December 28, 2009
This is Cooper's new lucky dog she got for Christmas...Cymbre and I found it in a catalog. It's pretty funny, but the funnier part is watching Cooper watch her dog!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Mom and Dad at Christmas!
December 28, 2009
New sheets for our bed...we really need them!
A scrapbook for the pages of my grandkids...from Shyla
Part of my Willow Tree nativity set....the girls went in together and got the whole set! I'm excited for next Christmas...have to find a good spot to set it up.
Dad's book of family photos mom made him....it has personal letters from all the kids and our parents.
Dad's Handy Manny game from Britni!Next post a video of Cooper's new lucky dog!!! You will laugh!
And More Christmas
December 28, 2009
Cooper's Harry Potter set of hardback books
Mark Goodman's slide video...
Cymbre's claypot rhinos built by Dad and Mom....not bad for a couple of parents!!!
Cymbre's certificate to go feed the rhinos with Dad when we go to California in March!
Britni's new panda!
More Christmas...
Cooper's Harry Potter set of hardback books
Mark Goodman's slide video...
Cymbre's claypot rhinos built by Dad and Mom....not bad for a couple of parents!!!
Cymbre's certificate to go feed the rhinos with Dad when we go to California in March!
Britni's new panda!And one more coming!
Second Set of Christmas 2009
December 28, 2009
More Christmas happenings.....
This is the Danceopoly game the girls opened on Christmas Eve..Dad always beats them...
Cooper's laughing and rolling over Lucky Dog! It is really funny...we laughed for 30 minutes when she first turned it on!
Britni's new Pj pants...
Cymbre's new Pj pants...
Cooper's new Pj pants...
Stay tuned...more to come!
Christmas 2009
December 28, 2009
Getting ready to play Sissy's new game...
Cookie baking marathon!
Some of the Christmas lights in and around the neighborhood.
Cymbre's favorite house over in Prestonwood.
More lights.
See next blog!
Here's Christmas....and some before Christmas...you might say preparations!
Getting ready to play Sissy's new game...
Cookie baking marathon!
Some of the Christmas lights in and around the neighborhood.
Cymbre's favorite house over in Prestonwood.
More lights.See next blog!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
2,000 Stripling Warriors
December 16, 2009
I went to the LDS bookstore last night and found a wonderful picture of the 2,000 Stripling Soldiers! Caleb would love it! It came home with me, and I gave it to Dad for our anniversary since I never had found a gift. I have never seen a picture like this one, and it just touched my heart! They said it had just come in, and I bought the only one they had. I'll have to put a picture of it here when I get another minute.
The girls are both at school, and no one has called for medicine, so we must be on the mend. Cooper's new antibiotic appears to be helping her chest. And we didn't have to do the steam tent last night!
Both the girls are enjoying getting little presents from their baby classes at the dance studio. I guess that's a fun perk of being a student assistant teacher...presents! They are getting candles, candy, gift cards, etc.
Dad and I are finishing up the projects we have been making for Christmas for the girls. Dad's one for Cymbre has turned out really cute, and I will post a photo after Christmas. Now we just have to figure out how to wrap it!
It's cold and windy here today...and I need to go the the fabric store. I have to match some material for Cooper's pointe costumes! I know for the one I will end up downtown at High Fashion.
I paid the first competition fees last night...doesn't seem like it should be that time of year. Cooper has 3 solos and a trio, and Cymbre is doing 2 solos this year. Solos are more expensive than the groups dances, but we don't do the groups since they may dance on Sunday. Kristin lets the girls do the solos because we can change them to Saturday if we need to. I'm glad we changed studios if for no other reason than they don't have to be in groups to compete at the new one. They are much happier at dance this year...they have Andee again...and the other teachers seem to be able to challenge them. They love it when Andee comes to the house on Friday to work on hard tap steps with them. She has been wonderful to work with them! She is becoming a real mentor to them. Ms. Casey is also a great influence on Cooper in her ballet. She keeps telling us that she will turn Cooper into a ballerina yet....but Andee has had her tapping for years now! I still think the tap will win, although her pointe has come a long way this past year.
I am working on the family Christmas newsletter...that thing always takes me forever to write. Maybe this year I will just do a boring one, and then no one will want it next year! What do you think? Nah...I already have written about Dad and his hot pink suitcase going to Shyla's!
Well, I must get this costume finished this morning...I want Britni to help rhinestone the finished ones when she comes....that's a good thing to keep her and the girls busy for hours!
