Winter fun

One thing we really like about Utah is playing in the snow. It's only really snowed twice this winter and both times we were out there at 7:30 in the morning because the kids couldn't wait!


These three's first snowman EVER!!
Snowman #2 was much more impressive.

We were going to make a GIANT snowman but only got this far:

When we realized we'd never be able to lift ball #2 onto it, so we turned it into an EGGloo instead. :-)


Fionn loved playing in the snow at first...


But got tired of it pretty quick:

They can't wait for it to snow again. I think a bigger, better, igloo is on the way...

Just reading her scriptures

I love this girl. :-) I walked in the room and she was in this sweet little spot, in a princess dress, turning pages and telling herself Book of Mormon stories.

Shark Teeth

Shea had two permanent teeth come in before his baby teeth fell out, so he had two rows just like a shark. It was cool and all, but the dentist thought the baby teeth should come out so the permanent teeth had more room. So first things first, he hadn't lost any teeth yet, so we had to make the tooth pillow. The patch is the pocket, how cute is he??:

Originally found here

Then he got the teeth pulled and got to stay home from school and eat milkshakes, applesauce and Yogurtland (there is one in UTAH now!) all day.
There were two huge holes at first, but now you can't even tell there were any teeth or holes there at all and his permanent teeth have moved right to the front.

His offering for the tooth fairy:
Since these were his first teeth, he was very interested in what we thought the Tooth Fairy would bring him. I told him that she used to bring me a quarter. He looked at me and said, "The price has gone up since then, right?!!" :-) Little did he know, the tooth fairy would bring him $5/per tooth!!!! (It's a long story and was an ACCIDENT!) We assured him it was probably only because it was a special situation that they were shark teeth and the dentist had to pull them, but not to expect that next time. We'll see if we have tears or not when he really looses his first tooth!

9 Months Old!

Yeah, this is super out of order and should have been posted in Oct, but I just found these and couldn't resist posting them. He's so dang sweet!!!

Just Riding Horses

We live right next to a horse pasture out here (which is totally freaky when taking out the trash late at night only to be whinnied at by a horse standing a foot away!) Anyway, the nice girl who owns the horses lets the kids ride occasionally. They LOVE it!! We really need to take a trip to ID to visit Aunt Andy's horses!

Goo

I'm gearing up to get all caught up on posts, but in the mean time - at FHE tonight we were talking about keeping our bodies clean and pure and Chris asked what were some things that we shouldn't put into our bodies. Shea's immediate answer was alchohol, poison and goo. :-)

Happy Halloween 2011

I guess better late than never.
This year we didn't do a theme Halloween. I was a little bummed I didn't do it - I'll have to really make up for it next year - all I did this year was make Clare's dress. It did turn out adorable and she's worn it at least 4 or 5 days a week since Halloween. Here's pics of my cute Harry Potter, my darling Rapunzel and our sweetest cheeky monkey.

Carving Pumpkins
(How they really feel about gross pumpkin guts)
(And when I made them smile)


His first pumpkin!
Annual Halloween stew
Annual Halloween jammies
Our Vampire Pumpkins! How cute are these??!!
Harry Potter, Rapunzel, Cheeky Monkey!

My favorite thing Shea said today:

Shea: "That play they made us watch at school today was so boring. Seriously! So boring!"
Dad: "What was it?"
Shea: "It was like A Muppet Christmas Carol but with people."

11 months!

My sweetness

Hospital Trip 2011

We haven't been to the hospital yet this year. And here I was thinking we'd make it through this year without a trip!! Alas...

It's cold here and my kids are bored, so I promised them yesterday we'd go to this awesome indoor play place this afternoon. They have tons of trampolines and foam pits. A huge rock wall, etc. etc. We were having a great time when Shea fell off a platform while climbing up to trapeze into one of the pits.
He didn't loose consciousness, but I knew he was really hurt. I mean he's a pretty big wimp, but he was being even wimpier than normal and thankfully mom's know when things just aren't right! I was pretty sure he had a concussion so we headed up to the doctor's. So glad we did, he threw up right when we got there and a few more times after that - definite sign of a concussion. The Dr. confirmed it and sent us to the ER for a CT scan. (Anybody know how much one of those is going to cost?? - Yikes!!!) Thankfully the scan came out good. Concussion, but no serious brain injury.

Things Shea learned today: A liquid diet for 12 hrs rocks - milkshakes, milkshakes, milkshakes! A concussion is called a brain shake in German and Dutch (this is now his preferred term) and a concussion gets you out of school the next day (awesome) and out of PE for 2 weeks (not awesome).

Poor kid at home afterward clutching his hospital vomit bag and waiting for the Tylenol to kick in: