Saturday, January 1, 2011

Cold Tea Party

This is kind of a long story.. because it's more than one. First off, we have Esther. She is spying on the the chickens who venture up onto our porch to eat our cat food. Wierd? I think so too. The chicken, I mean. Then yesterday, Kiera was desperate to have a tea party. To her, a tea party is out on the porch with real water (since I don't let them do it in the house.) We told her it was freezing cold (like 15 degrees...) but that she could do it if she really wanted. She quickly got out her tea party stuff and headed out to the deck. I got her a mason jar of water and a bowl of pretzels. Then we had trouble because Sissy didn't want to play. I looked out the door and Leo was eating the pretzels and drinking the water. So I took a picture...
Kiera was a bit upset by this until I told her that she could have a tea party with Leo and Kerzon (who had since escaped the house and pestering kitten). She was then happy with that.
Until that nasty chicken thought he would join the party as well.... Kiera tried chasing her off a few times.
And then all chaos broke out... At some point, the door was open enough for the spying, chicken-hating Esther to escape the house as well, and she took off like a shot after that chicken, with absolutely no regard for the fact that the chicken is twice her size....

Kiera then had to attempt to try to chase the wired Esther back in to the house... which took a while...

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Fun New Stages

I love that now at random times I can feel a "brrrring" truck running up and down my leg...

Yesterday I gave myself permission to lay on the floor with Melia and help her work on her "adult" paint by number, and listen to her tell me all about everything... So much better than trying to organize the Christmas chaos.

And Kiera can get orange juice all by herself... unfortunately without asking... :-)

Sunday, December 26, 2010

When Mommy's away...

Daddy gets down to business.
Serious SnowBunny Business :-)

Monday, December 20, 2010

Welcome Baby Alden!!!




Mark and Alden

Annie and Alden

THRILLED auntie and cousins :-)

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Oops, I did it again.... *grin!*

Heh Heh Heh....
Don't remember the first time? Click HERE and scroll down... :-)

Saturday, December 11, 2010

For Husbands: From the Duggars

This is a great list, plus super cute... you'll see when you get to number one...

Mwuhaahhahhahaa


I found it! The sock monkey's lair! :-)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Relief

I finally finished our Genesis 1 class! And on time! I got really behind (like 2 months) because of the tremendous amount of stuff I didn't understand very well.... like quantum physics (oi!)... and if I don't understand well enough to explain it to anyone, then I don't like answering the essay questions halfway... you can see the spiral! But I buckled down and got 11 weeks done in 3! And finished the final last night. Just in time for Christmas!

Whew! Now I might actually get our Christmas cards completed!

Monday, December 6, 2010

Hog Hollow, Pics Part One

We went on Saturday to get our Christmas tree at Hog Hollow Farm, and boy, did we have a great time! Enjoy the pictures!

For Isaac, it was ALL about the snow. Who cares about that cute little tree? I have snow on my gloves! And Mommy is letting me eat it!!!
He also was beyond cute in his little get-up...



Kiera lost it because she couldn't cut down the tree!



Isaac thought this was a great game :-)

Weeeee!!!!!

It's just my size!

The Smithite girls...

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Apparently, We Aren't the Only Ones...


We aren't the only ones enjoying the warmth emanating from our pellet stove.... :-)