Holy Snipples

I picked Elley up from school yesterday and as we were driving home Elley asked me where I went while she was at school.

Me "I went to Brittney's house for a church meeting."

Elley "was Hunter there?"

Me "yes"

Elley "what was he doing?"

Me "he played the computer and then he made me a drink with his new kitchen he got for Christmas."

Elley "HOLY SNIPPLES! Mom, am I the only one that doesn't have a kitchen?"

Cute Kids!

My brother had a graduation ceremony that we went to the other day. We are so proud of him and all he is doing. I took a few pictures of the kids and I thought I would post a few that I thought were cute!!

Gavin, Elley, Macey and Molly

Molly has seen A Christmas Story one too many times.
But who knows, the kid will lick and put just about anything into her mouth.


Gavin, I think trying to be a super hero

Winter Wonderland

Here are some pictures of a parade we went to before Christmas. It really was a Winter Wonderland. We have fun going to this parade every year and glad that our friend Echo came this year.

Not many people showed up for this parade. It had been snowing all morning and was pretty cold.

She Makes Me Smile

Adam picked up Elley last week from preschool and when I came home from a meeting I was at, Elley ran up to me and said, "mom, I have a surprise for you!"

She was so excited. She brought me this flower and said, "isn't this the most beautiful flower you have ever seen?"

And of course, I would have to agree. It is the most beautiful flower I have ever seen.

She picked it with her teacher while waiting for daddy to pick her up.

She told me that we needed to put it in water because it was going to die in the spring.

Later that week I was making some brownies. I needed some eggs out of the fridge and I asked Elley to grab them. She got them out and then asked if she could help make the brownies. When I told her she could she asked if she could hatch the eggs. I giggled a little and then proceeded to let her crack the eggs into the bowl. After she was done she said, "I'm a good hatcher right mom?"

Oh my little Elley Joyce. I love her so much and all the fun things she says sometimes. I love how her mind works and love to hear the things she comes up with!

Snow Day

A few weeks ago, we had quite a bit of snow fall in our area. 6-8 inches, which doesn't happen very often. Schools were canceled, work was canceled and so we played!

The neighbor kids came over to play with us. We buried both Rachael and Hailey in the snow. Elley thought that this looked like fun but she didn't last very long. We also had snow ball fights and tried to build snow forts.

After awhile, we all got cold, so we went inside and had......not hot chocolate but.....snow cones. I also made cookies and we watched The Grinch.

We had so much fun and hope it snows like this again!!!

Christmas Tree 2010

Here are a few pictures of our Christmas tree. The older the girls get, the better the holidays get. It was fun to see Molly and Elley get excited about the ornaments and put them on the tree. Over the weeks that our tree was up, the ornaments were rearranged quite a few times. Too bad we never celebrated Christmas with this tree. More to come on our Christmas away from home.

Thanksgiving 2010

I am so far behind in blogging it's not even funny. Happy Thanksgiving, even though it was a month ago.

We were so lucky to have Grandma Pat and Grandpa Dan come to our house for Thanksgiving. We love all the yummy treats we get to make with Grandma! The girls and Grandma worked really hard to make the perfect pumpkin pies.

Stories with Grandpa and Grandma

Here we go, making the crust for our pumpkin pies.

We have so much to be thankful for. We're glad there is a holiday that lets us celebrate it!

And a big THANK YOU to Grandpa and Grandma for making the long drive to be with us!