3 craws song

my mom sent this video of a cute little scottish girl singing. here are the lyrics:


Three Craws (crows)

Three craws sat upon the wa', (wall)
Sat upon the wa', sat upon the wa'-a'-a'-a',
Three craws sat upon the wa'
On a cold and frosty morning.

[similarly:]

The first craw was greetin (crying)for his ma

The second craw fell and broke his jaw

The third craw, he couldnae flee (fly) at a' (at all)

The fourth craw he wisnae (wasn't) there at a' (at all)

tongue twister

cookie art

turkey cookies!

what you need:

*oreos (i grabbed peanut butter this year because of the color)
*whoopers or maltesers (if you are british)
*chocolate frosting
*candy corns
*red hots (we used mini m & m 's from halloween. they work just as well)

break open the oreo and spread chocolate frosting on the side without the filling. stick that oreo on the other one, so that it is standing up. center a whooper on the oreo for the body of the turkey. push the candy corn into the frosting for the feathers. then put a small dob of frosting on the top of the whooper and put the red hot on for the gobbler. it took me about twenty minutes to do all of these. it's easy!

baby addie...

my brother ian and his brand new spoonful of sugar.

i love me some clementine

snow art

the single's ward was cancelled yesterday due to the high volume of snow here in colorado springs. i have to admit, i was a wee bit happy at the prospect of just staying home for a day. i had to work on saturday and i was in dire need of a break. as the day went on, i started to get cabin fever. my sweet little niece had it even worse. so i took here out to build a "snow-girl-man". megan has a sneaky way of renaming things. when we got outside, i tried to roll a ball of snow for the base, but it simply crumbled in my hands. then my brother-in-law, steve, started throwing snowing balls at my face. this made things harder. so instead of trying to make a large snowball for the base, i made tiny snowballs to throw at his face. (i think i won the fight because he called truce after some snow went down his collar). wow. i have really sidetracked. SO, to amend the wrongs committed, steve helped my make a base of snow for our snow-girl-man using a shovel. a few minutes later he disappeared and left wee megan and i to finish. i decided that we should make a sitting snow-girl-man. in other words, building out instead of up, because of the lame flaky snow. here is the finished product. his name is herb.

so i got a new jacket....

i was shopping for "christmas survival guide' when i came across this beauty and on a whim, I purchased it. my favorite part of this jacket is the shoulders. it is stunning! plus, it was pretty cheap considering it was originally eighty smackoroonies at the buckle and i got it for thirty at the ross. how is that for advertising!? and now i am going to put it on with my gray pashmina and brave the frosty colorado evening!