Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Aerobic Exercise over the Holidays
126. Being Home for Christmas. We were all there. All of us. And we laughed and laughed. We stayed up late talking. We stayed up late doing Christmas. We stayed up late and had sibling pow-wows, and the next day we stayed up late and cleaned out the basement, and the next day we stayed up late and got ready to leave and watched a movie. And every night we laughed. I love laughing with my family. We tried to get in as much as possible. More about the trip and Christmas pictures later.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Great Events - Crummy pictures
Some of these pictures are terrible. On purpose. Because I'm trying to give a flavor of what happened, and preserve other people's privacy on the web. Sorry. But that's how the tortilla rolls. I'll email or link you up with better pictures if you want them.
121. Happiness is... Today in junior primary the bishopric message was about what makes us happy, and what can bring us long term happiness. The children were asked, "What makes you happy?" The S-Train mentioned his spy club. And one little girl said, "like when Santa brings me a pony." Oh, yes, Virginia, oh yes. Just like that.
122. Thanksgiving with the group. We had a great time with the extended family for Thanksgiving.
We got a great new family picture. Determination will get you everywhere.
You aren't convinced this is the final picture? You're right. The final picture does show everyone, I promise. This was just for fun.
Risk, Scrabble, and puzzles competed for attention with the biggest, baddest lego sets you've ever seen. Courtesy of Uncle J. Who loved spoiling his nieces and nephews (Other lego sets will forever seem tame.)
and who put on the best wienie roast you've ever seen.
The men took the group target shooting. Uncle J saved a lot of two liter bottles for target practice. 
The girls painted their toenails. A quilt was tied for grandma.
And we engaged in a little black Friday excursion. We had a talent show. And the Christmas gift exchange finished early, because everyone wanted to see their presents opened. It was very sweet seeing the cousins getting to know each other again. And a good time was had by all.
123. Coming home to beautiful new windows. They look like they've always been there. They are beautiful!
124. The Spy Club lives. Meanwhile this last week, we've had some other exciting moments. Probably most notably the spy club birthday party. We got crazy with yarn laser beams in the basement, and made spy gear (decoders) and got our spy badges (thanks to a busy child on the computer.) Great fun!
125. Pictures framed. With a little paint, an old curtain panel that was taking up space, and some pictures photo shopped and then printed on card stock - Voila! My next cool project done.
Love it! It was so successful that I think I'll write a decorator blog. I'll have one entry.
121. Happiness is... Today in junior primary the bishopric message was about what makes us happy, and what can bring us long term happiness. The children were asked, "What makes you happy?" The S-Train mentioned his spy club. And one little girl said, "like when Santa brings me a pony." Oh, yes, Virginia, oh yes. Just like that.
122. Thanksgiving with the group. We had a great time with the extended family for Thanksgiving.
We got a great new family picture. Determination will get you everywhere.
You aren't convinced this is the final picture? You're right. The final picture does show everyone, I promise. This was just for fun.
Risk, Scrabble, and puzzles competed for attention with the biggest, baddest lego sets you've ever seen. Courtesy of Uncle J. Who loved spoiling his nieces and nephews (Other lego sets will forever seem tame.)
and who put on the best wienie roast you've ever seen.
The men took the group target shooting. Uncle J saved a lot of two liter bottles for target practice. 
The girls painted their toenails. A quilt was tied for grandma.
And we engaged in a little black Friday excursion. We had a talent show. And the Christmas gift exchange finished early, because everyone wanted to see their presents opened. It was very sweet seeing the cousins getting to know each other again. And a good time was had by all.123. Coming home to beautiful new windows. They look like they've always been there. They are beautiful!
124. The Spy Club lives. Meanwhile this last week, we've had some other exciting moments. Probably most notably the spy club birthday party. We got crazy with yarn laser beams in the basement, and made spy gear (decoders) and got our spy badges (thanks to a busy child on the computer.) Great fun!
125. Pictures framed. With a little paint, an old curtain panel that was taking up space, and some pictures photo shopped and then printed on card stock - Voila! My next cool project done.
Love it! It was so successful that I think I'll write a decorator blog. I'll have one entry.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
117. A new stove. Here she is! Bright and shiny! Who knew there were so many shades of white! (I think you notice it more in the picture.) Explained the new stove do's and don't's as part of FHE. ie. - Watch the lights to see if it's hot. Be careful getting things out of the microwave. And never, ever climb on it. :-) Not that they would, of course.
118. 4,500 Words today. Whew. I'm tired. And while I was doing that, the power company trimmed the tree so we'll still have power if there's ice. And we finished arrangements for the windows to get done. Most of the fall decorations got put up. And I got new planner pages and did a little Christmas shopping. Tomorrow I'm picking the kids up early for the Wyeth exhibit. It closes right after Thanksgiving, and with all the festivities, tomorrow is it! But I forgot to get the chat n chew flier out. Snap! I'll finish it up in the morning while I watch Nie on the Today show.
118. 4,500 Words today. Whew. I'm tired. And while I was doing that, the power company trimmed the tree so we'll still have power if there's ice. And we finished arrangements for the windows to get done. Most of the fall decorations got put up. And I got new planner pages and did a little Christmas shopping. Tomorrow I'm picking the kids up early for the Wyeth exhibit. It closes right after Thanksgiving, and with all the festivities, tomorrow is it! But I forgot to get the chat n chew flier out. Snap! I'll finish it up in the morning while I watch Nie on the Today show.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
A Quick Movie Review
116. The Blind Side. The new Sandra Bullock movie. I went to see it last night. Very good movie. I highly recommend it. I even want to see it again.
Friday, November 20, 2009
A Handful of Fun Stuff
111. 3,000 Words yesterday! I'm catching up!
112. Introducing people to Write or Die! It works!
113. Random Dinner. Took all the kids' free coupons for prizes and got dinner!
114. The Primary Program last week. The kids did a great job!
115. Quotes. The unnamed oldest is trying to keep track of where all our quotes come from. Mostly Pixar and PBS kids, apparently. Although the latest stumper was, "And we're walking, we're walking." Can you name where that quote is from?
112. Introducing people to Write or Die! It works!
113. Random Dinner. Took all the kids' free coupons for prizes and got dinner!
114. The Primary Program last week. The kids did a great job!
115. Quotes. The unnamed oldest is trying to keep track of where all our quotes come from. Mostly Pixar and PBS kids, apparently. Although the latest stumper was, "And we're walking, we're walking." Can you name where that quote is from?
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