Have a great day, and remember, especially this next week or two to do something unexpected that is of service to someone you don't know....it's fun, and makes you feel the Saviors'Spirit!
Love you all.
Mom
I went to the LDS bookstore last night and found a wonderful picture of the 2,000 Stripling Soldiers! Caleb would love it! It came home with me, and I gave it to Dad for our anniversary since I never had found a gift. I have never seen a picture like this one, and it just touched my heart! They said it had just come in, and I bought the only one they had. I'll have to put a picture of it here when I get another minute.
The girls are both at school, and no one has called for medicine, so we must be on the mend. Cooper's new antibiotic appears to be helping her chest. And we didn't have to do the steam tent last night!
Both the girls are enjoying getting little presents from their baby classes at the dance studio. I guess that's a fun perk of being a student assistant teacher...presents! They are getting candles, candy, gift cards, etc.
Dad and I are finishing up the projects we have been making for Christmas for the girls. Dad's one for Cymbre has turned out really cute, and I will post a photo after Christmas. Now we just have to figure out how to wrap it!
It's cold and windy here today...and I need to go the the fabric store. I have to match some material for Cooper's pointe costumes! I know for the one I will end up downtown at High Fashion.
I paid the first competition fees last night...doesn't seem like it should be that time of year. Cooper has 3 solos and a trio, and Cymbre is doing 2 solos this year. Solos are more expensive than the groups dances, but we don't do the groups since they may dance on Sunday. Kristin lets the girls do the solos because we can change them to Saturday if we need to. I'm glad we changed studios if for no other reason than they don't have to be in groups to compete at the new one. They are much happier at dance this year...they have Andee again...and the other teachers seem to be able to challenge them. They love it when Andee comes to the house on Friday to work on hard tap steps with them. She has been wonderful to work with them! She is becoming a real mentor to them. Ms. Casey is also a great influence on Cooper in her ballet. She keeps telling us that she will turn Cooper into a ballerina yet....but Andee has had her tapping for years now! I still think the tap will win, although her pointe has come a long way this past year.
I am working on the family Christmas newsletter...that thing always takes me forever to write. Maybe this year I will just do a boring one, and then no one will want it next year! What do you think? Nah...I already have written about Dad and his hot pink suitcase going to Shyla's!
Well, I must get this costume finished this morning...I want Britni to help rhinestone the finished ones when she comes....that's a good thing to keep her and the girls busy for hours!
Have a great day, and remember, especially this next week or two to do something unexpected that is of service to someone you don't know....it's fun, and makes you feel the Saviors'Spirit!
Love you all.
Mom
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Sunday!
December 13, 2009
It's been a really long week with Dad out of town, the girls sick, and everything else! Dad is finally home, and the girls will be going back to school in the morning....however, they still have their coughs. I think the sore throats and upper respiratory infections are gone finally! Hope they stay gone.
We have most of the Christmas presents wrapped...just a few for Dad left and the stocking stuffers. I still have one thing to mail to Shyla and Holly, and the box to Grandma and Russell )my brother). Britni will come the beginning of next week, and hopefully, I will have some of the cookies done before she gets here.
The pj's are all done and some are even mailed! The pain in my hands and foot proves it!
The girls have finals this week, and a weird dance schedule. All this week of parties is crazy!
Cooper's Tap costume is ready to gather back together...then on to her pointe ones. Got the tutu in the mail this week....just trying to flatten it back out. I can't believe they took a pancake tutu and tied it all up in a little ball to ship....how dumb! I will never buy anything from that place again. If I could get one on time from somewhere else, I would send the thing back!
I am hoping that Britni will help us get the costumes rhinestoned while she is home.....last year she helped cut tulle. We don't have to do that this year. Thank goodness!!
Just have a couple of things left to shop for, and if I don't find them, it won't be the end of the world. Got some great presents for Dad this year....some years I just can't find anything.
That's about all the news for tonight...I am going to take my bath!
Love you all
Mom
It's been a really long week with Dad out of town, the girls sick, and everything else! Dad is finally home, and the girls will be going back to school in the morning....however, they still have their coughs. I think the sore throats and upper respiratory infections are gone finally! Hope they stay gone.
We have most of the Christmas presents wrapped...just a few for Dad left and the stocking stuffers. I still have one thing to mail to Shyla and Holly, and the box to Grandma and Russell )my brother). Britni will come the beginning of next week, and hopefully, I will have some of the cookies done before she gets here.
