One of those nights...

Gav had practice and I agreed to ice cream and donuts when we got home. I decided to join them with ice cream :-)
At least they ate something decent before practice

Love you Grandma

May you rest in peace. I'll miss you but I have comfort knowing you are with the Lord

All her grandchildren together! Its been too long.....

The Great Carrot Debacle!

I wake up this morning. Head to the kitchen and open the curtains to look out the window, as I do every morning. I enjoy seeing our little garden grow. Well this mooring was not the case! As I look at my carrots, I see a hill in the middle of my carrots with all of them GONE! A freaking gopher some how managed to get in, eat everything, and get out. I was so upset. I woke Boom up and had him pull the leaf end and yup the roots were missing. We've grown carrots once before and they were so delicious, that we were anticipating for the day when our carrots were ready to harvest. Now we are in the midst of planning on how to prevent this attack from ever happening again. Now I need to protect the rest, silly that using pots want good enough. Thinking we are going to put chicken wire on top next time, that way the plant can grow through and keep invaders out.

Love Friday Nights

Friday nights are the BEST! We have Saturday to look forward to , stay up later than usual and have a great family night. Saturday mornings are great but in the evening the blues of the upcoming week comes

Straight Hair :'(

A is growing way too fast. She begs and begs to have her hair straightened. I don't understand why she doesn't LOVE her curls! Oneday she will love them I tell myself.
So when I get my hair done, I let her get her's done too. She looks too grown :-(  Don't think I'm ready.

This morning she said lets take a picture because we are twins... aye Austen!

Finding her style

A has been opting to dress herself in the morning. Its been a joy to see her walk into the room, we never know what to expect

School on Friday

Saturday and did her own hair... Later in the day she became Cinderella

Today

Our mini garden

We've had some unusual weather, worrying about frost overnight is usually not at issue but this year it has been. So to start our pot garden (I should re-think that phrase), but we are planting in pots. We are growing lettuce, carrots, peas, and green onions. Can't wait to start using our homegrown food. Next in February/March, phase 2 of planting.

Green Onions

Sweet Peas

Lettuce

Carrots

Happy Birthday Gavin!

From Saturday's impromptu party

I said I wasn't making anymore cakes (I mean decorating). Here I was that morning, turning the cake into a Laker cakes. He wanted the cakepops to be Laker-pops but I ran out of time for decorating. Yellow cakepops were good enough

Happy 7th Birthday Gavin

Family fun day in the snow! Gav was taking off before we had time to strap in our boots
Look who decided to ski for the first time... A!

Must share! Let me know if it works for you too!

So, a while back Kelli had this awful cold with a cough that lasted forever. She told me that she had read/heard (don't remember), but if you rubbed Vick's on your feet at night and covered them with socks, the coughing would stop. Kelli told me it worked for her.
Right now A has a cold, and tonight her cough was so bad she vomited all over her bed. I rocked her to sleep (still coughing in her sleep). I decided to rub her feet down with some good old Vick's and put socks on her feet. And guess what? The coughing stopped within a few minutes [seriously]. Don't know why it worked but it did. And just so you know, A had it on her chest earlier in the evening and it didn't stop her coughing then.