I LOVE Snow!

The kids are LOVING the snow this year!  I love it too!  It is so much fun seeing their excitement!  What a difference a year makes.  I hope the snow stays for a while.  Wouldn't that be nice to have a white Christmas!?

September Harvest

I wanted to post this a long long long time ago.  Ok.  Not that long ago, but in September and I never did get around to it!  These pictures were taken at my mom and dad's in 100 Mile House during the "garden harvest".  My mom and dad have ALWAYS had a vegetable garden and it has always been awesome.  This year I asked mom if they could plant a few extra rows  for us too.  So she and my sister planted extra carrots, potatoes and peas and a few other things.  Although we weren't there to help plant I was able to do a little weeding in the summer and then be there for helping with the harvest!  It was so cool to have the kids involved and learning about vegetables and where food comes from.  They helped pick strawberries, peas, carrots, dig potatoes, turnips and pick apples!  We are still enjoying those yummy potatoes and carrots!

Enjoying a Loli with their cousins after all of that hard work!

Christmas Tree Time

We did something a little different this year!  We went to a Christmas tree farm to get our tree.  In the past we have gone out into the woods (deep into the woods and on nobody's  property of course*wink*) to chop down our special tree.  And they usually were "special" trees or at least very "unique"!  This was fun!  I wanted the kids to experience the "cutting down" of the tree.  :-D

Seeing the kids running through the trees, picking one out, watching dad use the saw to cut one down, looking to see the little stump that was left after the cut was awesome!  After all of that hard work the warm friendly folk at the farm offered us Yummy hot chocolate, homemade cookies and hot dogs to roast on an open fire!

Friends Come in All Shapes and Sizes

This is what Maisie had in bed with her last night - her friends. (minus the beloved Emmit) Yes, that is an Egg Carton! Her egg carton "caterpillar"! She packs that thing around the house, we have taken in the car, taken it to WalMart, lost it in WalMart, found it in WalMart, and now it is in bed!


I am really loving this age! The kids are so funny!! The other day I was in the car with Maisie driving somewhere and I said "something" to a passing car and Maisie asked, "Who you say that too, Mommy?" I just said, "Oh, I was just taking to that car" and she replied, "Cars CAN'T talk! Mommy!" I laughed! Of course she's right!

Stick 'Em Up!

Kids are so smart! Aren't they?

This morning the kids found the pumpkin decals we had on the window for Halloween. You know, the ones that use static to stick and they are made from plastic I guess or like a vinyl stuff? Anyway, they asked if they could stick them on the walls and I said well those are for Halloween and now we are decorating for Christmas, but....... OH, OK, you can stick them on the windows, but put them on the living room window. (it's a nice big window that they can reach easily) So, while they are doing that I go and brush my teeth and come back out to round them up to get dressed and walk into the living room and what do I see??
The pumpkins on the window, Maisie rubbing a pumpkin on the window and Ambrose holding a glue stick wound all the way up!

They were "sticking" the pumpkins on the window!!!!!

What else do you stick things with, but GLUE!!!!