The Hazard Chronicles

Cinderella has become an official member of our household.

Those of you who we spent time with over the holidays are probably not too surprised by this development. For the rest of you, let me just explain that our beautiful, otherwise well-adjusted daughter has a complete obsession with this Disney heroine who, in my opinion, isn't all the way there. (She talks to mice and birds, lets her family boss her around like a servant, and spends most of her time "dreaming and believing" instead of actually "doing"). Anyway, here are some illustrative moments of our own little Cinderella:

The other day she was playing "dragons" with some of her friends. When they told her they were going to get her she ran away with her arms in the air screaming "don't rip my beautiful ball-gown!"

Rachel walked in on Evelyn as she was putting tape all over her Cinderella book. When asked what she was doing, Evelyn responded that the stepsisters had torn Cinderella's dress and that she was fixing it. Sure enough, there was tape right over each one of the rips in the dress.

Every pair of Evelyn's shoes has sudenly transformed into her "glass slippers." Yesterday I got her out of the car and noticed that she had taken one of them off. I tried to put it back on, but she became very upset and told me that it has to stay off so that "the prince could find it and put it on Cinderella's foot and get married and live happy ever after. Okay?"

Rachel saw Evelyn walking around the house in one shoe. When questioned where her other shoe was, she responded very matter-of-factly that "she lost it on the staircase." (We don't have a staircase).

One of Evelyn's friends did something to hurt Evelyn's feelings. In a very dramatic moment she put both hands on her cheeks, burst into tears, and then ran out of the room exclaiming "I am going to the garded to wept!"

We sure love our princess girl.

Rachel and I also had a pretty crazy date this week. The plan was simple enough:

1. Drop kids off at babysitters
2. Go somewhere to eat
3. Go to a play
4. Get kids
5. Go home

Here's how it actually happened:

1. Drop kids off at babysitters
2. Drive car into the middle of babysitter's lawn while backing out of driveway (nice move, Rach)
3. Spend time getting car un-stuck from snow in babysitter's lawn
4. Find a place to eat (Mongolian Grill)
5. Enjoy our meal with occasional glares from our waiter. Stare in complete shock as our waiter came and took his tip off the table while we were still sitting there (without even filling up our water)
6. Begin driving to the theatre
7. Run out of gas in the middle of the street. The roads are too icy for me to push car out of the way
8. I run nearly a mile through the snow in my suit to a gas station and borrow a gas can
9. I see a cop pulling out of the gas station and ask him for a ride back to the car. On the way there he calls his partner to update him on his status- on the radio I hear the response "Well, I think I am with the wife right now." (This is the only time I have ever had to ride in a lighted-up police car)
10. Find Rachel, still stranded in the middle of the road, with a cop behind her directing traffic into the other lane.
11. Get gas and drive to the Theatre where I drop Rachel off to get our seats
12. Receive a phone-call from Rachel that we went to the wrong theatre.
13. Rachel runs the two-and-a-half blocks through the snow (In a dress and high-heels) to the right theater while I continue to look for parking.Go to a play (Altar Boys- entertaining, but we've seen better)
14. Get kids
15. Go home

Really, I would have it no other way. It was a great night!

Here we go with the pictures. These are actually pictures from the week before leaving on our Christmas break. We forgot our camera and were not able to put these on the blog for that week. I have also included our Hazard family cousin pictures.


Evelyn's first haircut right before we left for Utah. I was afraid to cut it because I didn't want to cut the curls, but the curls sprang back to life after the cut.

We made chocolate dipped goodies for family night.

My little policeman and crossing guard. What ambitious little kids!

Playing in the snow with Evelyn. She absolutely insisted on the skirt. She is definately all girl!

Hazard cousin family pictures:

Our miracle picture. You would have to have been there in the chaos to understand.

I LOVE this picture. Evelyn is such a cute dancer! This is one of the skirts that I made for the girls. We used the skirts for the cousin pictures.

The handsome tough guys

The sweet little girls

When Adalie's turn came she really was not in the mood. Oh well. These pictures are cute anyway. Notice the perfectly placed tear.