My Star!

5th Grade winter band concert was tonight. I'm very proud of my trombone player! J is a very sports minded individual and I wasn't so sure how he'd take to playing an instrument. However, I wanted him to experience it for at least a year. So far he seems to really enjoy it and has made no mention of quitting. Hooray!

He had a part in a trio tonight too, he said he was nervous....sweated it out a bit, but I couldn't tell. he did a great job! I'm proud of him!

Baby Its Cold Outside!

How cold is it????


Its sooooo cold my 3 year old acutally left her mittens on! THATS COLD!


We stayed in bed this AM hoping hoping for 2 hour late start. But alas, it was not to be. SIGH. As we are making the last drop off to preschool S started to complain her little toe hurt. Once arriving at school I checked the size on her boots.....WHOOPS! I thought for sure they were a big 13...NOPE! They are a 12! S wears a 1. Two stores later problem solved.

If anyone needs a size 5 pink boot....Walmart has like 20. Well my Walmart does anyway. They do not have any 1's or 2's.

Its suppose to be 20 on Sunday. That sounds like a heat wave.

The Newest Light Switcher....

This means going to the bathroom alone? Totally an option!! Hooray!!

Reason number 6754 for stalling the bedtime procedure....

"Mom, I slept with my toothbrush, and now I can't find it"

Minty fresh Eyeballs

Are you in the market for some? Here's what you do....

1. Rub "Vicks" vapor rub on your 3 year old.

2. Wash hands with soap and water.

3. Remove contact. Say, "wow, that kind of stings"

4. Quickly remove other contact (because your brain is frozen and the cause of the stinging has yet to connect all the way)

5. Then say, "wow! now my first eye is really stinging....and oh my my other eye is too!"

6. Ta-da! Minty fresh eyes.

Conclusions....soap and water does NOT remove Vics from your hands.

Snowflakes

On the first day of winter we decided we needed to make snowflakes! The girls had lots of fun. S loves to cut and is rather handy with the scissors. G on the other hand is rather scary with a scissors. I was proud that I let them use glitter in the house and I didn't take over. It was a good day.

One beautiful creation created. Ignore glue on shirt sleeve. Being creative is messy.

More Glitter! MORE!

And just a little more!

Its done!

Hey there....always think I'm going to get all these great Christmas posts in....and I'm loving reading blogs from those who do...but I just never seem to get that in. Nor did I get super great pictures taken this year.

BUT I did enjoy Christmas with my family. We got to stay home Christmas Eve and Christmas day....we had a great time...eating good food....going sledding....watching movies.....just hanging out. Saturday we went to my family.....lack of communication...lots of people pleasing going on...blah blah blah...but its over. Suday we went to hubby side of family......much less drama, nice this year. Then we went up north for New Years and had some more fun with SIL and family. Swiming, sleeping in, enjoying fabulous breakfast buffet, movies, games, Wii. Good times.

Now its January. -20 out this AM. Sigh.

The Kings came today....Christmas season, over and out!