Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Surprise Breakfast!

One Saturday before Christmas we had four former students show up at our house at 8:00 AM!! To my surprise they were there to make breakfast for us!!! They brought everything, even their own waffle maker. It was so sweet. They made us bacon, eggs, pancakes, and waffles. It was all so good! What an awesome surprise!


Here is Nicole helping Brian finish up the bacon (it was taking forever to cook it on the lean mean fat grilling machine.) I think Jessica was supervising.
This is the impressive stack of pancakes that Nicole mixed up and Jessica cooked.

Brian was serious about cooking the bacon. He did a fabulous job! he also did a great job with keeping the girls in line..hee hee.


April can make some mean eggs!!!



Here they are all working hard...



Monday, December 29, 2008

The Graham Cracker Houses

We tried to make gingerbread houses this year, but we ended up using graham crackers instead of gingerbread. The girls didn't care. They had a blast gluing it all down with icing and putting candy all over it. I finally got rid of all the Halloween candy!!!! YEA!!! The only problem I ran into again this year was seeing to it that Charis put more candy on her house than in her mouth! I was not successful in that endeavor. She ate way more than she put on her house. Jaycie however was VERY serious about getting as much candy and icing as possible on her house!!

This is a picture of me trying to convince Charis to stop eating all of the candy and decorate her house with it.


This is Jaycie's finished product. I didn't have a final product picture of Charis's house, but that might have been because she never really finished it.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Morning

I know it has been a while since I have posted, but I now have some pictures... I only have a few pictures from Christmas morning because we videoed it all. And yes, the little Home Depot workshop was for all three of them. Jaycie has been wanting it ever since she played with it at Mrs. Paula's!!


This is what the girls saw when they came downstairs...

Charis decided to get into this present! She is so funny.

The girls liked Aiden's presents and Aiden liked the girls presents. Crazy!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

The Christmas Tree hunt....


Here are some pictures from when we went to cut down our Christmas tree. Phud and I actually saw the tree at the exact same time. It was pretty cool.







Thursday, December 11, 2008

What a week!

Wow, what a week! Where do I begin.... Well we will start with me finding Charis in Jaycie's room laying on the floor with no clothes on and a pile of lotion on her belly. I was in the middle of putting Aiden down for a nap and I told her to get it rubbed in... (yeah, I know, who would tell a two year old that but I couldn't do anything about it at that moment.) So when I got back I found her making two perfect hand prints on jaycie's wall. Well that night, we found that Jaycie's wall wasn't her only stop. Her wall right above her bed had about 6 greasy lotion hand prints and two feet prints. She was a busy little girl as usual!

This is just a cute picture of Jaycie and her daddy. She was having herself a spoonful of peanut butter and she was sporting her pigtails that she insisted on having that day (and night).



Another adventure of Charis... we told her when we put the stockings up not to pull on the stockings because the holders could fall and hit her head and it would hurt. Well, yep, Charis needed to try it out. She pulled on Aiden's stocking and down the stocking holder fell on her face that was looking up at it. It was a big Santa that had a deer on one side and a squirrel on Santa's shoulder. Well the deer no longer has ears and the squirrel's ear went into Charis's face. So after I calmed her down and cleaned her up we had to get a bandaid. I had to get one big enough to cover both booboos...



Aiden found a wood spoon on the couch and started spanking the girls with it...hmm...
Today I was in the freezer trying to dig out something for dinner and the ice cream box fell on the floor. Aiden was of course sitting at my feet and when I looked down I saw that he was digging ice cream out of the box and eating it. He really liked it!! Later while I was cooking I heard him making noise so I turned around and he had climbed to the top of the step stool and was reaching in the sink. He had grabbed a glass of old milk that had various other things poured into it and was drinking it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think I stopped him before he could get too much in his mouth! I dumped it and took him down but he climbed up there about 3 more times (that is how I was able to get some pictures) and then my brain kicked in and I put the stool up.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Christmas Tree

Here's Jaycie cutting the string on the tree. Watch, it takes her by surprise.


Friday, November 21, 2008

More Adventures...

I was cleaning the kitchen the other day and when I looked over at the dishwasher I saw Aiden in it! He had climbed in and was very busy playing and examining everything! I grabbed the camera and he gave me a HUGE smile. I couldn't get the camera open fast enough but these pictures will do.