My Grandpa

I wish I had a digital picture to post of my grandpa, but nope. He passed away last Friday, and his memorial service is today. He is the last of my grandparents to pass away.

Anyways, I just wanted to post a little something about him, since it was too difficult for me to go. My grandpa was a man with a sense of humor. He always seemed to joke around (or at least that's how I saw it when I was little). He even liked to tell Mark jokes (you should ask him what they were!). He has been generous to my small little family, though he had very little. He was a very hard worker, and was a farmer most of his life. We would go help him on the farm when we were little during the summer for a few days. Despite the horrible smell, I enjoyed it. Because of circumstances, I was not able to see him for over 20 years, but was able to keep in touch with him by phone and email and letters over the last 10 years. I was hoping to visit him soon, but that wasn't meant to be. We hope you have peace, Grandpa! I love you.

Christmas Attire

These are the kids looking spiffy in their new Christmas attire. I only got this picture before the battery died. Lissie wanted to see the picture so that is why she running to the camera. We are doing well and enjoying being married for 7 Years!!!

ITS The CHRISTMAS Season!

Marks parents came up for a day last weekend. It was fun. One of the activities we did was make gingerbread lanterns. You cut out holes in the pieces of gingerbread and then you put crushed hard candies in the holes you popped out and cook the gingerbread like that. The candies melt. It makes colored windows. Then you can put a candle in it. We never got to the candle part because the kids ate their creations too fast.

We got our Christmas tree on Saturday and then did the decorating on Sunday. Mark is making a fire. You can see our stockings are hung by the chimney with care, in hope that ...

The past weeks

This is Abe, our little squirrel. I've caught him a couple of times peaking into our window and was able to capture it. He kept tapping on the glass. He's a big guy.
Alex lost a tooth! Okay so this is what we call apple teeth. We cut out teeth and put them in our mouth. This was pretty funny.
Lissie has become the little mother. She is always rocking a baby or telling up to be quiet so her baby can sleep.
Lissie reading Snow white. This is the page where Snow White is sleeping in the open coffin. I thought it was perfect since she is sound asleep.

In Boston they have wreath making parties for a lot of the wards. My mom sent me some stuff to do with my sister. These are the bows. These are the only things that I was able to capture of Thanksgiving. We had a blast with my sibblings that were here.
The kids wanted to help. Betsy's wreath doesn't change much from what you see. I made one for my sister who was there the day before and Katy made one. This is on Friday. On Saturday I made one for us. See result below. I didn't get a picture of the other ones.

Friday night when everyone left we made turkeys out of gumdrops and marshmallows. My nephew was sick, so we weren't able to do much on Thanksgiving Day. Here's Brigham with his.
and here is me with the kids and their turkeys.

I'm it!!

I was tagged by my sister in law, Julie on her blog. The rules are posted below.

RULES:
1.The player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves - try to find 6 you haven't already posted about!
2. At the end of the post, the player tags 6 people and posts their names, and then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog for the rules

Now to think about something about myself that people don't know or that I haven't already said.

1. When I have on my pajama sweat pants and it is cold, I put my feet inside the pantlegs and use them as slippers, to keep my feet warm.

2.I like to eat raisin bran cereal, but I like to wait until the milk has made it a little soggy (not too soggy) before I eat it.

3.Alex can run almost as fast as I can, and if I give him a little headstart, and book it as fast as I can he still beats me.

4.I use to think that sleep was such an overated thing, and I hated to have to go to sleep instead of doing things. However, after having 3 kids who were terrible sleepers as babies, I like sleep now and sometimes even take naps at the same time they are.

5.In public I don't talk very much and Mark does, but at home I carry on most of the conversation between Mark and I. Mark is really not a big talker. So if you ever talk on the phone with him and he seems to cut you off don't be offended he doesn't really like to talk much. My father in law was once surprised when we went on an overnight driving trip with them, how much I was able to talk with Mark, as I was trying to keep him awake.

6.Mark and I play a game at night with the news. We guess the temperature for the day and see who was the closest.

I won't tag anyone because you have all done it already.

HALLOWEEN IS FUN!

Alex insisted that he wanted to be a bee for Halloween. Here is the back of his costume. We had a little problem with the material. It kept ripping, but we were able to get it to work for the day! He may even get to wear it for play for a little bit.

Here is what the front looked like.

Here is Brigham. He is Super Why. He loves super heros and thus the choice. This one loves to read.
Then Elisabeth changed what she wanted to be a gazillion times, but when we were making the costumes she said she wanted to be Ariel. This is what it looked like.

We had a good time trick or treating. We actually went to this place where a bunch of businesses got together to trick or treat and then went to some of the neighbors. It was fun. The kids loved it.

Happy 5th Birthday

Alex's birthday was a fun day for him. Here is his cake. We did a yellow firetruck since we ran out of red food coloring.

This is Alex blowing out the candles as we sing. We did practical gifts this year and got him a winter coat. Then there is a quilt made from some material we had. Alex really liked the orange material. He was such a great sport about getting these and really likes them.

Thanks for the calls and gifts to remember this day. Alex was happy.