Wintery/Christmasy stuff

It was Miss Polly's birthday December 18th. 

We celebrate!

You can see she was so thrilled to celebrate! ha.

Alright people...Colorado is DRY on a normal day. 

Then put winter in. 

Our lips.

Our poor poor lips.

Clearly we have plenty of lipgloss, lipstick, lipgoop, lip moisture around the house!

Lauren rocks with nails.

Daddy got his toesies done! 

He PROUDLY showed them off to everyone that came to the house.

We discovered "adult" coloring pages. 

For meditation and relaxation and stress.

Yes, please.

Christmas gifts. 

My brother wanted to know what to get the girls for Christmas. 

This is what what they said when I asked them.

LOL.

Polly has a bit of a problem. 

Like, an obsession really. 

She needs therapy or meds or something.

This was her 2nd Olaf. She loves Olaf. 

Plays with him, drags him along, chews him to pieces, can't be without him.

Winter hiking!

Making chai tea!

Winter building...

and shoveling...

snuggling in front of a warm fire...

Winter is about cute hats!

...and snowshoeing on the hills next to us.

FREE Star Wars tickets.

Mama had a bit of a dizzy/neck problem being in the THIRD row, but....

Aweeeesooome.

Christmas cuties?

Josh wanted to get some pictures of his Christmas girls.

This is what he got.

Niiiiice.

Annual holiday picture

So there's an expectation. For the past...I dunno how many years...we have been somewhat creative with our Christmas card picture. We have gone "out of the box" original or fun or goofy or whatever. Most expect to receive something in the mail that is "Foster-style" now.

But we had trouble this year, ya'll.

First. We waited too long. I was thinking the card was going to be a New Year's card!

Second. We weren't quite feelin' it this year?

Third. Our kiddos are getting older and this isn't too cool to them anymore?

Here is what we started with:

Throwing way too glittery and sparkly ornaments up against the wall.

Nope.

Not feeling the vision.

Ouch. These ornaments hurt!

(Mind you...NONE of these pictures are edited, etc.)

We tried throwing them up the stairs.

Not working.

Still laughing here... a bit.

Okay, enough.

Like, ENOUGH.

Time to get the vacuum and suck up all this glitter everywhere now. (Uh.)

We went to a friends Christmas party and they had this adorable Christmas photo mock-up.

Sooooo I asked my pal (we were desperate at this point!) and I brought over the fam.

Let's try this? 

Nope.

Lighting not right.

Too blurry.

Everyone was too crabby pants.

I took what we had to work with,

and this is what I came up with.....

Of course I had to get a card that said "BE MERRY" because that IS what we needed to be through this years photo taking!

TURKEY fun.

YES.
We have fun in the fam.

Pretty much every time we are together.

A whole bunch of turkey's is what we are.

And how do I LOVE my crazy turkey's.

Someone got a hold of my phone!

Turkey, anyone?!

Steve has always had a hearty appetite. (!!)

These fabulous faces filled my phone.

Niiiiiice.

We aren't ALL turkey's....

A. VERY. HAPPY. HAPPY. THANKSGIVING.

So so soooo much to be thankful for.

Halloween crazy.

First you get serious. Seriously inspired. 

(Ha! Look at Josh's face!)

Then you get serious about all the darn goop ya gotta dig out.

After while, you get frustrated... and then take your anger out on your pumpkin.

Clearly, Hannah and I have anger issues.

This was our pumpkin!

Lauren's.

Daddy's!

Then you put your dog in a cow costume.

Clearly, Polly is SO excited to have this on.

(She's like...really people? ...REALLY?)

Then your nephews come over to save the world as Captain America and Thor.

(Aren't they the best?)

Lauren as Elsa. Then her sweet friends as Anna and Olaf!

SO CUTE!

The Marvel characters to the rescue!

Heather as Cat Woman and Steve as Tony Stark/Ironman.

They always rock the costumes!

Here's us. Me as crazy cat lady...Josh whatever...and my mom came as a cat.

Had a cat theme goin' on I suppose!

Then the crazy came out.

We had fun with masks...

And the Thor wig!

Crazy amount of candy came out.

Sorted and traded....

Then crazy neighbors came out.

(NO they aren't that crazy!! kiddin'!)