Rough Day

Today was a rough day.  Really a Very Bad Day.  The girls, especially Pilly, were just wild.  It could be a long winter!  After some time in their room playing and me praying downstairs, things did go better, and after nap was fine.  We actually pulled out my old spirograph, and the girls loved that!  I got to go to Bible study at church tonight, which is always very encouraging.  I'm thankful that tomorrow is a new start with a new start and reminded that I need to spend time with the Lord and remain dependent on Him.  I, of myself, am not patient and loving! 

So now I am going to clean things up for my sanity and fold some laundry.  The next two days are busy so I'd better get things straightened up now!

Christmas Decorating Commences

Today, as Thanksgiving is officially over, we began our Christmas decorating.  We started with some things I saw on Pinterest!  I thought this idea for the windows was really neat, although it looked neater on there because they had different shaped ornaments and such.

We also tried these 3D snowflakes.  On one site, they have templates, which I couldn't get to print (not the site I linked).  That was after we had tried making them out of construction paper, which did not work.  They were very tiny as I only wanted to use one piece of paper per snowflake, and the tape also didn't stick as well to construction paper.  So we ended up making each point out of a 4 x 4 piece of computer paper.  Much, much better!

They really are neat, and LB loves them.  He just stands under them and giggles.  I'm glad he is delighted!  We won't be making many more of these (if any).  They are very time consuming!  However, it is an excellent fine motor skill practice!

We are probably putting up our tree Sunday.  I do love having it up, but I am not looking forward to the many "no's" that will be coming out of my mouth because of a certain little boy!  Have you started decorating yet?

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a fun Thanksgiving, and I've got the pictures to prove it!  I'll only show a few of the 39 I downloaded though:)  My mom got a 5 piece gingerbread town set this year, which was really fun.  The kids each had one of their own to decorate with one for the big boys to do together.  Here is what they came up with:

Nice. 

I forgot to get the camera out except for during this part so no pictures of cookie making.  In case you didn't know, we don't eat turkey (cause it is gross) and we make cookies on Thanksgiving day.  We did enjoy some grilled chicken this year:)

Someone concentrated very hard during the decorating of his house!

I told the kids the red icing was snowman blood, and Pilly wouldn't eat it for the longest time until her daddy assured her that it did not come from snowmen.  Apparently, Pnut had no qualms about hurting snowmen!

Have you eaten much sugar during this process?

This little girl wants to help with everything!  And she will do whatever you want as long as she is helping.  Nice!

This kid mainly caused trouble.  Just look at him.  Have you ever seen a cute troublemaker?:)

The baby mostly did this, alternating between the bed and people's arms.

Hope you had a wonderful holiday!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are going to be really busy the rest of the week so I will not be posting any more until next Monday.  I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!

Furnace Fixed!

We got our furnace fixed today!!!  The UPS man brought the part and Joel and Ben fixed it.  Very exciting!  It is so nice to have heat again:)  We had a crazy weekend that was not at all what we expected.  Pilly got sick Saturday into Sunday and we had to cancel all our plans for yesterday and today.  It is okay, it was kind of nice to just stay home.  I am praying that no one else gets it.  So far so good. 

Some people were a little crazy over the weekend (and continued to be today):

She made arm bands and a head thing as well as a shield and sword.  She also colored tape green and put strips under her eyes.  It was intense.

Another person is beginning to demonstrate how much he loves to climb.  This is where I found him today:

The problem is that he can't get out of it so he stands there and yells until you pick him up.  He is cute though.

"Now take another picture while I kiss him."

A Little Cold

Soooo, it is now 37 degrees outside, and we are awaiting the delivery of the part for our furnace.  It is a little chilly.  Thankfully, we have been very busy this week and hardly at home.  Tomorrow we will be at my parents' during the day so we will only have to be here in the evening.  Maybe we can bake something to warm it up.  And drink hot chocolate.

I was trying to take a picture of my adorable baby who isn't really much of a baby anymore and this was the clearest I got:

I have several blurry shots since he moves so fast and gets so excited when I turn the camera on.  He is a funny little guy:) 

I'm too cold to spend any more time here at the computer.  I have a blanket to sit under!  Have a great weekend!

Baby Love

Today we went to Randa's, and I got to love me up some baby!  Baby Ethen is very sweet and tiny and cuddly.  Babies are so nice when it is cold out (really nice anytime) because they are so snuggly and warm that you feel that something is missing when you have to put them down.  So we enjoyed our visit quite a bit!  The girls had a ball.  I felt at first as if they had just disappeared as I didn't see them for quite a while after we walked in.  It was like they were sucked into the walls or something.  LB is still fascinated with the baby and would like to run right over him and lay on him and poke him in the eyes.  And of course he was only interested in me when I was holding the baby.  Turkey.  I did manage to leave the camera at home so I have no pictures to show the little darling off.  Take my word for it, he is sweet:)