26 December 2009

Christmas Fun! :o)

Christmas Eve we headed to my Parents...Had an AWESOME dinner and then a little bit of presents! :o)
PD and her new jammies
PG with his new flashlight...RAOR!!!
I got an external flash for my camera....it looks like broad daylight in the living room with low lights at night! Heehee! I am excited to play and figure it out!
The boys watched some videos of the the new Boeing 787...PG sat on Uncle Dave's lap and was mesmerized for a LONG time...didn't say much just sat! It was awesome!
Look what Santa brought! :o)
Christmas morning...PG was really excited!!!
PD liked ripping the paper.
She got a farm..."dooog...moo...baa" (all creatures with 4 legs are "dogs" now but they make different sounds!)
Some of the loot!
PG was SO excited about his present from Santa...He brought him an airport and airplane with people and luggage and a tug and tons of other small peices...but he LOVES it!
He played with it for HOURS!!!
He did take a small break to build Legos with Daddy....But after about 1/2 hour he was back to the airport! Did I mention that he LOVES it!!!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
And Happy New Year!!!

17 December 2009

Our attempt at family pictures...

We were all dressed for church and looked really nice so I thought, Hey we should do a family pic...here a few of the "best" ones...
I love this cuz the kids are cute...looking at EACH OTHER!
At least KJ and I are smiling! :o0
PG thought the remote for the camera was fabulous...here is a shot he took himself!
So much for a cute sibling shot!
Merry Christmas!!! :o)


Adventures in babysitting...

This past week we have done a little bit of babysitting. Here are some of the fun things we did...PD likes to put on shoes...Here she is sporting Ransom's tennis shoes...she put them on ALL by HERSELF - and they are even on the RIGHT feet!!
Ashton was disappointed that we got more snow than he did at his house...so when they came over, I bundled them up and sent them out the door. Ashton and Ransom, could not have been happier! Notice that Ashton is kneeling but Ransom is NOT. The snow was so deep that it came up to thigh! They were in HEAVEN! (I don't call that much snow and cold heaven...but the hot chocolate after came close!)
Here is the "Daddy Horsie" !
They had SO much fun! It is cute to watch them play together. They all love it so much!
Lastly, we watched the neighbors girls and after we played for a while, we made a tent with a sheet and the couches and put on a movie and made popcorn. The LOVED it. I have to admit that the tent was pretty cool, we even laid in it for a while after the girls went home. :o)

my engineering feat for the day....

So Jon's Mom moved away and decided she needed a few things that she left behind. So we went and got the stuff and tried to figure out the best/cheapest way to get her lap harp to her....after talking to UPS and them telling me that it would be $60 for them to MAKE me a box that it would fit in....I decided I could make my own....so for $3 I got some boxes from Home Depot and this is what we did....

The biggest problem that I had was NOT making the box, but making the box WITH HELP!
Despite all the "HELP" ... this was my engineering MASTERPIECE!!! it was big and HEAVY but the harp and MOST of the other stuff she wanted, fit inside and WAA-LA!
A box! for just $3!

09 December 2009

Gingerbread houses 2009....


This is our gingerbread house making extravaganza!!!! On the spur of the moment we invited the neighbors to come and make some houses too. (and eat candy of course!)
Daddy helped PG and kept PD well stocked with treats to keep her happy.

Maddie and her Mom worked one a house and Katie and her Dad worked on the other house. I worked hard on my own. :o)
Here are the finished products....
PG and his house of yummy-ness!
Here is the big house! :o)
Our Neighbors and their houses! For Cody this was his first house ever, so I am glad that we could help him have a great time....at least I hope he had fun...:o)
This is PD that went back into the kitchen when no one was looking and started eating off of Katie and Cody's house! it was kinda funny...sorry Cody about the hot tub!
The next morning I woke up to SNOW....
and a LOT of it....I shoveled aobut 8" and when KJ came home from work he shoveled another 4-6"...it was GROSS! But the kids were excited. and we should have a great big pile of snow for a snow cave when the exchange students come in a month. The pros and cons of a North facing house...the snow doesn't melt until may! :o)


and another tradition....
our family under the Christmas tree 2009!

Merry Christmas!!!