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The Gingerbread House

I have never built a Gingerbread house before. Avery wanted to make one this year so I thought we could do that Christmas Eve. So I bought a kit. It was $10 and had everything you needed in it.

Here is Avery getting the icing ready. Mya is pretending to look out the window.

They even have an E-Z Build tray. It holds all your pieces upright. That's pretty cool.

Here are all the sides put together. They said to wait 15 minutes before decorating it. So we did.

Well, as we were waiting, the roof slid off! Mya was just waiting to have her piece. There is nothing to support the heavy roof once the icing decoration was on.

So, we tried a few different things and nothing worked. Some pieces even broke! So we decided to decorate it and declare that it was hit by a tornado!

Well, so much for that idea. Next...... baking cookies!!!!

Montage of Mya

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White Christmas

I saw Sara put a YouTube video on her page and I didn't know that I could do that. She had a great video of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing Little Drummer Boy. It reminded me of Christmas when I was a kid. We always had a record playing of Bing Crosby at Christmas. Here is one of my favorites.

Christmas Shots

Just some pictures

Snow Card

Another Card

Trying out different cards

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Holiday Wishes

Mya's Christmas Haircut

When Mya gets a haircut, she goes a little wacky after. She runs around the house and fights with her toys. Then she settles down. These were taken in order after the haircut.

Mom, stop taking pictures of me!

There, are you happy? Yes, I now have eyes.

Why do I have to do this every year?

Ok, here's my head-tilt-cute-face!Do you think that she's thinking about how much she loves her new doo? Probably not!

Part 1 of my gift

For Christmas, my parents send each of us money. Every year, I buy things that I wouldn't normally buy myself. The first thing I thought I would start with this year are new grooming scissors and thinning shears. The closest good dog supply store is in Oakville and I don't like driving out there unless there is a good reason, so I went looking for a hair stylist's store. I found this cool place in Whitby. Did you know that the industry charges more for dog grooming supplies than human grooming supplies? Actually, I'm not surprised at all.

Now, with the rest of the money I want to get a new book and probably a new pair of black boots, oh, and maybe some new gloves!

I will be grooming Mya tomorrow and can't wait to try the new supplies out.

The Mud Beard

Well, cosidering the ground was covered with snow, I was a little surprised to find Mya at the door with a Mud Beard! She was digging under the tree for something and seemed to be having a ball doing it. Needless to say she also had a nice bath today.

A Great Day (Non Schnauzer)

We were invited to an event called Uncle Neil and Friends Annual Toy Mountain Show. We invited our friends and their son to come along with us. What a lot of fun it was. Great music and the kids loved all the activities. Everyone had to bring an unwrapped toy. In total, including all the corporate donations and donation dropoffs plus what was brought today, there were over 1500 toys!!! Imagine that.

Thank you Christie, Neil and Alex Haden for inviting us to come along. We will be there next year for sure!

Santa

Neil singing

Christie and Alex Haden
Me and Avery

The crowd at the bar

Dan and Sandy Clouthier

My husband Roddy with Alex Clouthier

Sandy

Avery

Who goes there?

There must have been something in the backyard last night. She went on a wild sniff throughout the entire yard. Then of course, she had to play in the snow. And, she was digging a hole under a tree and then layed in it? Don't know what that's all about.

Christmas' Past

When I go to Mattawa after Christmas, I'm going to go through some of my parents old pictures and scan them. There are some pretty funny pictures of me growing up!

Until then, here are a few that my aunt had.

(Below) This is me standing infront of my Nanny and Grampa's tree. I guess I must have been about 3 years old. Every Christmas day, we would have dinner there. I still remember the smell when walking in the house. The turkey and stuffing...yum! The tree was always full of tinsel and there was country Christmas music playing and the TV was usually on some type of sport. The kids would be running around (I was the 3rd oldest Grandchild) and the parents never told us to be quiet or to stop. What great memories.

(Below) This is a picture of Me, Uncle Andy (holding me) my sister Joanne and my brother Brian. Guy wasn't born yet. I was so tiny when I was young. Don't ask about the hair!

Now below, you will find a later picture. Yes, that's me opening one of my tons of presents I used to get. But....every Christmas eve I had to go to bed with those darn rollers in my hair. Boy did that hurt! But, I had to have nice hair to go to Nanny and Grampa's. If you look at the picture, you will see that we had nice green shag carpeting and look at the beer bottle! It was probably O'Keefe. That's my brother Guy in those funky pajamas.

There will be more to come after I can get them scanned.

My Dad's Birthday

Happy 67th Birthday Dad!

I love this picture. It was taken 16 years ago and I don't think I would go with that style of dress now. Actually, thinking back, Roddy and I should have hopped on a plane and got married on a hot island. Why do we spend so much on weddings?