On a weekend of Holiday Adventure

as usual...
larger (and more) photos can be found here

Otherwise, enjoy the show!!!!!

Welp.
it all started with...
with getting groceries.

(that's Maria, my [real] roomate)

Then with the purchased ingrediants
we made our very own
SNOW ice cream!!!!
Josh collected [clean] snow during the day...


(thank you josh)

It was actually very tasty!!!
Tasted Just like ice cream!!!

Next, we
covered the table with aluminum foil
(it is an all purpose material in our house)
and began creating





The next evening
Jessica arrived in town
we had a gathering of wonderful folks that night
and a few people made a few more creations
davy made a snake...
eventually a baby wound up on it...riding it

davy looks scary there - sorry davy...

We had a Wonderful dinner

that consisted of...
i don't remember...OH! spaghetti and and...uuum
salad and
josh brought pie!!

and bread...I see bread here:


Then Maria tried picking up davy

it didn't work out so well...

AND JOSH MADE THE ANGEL FOR OUR TREE!!!




she's SUCH a beautiful angel!
:)



Then after making MORE ornaments
(for our 2 foot tree......)
we started the REAL decorating!!




....*shrugs*

then we took a picture with our angel!!!

what a WONDERFUL group of folks.
:)

And this is our tree allll done


and another family photo
(yes, we're full of ourselves)


Then i left to the Folds' residence
where they, too were having a holiday gathering....
...............it was....
............it was much more.....'grown up'????
but still nice.

Anywho, this is plenty long!!!
take care everyone!!!
I'll update you even more soon
since this was from the weekend, and its wednesday
sooo clearly even More has happened between now and then!!!