Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Happy Valenitine's Day








Our day was filled with pink, hearts, candy, chocolates, crafts, flowers/roses and home made Valentine cards. We went to Five Guys as a family. Exchanged cards. Aaron gave me the movie The Tourist. We started the movie late and fell asleep half way through. Even though our Romantic Valentine's Days have changed, Aaron gave me the sweetest card. Hearts definitely grow fonder as the years go by. I couldn't imagine life without him. Love you sweetie.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Happy 2nd Brithday Henry!

I'm Handsome and I know it.

Whose birthday is it? It is hard to tell in this picture.

But not in this picture!


A Car sleeping bag.

Hi, I am 2 today!

More videos.

Dinosaur Cake!
Turn off the sound for this video...

Henry, I am sorry...

that I can't sing

and that I didn't sing the whole Happy Birthday song to you

and for all of the Mom or Dad sounding comments in this video.

Thanks for putting up with us.


Henry...

LOVES pancakes

loves stickers

loves balls

loves books

loves oranges

loves to color

loves trains

loves cars

loves to move stools to reach things that are higher

loves the bounce house

loves to do things with his sister

loves to give kisses

loves cheese

loves peanut butter sandwiches

loves to play outside

loves giraffes and elephants

loves pa-pop (papa)

loves to be in a stroller... and find his way out

Friday, January 20, 2012

Nap time?

Nap times seem to be getting rare at our house.




How sad.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Go with what you know...

The other night I tried a new recipe. It did not go so well. I didn't have enough of the main ingredient (what is potato soup without enough potatoes?). I ran out of some ingredient tried something different. It tasted... a little off. Then I tried spices to cover it. I try not to waste food. I eat things even if they didn't turn out so great. This night... we ate a bowls worth and threw the 'leftovers' out. I shouldn't always experiment.

So the next night I decided to go with my trusty Chicken noodle soup. But of course I have to try something new again. I usually put a can of cream of chicken soup in it, but today I wanted to be adventurous and try to make my 'own' cream of chicken. It took longer than opening up a can and putting in the mysterious glob, but it turned out great!


So my new cream of chicken came from Tammy! Yum!

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Happiness

I love when laughter fills the house that is over silliness. You got to pause the music and listen to these sweet kids laughing away.




Beware of my future posts... they are a little out dated, but worth the memories.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Hula Hooping!

This sweet girl takes after my skills

Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas Stocking #4

As usual, everything "extra" in life is pushed aside when I am finishing a stocking before Christmas. My stocking is finished and actually hung up over the fireplace this year!



It is called "Christmas Cookies"







Yay! I am all caught up. And I love them! Okay I really do have favorites, but I don't need to share.



Have you ever thought about your family having personalized stockings... and don't want to do the work? I saw a lady selling them finished on Etsy! If you do have a desire to do them yourself, this is my favorite site to purchase the kits.

Monday, November 21, 2011

I Love Giveaways!

So my amazing friend Jessica and her family have an outdoor adventure blog. They share great tips on how to take your kids on adventures in the outdoors with you and your spouse! They always have amazing videos and great pictures to share. In preparing for Christmas they are doing the 12 days of Outdoor Christmas and giving away FREE stuff for your family for the next 12 days! Today starts with something we always enjoyed as a kid... go on over and check it out. They choose a winner totally random so go take a look.



You won't be disappointed!

Touch Screen Computer

Aaron started to reformat our laptop computer this last weekend. It is up and running, but still needs some work. I realized that my computer (the one that hasn't been touched in over a year) is more than 7 years old and.. well just dead. Pointless. It is just sitting on a desk in our den- purely for looks now. Caroline goes in there and pretends that she has to type some stuff up before she can do anything else. SO I guess it has turned into a toy.



I have been stalking this sweet girl's sewing blog for a while now- well I guess I follow it so I might be considered a virtual friend. I have made some pretty cool stuff because of her. Katy at nobigdill has blogged about an awesome giveaway for an HP touch screen computer. Wouldn't it be cool if Caroline and Henry had a computer of thier own to play with? I am blogging about it to get a double chance at the lottery for winning this cool invention. Wish me luck!

Favorite snack

My new favorite snack:


Cottage cheese and Stacy's Pita Chips (you know the really big bag from Costco)

Yum