Kayla loses teeth!

Kayla lost her first tooth shortly after her birthday in November. We noticed it was wiggly before her birthday and I threatened her if it came out before she turned 5. She was lucky and really excited. She handled it very bravely. She wrote the toothfairy a letter asking if she could keep it one night to show her friends at school and when she put it under her pillow the second night and awoke the next morning she was devastated to find that the tooth was still there. Why had the Tooth Fairy let her down??? (oops)
The following night the Tooth Fairy delivered! When Kayla woke the next morning, to her surprise were two stuffed figures of Santa and Frosty holding a note and a Golden Dollar. The note explained that the Tooth Fairy was busy helping Santa get ready for Christmas and he was running behind. He thanked her for her patience and rewarded her with a special Christmas present and her Gold coin. Let's hope the Tooth Fairy doesn't slip up again. What will be the excuse next time???


A short couple weeks later, her other tooth came out and now looks very toothless! Congrats on being so brave, Kayla! Mom and Dad are so proud and can we say Zach is a little jealous of your bravery??

I want to post this to remind me of what the kids should look like when they go outside to play in the snow. This picture was taken when it snowed for the first time this season. Now when the kids want to go out and play in the snow I have to remind them that its frigid out there and a sweater and a baseball hat won't cut it! Do I really have to do this for two more months???

Holiday Tag

HOLIDAY TAG!
Hey....lets play. Just copy and paste into your own blog and answer the questions.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both
2. Real tree or Artificial? We go and chop it down the Griswald Family Christmas way, except we bring our saw.
3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the day after Thanksgiving, but this year we did it the weekend before Thanksgiving. I hope our tree survives to Christmas (crossing fingers)
4. When do you take the tree down? If I have any say-so, then the day after Christmas or the day after New Year's
5. Do you like eggnog? Love It!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Playstation GameGear (first color hand-held game)
7. Hardest person to buy for? People who won't give me any ideas!
8. Easiest person to buy for? My kids
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, on a the tallest shelf of my bookcase
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail, if I'm lucky
11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I'm not at liberty to say
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Christmas Vacation (hence the comment in #2)
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Soon after Halloween
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Absolutely!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Chocolate!
16. Favorite Christmas song? I want a Hippoppotomus for Christmas. (I'm embarrased if I spelled that wrong :0)
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home with my Mom, Brother and his G-friend. It's at the top of my favorite list.
18. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? We open jammies on Christmas Eve, but the bulk of the gift giving is on Christmas.
20. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? My bank account draining quickly to $0
21. Favorite ornament theme or color? We collect an ornament every year so it's a tree full of memories
22. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Whatever
23. What do you want for Christmas this year? A new cell phone and a wheat grinder
24. Do you go "Black Friday Shopping"? Yes, and I can't figure out why I keep doing it since I'm mad every year when I go and all the deals are gone.
25.What is your favorite Christmas cookie? All of them!!

Christmas Tree Chopping Day

As tradition goes for the Bevan's, we pile in the car and travel to Bevan Cabin in Toole to hunt for that perfect Christmas Tree. Here we have spotted it. Let's hope it still looks good when we chop it down!

The big strong men take turns sawing at the tree while the women stand back and watch while we complain about the chill and how our hands are cold.

Are you ready for Christmas?

Erica, are you ready for Christmas?

No Mommy, how can we possibly start celebrating Christmas so close after Thanksgiving? I just got done digesting all that dinner. I'm too tired to sing Christmas carols, make Christmas cookies, watch endless Christmas movies, and unwrap all those presents that Santa brings me on Christmas morning. Plus, I don't want to take off my awesome Pilgrim hat!

I'm sorry Erica, Thanksgiving is over. It's time to take off your pilgrim hat and put on your Santa hat.
No! I won't do it!
Celebrating the Holidays is hard work!

Halloween with the Cousins

One Halloween tradition we celebrate is getting together for some yummy food and games with our cousins. Of course it is mandatory that everyone dress up (even the grown-ups). All came together and showed off their unbelieveably awesome costumes. I swear they get better and better every year! Even we put in a little more thought this year as to what we would be for Halloween. It was especially a lot of fun putting Kyle's costume together. After all the dressing up, he now wishes to be addressed as K-Bev. What goes better together than a Gangster with an Aerobicizing wife?

Halloween Fun

As tradition goes, we go get our Punkin, bring it home and start in on painting it up. For the first time in four years, we finally have a painted face on one of our pumpkins! Usually we see a full pumpkin smeared with large amounts of a brown, reddish color from the paints getting all mixed up together. Everyone had their own preferred way of painting their punkins which makes it so much fun to watch.

Erica preferred to tap the painted brush to the pumpkin which made it cute, but we later found lots of paint splattered on our kitchen wall from all that tapping. Oh well, it's all worth it when you see such a happy face as Erica's!