December Highlights and a Few Lowlights

Highlight:  Paige's Nutcracker Ballet Performance

Her little ballet class.

Barre Work

Paige and her good friend Katie

Lowlight - Orthodontist and Dentist Appointments

Lowlight ;-) - Mischievous Murphy

Highlight:  Fun Night riding Trax and out to dinner with Grandpa and seeing the Christmas lights at Temple Square.

Didn't get many pictures unfortunately.

Lowlight/Highlight:  Many fights between siblings, name calling and yelling which resulted in both girls being sent to their rooms with an assignment of listing 20 good things about each other and 20 good things about themselves.

This was Paige's list about herself.  "I can stand up" is an interesting one.  She ran out of steam by number 15.  I can't find the list she made about Hailey.

Hailey's lists. 

Highlight:  Seeing Uncle Wil, Alicia and Jaxon

Highlight:  Getting Grandmommy a little live tree that we will plant at our new house.

Highlight:  A trip to Sugarhouse to see Santa

Cute Jaxon

Highlight:  Seeing cousins at Nanny and Papa's house over the holidays.  Again, wish I had gotten more pictures.  They were so proud of the castle they made together.

Lowlight/Highlight:  Three trips back and forth to Salt Lake in 3 weeks.  We saw a nice sunset though.

Lowlight:  Having a brand new chair fly out of the truck on the freeway.  Jim and I had to run out into moving freeway traffic to drag our poor chair to the side of the road.  Luckily, no one was hurt, except the chair. 

Highlight:  Using watercolor paints to make each other look like aliens. (You have to visit the actual blog to see the video.)

December 20, 2011

Looks like Murphy had a wild night last night.  He and Ken look like they are scared to death being chased by the Hulk.

I just happened to look out the window as these two were walking across the street to the neighbors house. They are usually at each other's throats or best buddies.  I wish the latter were the more common of the two, but it's not so I like to document it when I see it.

Anotha Day, Anotha Dolla

I couldn't come up with a name for this post so I just used one of my favorite catch phrases in case you were wondering. So, I've pretty much been stuck inside for the past few days with my munchkin Crew-dad-crawdad-critter.

He's sick, again! It hasn't been a very good few months for this kid.  He can't catch a break.  I'm hoping it doesn't spread to the rest of us, especially with Halloween coming up.

So, I've been spending way too much time on Facebook, Pinterest and looking out the window at the house progress.

Here it is today. I guess it doesn't look a whole lot different than last time.  But, they've started framing! We go to pick out windows tomorrow.

Indie has kept me pretty good company while Crew has been sleeping or hiding out in his room. Crew likes to be alone if his dad isn't available when he's sick. This is one of Indie's favorite spots and positions.  She doesn't move when you're coming up the stairs so we have to step over her.

I've also had an endless stream of workers coming in and out of our house fixing everything from the THIRD!!! flood we've had in this house.  I didn't take a picture of them, that'd be weird.  And, I've taken no pictures of the flood damage because it just makes me mad.

My mom was up visiting for her birthday.  I had a more normal picture but accidentally deleted it from my phone.  Sorry, mom.  We had fun hanging out, eating, and even did a little shopping.

She was gracious enough to take some family pictures of us that I'll have to upload later.

Crew Turns 5!!!

Last Friday, my baby boy turned 5!  

Of course, we started the day off with the traditional birthday song wake-up call.

And presents...he is really in to Star Wars right now so he was super excited to get anything Star Wars related.

 Nanny and Papa came down to go to Crew's favorite lunch spot, Arctic Circle.  They gave him a great wild west town figurine set.  He loved it!

Then he went over to the house and carved his name in one of the footings.

We had his friend party the next day.

First Day of School 2011

Summer is over and in some ways I am sad, in others, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was glad. August was a had a hard month. It started out with a really fun with a trip to Red Fish Lake (photos hopefully posted soon), then a weird sickness which we thought was maybe West Nile Virus, followed by Crew getting salmonella poisoning and then a bought of the stomach flu this last weekend of which Crew, Hailey and I suffered through. Poor Crew, he's gotten all three and his little body is tired and skinny. And in the middle of all this our friend and neighbor was killed in an accident. He was a husband and a father of 4, 3 adorable little boys and a brand new baby girl. His 2 oldest boys, Parker and Joshua are Crew's best friends. Things have been heavy and stressful. So, I haven't felt much like blogging or writing.

Crew started school last week and I forgot to get pictures. I didn't send him this morning with the girls because he is just tired and doesn't feel great. I don't either. I'm ready for a routine. I am hoping now that with a little more time to myself, I can get back to documenting and writing. Sorry to be such a Debbie-downer....at least these pictures make me smile.

Someone obviously loves the camera. Paige holding up 2 fingers for Second Grade, her teacher is Ms. Wood (her best friend Sofi's aunt).

Hailey holding up 4 fingers for Fourth Grade, her teacher is Mr. Rakel, a Harry Potter look-alike.

Paige making Hailey laugh.

On the way to school Hailey told Paige she was going to miss her and that she was her best friend (sometimes). Those are the moments that make all of this worth it.