was only 2 degrees out this morning. The flowered yellow sweater and the striped socks are all her own doing. You can't see it, but she is also wearing a hand me down pigtail with a scarf of pink,orange and purple on the back of her head. Then, when it was time to load up for school, she decided that she needed to wear her too small pink patten leather flowered boots also. You can definately hear her coming today.

Sunday Snow

So we had to leave Archbold early this morning because of the developing snow storm. We even skipped out on Grandma free haircuts in favor of getting home and not trapped on the highway. We made it safely out of Ohio and once we were south of Ft. Fun, we had clear roads. The snow did hit once we made it home and by 4 pm we had a couple of inches. Evie and Annalise went out to play. Guess what this is?
Answer, part of the 24 snow angels in my yard. Cuties.


And, if you haven't seen it, this is the video of the Metrodome in Mlps collapsing. Wow. It looks like a lot of snow. It was the heaviest blizzard in 20 years. But with all that, I bet those kids don't have a school delay. Tonight, at 6 pm, the automated call came in that my kids have a 2 hour delay for 2 inches. I think it's time to get back to MN where people are hardy. My kids are going to be winter whimps.

Seibert Christmas Party

The annual Seibert Family Christmas party took place this weekend. We left the house early on Saturday and made two quick stops before we got "on the road". One for donuts--yum. and the other stop to pick up Marin and her presents and wedge her into the backseat of the car between two booster seats. She was a good sport and watched lots of school house rock. I bet she knows all about adverbs now. The long standing tradition is that one grandchild reads the the Birth of Jesus before we dig into presents. This has been happening for a long time. I think it may have started in 87 with my cousin, Amy. I read in 88. Since then, we have been through all the grandchildren and are working our way through the great grandchildren. This year was Evie's turn and she did a good job reading slowly and loud.
Then the present opening madness began. I heard someone say that they wanted to have the kids do it one at a time, but that just didn't happen. Paper flew everywhere.

Natalie admires Annalise's new Polly Pockets.

Evie then wrapped herself up for Great Grandpa. Funny, he forgot to take her home....

Here's the other part of the room. It was nice to have the comfy couches to sit on.

Then it was time for the posed pictures. Someone said all the "kids". Marin is the youngest of the grandchildren and all the rest are great grandchildren. The two adults have future grandchildren in the oven due next summer.

And then we tried to get pictures of all the families. The Steve Seibert Family (sorry about the closed eyes--this was the best shot I got)

Oh, and Uncle Kevin and Aunt Elizabeth are celebrating their 7th anniversary. They bought each other new car tires. How romantic.

The Doug Seibert Family

The Chris Wilson Family. Somehow, I was distracted by Chex Mix or a kid and missed out on all the other pictures.

Uncle JIm did manage to capture a picture of this unclaimed present. Who wants her??

Another batch of cookies

On Friday, we made another batch of Christmas cookies. This was a reward for Annalise who helped me clean the bathrooms in record time. I let her lick the spoon. Why does she have red and green around her lips?
Because we colored the dough to make candy cane cookies. Oh Family Fun, when will you stop coming up with all of these appealing ideas? The girls had fun rolling out the dough into "snakes" and then twisting them up. They got tired of making candy canes, so we also had wreaths, holly, trees and "candies"

Here is our handy work. Since every bit of dough was touched by dirty kid fingers, we aren't sharing these with too many people as not to spread our kid germs.