Books 14 & 15

Book 14

Pet the Cat Saves Christmas

 

Shelby loves these books, I think these and fly guy books are her most favorite books.

If you haven't read the Pete the Cat books I strongly suggest them, you children will love them.

This one is about Pete the Cat helping Santa deliver presents on Christmas.  It's a story about giving.

 

Book 15

The Snow Angel

 

This book is about a family going through some hard times and the dad had to work nights and the mom had to go back to work and the children were tired of it.  There Grandma would come and watch them and she knew they were upset so she told them a story about when she was little and her and her dad made snow angels.  It is a cute book.  Shelby really enjoyed it.

Movie Night Dec. 13th

For our movie night we watched

 

 

I haven't seen this movie in a long time, so I didn't know how appropriate it was for my girls to watch, you never can tell when Will Ferrell is in a movie.

Tyra kept asking to watch it, I guess her friend at school told her it was funny.  So I decided to give it a try.  The girls thought it was a really funny movie and it was pretty appropriate, nothing bad.  I think home alone was worse then Elf.  Toward the end of the movie the girls got bored though.  I think it was because it wasn't a cartoon.

We enjoyed watching this movie together, it might be one I could buy for them someday.

We didn't do anything exciting tonight to go along with our movie night.  We just ate tacos.

Maybe I'll get into the spirit of movie night sometime and I will plan something fun, this month has just been so stressful so far.

I need to sit and remember the important things about December, like our Savior instead of the presents and parties.

Right now thinking about money and everything just stresses me out.  Last month we took our dog in to get some teeth pulled and that hurt us a bit, but now that it's all done and he's all healthy we should be good for a while at least with him we will be.

This week Shelby hurt her neck and we ended up taking her to the emergency room.  Well with everything all said and done she only had a spastic neck.  She is still having a hard time bending it on her right side and turning it.  We are just glad it wasn't anything more serious then that.  They just gave her some drugs and now she's almost all better.  She got to miss a couple of days of school though, lucky her.

Other then that our December is going good, just a lot of stress.

At least I got my Christmas cards mailed!

Sorry for the long post, I figured I better post something other then books and movies.

I hope you all are having a wonderful December and are all ready for the Holidays.



Books 11, 12 & 13

Book 11

Dinos In The Snow

 

This book was pretty fun, it just talks about Dino's in the snow, sorry I can't really explain it I guess, but it is really cute.

 

Book 12

Owl Moon

I didn't read this book to the girls, Jeremy did.  It was really cute seeing him read this book to them.  It was about a father taking his little girl out to find owls.  Shelby really liked this book.  It is a really cute book.

 

Book 13

The Snow Tree

This book was cute.  It's about a little bear who could only see white because of the winter, then other animals from the forest brought things of colors and they put them on a tree.

This book had textures to it so Shelby loved touching the bumps.

Very cute book.



Books 9 & 10

Book 9

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

 

This book is a little tricky to read because it is a repeater, kind of like green eggs and ham, except without all the rhyming.  It is a cute story though

 

Book 10

Night Tree

 

This book is about a family who goes out into the little forest and decorates a tree with eatable things for the animals.  It is pretty cute, Shelby really liked this story.

Books 7 & 8

Book 7

Olive, the other Reindeer

This was about a dog who was sing Rudolph the red nose reindeer and thought they said Olive, the other reindeer instead of all of the other reindeer.  So she thought she was a reindeer so she traveled up to help Santa.  This story tells about how she helps Santa.  It's a pretty cute book.

 

Book 8

What Star is This

This book is about the star who showed the wise men to baby Jesus.  It is a short book, but cute.



Movie Night Dec. 6th

This is a month for Christmas movies,

we started it with...

 

Oh ya I remember watching this when I was younger.  I don't think I have watched it in a really long time.

I think my girls enjoyed it, they thought it was pretty funny.  Shelby was worried about Kevin getting left alone.  And she said the movie would have been better if there wasn't any curse words in it.

 

 

The movies for December are,

(they might change)

 

Dec. 13: Elf

Dec. 20: Arthur's Christmas (if I can get a hold of it from red box)

Dec. 27: A Christmas Story (of course, a classic)

Books 5 & 6

Book 5

Twelve Lizards Leaping

 

This is a cute book, it's like the twelve days till Christmas, but it has a Hispanic take to it with lizards, tamales and other things.  Shelby enjoyed this book a lot, and we even sang it.

 

 

Book 6

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

We always love these books, there is a bunch of them.  This one is kind of a Christmas one.  If you haven't read If you give a .... books you should, they have pigs, dogs, moose and a couple mouse ones.  Such cute books.