Middle of March Update

Many a sunrise has came and went since I last blogged.




Here's a little of what we've been up to...

Basketball
Jameson played on the Twin Rivers league and really had a great time

Connor is now one of the taller boys on his team

Snow

yes- that is up to the top of our grill

and more snow


puzzles





a puppy who has lived on the top step most of the winter b/c it was too cold for him to be in the garage


Connor's 12th birthday


(It's pretty cool to see both of my boys passing the sacrament each week.)

A fun date night to the play Little House on the Prairie where Melissa Gilbert played Ma. Bad picture taken from a moving vehicle while it was raining


Jr. High 80's dance


Valentine's Day
chairing Genna's class party at school

stack the sweethearts game

dinner at the Outback and then to the Stake dance with my sweetie

Our family dinner~
The table was set despite all of our cloth napkins and tableclothes being in storage


Fondue after our family dinner

I sure love these kids!!

Card Genna made

Connor's note

Jameson's made these



Put an offer in on this house- sniff, sniff, they wouldn't accept it with the contigency of selling our house


February Decorations

Couponing~

my system

after a shopping trip where I spent about $14


getting a stockpile

We watched Troy's sisters kids a few times and had a ball with Seth- he is such a cutie!

Currently reading: The Mitford series and the Percy Jackson series- on the last book of each of them


March "decorations" I think I am going to paint this table black

I can't tell you how happy these 2 little flowers made me when I discovered them today


that and some blue skies are doing wonders after a long gray winter


Thanks for reading this whole post- and sorry about the lack of big pictures

November Wrap Up

A few random pictures from the rest of November~ it was a busy but fun month:

Going to see New Moon with my sweetie



The start of Jr. High Basketball- Jameson is excited to start for the B team

Genna's actual birthday on the 22nd- 7 years old!



Hoarfrost



Another puzzle done


Jameson's edible cell project

11 Years Old

I know I say it every time my kids have a birthday- but seriously, it always shocks me when their birthday rolls around and they are another year older.

Wasn't this just yesterday?





Connor's birthday was last Wednesday night. He got to open one present before school that day- it was a pair of green & black shorts. He wears shorts to school every day. Even when it is 0° out, much to his mother's dismay. Yes, he wears pants over them, but I know they are shed quite often when he gets to his locker.

After school he got to open the rest of his presents: a snowboard, another pair of shorts, a new sweatshirt, a mentos geyser tube & cola, a new football & a nintendo ds game(thank goodness for all the clearance sales going on right now!) We ate dinner at Pizza Hut that night and then he got to go to his first 11 year old scout meeting at church.


Friday night was his friends birthday party. He opted to have more friends over and not go anywhere. After finding a football tablecloth on clearance & getting a ton of Husker cups from the Nebraska football games, we decided on a football party. Everything else fell into place because there is a lot of fun football stuff out there right now because of the super bowl coming up soon.



Here are some details on the picture:

1. An outdoor football game started the party off.

2. Make your own sub sandwiches on little football shaped rolls.

3. Football party games included strengthening for your other arm (tossing the football through the hula hoop)

4. And the blindman's punt. We used medical tape to put field markings on the carpet. It was fun to see that without their blindfold the balloon didn't go much farther.

5. Cupcakes & chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream(Connor's favorite).

6. Opening presents. Not sure about Connor's shirt- I guess he was hot. The boys were all supposed to come wearing their favorite football team's jersey. He started off in his Husker shirt.

7. The last party game- shaving for the big game. They drew a face on the balloon & had to remove the shaving cream without popping the balloon. The boys were actually disappointed because it is actually quite hard to pop the balloon while shaving. They did manage to accomplish that in the end.

8.I spent a lot of time prepping these quarterback bobblehead dolls for the boys. Of course, it took much longer than the suggested hour to make this craft. It required hot glue so the boys basically only got to pick out their number for their jersey and wait while Troy & I glued them on. But despite the fact that it wasn't kid friendly, they turned out pretty cute!

9. & 10. Next we slowed things down with popcorn, oreos and a movie(Rudy, Remember the Titans & the Game Plan are the football movies we own). Connor is into comedy these days and so I'm sure he would have played the Game Plan, but alas only the case could be found. So they actually ended up watching Slappy & the Stinkers.

11. the Breakfast of Champions.

12. Treat cups to take home. Their were football cards inside and so they spent a good amount of time trading cards.

It was a really fun party- even though the boys were up later than Troy & I would have liked.