366 Laughs- January 30, 2016

1/30/16

A really really good day.


Families are forever.
Tom's parents and one of his sisters in law were able to come to the temple with us, as well as many ward members and other friends.




We've been thinking about and looking forward to this day ever since we had Michael.



And this is where Benjamin gets it from.

366 Laughs- January 29th 2016

1/29/16

Benjamin was being silly.  And creepy.



In multiple pictures.


Funnnnn.   :)


Closeup of Michael.


Oh, and we figured out  how to keep Ginny in her seat for meals.


We separated the high chair into chair and table.  (yes, it was built to do this...)


She's a cutie.

366 Laughs- January 25 2016

1/25/16

We printed Michael's official mission map, with all the wards and stakes on it.  We'll track him through his mission.



We also thought, after seeing this little one loving the map, that we might mark siblings' height on it now and through out his mission.



We'll head into this experience with all our heart, might, mind and strength!



And miss him, too.

366 Laughs- January 24th 2016

1/24/16

A Sunday in which 9 children stayed home, and Mom and Dad went to Ward Conference with Michael.



We haven't been to church with just one child since... Benjamin was born.  Benjamin and Emilie cared for the rest of the recovering children.  I came home after Sacrament meeting.  Tom and Michael came home after the rest of the meetings and then Michael attended the YSA ward in the afternoon.  Yes, he's done that since October or so.  Two wards.  Well, for three more weeks.






Finally getting Christmas letters/pictures ready to mail.

366 Laughs- January 21st 2016

1/21/16

Lots of snow today.  Tom stayed home from work, but not due to snow, more because I didn't sleep at all after taking care of three different sickies over night.  One of them being the littlest.












However, despite the snow, we got something in the mail today.

366 Laughs- January 12th 2016

1/12/16

This guy needs eyebrows.

With the impending mission call on the way, I found these on ebay.  No redhead/blonde left, no sisters left, there were plenty of these little guys who can go preach the gospel to our Little People Princess Castle and other sets...

Love them.  I'll keep looking for a redhead, though.

366 Laughs- January 9th 2016

1/9/16

Michael's sweet Ebay find.  I guess this usually goes for a lot more money... it has slight corner damage.  It has a book, CD, vinyl, and lots of cool extras.

Plus we took a silly picture making it look bigger (as well as his hands, haha.)

All good.

366 Laughs- January 7th 2016

1/7/16

Oh, no, Liberty!  You ate Michael!




We played with playdough today...
Samuel's guy looks like he's inflated.



He also made an elephant for Ginny.


He also took the pictures of the playdough.  I have lots of angles.

366 Laughs- January 2nd, 2016

1/2/16

Tonight our laughs came from decorating cookies that we've needed to make since Christmas when Tom got his ABC (already been chewed) cookie cutters.  Here's a recap:



So since our Kitchenaid is still out of commission, I picked up some clearance Christmas cookie icing (say that 3 times fast) at Target and one color was red... lots of bloody dismemberment, apparently.



But there was a lot of creativity, too.  It was fun.  Benjamin even did some after he got home from work and before heading to bed.  Which we are all doing early as we start 8 am church tomorrow!


BYU!  He made a "Y" out of white sprinkles.

I love the happy fish.  Those feet have problems.

Yay!  Cookies!  Yeah, she didn't understand decorating quite yet.

She was very careful with her decorating.

Samuel is having fun.

Timothy did a lot with gore...


Emilie's zombie... Tom was more meticulous.


Liberty decorating a butterfly.  The rest got scary.

That's where those feet came from.

Nathanael autographed his first few.  I guess they're collector's editions.

365 Joys- December 28th 2015

12/28/15

We finally got some snow!  (and under that is ICE... so Tom worked from home today.)





And it's always a good day for Vitamin C!  (see?)

I'm going to miss this  kid   adult human.

365 Joys- December 27th 2015

12/27/15

I made these.
Yes, these.

Tom bought me new fabric scissors for Christmas.  (the replace the old ones I got in 1987... yes, that is an 8... for my sewing class in junior high.)  We bought BYU fabric for bow ties, but we saw that we had enough for real ties, too, and these two aren't going to do bow ties.

So yes, here is my awesomeness for the week.  Still need to finish 3 more bow ties.  (I've already made 2... one for a gift, one right here!)