My Kind of Eggs

We decorated eggs last night. But not the typical hard boiled kind. These were much yummier! Rice crispy eggs dipped in white chocolate and a buffet of sprinkles. These are my kind of eggs.

Bailey rode her horse last weekend, after a long winter of going without.
She's going to be volunteering at the American West Heritage Center this summer and helping out with the animals, she hopes. She gets to dress in authentic 1917 period clothing. Do you know the women wore seven (7!!!) slips at a time to get the fullest skirt. Thank goodness that went out of style.

Cade had a swim meet tonight, and this time Grandma and Grandpa Lund came to watch, and Grandpa ended up being a timer. Cade did great and improved by a few seconds.

Avery registered for Kindergarten last week and is practicing her addition, multiplication, and division to get ready. (Thanks to her big brother and sister :)

We are all looking forward to Easter and Spring Break!!

Coming out of hibernation

I think it's time for an update. No more falling snow, no more ugly sweaters, it's SPRING!! WooooHOOOOO! Here's some snippets of what we've been doing while we were hibernating.

I've been taking some classes in Photoshop and Photography. It's so fun.


By the way, my blog is a mess. Could somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong and why I can't get the words to line up nicely with the pictures? I'm too tired to figure it out right now.

















Bailey got her hair cut. She doesn't like it. Lots of tears, saying "WHY did I cut my hair?!?"

Moki had a birthday. We think she is 11-ish.

Cade had a birthday and we sluffed school to go skiing. Turns out he LOVES it.

Avery learned how to ski too!

Avery decided she needed a makeover after seeing "Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakwell". She was so inspired by Jeanette that she really wants to BE her. She found some purple glasses at the mall, and has been wearing them for weeks. She thinks she looks smart. And her new favorite color is purple.

Girls night out at Disney Princesses on Ice.

Dave and I have spent the weekends working on the basement. I replaced the stinky carpet and pad in my excercise room and painted the trim white.

Now it looks like this, and it's my new favorite room in the house!

Dave continues to amaze me with his handyman skills. Here he is installing a toilet. Who knew he could do THAT? He completely finished this bathroom all by himself. He is a sheetrocker, ceiling texturer, tiler, plumber, painter, finish work, electrician, and oh yeah, the cabinet builder too.

Ugly Sweater Party

So much to post about in December, and so little time. These are pics from our annual Rivermill Christmas party. Again, I cried all night due to laughing at these funny guys. We stuffed ourselves, then danced it off doing "the evolution of dance". Next we had the difficult task of choosing a winner for the ugliest sweater. Jen's sweater had little acorns dangling from her sweater. (What the ?!?!?)

AND THE WINNER IS ...........

This cool dude, because he went the extra mile and purchased the silver pants to go with it!

What Should We Make?

What should we make?
Let's make a man.
Let's make the biggest man we can!
We will call our snowman Ned.
But first he has to have a head.
And then we'll string him up with lights
So he will shine all through the night.

Avery made her own little snowman, then she spent a gross amount of time LICKING him. (She says it makes him smoother).

Still LICKING........

And now she's EATING him.

Hope you are enjoying the snow too!!

Have a Regular Christmas

Thank you to those who cheered me up after my last post. I'm over my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, and another thing I'm grateful for is wonderful friends who pick me up, dust me off, and set me back on the path. Mothers need that every once in a while!

Wanna know the perfect age for Christmas? It's 4.5

The joy this little one finds in every new thing is so contagious and she is making this holiday season so much fun for us! She's been wrapping up things around the house to give to people, and she's cutting out scraps of wrapping paper and taping them to the walls to "decorate". (You know the song, "Deck the Halls with Wrapping Paper, la la la la la......")

And I keep finding the strangest things tucked in our Christmas trees. Things like pencils, cotton balls, pictures she's drawn, anything she thinks would add beauty to the tree. *smile*

She sat on Santa's lap at preschool today, and guess what she told him she wanted? A "DS" and and IPod Touch.
That was news to me.
Dang those older siblings for putting ideas in her head.















She is really digging the whole idea of reindeer landing on our roof, and has been acting like a reindeer for three days now. She makes all of her friends that come over pretend to be reindeer with her.















Last week we had a real treat and went to the Festival of Trees with Aunt Jess and Uncle Brent. Of course we couldn't go to Salt Lake without making a detour to go to In N Out Burger! Yes, we stood in a line in below freezing temperatures for a burger and fries, and was it worth it? MMMMM Hmmmmmmmm! Avery wore her cool "worker hat" the whole time. (Said she was going to put reindeer antlers on it when we got home).
























I loved the gingerbread houses- here's my favorite one, "Snowmen at Night"

















And a close second- the gingerbread outhouse. I'm thinking this could have been my Christmas Card this year, dang.

Even Santa needs a man-cave.

Look at the chairs on this ski lift! These creations just amaze me, and they almost inspired me to try and make a gingerbread house myself.

Almost.

Off to see the lights at Temple Square! The best part about that for the kids is riding the train, of course. Bailey really wants to live in a big city. But she also wants to live on a ranch with lots of horses. What to do?

For Jess and Brent, who are getting lots of practice with our kids at being great parents someday. ;) I'm thinking this could be your Christmas card this year, what do you think?