Friday, November 21, 2008

I love these guys....

Saturday night I decided to do something I've never done with Lissies hair. In the old day to curl their hair they would use rags and tie them. Since we don't have a small curling iron or curlers we decided to give it a try. I told her she would look like a princess and she sat for about 30 minutes while I did this to her hair. This is quite a challenge for Lissie to sit still for that long, but she did it (maybe cause I told her she'd look like a princess).
when we finished.
This si the final result. This is how it Looked after church. I thought the curls were a bit too tight, but Mark kept saying he thought it was really neat.


Lissie and I making a silly face..(we took this after taking a pic of the boys).
Here are the boys. I had to take picture of all three boys in their matching shirts before Taylor grew out of them. They looked so handsome and matching.


Also, tonight we had the missionaries over. You have to have the meal ready when they get here. (about 5:15). I'm lucky if I have the meal ready by 5:30. Anyways about 3:30 I started on the meal. Mark and I had planned what we were going to make. We are also a little short on main ingredients because it is the end of the week. We usually do shopping friday or saturday. As I started making supper I noticed we ran out of corn starch. Okay, I'll us flour. I don't have enough sugar, maybe I'll just half the recipe. I need to make bread, oops not enough flour because I already made a pie crust. So at about 3:45 I load up all the kids in the car and head off to the store. I emphasized how much of a hurry we were in and the kids needed to be good and stay in the cart. They were amazing. We got home by 4:15 .I asked them to help me when we got home as well. THey did just that. I had the laundry that had been folded, but not put away. So I had them help me hide it on my bed. I made the bread, and the potato soup (we didn't have enough potatoes either, had to get those) and Alex grated cheese, Brigham cut up the banana and set the table and they helped take care of Taylor (as did Lissie) and so forth. Alex stirred the pie filling on the stove, perfectly. We got the banana cream pie, bread and potato soup done by about 5:20 and Mark showed up with the missionaries about 5-7 mins later. Just enough time to hide a few odds and ends and feed Taylor. It was great. We were blessed, and had a good time having the missionaries for supper.

7 comments:

Julie P. said...

Cutest boys ever in their matching shirts:) Brilliant idea with the rags, Lizzie looks just like Brigham in that picture and the after picture looks adorable!

Anonymous said...

Love those darling children!!
Wish we could come there, Digs

Lisa Michelle said...

I love the matching shirts! And the rag curls, too - such cute kids!!!

The Tanner Thompsons said...

sweet shirt tay-man

Lisita said...

Carrie - This is Lisa (Soeur Turner). I've been asking around to see if any old mission friends had your address and one had your blog address. Hope you don't mind! I'd love for you to email me your home address so I can keep in touch and send you a Christmas card. I'd also be happy to give you access to my family blog if you are interested! Merry Christmas to you, Mark and your darling kids!
Lisa
davfamseattle@gmail.com

The Steeds said...

After reading your post, I really miss seeing you guys. You have the cutest family. Glad to know that you are doing great! Take care and Merry Christmas!

CamilleJohnFam said...

Your kids are darling and that's some fancy shopping there (well done). we have to do that some times too!
Camille (I guess I'll just sign it as Soeur Anderton so you'll know who just wrote this!)