Chub-a-wubs first taste

Gabriel had his first taste of food, well rice cereal, if you can really call that food :D
He loved it! But, he loves anything he can put in his mouth.

He even cleaned his face when he was done!

A 6 foot snowman !!

they rolled....

and rolled...

and rolled....

and TA DA!!!!

a six foot snowman!!

Walden Pond

We have decided to try and get as much last minute sight-seeing we can in the last couple months we have here. So on ONE nice warm day we had we chose to go to Walden Pond. Elder Perry mentioned Walden Pond in his conference talk about living simple. Walden Pond is where writer Henry David Thoreau lived for two years on $28.12. It was a great talk and it got us both wanting to go see this place. Here are some pictures I was able to take while we were there.

This is a replica of the house Thoreau lived in.

Walden Pond and Emma

My dare devil. He kept trying to get in the freezing water and Emma kept screaming his name and freaking out. She is just a little like me...

My cute babies..

Miguel ran almost the whole way...

Emma whined the whole way...she really isn't the outdoors type..again alot like her Mom..

pouting.. :(

Gabey finally woke up and enjoyed the scenery...

Emma did eventually perk up and enjoy herself. Ces took them both up a side trail and they found a hill covered in ice that they slid down a few times. He didn't have the camera so I don't have pics but they had a good time. We went for pizza afterwards, too. We had a wondeful time.

Playdough Family

Emma requested our family be made out of playdough. Of course, I did it. Who doesn't like to play with playdough?! I'm rather impressed with my artistic ability so I had to share...

and yes, we all have beautiful golden tans just like them :D

Camp out!

Emma was out of school for winter vacation. She is very much a homebody so we did a lot of staying at home. She had a couple play dates with friends but then her and Gabe came down with a cold. (which turned into RSV for Gabe) Ces and I had some fun things planned for Friday and Saturday but we had to do some quick brainstorming to find something else to make the weekend fun for sick babies. So, I decided to have a camp out in the living room. We have lived in this apartment for almost three years and never used the fireplace so I decided it was time. We cooked hotdogs and then marshmallows for s'mores. The kids had so much fun. Miguel has a little play tent that I set up too. Miguel has been begging for another camp out everyday since. We will eventually have to take them camping for real so they don't grow up thinking that this is a real camp out :)




Miguel was funny. He had to cook his hotdog all by himself. He was thought the fire was amazing!! He would get as close as he possibley could without us freaking out and then he would hold his hotdog in the fire for about 2 seconds and say "ok, it's good." He ate about 4 of them!

Saturday fun!

Last weekend Ces attended the JRCLS Conference at the law school. So the kids and I were on our own. So we decided to do some craft projects, which they always love. We made these cute litle animals. The blue one is a kitty that was named Sweetheart and the other is a puppy which was lovingly named Dinosaur. Can you guess who's is who's?

Then they had to have homes, of course! So i cut a box in half and let them go to town painting.

It was a fun day. We also watched a movie and had some Burger King! I love hanging out with these kiddos. They are a ton of fun!

100 days!

Remember "100 day" in school? I do and I was so excited when Emma came home with her 100 day project. For those of you who didn't do this. To celebrate the 100th day of school you get choose 100 of something (marshmallows, pennies, noodles, etc. ) and then make something with it. Emma chose to use noodles. This is what she made.

I was so proud of her. She thought of this all on her own. I drew the butterfly on the paper then she glued the noodles on. I thought it turned out so cute! Ces said when he took her to school, whenever someone said to her she would hold up her butterfly and say Hi. Then when she got into her classroom, she really wanted to show her teacher Miss Sarah. Miss Sarah was talking with someone so Emma stood at her feet and held up her picture until she noticed. Miss Sarah put it on the wall and Emma was just glowing with pride!