SNOW FUN!

We had a couple days of snow fun! This 'E' girl just could not WAIT to get outside the first morning we woke up to snow. Her and 'R' went out for a little bit and 'L' went out when we had to take 'E' to school. He thought it was pretty cool too.

Google added this cute snow affect. I thought it was pretty cute!

So being the 4th kid and the first boy, you can't blame me for putting pink gloves and boots on this kid. Like he cares! He had fun! On this day we all went out together for like 2 hours. Daddy built a snow tunnel and then we played around with the sleds for a bit too.

Fun SNOW!

Happy Turkey Day!

Didn't take any pictures of any of the actual festivities, but we did make this fun craft the day before thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving day we drove to Richmond, north of Logan, and had Thanksgiving dinner at my brother's house with another brother and my parents and great grandparents. It was yummy and fun! And the kids had fun with their cousins!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Birthday 'W'!!!

So, 2 days before her 7th birthday we went to the mall...to get her ears pierced! She was so excited, and did a great job. She picked the light green peridot stone. 

The day after her birthday we invited a few of her friends over for a party. I didn't get many great pics, sorry, but they had fun. They had pizza and decorated cupcakes and then we watched the movie 'Planes' and had popcorn and cookies. It was fun!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY W!!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

So, the night before Halloween we got pumpkins and the girls all made their own faces in them. Here is some pics of them doing that:

We had a pretty fun Halloween day. The two older girls were excited to go to school. Their principal is a very cool guy, and they do a parade throughout the school in the afternoon, where every class dresses up and walks around every classroom and each class adds onto the back, and they even go outside a few times so that parents can come and see as well. I don't have pics from it since my phone died, but I will update with some from Will later. Here is everyone's costumes tho! Oh and I had a poodle skirt as well that I have a pic of I will add later too. 'L' boy and Daddy are my 50's greasers w/ 'R' matching with them. 'W' is a princess fairy and 'E' is a butterfly. (sorry about the fuzziness, my phone was totally wigging out yesterday and now today it is dead and hopefully getting replaced). Enjoy!

 And we ate bones and mummies for dinner!

 Happy Halloween!

FALL FUN

Here are some pics of fun times the kids had in the leaves the past week or two! 'L' boy wasn't too sure about them, but they all had fun!

Pickled Green Tomatoes

So I decided to try something new today. Since it has been so cold lately, we've had to pick all of our green tomatoes, which is a LOT. I've never even tasted pickled tomatoes before, but why not have 6 quarts of something you've never tried? I mostly used cherry tomatoes, using this recipe here and actually cut enough up to do 3 more quarts or so, and tons of regular sized ones I don't know what I'll do with. Anyways, here is the final product:

We have a RAT!

Yes we have a rat, and it is VOLUNTARY. We got the girls a little pet rat. We decided on a rat, because when we were first married we had one, and between them, gerbils, or hamsters, we feel like they are nicer and better for kids. I've never ever heard of one biting a person, but the other animals will. She is so cute! When we get a bigger cage, we might get her a friend. Her name is Molly Lou, or 'LuLu' for short. ;)

(If you are wondering what is on the girls' hands below, they don't like the feel of her claws, so they put sock 'gloves' on their hands. lol.)

CRAZY HAIR DAY!

Thought I would post some fun pics of the girls' hair on crazy hair day at school. 'W' wouldn't let me get a pic of the front of her, but here is the back:

And here is 'E''s hair: