12/28/2008

Snow and ice

My mom has the kids for the afternoon, and you know what that means - play time. Here are some pics that I’ve been playing with from a recent ice storm…




12/26/2008

Post Christmas post.

We kicked off our holiday week with a visit from some of our extended family. Some of my mom’s family came up for a few days last weekend. It was so good to see them again. It’d been a while since I’d seen my cousins. We had a little gift exchange, where I received a nice hat and scarf, which were promptly snatched up by my daughters.
Next up was a visit to Columbus. Our first stop was with the Alexander family, where my kids fell right into step with their kids all over again. Just like peas and carrots. And Cathy and I? Well, peas and carrots. So good to visit with them and see their house all decorated for Christmas. Good times. Our second visit was with some of my friends from college, the Smiths. They got married about 3 weeks after we did, Jonna and I tried on wedding dresses together. It was great to finally meet their cutie, Natalie (who shares my birthday!)
Christmas day? Well that was a flutter of twinkling lights, wrapping paper and hot chocolate. The kids got some great toys. The favorites were marble works (which was one of my favorites as a kid), some “talkie-hawkies” (walkie talkies), and some “comfy dolls” handmade by my mom. And Jory and I? Well we got lots of toys ourselves. Scrapbook stuff, a portable GPS and new lenses for my camera. Not a bad haul in the end.
Now the only problem is which toy to play with first…

12/16/2008

Kid funny and other misc.

The other day I was cooking supper and there was a bottle of soy sauce on the counter. Louisa wanders over and says “Mom, you’re not using that soil sauce on the chicken are you?”
In other news, we are all about the paper airplanes this week. Alex received a book about how to make paper airplanes as an early Christmas gift. So he’s been perfecting his craft all week. He’s had a ball learning all the different styles, and creating his own unique creations. Some work better than others of course, but that’s part of the learning right? So glad that I can provide a learning environment that embraces paper airplanes, and sees them as a learning opportunity and not a distraction. I’m sure some teacher, somewhere is breathing a sigh of relief that she doesn’t have his fleet of paper airplanes taking over her classroom.
Alex’s 1st Christmas play performance was this week. Of course I was in the front row for his acting debut, camera glued to my eyeball. He delivered his little line perfectly, right into the mike. Proud mama.

12/11/2008

Thanksgiving pics and general updates.






Well, since my children are still mostly asleep (at 9:30 - gotta love that), I thought I'd take a minute and post a few Thanksgiving pics.
I took so many that I love, so it was hard to pick. In the end, I went for shots of the cousins since my children are fairly well represented on this here blog. So we have Levi, wearing Alex's hand me down coat, and sweet baby Lance. As well as a group shot for Grandma P.

12/05/2008

Currently…

Well I meant to do a big post about our trip at thanksgiving complete with pictures and the whole works, but frankly I’m thinking that’s not happening. So you get the 10-second version. We took the train out to Kansas City to visit with Jory’s family. We went there because it was sort of a central location for everyone, and most of us hadn’t been there yet, so it would be fun to explore. And it was. KC was a very fun little town indeed. We went exploring at the Crown Center, and shopping in the shopping district. We saw a fun cultural presentation about Russia at the Toy and Miniature Museum. The museum itself was also very fun. We had lots of fun playing with Grandma Peterson in the pool, playing board games, and getting in some cousin time. I got to meet my new little nephew, who is a cutie pie. It was very fun indeed.
Um… life here is a little crazy. I don’t have any of my cmas décor out yet. The children took pity on me earlier in the week and put out some “decorations” which mostly consisted of legos and action figures. If you look at it with your eyes half shut it could be a nativity I suppose. Whatever. No shopping has been done, no gifts, no wrappings, but I’ve got the hot chocolate thing covered, and the fire in the fireplace – oh yeah.

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