Brrrrr Cold

It's 2:30 in the afternoon and 18 degrees outside. Cold enough to make your hair stand on end.




Here's some pictures from our Christmas vacation and the rest of December.

Christmas Vacation 2008

Dec 2008

Grocery shopping in style

Yesterday while I was sitting at the computer Sienna was behind me playing with my hair (I love that feeling). She stuck about 5 barrettes on top at random angles. I should have taken a picture. Then after the kids went to bed I went grocery shopping. I totally forgot about the barrettes in my hair. Tells you how much I care about my appearance these days. Luckily the store was fairly empty.

As a side note, if I put a link to this Food Storage Blog in my blog, I get entered into a giveaway drawing. So there you go.

Colby Concert

Colby is quite the little soloist. Here are some of our favorites over the last little while.

"Hey Diddle Diddle"



"I Can Count by 10s"


Our favorite: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"


And yes, he likes to play with his ear.

November Pictures

Nov2008

October Pictures

Oct 2008

Hooray for Us!

Bryan and I recently completed some long term projects that we are quite proud of. Bryan did an oil painting of Sienna, Italy. He started it in October of last year.

Pretty amazing, eh?

And I've been working on decorating Sienna and Colby's room. When Colby moved in with Sienna I wanted to do something gender neutral. I started in February. Nine months, one baby, 3 quilts, 4 pillow-cases, and a window valence later, I'm finally finished. Here's some before and after pictures.

Before:

After:
(Of course fireman and fairy are the best decorations)
Colby actually prefers his "Rhino blanket" that Grandma Shepherd made (see before pictures). I do also. In fact making the toddler size quilt wasn't really necessary, since all of Grandma's toddler quilts are much cuter.

Now, any suggestions on what do do with the shelf above the closet? I'm not partial to Bryan's idea of the kids' foam letters. But I don't want to spend a bunch of time or money.

Halloween

We had a happy Halloween week:

Carving pumpkins for Family Home Evening. Sienna drew the sketch, then we gave her a marker and she drew it on the pumpkin, then we gave her a knife and she cut it out.

Okay, so we didn't really give her the knife. But the rest is true.
On Tuesday we had our church Halloween Party. Sienna was a black cat, and Colby was Clifford, the Big Red Dog. Ashley was a Jack-o-Lantern.
On Friday the kids went trick-or-treating in the neighborhood and got way too much candy, then we headed over to a party with some friends. Ashley was a lamb this time. And here she is with her friend Elliot, the Snitch (from Harry Potter).