Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Spring Awards Assembly



Awards for the spring trimester... Never a shortage there. I tried to get a "serious" snapshot of the two of them after the awards, but they were feeling extemely corny. Brendan wanted to wear shorts on his head and Kinsers wouldn't look at me full on. We get what we get.



Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Kinsey

Kinsey is so funny.
"I am so pretty, can you take a picture of me?"

Girls Night


The girls had mani's and pedi's, then went out for a night on the town. (The princess and the frog and ice cream)

Easter

Due to a egg accident brought on by myself we were unable to dye easter eggs, instead the kids frosted egg cakes. Slightly less messy and much more tasty.
Who knew Easter bunnies were little blonde hoppers???

Cousins came in early from Oregon, so we had an early easter egg hunt.


Our Easter egg hunt on Easter was wonderful, but my pictures were all blurry. Children moving way to fast.

The Zoo!

"Oh it's the amingo's"
Crawling through the jaws of death.
Intent listeners at the Birds of Prey exhibit
Outside the ugly Anteaters
Sting Ray Bay

The kids were able to touch the Sting Rays and little baby Sharks

Our Spring Break plans were thwarted by a quick but violent bout of the flu that swept through the entire family, and of course we couldn't all get it on the same day, each day someone new got to take their turn hugging the toilet. Never the less, Spring Break was more than half over before everyone was feeling better. So we traded our bigger plans for a few small ones. The zoo being the biggest hit.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

The Yummy Mess that is Divinity




When I was little almost every Sunday my dad would make Divinity. Sugar, more sugar, and whipped egg whites. If I do it right it is a sumptuous light airy melt in your mouth that is for lack of a better word divine. Needless to say I didn't boil the syrup long enough and it didn't turn out. It was an oooey gooey tasty treat. So before I dump my failure down the sink I gave the kids each a spoon and let them go at it. MMmmm...




Ballerinas

My pretty ballerinas. I bought the girls dance outfits mostly just for me. Allison had been pretending to be a ballerina since we watched "The Nutcracker" during Christmas so I wanted to get some for her and I thought I would get some for all of them just because. But I would have never guessed how beautiful a ballerina outfit would make a girl feel. They were such a huge hit I think I am going to pick up a few more outfits. I bought them maybe a week ago and every day after school after everything else is finished they don't ask to play the x-box or watch tv, they ask to put on their ballerina outfits and they flit around the house and feel lovely. A few dollars is not to much for my girls to feel beautiful.