Sunday, December 30, 2007

Our family by Abby

We went over the office after church to feed my Christmas present: two
turtles.

Abby and Alex always have an art fest at the office. Here is one of
Abby's pictures.

Notice how there are 3 skirts for the three girls. Also, that the
girls have half cirlces for for hair and the boys have straight lines
for hair. Addorable!

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Hiding

Abby is pretending that her new room is under the bathroom sink. I
remember being able to fit places like that. What fun it is to be a kid.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Goodbye Rusty

Melinda sold the dog today, within a few hours of putting the ad on
ksl.com.

We discovered his secret hiding spot under Alex's bed.

Abby called me at work when Melinda told her we were getting rid of
the dog. She was really sad and sweet and she almost won me over.

I think our next pet will be a turtle.

Baby Tech

Baylee loves the computer and the iPhone. She's a tech baby.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Water main workout

Friday/Saturday Dec 14-15

I went down to the store room, wearing my socks, and found the carpet
drenched.

Poppy came over later and we dug down next to the hoise to find a leak
in the water main.

Saturday we were joined by Rob and his tractor and dug a foot wide
trench through our front yard.

Melinda and the kids went to Abbys Christmas dance concert. I was
excited to have Alex get home so he could help out.

We had help by Todd and Darin too. We finally finished things up
sometime after dark. It was a long day. I'm grateful for all the help
we got from family.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Frosty the Snowman

The snow had already turned to powder, but we were able to build a snowman anyway, even though he was short and lopsided and composed mostly of ice chuncks.

Abby called me while I was at work and asked if we could build a snowman when I got home. I came home a little early so we would still have light.

Even if he's not your typical snowman the kids still had fun and the food coloring and spray bottle technique makes him unique.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Ginger Bread House

For our family night activity we made a Ginger bread house.

Merry Christmas Kids!

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Cousins

Abby was talking to Kyah on the phone. She asked, "When will you come back from Costa Rica so we can still be friends?"

Friday, December 7, 2007

Alex discovers his eyebrows

Daddy, can you take them off?

I first noticed his challenge when he reached over and grabbed my eye
brow. Then he picked at his own eyebrow trying to pull it off.

I tried to explain that I had eyebrows, and Roxy had eyebrows and they
wern't meant to come off.

I must not have been very convincing because he went and found some
scissors, which we quickly took away.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Monday, December 3, 2007

Decorating for Christmas

Baylee is getting ready for Christmas. She decided to hide out under the table and eat her candy cane.

Abby is singing "jolly, jolly, jolly" for deck the halls. (She picks up songs pretty well.)

Alex is excited to hang up his ornaments.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Let it snow!

The kids got all bundled up to brave the snow and head down to Nana
and Poppy's.

Baylee's "first" snowfall.