Giveaway!!!

Doing a giveaway over at The Little Window Shoppe!!
It runs till Thursday the 15th at midnight.

Happy 7th!

I love you Scott!!

Fun with Science.

After Christmas, we went over to the Kids Science Works museum in Ashland. We finally got a year pass and plan on using it as much as possible.*Any mom's that want to go over with us let me know!* Most of these pic's are of the kids in the bubble room since that's where we spend most of our time anyway!!

Christmas in 3 parts...

What a wonderful Christmas!! This year we really focused on the true meaning of Christmas with the kids and we really felt the spirit the whole season. Christmas morning was spent at our home with just our family. It was so nice to be together as a little family.

Then we went over to Grandpa and Grandma Mortenson's house for a big breakfast and sledding! (thanks GiGi)

Next we packed our bags and headed to Medford to be with Grandpa and Grandma Olsen. Kris, Dan and Dan's mom, and Chris and Kara were able to be there too. All the kids piled into bed with Grandpa and Grandma for a movie. We had lots of fun and GOOD food. Thanks to Everyone! We had a wonderful Christmas!!

Kiddie ornaments

Christmas Eve, Grandpa Evan sat all the kids down to make there own ornaments. They first took 2 different color pipe cleaners and twisted them together. Then they bend them into any shape. Next we (Grandpa) dipped them into boiling water with Borax and salt. I just realized that I didn't take any pictures of the finished product, but I will get some and post.

But, they turned out awesome because Grandpa added double the Borax so the ornaments looked like they were covered in huge rock candy! Very fun!

Christmas Eve tradition

Our Christmas Eve was so great this year. The more kids we add to the bunch the more fun we seem to have. We actually kept to the Christmas book that we have and did something out of it every day. The nativity was what we choose for Christmas Eve.This year the kids were all old enough to take part in the nativity as Grandpa Evan read it in the scriptures. That is of course, except for Connor who refused to dress up as a Shepard. And Macie, who didn't want to wear her sheep ears. But it was so cute anyway and a great tradition we will continue from now on.

And Christmas just isn't Christmas without GIGI, my Grandma who comes up almost every year to spend the Holidays with us.

Changes

The girls finally share a room!! Sorta. Scott's parents gave us the trundle that he usto sleep in as a kid, and we finally had time to pull it out of the garage and into Ellie's room. Ellie was more excited about having a "magic" bed than the fact she would now be sharing it with her baby sister. Scott went out and bought Macie a new mattress , sheets and an electric blanket. And Wala!! I can take the pac'n play out of our room. Macie is still getting usto it and does not like waking up alone, but it a big step in the right direction for us all!

Rule #1.....

.....Always.....No, NEVER...go out in a blizzard!!

Mix n' it up!!

Just put some changes on The Dress-up Drawer blog!! Thanks to Julie, I have a bunch of cute new extras on the sidebar!! And some pic's of a few of my favorite capes I made this month!

www.TheDressupDrawer.blogspot.com

Litttle inventor!

Ellie came home from school and wanted to play an Arthur game on the computer but I was on and I told her to wait. She got very impatient and decided to make her own!! Mouse and all!!