another journaley entry

ill try to take pictures tomorrow.

this morning i wanted to go to amy's but anna was being a "pokey little puppy" so we stayed home.  Anna has been making bead necklaces for julia's christmas present and she was really into it today.  any minute she had to herself shew as making necklaces for cousins and julia.

we played in the snow today.  anna wanted to play "grinch" which she calls "inch"  "the inch who stole christmas"  so we hiked the hill and pretended to steal christmas then slide down.  we love our backyard.  julia wouldn't come outside.  so i let her stay in and when i came to check on her she had climbed on the counter and got down the advent calendar.  she was eating all the chocolates that little thief.

she is so excited for christmas.  today she wanted to give ron his present (chocolate tools).  so she snuck upstairs and left it in his house.  she wrapped it herself and wrote: to: ron from ANNA.  so cute.  it makes me happy to see her so happy about giving gifts for people.

we went to grandma elaine's in the afternoon and found her nutcracker.  I played Tchaikovsky's dance of the sugar plum fair for her and she did some killer ballet for grandma while dancing with the nutcracker.  then she acted out the nutcracker using the potato heads as clara and the nutcracker as the nutcracker.  it was cute cute cute.

i bought some bob's red mill flour because i haven't been able to find bob's red mill wheat here in utah (in bulk anyways).  flour really makes a difference in bread quality!  that was some good bread i made today!  I also accidentally bought steel cut oats.  I like them, not sure about everyone else though.  they sure take longer to cook!