Bowls!

Ok, I know this is my family blog and I'm supposed to put my wood creations on my other blog, but I'm so excited about this, that I just have to share with everyone. I just learned how to make bowls with my scroll saw!! It's so neat. Don't look too closely though, I haven't quite perfected it yet, so I won't be selling any of these until I do.
I read about it in the scroll saw magazine. The technique is developed by a fellow scrollsawer, her blog is here http://www.scrollsawbowls.blogspot.com/

So, here are some pictures of my new adventure. Now that I know this technique, I'm thinking of making a salad bowl and some smaller bowls. Maybe even some wooden utensils. This is so fun.

The Great Dirt Box

One day this dirt box will return to being a garden, but in the mean time it's a great construction site! The kids have been playing in this after school alot.

William get's really dirty but he loves it!!Sarah was busy making a "trap". She dug a really deep hole and covered the hole with a board that just barely fit. The idea was that other people would fall in if they stepped on it. .....That's my Sarah... sigh...

Alan loves cookies

Giant Heart cookies we made were devoured happily.

A Valentine's Video

Last week Tom and I went out to dinner on Thursday for our Valentine's Day dinner date since there would be no other time for us to go. While we were gone, our Favorite babysitter Kate Harrell came over and helped the kids make a Valentine's Day present for us. We thought you'd like to see it.

White Rain?

On Friday last week, it was predicted to snow 1-2 inches, than they were saying 4-6 inches. Well Friday came and it snowed from 10:00am -6:30pm, but it was nearly 40 degrees for most of the day!! For the first two hours of hard snow falling, nothing was accumulating because it was 39 degrees. It got down to about 35 and started to stick, but the sides of grass were wet and sloshy because it was so warm. In the end we got maybe 1 1/2 inches after over 8 hours of snow. But we had so much fun! And the next day we played in it before it melted by the end of the day.

This picture is about 6:00pm just before it stopped. Notice how the driveway is not snowed on? All of the roads were just wet. That's because it was melting almost as fast as it was falling. Luckily it was falling pretty fast otherwise it would not've accumulated on the grass or anything at all.

Wet snow sticks on trees really well, so beautiful.

Kaitlyn is happy to play with a friend in the backyard- about 3 hours after it started snowing.

Cool Valentine card idea

Tomorrow is the last day of school before Valentine's Day since the kids are having a short "winter break". So the class valentine's day parties are tomorrow.

While browsing through some craft blogs, I found this cool idea that the girls wanted to do for t heir cards. First I took a picture of them holding their hands out like they're giving you something. Then I wrote the Valentine greeting on the picture. Then we printed them out and put a dum dum lolipop in them.

Aren't they cute?

They grow out so fast....

Last night for no apparent reason, Alan and Sarah thought it would be funny to stuff a bunch of blankets in their clothes and walk around like that.

I'm thinking Alan was the one who started it. He thought it was hillarious to stuff his front and back.

Sarah came out strutting her "stuff". (Pun intended :)

Even William got in on the act and started bumping his tummy against his older siblings.

So silly.

And tonight, because they saw me uploading these pictures, they're stuffing their clothes even even now as I type.... where did these kids come from?

Breaking the ice with no clothes on

William loves his pajamas. He loves them so much that he refuses to take them off. This morning I finally got him to let me help him take them off, but he wouldn't let me put anything else on him. I did manage to get a shirt on him which he immediately began trying to pull off. So, to avoid the fight, I just let him run around in his diaper. I figure when he gets cold he'll let me put his clothes on him. Go ahead, call me a bad mom, but he is one incredibly strong 2 year old, and sometimes it's just not worth the power struggle. Anyway, he LOOOOVVES the "Don't Break the Ice" Game. He'll sit with me for nearly 30 minutes putting the little ice cubes in it then breaking them with the little hammer, over and over. So, this morning I played his favorite game with him in just a diaper because he wouldn't put anything else on. :) I just love 2 yr olds.

3 legs are better

For Family Home Evening last night it was Sarah's turn to be in charge of the game. She decided she wanted to do a 3 legged race. It had nothing to do with our lesson, but we all had fun.

Like Father, Like Son

I thought it was really cute that William and Tom were dressed alike this morning. It wasn't really planned that way, Tom was already wearing a gray sweatshirt and hat, and William needed something warm to wear outside and the only sweatshirt he has is a gray one just like Tom's. To complete the look, Tom gave him a little black hat to wear. They were outside on the trampoline together, and I just couldn't resist taking a picture.

Funny Girl

Kaitlyn is constantly doing things to make us look at her. I guess it comes with being the middle child. She drives her big sister and brother crazy asking them to watch her.

Here's something she did that I wasn't so fond of. She took a pen and drew all over her face. It took quite a bit of scrubbing to get it off. I don't think she'll be doing it again. Although, she sure looks proud of herself in this picture doesn't she?

Pizza Night

Last night we got out the measuring spoons and flour for William to wear, and also to make some pizzas. Here he is pointing at the rising dough, and displaying how he decorated himself and the kitchen with flour.

Enjoying pizza with some soda. Soda is a rare treat at our house. Here's Kaitlyn and her mini pepperoni pizza. William likes his pizza too.

Sarah is displaying how she loves to eat jalepenos.

William's 1st Hair Cut

At 2 years and 2 months old, we finally decided it was time to cut William's lengthy locks. The only thing I had done up until yesterday was trim the back (only once) so that he wouldn't look like a girl. For being over 2 years old, his hair wasn't really that long, especially if we combed it. It wasn't really even covering his ears and it was just starting to get into his eyes.

But it was time for the baby to become a big boy, so here's William's new look:

Kaitlyn's drawing

I was going through some old videos we had, and I found this video of Kaitlyn describing her drawing of Robby. This goes along with the post "coloring cousins" back in 2008 a month after she'd turned 4. Even though I never posted it, I thought it was really cute. At this point, even though she's talking about "dancing" with Robby, she hadn't met him yet. Notice the tag on the shirt sticking out-in the front? She never wanted me to help her get dressed back then. So here's a fun little video for you.

The best $5 present

I found this power wheels truck at our neighborhood yardsale for $5. I would never buy this brand new, because they're like $300 and I think that's ridiculous. But this is the favorite present of all my kids this Christmas. We had it sitting out in the driveway on Christmas morning for all of them.