Nursery Time

Alex is moving up in the world.  She is now old enough to go to NURSERY.  This is a big deal for most mom's in our church.  Our little one's get to hang out with mom and dad until they are 18 months old.  Some parents (me) count down the months/weeks until they are old enough.  Some parents seem to be sad at that day.  Well since it is also the day before Valentine's day, I thought I would make Alex and Bradley something special to wear to church today.  It some convincing for Bradley to wear the tie because he said it was girl colors, but I explained that on special occasions boys can wear girl colored ties.

Global What?

For those of us in Texas, global warming doesn't exist.  On last Saturday is was around 70 degrees.  We had Lori's family and Keri in the for the week so we went to the stockyards and I wore capris, short sleeve t-shirt and flip flops.  We didn't get any pictures of the kids playing but they had a blast.  All our company left on Sunday and then on Tuesday we woke up to this.

 

When I woke up there was no power.  Luckily we had bought a 1/4 cord a wood a couple weeks ago and hadn't really used any of it, so I started to prepare for a long outage.  About 30 min later the power came back on and the news said they were doing scheduled rolling black outs and they should only last 15 min at a time.  We had one more during the day that lasted abut 40 min.  It wouldn't have been bad, but it was so cold outside that within 10 min of our heater being off our house was freezing.  Luckily I had already gotten all the snow clothes we need to go to Idaho with so I bundled the kids up and we went outside to play.  Bradley really wanted to play in the snow.  He would have stayed out there all day, but Alex and I got cold after a while.

This is Bradley making a snow angel. 

Well today is Friday and we were supposed to get under 1 inch of snow last night.  We got more than 2 and it snowed pretty heavy for a while in the late morning.  Hopefully when the sun comes out the ice will melt.

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.