Audrey's First Trip to the Dentist

She doesn't look scared one bit does she? This was after they tried doing x-rays on a 3 year old, why would they do that. This was her first trip to the dentist, she has no idea what going to the dentist involves. I thought that was weird. But , after that whole scare (no, they didn't get any x-rays) Audrey was awesome and let them clean all of her teeth. She was sooooo excited afterwards when she got to pick out a brand new princess toothbrush and sparkly toothpaste. Lets hope for happier teeth brushing from now on!

Audrey kept pretending tonight she was the dentist and putting a washcloth over her face for the mask and putting gloves on, too funny.

A lot alike

Angelina Jolie Always Wanted to be a- Funeral Director

Angelina Jolie's success in Hollywood means she doesn't need a backup plan. But she had one once: to become funeral director.

"It sounds like this very strange, eccentric, dark thing to do but in fact I lost my grandfather and was very upset with his funeral," she said during an interview on 60 Minutes Sunday night. "How somebody passes and how family deals with this passing and what death is should be addressed in a different way. If this whole acting thing didn't work out that was going to be my path." But it did work out, and now the Oscar winner is promoting her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, which is set to be released in the U.S. on Dec. 23. In her interview with CBS's Bob Simon on 60 Minutes, Jolie, 36, spoke about various topics, including her dark past.

I always knew that Angelina and I were pretty similiar, ha, but why do people think being a funeral director is a really strange, eccentric, dark thing to do? I never thought that when going to school.

Getting Into The Christmas Spirit

We spent our weekend getting into the Christmas spirit. Saturday morning we went tree shopping with Grandpa and Grandma Wood, it was lots of fun. We have a fake tree at our house, so it's still nice to enjoy the fun of going on the hunt for the perfect tree. I think Doug's quote of the day was, "Shanna, I am glad your taste in men is better than your taste in trees!" So, I think you can figure out that we didn't go with the tree I picked.

Saturday afternoon we decked out our house for the holidays, it's looking great. Audrey has a blast decorating the Christmas tree and going through all the boxes trying to find her stocking.

Today we got together with my mom and grandma and baked some holiday goodies. It was a success.



It was so much fun watching Audrey go through each individual ornament, she got sooo excited about each one. She tends to group her ornaments all in one area of the tree. She did the same thing last year. Multiple ornaments on one branch:)

Audrey had a big job of opening caramels for making turtles, do I see one in her mouth? Sneaky!

Audrey goes a little heavy on the decor on her cookies.

So proud of her decorating skills.

Thankful

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving today with Brent's family and my family. We had lunch out at the lake and Audrey got some cousin Sebby time. It was so incredibly nice outside and they really had a blast playing on the slide and in the sand. We enjoyed supper with my parents and Audrey was pretty much worn out at the end of the day.

Elliot pretty much chewed on his hands all day, except when he was sleeping:)

"I saw Christmas!"

Audrey and I went to the mall tonight and we were walking past Santa's Workshop and Santa was sitting there waving at Audrey and she pointed him out to me and was just staring. We have never taken her to sit on Santa's lap before so I didn't know what she would think of him. After we walked past, she said to me in a super cute little voice, "I just saw Christmas back there!"

Silly Fun

Sick days! Audrey has been home from daycare the last two days with a bad cough and fever. You would never know it from these pictures, we were having fun while she was doing puzzles tonight. I kept telling her to give me her crazy face, these are what I got. Lets hope tomorrow comes and she is fever free:)

Oh No You Didn't!

I sooooooo listened to Christmas music in my car today, ha! I was flipping through cds and accidentally put in the Christmas one and kept it in:) I love it, I am so excited to decorate the tree this year with Audrey, last year was fun so I can only imagine what this year will be like.

Polka Dancing Dan

I completely forgot to blog Brent's Halloween costume, he borrowed my dad's polka dancing get up (sorry dad, hope you are not offended), but Brent did pull off a 3rd place win at work for the costume contest. I think it had lots to do with the polka music he downloaded on his phone and came hopping into work with.