It's that time of year

When people have a Christmas tree that's all fancy and the ornaments match it's lovely really. That's not what our tree looks like. Every year we all paint an ornament and add it to our tree. We get an ornament when we go on vacation. So, our tree is covered with hand painted ornaments and memories from places that we've been. Painting the ornaments is one of my favorite Christmas traditions. When our kids grow up and move out they can take all the ornaments that they've painted. I know it's a cute idea, you can steal it if you want to. :) Anyway, last night was our annual paint our ornament night. We actually made the ornaments that we painted. I had no idea that salt dough was so cool! We made it and then used cookie cutters and cut out ornaments.

He's so good at painting that he can do it one handed! He truly is an inspiration to us all!

You might be thinking that I use a lot of paint. This is where K was sitting. I needed yellow and he had A LOT of yellow, so I went to use his so as not to waste paint. Especially yellow paint. Yellow anything really. I love yellow! Yellow in any form, the sun, flowers, houses, dump trucks, the list could go on and on. But, we're not here to talk about my obsession with yellow now are we? 

Of course her's is hot pink. She loves hot pink like K loves cars, which as we all know, is a lot! I love that she's left handed. I love it so much that sometimes when I write something I like to do it on the bathroom counter so I can watch in the mirror as I write so it looks like I'm left handed. I wish I had her smarts and her left handedness.

If I remember correctly this airplane was his second ornament. His first was a car. This was the first year that when he was done painting you could tell what it was. Last year he put about 1000 layers of paint on his reindeer. It's so cool to look at their ornaments from the year before and see how much better they do this year.

Poor baby was so tired! He was happy as long as his sucker was in his mouth. Once it was too little and I took it away, he was all tears. He just wanted to go to bed. But it was only 6:30. So, we tried to distract him with the camera. We're pretty sure this is what he was thinking..

"Um, folks, I'm feeling kind of tired and sad."

"Ok, it's official. I'm feeling really tired and really sad!"

"Wait! I see the camera. Do you want to take my picture?"

"Ok! I'll smile, but only a little."

Didn't they turn out awesome?!I bet you'll never guess what one B did. There is no limit to his love for that silly team. This is not the first BYU ornament we have on our tree. I think all of them are swell, just swell (the hand painted ornaments. NOT the BYU ones. Just sayin') I love our little tradition and will cry when these little ornaments are no longer on our tree all together.