The pj's are all done and some are even mailed! The pain in my hands and foot proves it!
The girls have finals this week, and a weird dance schedule. All this week of parties is crazy!
Cooper's Tap costume is ready to gather back together...then on to her pointe ones. Got the tutu in the mail this week....just trying to flatten it back out. I can't believe they took a pancake tutu and tied it all up in a little ball to ship....how dumb! I will never buy anything from that place again. If I could get one on time from somewhere else, I would send the thing back!
I am hoping that Britni will help us get the costumes rhinestoned while she is home.....last year she helped cut tulle. We don't have to do that this year. Thank goodness!!
Just have a couple of things left to shop for, and if I don't find them, it won't be the end of the world. Got some great presents for Dad this year....some years I just can't find anything.
That's about all the news for tonight...I am going to take my bath!
Love you all
Mom
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Math!!
December 9, 2009
11 pieces of fabric + 5 patterns + unnumbered straight pins + scissors x all day at the sewing machine + yards of cording + ironing + 9 spools of thread
=
11 pairs of PJ pants + 2 very swollen fingers + 1 very swollen foot + 1 very good pain pill + 2 ice bags + Dad's pillow
=
1 Christmas Tradition still alive!
All you kids reading this will need white t-shirts to go with your new PJ pants for Christmas!
MOM
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Blessings
December 8, 2009
President Meier and Brother Ohering have just left. I called Patti Weinken to see if her husband would get someone and come give the girls blessings since both of them are sick. She told me her husband was sick, but President Meier was on his way to give him a blessing. As we were talking, her doorbell rang....it was President Meier. She told them I was on the phone looking for priesthood because Cymbre was having an asthma attack at the dance studio, and I needed a blessing for her. They said they would come over to the house when they were done giving LeRoy his blessing. I'm glad I followed my urge to call Patti...it was amazing timing! I hurried to get Cymbre from the studio, and into some steam to calm down her cough, and they came. Cooper was at the Urgent Care place last night and has strep... They gave both girls wonderful blessings....now everything is going to be fine. The medicines are going to work, they will be able to get the rest they need, and they are going to get better. It's truly amazing how that works. Thank goodness we know that it works, and we have the right to ask for those blessings.
Can you tell Dad is out of town? And just so everyone knows...the Christmas lights out in the yard don't work tonight. It's too dark to investigate, but something is going on. And I found a crack in the siding on the house today above the bay window at the back of the house.....it better not leak is all I've got to say!
GREAT!...what will happen tomorrow?
President Meier and Brother Ohering have just left. I called Patti Weinken to see if her husband would get someone and come give the girls blessings since both of them are sick. She told me her husband was sick, but President Meier was on his way to give him a blessing. As we were talking, her doorbell rang....it was President Meier. She told them I was on the phone looking for priesthood because Cymbre was having an asthma attack at the dance studio, and I needed a blessing for her. They said they would come over to the house when they were done giving LeRoy his blessing. I'm glad I followed my urge to call Patti...it was amazing timing! I hurried to get Cymbre from the studio, and into some steam to calm down her cough, and they came. Cooper was at the Urgent Care place last night and has strep... They gave both girls wonderful blessings....now everything is going to be fine. The medicines are going to work, they will be able to get the rest they need, and they are going to get better. It's truly amazing how that works. Thank goodness we know that it works, and we have the right to ask for those blessings.
Can you tell Dad is out of town? And just so everyone knows...the Christmas lights out in the yard don't work tonight. It's too dark to investigate, but something is going on. And I found a crack in the siding on the house today above the bay window at the back of the house.....it better not leak is all I've got to say!
GREAT!...what will happen tomorrow?
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Some Recent Photos
December 6, 2009
Here are some recent photos....I'm not very quick at getting them on my blog. Too many other things need doing! Sorry!
My new snowman cookie jar this year!
Thanksgiving Dinner
Dad carving the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
My favorite nativity set!
My snowman Christmas Tree! It's all my snowman ornaments...sorry kids!
Here are some recent photos....I'm not very quick at getting them on my blog. Too many other things need doing! Sorry!
My new snowman cookie jar this year!
Thanksgiving Dinner
Dad carving the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
My favorite nativity set!
My snowman Christmas Tree! It's all my snowman ornaments...sorry kids!
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