Fun Times

Mom and  I took a quick trip to see Meg and Kimala Friday.  We had given mom a gift card to a quilt store last MOTHERS DAY!  I decided to just take the time and get her down to use it.  We left as soon as the kids left for school, picked up Meg, Addi, Kimala and Dawsyn and headed to the quilting store.  She chose some cute fabrics for a quilt.  I can't wait to see what the quilt turns out like.  I planned on taking the camera, but as usual I was rushing!    

We then headed out for St. George.  We enjoyed a soup and salad lunch at Olive Garden....yummy!  I certainly stopped counting the bread sticks I ate!  Meg and I gave mom and Kimala a break from the wild 2 year olds for a minute and went to some other stores, while they visited another fabric store.  We met up again at Costco, I know exciting  (shopping with a purpose, Marcus has me on a strict budget!!)  After the little girls ate their second lunch at the sample tables we made it out.  The girls earned their "flushy" (as Addi calls them)....Mia drank all but 1/4 of her slushy before we left St. George.  We did make a quick stop to buy a new Barbie movie for the drive home, but still that is a lot of liquid for a small tummy to consume. Whitney is getting just a little tired of "I feel connected," on the Diamond Castle dvd, although it is still our favorite!  

As we hit New Harmony area my van started doing some interesting things.  I am not a mechanic, but Meg thinks she is and thought it was the transmission.  When we got about to Kimala's I was wondering if we would even make it.  We called and asked Cole to check it out.  What an awesome Brother-in-law I have, he has helped us out so many times with our car issues.  Ya we probably need to just get rid of the thing!  He gave us the go ahead to drive the rest of the way home.  How glad I am that he is knowledgeable about vehicles.  I do have to thank Dan for his advice also, he mentioned that we should check the blinker fluid!  (ya he was just joking).

Okay, so I will finalize this post, with one last funny thing.  So while we were waiting for Cole to make his diagnosis, we feed the girls dinner.  Kimala was feeding Dawsyn her baby food, and Mia asked, "does that make Dawsyn poop?"  We all laughed and told her that it probably does! It wasn't until I was telling Marcus later that night that we figured out why she asked that.  Holly and Savanah have the "Baby Alive babies," and they feed them baby food and then set her on the toliet to go poop!  That is what she was expecting from Dawsyn!  Too funny... isn't it amazing how 2 year olds think!

We enjoyed being with some of the girls.  When is the next sisters day.  If Jacie isn't doing a house painting project I call it!!  Oh but I need the interior decorator to step up!!

Rainbow snow

This month at preschool we have talked about snow and fun things to do with snow.  I thought it would be fun to let the kids color snow!  We went over all of the rules: no spraying each other, no drinking out of the spray bottles (although it was only food coloring and water)!  They all had a great time, the bottles emptied out much to quick for the kids.  We only had a few incidence with spraying others (mostly on Mia's coat, I think it will wash out!) Mia had such a great time, she had a major fit for the last 15 minutes of class, because she was not finished!  She cried, screamed, threw her boots and hid. 

After the kids left we had a calming session, a little nap and lunch.  Then we could talk rationally!  We got our winter attire on and went and painted again!  The wind was bitter, but she loved every minute.   Here is her masterpiece!  

I am not sure what she was doing here, but cute attitude!

She had no concept of where she was spraying, I had to jump out of her way numerous times. She had her artistic groove on, no time for distractions!

A Proud MOMENT!

We have such a thoughtful boy!  This night (yes it was a while back) we were doing our regular thing, and McKay asked where the snow shovel was. He was soon outside shoveling off the deck!  I was so impressed that he would go out in the dark and clear off the snow.  Marcus and I both had that...maybe we are doing something right moment.  And then.....we saw the snowboard come out.  He had shoveled all of the snow onto the stairs to make a ramp!!  He had a great time going down the few stairs. 

He really is a good boy who is very thoughtful of others.  When he had his fill of snowboarding, he shoveled the snow off of the stairs also!  He sure fills our home with excitement!

Santa is still visiting!!

I thought I would share one of the highlights of our Sunday.  We made it through the whole meeting without too much  trouble, no more than normal anyway.  The man got up to say the closing prayer, and Mia decides to pay attention (of all the times to choose to listen!)  Anyway, he has a nice white beard and the nice white longer curly hair to go with it!  Oh yes she did.....Right in the middle of the prayer she said HI SANTA!  Not quietly either!  She did not stop there either, no she went on to tell McKay, "You better not pout, McKay! That is Santa!"  Little comments all through the prayer.  Then at the end, another Hi Santa!  The whole family setting 2 rows in front of us turned and were laughing.  We bumped into this man a couple weeks earlier, and she said it was Santa,  he just smiled and said shhhh.....don't tell anybody!   How fun to be a child and speak your mind!  You gotta love kids!!

Happy New Year!

Sorry no pictures of last night!  I failed to take the camera.  We had a great time at Wes'.  We began at 6:00 and  made it until the midnight hour.  (although we are paying for it today with the kids!)  We enjoyed the night by:  having a bowling match (even Grandpa T.  joined in), mexican train, and some card games.  Morg, and Whit kept us going until Mia just zonked out.  The little kids made their own hats, and they got noise makers MUCH later, and still too early! They were so good at playing twister!   We hope the NEW YEAR brings many more great memories like this!

Congratulations To Heather and Dan!  We sure wished we could have been there to enjoy their Wedding day with them!