Thanksgiving/early Christmas

 

We had a great time with the Noyes clan this weekend. Aunt Sarah, as always, was very prepared for little girls and had princess bags with little goodies for all of them. I, on the other hand, brought lots of toys to fight over. Silly me. Three copies, come on Pam!

The food was awsome. I had a GREAT birthday. Lots of playing inside and out. It was pretty much just a god time.

 
 



We also celebrated an early Christmas. Grandma is so creative. The girls LOVE the dresses she made for them. Tenna is wearing it right now as she sleeps. And their plates...I should just get rid of everything else! They had a great time. Plus, Sarah got some video of Andi singing two songs all the way through, maybe I will get a copy to post!

 

The haircut

 





Tenna loves having long hair, "like Barbie." Unfortunately she got a hold of my scissors yesterday while I was in the potty helping Andi. She cut a few chunks from the front, so I decided we needed to fix it.

 



So we cut her beautiful hair. I was cleaning up and FOOLISHLY left the scissors within her grasp! I was silly enough to think she was actually watching the movie. She is totally going to work for the CIA, she is so attentive.

 




So NOW, she has bangs, and a strange gap on the side of her head that I don't know WHAT to do with. Do I take her to a real salon and get her hair layered? Do I ignore the gap? What do you think?
 

Too yucky outside

 
Tenna asked me today if this is winter time...pretty close. It's been a while since we have had to bust out the big inside fun time toys. The girls were pretty stoked on the tent. I guess there are some good things about the cold weather, I just forgot how much clothes we all ahve to wear to keep warm in the house.

Evening tag post

 

Thanks Queens Scarlet for tagging me. I have needed some motivation to post recently and this one was fun. My sink. Yum. If you could only see the disgusting things I have had to deal with in that sink earlier in the day, sigh. Thanks mom for always helping me with my dishes. Are you amazed that I have only a few things in it after so many days have passed since your last visit?







 




My favorite room. I love our dining room. I wish we didn't have the piano in it, and of course, that it was clean. I had to be honest and take pics in the natural state of things.

More tag

 







My closet/craft room/ storage shed. Sigh. Good thing I am such a slob so all I ever wear is sweats! J/kish.






 






My fridge, again, slob. I am such a pack rat. At least I have started an art file for the girls. That's decreases the clutter a bit.





 








Laundry room/ food storage/ peepee clothes dump. Some day I will have shelves just for laundry stuff. I will have no old paint/food storage/ water storage in my functional laundry room! Some day!






 
Favorite shoes. Well right now. I am cold all the time. I even wore these for a nap yesterday. I know, so sexy huh?

More tag

 

So this is not out "working bathroom," but it is our Master Bath. It will likely remain in roughly this state for a while. I love pharmacy school!

 











It is 9pm and Tenna is not sleeping. She has a cough, poor girl. And I would like to qualify that I just got her sheets out of the dryer from the latest incident, so no my kids don't live in THAT much squalor, they do have bedding!

 





Andi, sleep monster. She has so turned into a 2 year old. She is taking some time for a monster re-charge.

 






And bumper is doing whatever feti do on the cusp of the second trimester. Oh, and making me feel fat. BTW this counts as the picture of me too.

Dream vacay, no pics....I think a cruise to Alaska. Albert gets to fish. He catches me a lot of salmon. The girls and I hike with Grandma's to see lots of animals. Ahhhh.

Oh and I choose to tag....
Amy (because I know your spotless house will put me to shame)
Tiffany
Becky
Heidi
Sarah
Cheers!

Exercses

 

Yep, Tenna is working on bulking up, Andi is more into toning.

 

I know it has been a while since I posted. I missed Halloween and Grampa Pete's visit. All I can say is we were having too much fun to take pictures!

Things city kids miss...

 

I was chatting with Leanna this week about her college experience, and it came up that she has some very "city kid," roommates. One makes me think of myself, or my upbringing, I dunno. She eats garbonzo bean pancakes and cookie dough, the end. I just laughed. I had never tasted a breakfast casserole and I thought dutch oven cooking must be done by those with Dutch ancestory. Being married to a farm boy from Utah has opened my eyes to all sorts of culenary delights. Case in point: sausage "biscutz" and gravy. Me likey. Andi likes them too, but she still has a bit of the city kid in her. She ate her steamed broccoli first. ;)

Snow day!

 

We had a big (for October) snow storm yesterday. Tenna was begging to build a snow man all day so after church and naps we had to concede.

 
 

Conference....

 

Teaches us to live humbly and be glad for what we have. We have decided that we will just wear paper bags from now on...JUST KIDDING!

 

This was a little craft we did for our "pre-school" a little while back, and it's a big hit. Tenna kept hers on for about an hour.

 

Obviously when you are wearing such beautiful pieces you must dance! This is serious haute coiture!

 

Fall!

 
Everyone seems to be posting fall pictures. I would love to have some wonderful pics in the changing leaves, but the first joy of fall to me is dinner in a pumpkin. Unfotunately this was the WORST dinner in a pumpkin ever, so I was the only one that choked some down. Hey, at least it is raining.
In other news, Andi is an amazing potty training girl! I really wanted to wait until after our road trip with Grandma, but she is adamant, and quite good too! I say that after having to pull my hair out with Tenna. She actually notices when she is wet, and will tell me when she has to go. That being said, I did catch her peeing on the wall while waiting her turn on the potty, at least she took her clothes of first, right?

Moody Artist

 

Science mom

 

I know Sarah, you hate when I put spider close-ups on the blog, but here goes. We caught a wolf spider in the house last week. Yes, I am still a whimp, yes I did squeel and scream the whole time, but I caught it!

 
I mostly caught it to prove to Al that we really do have spiders of that magnitude in the house. Yes, i am the fierce jungle queen. Well I caught a little house spider the next day and the girls decided we should throw them togehter and see what happens. Well "wolfy," like it's little snack, so we got adventurous. We tried a beastie grasshopper form the garden. No beans, to big. So we set it free, and caught a few more little guys for our spider. The girls still loved having the spider around, but we decided we couldn't keep feeding it through the winter so Albert set it free. It was a fun observation though. It sure taught Tenna about what it really means for somehting to eat something else. She was a little sad for the little spiders.

More excited...

 

...than she looks. Todays was Tenna's first day at her new dance class. She was so excited to really work her moves. Andi was jealous, so I will have to figure out a mommy and me class or something!

Sweet moments, or manipulation?

 

Andi loves playing in the garden, and they both love the sand box. I caught this little moment after Andi had helped me pick some tomato and zucchini for our dinner. Andi was picking cherry tomatoes for herself and Tenna. Such sweet girls!

Summer fun

 
The girls loved shucking their own corn, but cornsilk is yucky.

Flying princess

 
This pic is from Andi's birthday, adorned with pretties! Oh she is a spoiled little girl! The "flying," part comes from a BBQ yesterday at a friends house. Andi was playing upstairs in the baby's room while some boys were running down the hall and jumping into the hosts arms. It was way fun for 4 year old boys! I went down to check on Tenna in the back yard. Upon returning into the house I was greeted by a thud and a wailing that I instantly recognized as Andi. I ran upstairs (it's a 3-split level home) to find on of the other moms trying to comfort Andi, her lips beginning to swell and bleeding. Oh great...It made me think of Katie's story. Anywho, she thought the flying jump thing looked like fun, and apparently didn't notice that there had been someone there to catch the boys. She just went for it. Luckily they have carpet! So she is a bit banged up, but (thankfully) still has all of her teeth!