Some ornament pics

Just a collection of some pretty tidbits! For more, see the photo a day page. :)

Christmas slideshow

Our Christmas this year was calm and quiet. We were very low-key and it was nice! The children were thankful for their gifts and we enjoyed opening them and really liked that it wasn't an overwhelming amount. We had breakfast and a big lunch here y ourselves and then had some friends over for leftovers and desserts. It was a good day!

UNO!

I told the kids that we could play a "quick" UNO game before we had an hour of quiet time (I was really hoping for a nap). We started the game at 2pm - and didn't finish until 4:45. I think it was the longest game I have ever played! This is what my hand looked like almost the whole time... the problem was I was trying to get SOMEONE to win and didn't want to play Skips and Draw Twos. :-)


We had fun, but it was a really long game. For a little added educational value, we spoke Spanish for the second half of the game. Who says learning isn't fun???


Will has been really, really enjoying games of any kind lately. They spent much of the day yesterday playing Boggle - which was fabulous, Rose even got out her phonics workbook to show the Will all the different ways to spell (to, too, two)!


Tom started a RISK with Rose and Will on Monday and they left it set up for a whole day and then completed it last night. Tom won! They had a great time, which completely surprised me. Will has been begging me all day to play RISK with him - "sorry, that's a daddy game".


Anyway, just wanted to share our fun since Tom is on his way home now and all chance of a nap is now lost... maybe I'll go to be at a decent hour tonight and sleep well! That would be lovely. :D

Wedding pictures finally done...

I just now completed editing the 758 photos that I took at a friend's wedding just over a month ago. Well, edited and burned to CD and then culled and put in order for a slideshow set to the music they had at their wedding, then burned another CD. It was fun. It was a LONG process that took a lot more time and commitment than I had originally considered. It feels SO good to be done, Tom is going to drop the CD's off to them tomorrow, wish I could do it but I won't be in town until Friday eve and don't want to make them wait any longer! Tom and the kids will be glad to have me "back". :-)

Here are a few that I can share. I don't want to share any that are identifyable to protect their privacy, but here are a few just for fun.

Project today

The kids and I worked on this today. It wasn't as fun and relaxing as I had hoped, but we got it done and it IS pretty! It is made from squares of newspaper - came originally from Martha Stewart website, though I have seen it elsewhere.

I was hoping it would be easier - was considering making some mini ones for ornaments to give as gifts - a bit too much work though, waaah!

At least we accomplished something on this Monday. :-)

Some new changes...

I finally found a site where I could make my backgrounds more interesting! I love this one, will likely change more frequently now. There is a button for the site that created these at the top left. Enjoy!

I also made a new blog page, and moved the "shopping" posts to it. You can find it in the sidebar on the left and click there to see my recent shopping deals if you want! This page will remain as a more family-news type page. :-)

First Real Snowfall of the Year

We had one day when we got flurries for about 5 minutes and then it stopped. Tonight it snowed enough to have a light ground covering. The kids went out and played for a couple of hours. They tried to sled down our little hill in garbage can lids and the wading pool. Will rolled a fairly large snowball, which surprised me. The snow was pretty - but won't last long!