Here's Hannah, eating a cookie at her Christmas party, that I made her eat to be polite.

Here's Hannah cheating at a game of one handed wrapping. It would be hard to not cheat at that game. Her team won even though she cheated:)

She didn't cheat the whole game!

This is Stephen, Jordan & Laken at Jordan's Christmas party. These are the 3 musketeers! The like to go to the bridge and ride the ramps with their bikes and skate boards.

Jordan playing Jinga

And making a cool Smores Nativity scene.

Have you ever wonder if someone else in the world has your name and what they are like? Well I happen to know a Jennifer Fuller and a Jennifer Schepper. Kinda weird huh? Well Jennifer Schepper sent me this email a couple of weeks ago and I'm just getting around to doing it. Thought it might be fun to share with you. Maybe I can get the kids to answer some of the questions this week. School was out this morning at 10:55 (weird time!) until Jan 2, 2007. Man what am I going to do with them to keep them from killing each other?

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?? Hot Chocolate I have never had to guts to try egg nog- sounds gross!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree?
When he left presents they were wrapped. But we haven't done Santa in a few years. And if you don't want your kids to know anything about Santa keep them away from Jordan. He likes to let everyone know his secret!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored on the tree. I'm not sure what to do when we need a new tree since they already have lights on them and they are white. The house has white icicle lights.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?No we need to help around our house. haha

5. When do you put your decorations up?As soon after Thanksgiving as I can. There are always up before Dec 1st.


6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Hummm this is hard I like food. I like Christmas Eve when we make lots of snack stuff.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? We always went to Indiana for Christmas. I would sleep in the playroom at my grandma's house. I would go to be about 11pm and be awake at 3am. I just was too excited to sleep. We have to pry my kids out of bed. Whats up with that?

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? What are you talking about? The truth? Santa is alive and well at 2907 N Park!

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes Every year it's PJ and every year Jordan can hardly stand to wait until after dinner to open them. He's so crazy

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? I've bought Hallmark ornaments every year since we've been married. Leland ate a lot of hot dogs so I could have those every year! Those are on the tree in the living room. Jordan has snowmen we made. And the girls have pink and teal. This year when everything goes on sale I need to get some new stuff though.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it the first day. Dread the mess after that.

12. Can you ice skate? Ummm no. The older you get the longer it takes to heal.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Well, how about gifts I remember.... The year I got an electric piano, Jordan gave me and engagement ring a couple of years ago. How about the toaster Leland gave me one year! haha

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? The thing that is most important yet I don't spend near enough time emphasizing to my kids is the birth of Christ!

15. What is your favorite holiday tradition? I love everything! Christmas lights, programs, decorations, parties, gifts, shopping, Christmas cards.... It's all fun!

16. What tops your tree? An angle that my sister-in-law Emily made all of the Fuller kids one year for Christmas. She took on of their Grandma's old quilts and cut it up for the body. I LOVE that angle! I hope I never have to replace it!

17. Which do you prefer.. giving or receiving?Giving.

18. What is your favorite Christmas Song? OK I could be spiritual and say "silent Night" or something like that but I really like "Rockn' around the Christmas Tree". But I will listen to anything Christmas. Makayla has just about had it with me and 93.9 in the car. She is pretty sure her ears will start bleeding if she has to listen to anymore of that business.

19. Fave Christmas Movie? Oh man that is a loaded question. Is there a bad Christmas movie? I've watched "It's a Wonder Life" 2 times this week already. And "Polar Express" is awesome. "Home Alone" (one not 2 or 3). Charlie Brown anything! Enough with the movies! I'm always up for a movie.

Jordan's tree The kids made the snowmen with the ear muffs on them last year. I made the snowmen with stocking hats a couple of years ago.


This is the tree in the girls room. Leland's mom and Joan Boyd made the snowflakes that are on this tree.

This is the tree in our living room. I've bought Hallmark ornaments every year since we were married. Those are on this tree. This is a before picture- before it took a dive. Hasn't been the same since!

