Check out those buns...

Good to the last drop

Santa's Arrival at The Fry's 2011

Santa came, again, this year...I believe he was persuaded to visit because of the great snowflake and picture/letter provided by the ladies.  I like how Santa always writes back.  He's such a good dude.

Jorey's working on her snowflake

Macy made the Christmas fish?

All done!

There's a Christmas letter, cookies (with lots of doo dads) and milk for Santa

Happy fellas

Christmas with Orange Papa & Gramma

my snuggle buns!

Poor Gramma...Macy was plugging her nose to eat the awesome gourmet potatoes!

Per my mom's request that we not have Christmas with our family right after big Kath Christmas, we go down the night before.  This is due to one year that we all drank too many Norbs (Tom & Jerry's) and were drunk and crying...Her vote was legit and we all agreed it would be best.  We host Christmas Day for the Fry's, too.  This way, we get home and get settled before having our small family Christmas on Christmas Morning and then have the whole clan over later in the day.  It's a lot of days of eating for Christmas (blugh...)  But, it's fun to get together with everyone and have no place else to be!

And...more sparkle.

The Fam

Leaps & Bounds Christmas Program

Well, Macy's out, but Jorey and Grady still reside at Leaps & Bounds.  Due to inclement weather, this jem was cancelled last year, but here are some shots of our little singer and our little reindeer rockin' it out.

Santa even came to say to wish us all a Merry Christmas!

Scrub A Dub Dub

Grady loves a bath and likes playing with his sharks!

We are all fascinated by sharks in this family.
He also digs his young buck PJs, courtesy of orange gramma.

Happy Halloween

 Ken did a fabtabulous job of carving the ole pumpkins this year.  We decided to not spend our last dollar on the 40# pumpkins at Kev's Corner this year and opted, instead, for a couple small ones and one large one.  This resulted in less fatigue after carving, as well.

Macy and Jorey insisted on being scary this year.  Goodness...Macy picked the ghost...Boo! Jorey, the Pirate...Argh....

Macy and Jorey before Monster Mash at School

Pumpkins looking for Pumpkins

At Kev's Corner lookin' for the perfect ones!

I'm chunky and not fond of this costume!

Afton Apple

Ken was out of state for the Police softball tournament in Vegas, so the Freske Family, Yellow Granny, and our crew decided to go to Afton Apple.  We had a good time...couldn't get some of the other parents on board with "waiting your turn" on the cow train, but we did have a splendid time.

Baby Buzz-Cut

Something that some of you may not know about me...I love gramma crafts.  I mean, I love everything that seems like I should be 60 to be embracing it.  Sewing, knitting, and scrapbooking.  If I could spend my days being crafty and trying to come up with new ideas to make cute things, I'd be in hog heaven.  But, I can't afford to do that - you know - paying $102398437 for daycare...so, I try to get away and do my crafty stuff every few months, with some of my favorite ladies.  We scrapbook.  I'm making books for all my kids with little notes to them about how much I love them and enjoyed them growing up.  I plan to talk about these days a lot when they're teenagers and think I'm worthless.  It's bound to happen, so I'm preparing.  And, some day I'll be gone and I like the idea of having something I made for them, with my feelings toward them so they'll always have a little piece of me.  Yes, I'm a sap and these books will likely make it into a box in the attic, but maybe get read and looked at every few years.  Anyways, I'm doing it.  I went this particular weekend and received a call from my husband.  He needed to know how to download videos "because I had to see the videos he just took" - 40 minutes later, we had them downloaded.  I pulled them up and saw these videos:
one
two, &
three.
There were mixed emotions at Nerdfest (the name Ken has given our little adventures)
I'm not sure how I felt about it.  Half in disbelief.  A small part of annoyance that he would do that because I'm working on scheduling his 6 month pics and our family pics.  And, a bit happy.  For 6 years, I've been doing all this stuff - taking care of all the "care items" for our kids...and it was kindof cool that he finally got involved.  I'm not sure that this was the way to do it, but I like that he thought he needed a haircut, so he did it.  He also took the ladies to get their hair cut last week.  He made an appointment, took them there, and surprised me.  (we had actually discussed this, but I put the ban on it, due to Amy & Nick's wedding.)  They were going to have flowers in their hair and we were keeping it long!  But, that very next Monday, it was cut.  Usually, we have conversations that are like this.  "We should get the girls' hair cut."
 "Ya?"
"ya."
"Does that mean I should?"
"ya."
But this time, he did it.  It was awesome and awful all at the same time. :)
Here are the ladies before.

And, After...

OK - I'm totally kidding.  These after pics are of them in a wig that Macy found in the basement with the Halloween stuff.  They have cute little bob haircuts and I don't even have a pic of them, but we'll get some on here.  Jorey wasn't such a fan of having this on.
Check out Grady, courtesy of Auntie Kara.

Grady before Buzzing - He wants to be a cowboy!  This outfit courtesy of Kork & Mitz - so awesome.  Uncle Kyle had named him "Spike", due to his hair sticking straight up.


fuzzy-wuzzy was a bear...

 Here's Grady after his buzz-cut.  I think this expression shows how we all feel about it!  Dad now calls him "Butch".  Nope. 




Grady gets food...it took a sec to be tasty