January 31, 2014

What's New

Not much.  School, homework, appointments, lessons... pretty much life as usual.  But I haven't updated for almost a month so I thought I would.

 I posted this on FB but I love it enough to share here too.  The "Mysterious Creature" who is has all powers and no one can find me".  Complete with witch hat, Nerf glasses (sometimes upside down), flash light, light saber (hanging on his back, sword and turtle pajamas.  Don't mess with him, this is serious business. 




 Cute pictures of Elizabeth with her hair up and some of Anna's make up on.  (Note: I don't let her wear make up.  Both Anna and Elizabeth know this, but chose not to care.)

 We had a "snow" day - which was actually for cold temperatures.  High of 0 degrees F and windchill -30.  That's cold.  So did we stay in with blankets and hot chocolate?  No!  We went to see a movie.  We saw the second Hobbit movie.  The kids were looking forward to this and so excited.  They made me take a picture of them with The One Ring.  (I don't know if you can see the ring.  Click on it to make it bigger and that might help.)
 Cute picture of Katie and Lydia.
 Laughing kids. 




 Katie got into Anna's makeup without asking and put on bright blue eye shadow.  She said, "I look like Celine!"  This was right before she went to Young Women.  I told her to get in the car and we'd fix it at church.  She brought her Backyardigans with her for the ride.  She LOVES her Backyardigans.  I found it so cute and innocent and funny.  Katie trying to act like a big YW, with bright blue eye shadow and Backyardigans.  It made me smile.
 


We bought a car!  A used one that will be a "kid car" for any kid that needs to be out of the house.  Currently Nathan is the only one who has a license, but Michael will soon.  It took forever to decide what car, actually buy it, get insurance, and get it licensed.  But it's all done now!  Caleb came with me to the DMV and we were happy to be done.





January 01, 2014

New Year's Eve

We had a fun New Year's Eve hanging out with the family.  (Well, minus Nathan.)

  Nathan went to the youth dance at church
The rest of us ate ice cream sundaes...




on a sheet while we watched a movie
watched lots of movies

did more puzzles

played iPods
played Wii
(Michael didn't want me to take his picture)
  did more puzzles (we LOVE puzzles)
  went outside to make a lot of noise (Michael refused to be in the picture, but didn't realize he's in it in the background... HA!)
blew horns really loudly
   

and had a lot of fun and laughed lot!
Everyone made it till midnight this year - even Elizabeth and Caleb.  (Although he looks pretty tired here.)
And I'm adding a few more pictures of puzzles over the Christmas break.






Happy New Year everyone!  I hope 2014 is awesome!

Lots of new posts

I posted a bunch of new posts over the course of a couple days.  Just so you don't miss anything, here are the links: