This is the House that Jack Built

Chris and I think differently. Our brains are not on the same frequency. He can look at the lines and numbers on blueprints and see beautiful 3 dimensional buildings, I on the other hand see only lines and numbers.

I can look at a horse for hours and notice every detail about how they are put together. Chris sees fur.

So after being married for 9 years I should have realized, when I asked Chris to make quick a gingerbread house, it would take more then a few minutes.
Every year my sibling and I give treats to each other for Christmas. This year I thought it would be fun to make a gingerbread which has a roof that could come off and we would fill the gingerbread house with candy. Easy, right?
I gave that task to Chris and I started wrapping presents.
A few hours into the project, I thought Chris would be putting the finishing touches onto the house. I went into the kitchen and Chris was in 'architecture program mode'. He had made a base for the gingerbread house that was terrenced and sturdy. If the base had taken 3 hours, man you should have seen the house after the 3 hours... oh wait the house hadn't been started yet. But we did have a base that my horse could stand on.
A few more hours I walked into the kitchen and Chris was cutting graham crackers with an xacto knife, then he would grind the edges of the crackers together so that they had a perfect fit.
Finally at 2 am I took over and slapped some frosting on that thing and candied it up and in 2 mins ruined the beautiful house Chris had made. Hansel and Gretal would have loved to find our gingerbread house in the woods, I'll tell you that.


So that is the gingerbread house that Chris made.
I can't help to think what frequency the lil' bosses brain will be on.

* * *Snow* * *

Chris and I made a snow angel

5,4,3,2,1...

Happy New Years!!!
Where were you that night? Now don't be jealous but Chris, the Baby Face and I were invited to a very exclusive...very V.I.P...very super glam party. It was the annual Page family New Year's Eve party. This year 'Beyonce' was going to make an appearance but she is having a baby or something(darn it, cause I love me some of that music she sings).
Even though we had no 'Beyonce', we did have some 'Beatles rockband'. New Years Eve just happens to be the one time a year that I will play Nintendo and every year I have to control myself from wanting to throw a drumstick through my bros big screen. Drums are hard. But look who got a score of...

Oh yes I took a picture of my score...drums are hard. And I'm not going to tell you that Chris may have gotten a 100% on the guitar and a 97% on the drums.

Honestly man, look at that concentration on the guitar.

Of course, what is a red carpet party without fireworks? Ours may or my not have been of the illegal variety


Not all of them were, just the cool ones :)

The Sweetness cashed her chips out early and went to bed at about 9. We woke her up at 1 and loaded her in the limo. This is how she wakes up


I'm sorry not everyone got a ticket to the hottest party, it was killer!

Holiday Captured

What a magical time our little family had celebrating the birth of our Savior. What a wonderful gift the world was given. How thankful we are for that night, for our Savior.

We had fun and because words can't describe the joy, here are some of our Christmas life moments:












Man we have fun.

Better Late Then Never, Right?

This should be in your mailbox. Didn't you get it? Well you should talk to your local post office. I'm sure I sent them out.

Falling for Christmas

Wednesday was the last day of school, it should have been Tuesday but because a tornado ripped its way through Farmington, wreaking havoc throughout all of the land, and cancelling all of school for two whole wonderful days. We had to have a make-up day on Wednesday ):
In true Kelli fashion, I needed to go out with a bang.
We were with our students in the lunch room, I got up to throw something away and went to step gracefully around one of the student's chair. My Adidas indoor soccer shoe got caught on a nail from the chair and BANG!

It was so humiliating I ran out of the building crying and then might have started it on fire with my mind.
* Please make a special note of how tan my legs are.
** Also please make a note of how toned my legs are.
***Have you seen the movie 'Carrie'?

'O Christmas Tree'

Christmas is officially here in the Brown household.
There are only 5 days until the man in red arrives to leave sweet Nora a few presents and I literally just finished hanging the Christmas decor. (don't tell Chris but I have decided that we will be painting the living room after Christmas so I figure that it wouldn't be a problem if I hang a lot of pictures on the wall because he can just fill the holes before we paint :))

I think Christmas trees are great so I did a whole wall full of pictures of Christmas trees...Christmas trees out of scrap booking paper, Christmas trees from the baby's handprints, some Christmas trees I made Chris draw, Christmas trees out of baby faces feet

Look at those toes, don't you just want to kiss and tickle those tootsies?
Chris and I made these in photoshop, well Chris made them, I directed.

We have a lot of fake trees in our house, but take a look at our real Christmas tree that we cut down. Definitely the prettiest one to date. I usually like to pick the ugliest 'Charlie Brown' one, but I saw this tree and knew it was the one.


Elanora sat on Santa's lap and I was very surprised at her indifference about the whole situation. She just sat there, she never just sits anywhere.

Man is this baby sweet! This is her party dress (stay tuned for pictures of her Sunday Christmas dress)


oh yes Christmas is in full swing. I love this time of year. What a wonderful celebration of the birth of our Savior.

I love this video and it may or may not have made me cry, silly melting heart.