While perusing through blogs this morning, I read this on Allison’s blog. Since it was a quick and easy way to post a new blog, I thought I’d copy it. Enjoy!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both
2. Real tree or Artificial? REAL
3. When do you put up the tree? As soon as possible after Thanksgiving!
4. When do you take the tree down? New Years unless we’re afraid of spontaneous combustion due to lack of water.
5. Do you like eggnog? I think store bought is gross..but I have a recipe from an old Betty Crocker kids cookbook that I LOVE…it has real raw eggs in it. =)
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Books…I loved to read. In particular babysitters club and Little House on the Prairie series.
7. Hardest person to buy for? Brother in law(s)
8. Easiest person to buy for? My sister Kendra..we like exactly the same things!
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, finally! I’ve wanted one forever and last year I found/bought one that was like 90% off after Christmas and I can’t wait to put it up!
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Uh..*cough*choke* I don’t send Christmas cards…last year I wrote an email letter…but never sent it.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? The only thing I can think of wasn’t really my worst..Last year I knew my mom was getting me something I wanted, I just knew it..and when I opened the gift from her it was a big box of folding chairs! She had gotten me a set of folding chairs and a folding table in addition to what I really wanted, but I opened the chairs first…boy was I disappointed there for a minute!
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? A toss up between A Christmas Story and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation…yes, this is my sense of humor and I laugh every time.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually after Thanksgiving mostly due to not knowing *who* I’m buying for since we always do something different with the McKenney’s and we always draw names on my side.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Peanut Butter fudge..but it’s not specific to Christmas
16. Lights on the tree? Uh…yeah!
17. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home and let people come to us! =)
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Roudolf
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Yes!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Feels so busy that I don’t always get to enjoy it slowly enough.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Most of my decorations are silver and green.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? We have a special Christmas breakfast/brunch..I always look forward to that the most I think.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? I have asked for some things such as books, a cordless drill, a garbage disposal…but what I REALLY want is a gift certificate for a new procedure I just learned about called LipoLift….Oh yeah, and world peace.
26. Who is most likely to respond to this? I’m not tagging anyone so whoever wants and easy way to post a blog!

Last night Josh and I watched a documentary by Ben Stein called, Expelled. I didn’t expect to like it. I didn’t expect for it to touch me. I didn’t expect to get teary. But I did. It is a very powerful documentary about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design being taught in our schools and in our mainstream media. But to my surprise (and horror, really) it goes much deeper than that! If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend watching it. I think as Christians, we need to be informed about things like this so that we can have the tools to stand up for what is right when the time comes.

**Oh, and for anyone who is interested, I have a potty update! The girls continue to be fabulous! We have yet to get an actual #2, but there have been very few accidents. They get so excited to go and they even cheer for their sisters! Whoo Hoo!

So yesterday, to my complete and utter surprise was our first day of potty training with the girls. I wasn’t planning on doing it…really. It just sort of happened. Yesterday morning when the girls got up, I fed them breakfast and then put them in the bathtub. While they were in the tub, I decided to take advantage of the time while they’re entertained and somewhat confined and re-arrange my living room. We’ve lived in our house for a year now and I’ve never been totally happy with the arrangement. But that’s a blog for another day. At any rate, when the girls were done in the tub, I was still working so I didn’t want to stop and put diapers on them. Plus, whenever they have on only diapers, they come off in 2.5 seconds anyway, so it’s kind of worthless.

The day before Halloween, we finally “carved” out time to carve our pumpkins. You’ll notice that yes, Kynden is naked in this picture. We took off the clothing so as to not get pumpkin all over, and whenever the clothes come off, the diaper must follow. I have to say that carving pumpkins this year was pretty fun. The boys were old enough to be able to design their own and were able to use the pumpkin carving tools on their own..so they didn’t need much help. The girls on the other hand, did need help of course. Ellyanna didn’t seem to really care much about her pumpkin other than throwing it like a ball. Adelynn was very interested in the process, but whined EVERY time she got any pumpkin goo on a finger..even the tiniest bit. But Kynden on the other hand literally dug right in. She had so much fun spooning seeds out of the pumpkin and into the bowl and then again out of the bowl and back in to the pumpkin. She was very serious about her pumpkin seeds. Tomorrow I will post pictures of our Halloween costumes.