I usually have another tree up in the dinning room. We bought new furniture this fall and now the piano is in the dining room which doesn't leave room for anything else. Oh well one less to take down right?

Field trips, strep throat, basketball games & a funeral.

Well that's what we've been up to.
Hannah had a field trip to the Oklahoma aquarium yesterday. Leland and I both went. Did I remember the camera? NO. I was bummed! It's a VERY cool place. If anyone want to go sometime just call me. I'd be up for a road trip. And why is it that Tulsa used to be 2 hours away and now it's only 1.5 hours? Weird. KC used to be 4 hours and we can make it there in 3 now.

Anyway at the toll booth yesterday mom called to say Jordan has a temp and a soar throat. Well he did say something about that this morning. And I said "It's snot. Suck it up and get to school. I have a field trip today!" I did actually say that. Yes that mother of the year award is in the mail as we speak. I did think it was snot though. Now I know better! Probably a good thing he need to stay home today. Half of his class is home with head lice. We do not need any of that!

We are officially done with basketball. But don't get too excited volleyball starts next week. Makayla did have a good game last night. When I'm old and grey I'm also going to have permanent bench grooves in my butt from all the games I've sat through! Still didn't remember to grab the camera. Oh well hard to get a good picture in a gym anyway.

Funerals- Seth Wilson died this week. I still can't wrap my mind around that one. I was sure even though he was 92 years old he would out live me. Why is that? I guess when you have seen someone ever time you came to church since you were 8 years old you don't expect that there will be a time that they aren't there. For someone who has a tough time making decisions death is a hard one! Seth was founded Ozark Christian College. He was one of the reason we moved here in 1980. One word of advice i can give everyone: write down your wishes for your funeral. Even if you don't really care write down something. It's really tough on the family when you don't. So give your family a gift before you go and take care of things for them.

Well I'm going to crop again tonight. I may even get Christmas cards done tonight. I really need to get them in the mail. I have gotten cards for a lot of you. Thanks! I really am going to get them done this year!

Have a great day!

Well we are finishing up basketball. Makayla and Jordan are done tomorrow night. Hannah finished last Saturday. Finals start Friday for Makayla. School is out next Wednesday. So... life is busy!
I'm trying VERY hard this year to slow down and enjoy it. I still seem to get carried away with the hustle and bustle a little. After next Saturday we really don't have anything to do. Oh wait... Sunday is Christmas Eve. Well another year that flew by. There always next year right?
I'll post more pictures later. I still have lots of them to photoshop and post!

North Joplin Christian Church's Christmas Program last Sunday

I scrapbooked tonight! It's been WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY too long! I love to scrapbook why do I not do it more often? Life I guess. I missed Hannah's game tonight. I had to work tonight. We had a cookie crop at the Joplin store. Anyway- they lost one game and won a game. Nice way to end the season.
Here's my creations from tonight... (I'll try and remember to post pages as I do them)The 1st 2 are classes. The last one is actually for Jordan's book.

Just one of those days I could use a meal like that!
We have 2 basketball games tonight, a basketball practice & a cub scout meeting! Was I just complaining about snow days? Sure could use one of those today!

Man I have a load of picture to post! I have been crazy person with the camera lately. I'll not bore you completely and just post a couple.
We finely got some snow. It's only been 2 years. That's a long to to go with out a snow day! Well be careful what you wish for! Mom and I were in Las Vegas when the storm hit. I would say we were enjoying the warm weather but that would be a lie! We walk in Ceaser Palace Wed 11am and walked out Fri @ 1pm. It was in the 40's. What was up with that? We sat for about 5 hours in the airport catching all kinds of diseases! Got in the KC at midnight and drove home with one eye opened at a time. Didn't have any problems until we pulled into our neighborhood. Then we got stuck. Cant believe we didn't spend some of the 3 hour drive home trying to figure out how to use the 4-wheel drive. But we didn't. We waited until we were stuck at 3am. Duh!
So here are some pictures of the kids playing in the snow! I'm glad its starting to melt. The kids sure did enjoy it though.