My Snow Bunny

Bradley has been asking to go to the snow for ever and he always asks to go to the snow in Idaho where Darek lives.  So for his 5th birthday we are taking them to the snow.  We are gonna drive to Idaho and spend 2 weeks.  We are super excited.  I have been on the hunt for snow clothes.  I ordered this set from Kohls on clearance for Alex.  I have everything but some snow pants for Bradley. 

She LOVED wearing it.

A couple new things

This is my new favorite thing!  We have even made smore's in it. 

While in Bakersfield I took pictures of all the grand kids on Bryan's side of the family for his grandparents 60th wedding anniversary gift.  I also photoshoped the letter's out of the shirts and gave it to Bryan's parents in a nice frame for Christmas. Getting six kids under 4 1/2 to do what you want is hard.  This is the best we had and I took over 200 pictures.



I made this car organizer for our drive to Idaho in a few weeks.  It has dividers that you can adjust in it.



Watch out 50 cent

Bradley is rockin the face band aid.

Bradley was trying to pull scissors away from Alex and stabbed himself in the face.  It is barely a scratch and didn't even bleed but we put some antibiotic cream on it and a band aid.  He just happened to be wearing the sweatshirt today that Bryan and I brought him back from San Fransisco, so it was pretty appropriate.

Recent Projects

A friend from church had a baby a couple of weeks ago and the baby was early so they haven't had a shower yet so I made a few things to take over to her. 

 A Valentine's day onesie.

A car seat tent with a ruffle on the bottom and her name in the corner.

Here are a few dresses I have made for Alex. This is pink corduroy.

 This one is a little to big so it will be for when she gets bigger.

Christmas

Christmas was really good this year.  We started a new family tradition and stayed home.  It was very nice and relaxing.  We had the missionaries over for Christmas dinner and it was very yummy.  Our power went out for over an hour just as I was getting ready to put all of my side dishes in the oven, but I improvised and put my cheesy potatoes in individual ramicans and they cooked fast and dinner was only about 15 min late to the table.  

Bradley made out this Christmas.  Santa brought him the World of Warcraft expansion  which he can play on his laptop he got from mom and dad.  He also got a lot of accessories from it and a desk from Grandma Karen and Papa Nick, so he is ready for kindergarten.  He also got his very own IPod touch.  I realize this all seems extreme but the laptop was Bryan's old laptop from school that Bryan reformatted and only put on it Bradley's games and the IPod was Bryan's old IPod that we reset and erased everything off of so we really didn't spend much money. 

Alex got the Little Peoples Noah's Ark set with the extra animals from Santa and lots of fun girly things from mom and dad.  She was more interested in watching Bradley open and throwing away the paper than opening her own presents. 

I didn't get many pictures but here are a few.

Beginning of 2011

Here are my goals for 2011, some are the same as 2010 and some are different.  I accomplished all of my 2010 goals to some degree. 
1. Loose more weight.  Last year I lost 20 pounds, even with having the pregnancy and miscarriage, so in 2011 my goal is 40 more. 

2. Stick to my cash budget.  So if anyone sees me on my way to Jo Ann's please stop me.  Friends don't friends go to Jo Ann's.

3. Sew more.  I get great satisfaction when I finish a project and I have several planned.  I also like making things for the kids and have some great patterns and fabric.

4.  Read more.  My 2010 goal was to watch less TV and I have done that so now I want to read more.

5.  Run more.  In 2010 Bryan and I had decided to do a marathon.  Bryan did it, but with getting pregnant and then having the miscarriage my training had to stop.  So I am hoping to get back to running.  I am hoping to run a half marathon this year if not a full marathon.

6.  Meal plan and stick to it.  I started doing weekly meal plans last year and it worked great.  So I am hoping to stick to it even more this year.

7.  Take the kids to fun places.  I have found several jumping places near us and plan on doing more with them outside the house.