CRAP Dip?!?!?!?

Let me set the scene: Zoe and I are in the rocking chair doin a little 4:30 PM Chill Out session. Claire is reading at the table and Gus has his back to us playing GameBoy at the breakfast bar. The Food Network channel is on-OF COURSE! -and Rachael, our favorite, is making something. Gus suddenly yells over to me-
Gus: Mom! What's she making?
Me: Crab Dip
Gus: **looking increduluous** CRAP DIP?!?!? Well, THAT doesn't sound good at all!!!

Claire and I LOST IT! We laughed so hard~heck, we're still laughing at that one. Oh! These kids crack me up!!

This pic has nothing to do with that-I just thought it was so funny! Quintessential Gus!



Claire was The Prompter in a classroom play, The Wizard of Oz this morning and did fabulously with her very important part.

I heard from about 10 kids that when they played the video that some nice dad made for them of the play, all they could hear was Zoe in the background singing "blah blah la la la dah dah dah da da"-the kids were good humored about it-for the parents, we'll probably have some apologizing to do tomorrow. Good thing she's so cute.

Here's a pic of Zoe, Claire, and my cousin Joell's baby Bella-I can't believe how similar Zoe and Bella are-too cute!

We had our Ormonde/Kenner Xmas party this past Sunday at Uncle David's BIG-ASS (as Steven describes it) new home. It's really something else and so nice of him to open it to all of us hullagins!!!
Santa and Mrs. Claus showed up-Micah (Annie's baby) was not terribly impressed. He's a skeptical one.

MOST of the shopping is done, we just have a tree to acquire, put up, dress, then skirt with the goods. Yes, you read that correctly- it's the 20th and we have no tree. Long story shortened: we had a fireplace leak which turned our living room carpet into a swampland. I insisted that it be fixed before we bring more chaos into the house so here we sit. Steven has bubba-rigged it with some tarp and the past storm proved his method viable so we're goin tree huntin this weekend. Hope we catch a squirrel for dinner too! Yee Haw!!!!Steven says that this pic of Zoe with her hands up is the image that's emblazoned in his mind forever.
It's all just a day in the life~
Tina