It snowed a lot this past week! Most of the schools around the area were closed on Wednesday, and Kay even canceled mutual. (U of M stayed open though – we’re not about to let a little snow get in the way of our studies!) I’m getting a little tired of shoveling out the driveway, but the kids think it’s awesome.
Photos of Jason’s waterfall climbing trip up North after Christmas.
We made robots from discard foam hunks and packing material at the Scrap Box. Naby’s is Plex. Oliver’s is Robe.
Oliver starred as one of the wise men. His two elephants played the other two wise men.
A very tired wise man and shepherdess.
We recently spent an FHE decorating candy houses. This year I tried to make the gingerbread house walls from scratch. It tasted fantastic, but the roof wasn’t exactly tight. We patched it with some good ol’ Bob’s sweet stripes. Our “royal frosting” recipe from williams sonoma worked really well. We originally had pieces to make two houses, but we (Nabby and I… okay mostly I) couldn’t stop eating pieces. I don’t regret it. Gingerbread is so divine right out of the oven.
We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving! Grandpa and Grandma James came to visit, and we had such a good time together. Oliver and I picked up Grandma and Grandpa from the airport on Thanksgiving afternoon. Kay was at home finishing this:
Dinner was incredible – Kay is a fantastic cook, and she did nearly everything by herself (I made the rolls, but that was it). We enjoyed our Thanksgiving feast, but even more, we enjoyed eating it together with family.
We are so blessed! I am thankful for these two.
They make my life wonderful.
Abby always has the best ideas. Lately she has decided that she is too big to ride in the shopping cart, so she has to walk with us through the entire store. I think that she just wants to be able to reach things – we’ve ended up with all kinds of things in our shopping cart, including frozen lemonade. (We’re still not sure how she reached that!) The other day, though, she tried something new. When we got home, we found this:
I guess all of the “stickers” were just too tempting. They look cuter on Abby, anyway.
