Monday, February 7, 2011

Tea Party

Alyson Annie & Ivy
I was just looking at my pictures and realized I didn't post about the cute tea party the girls had with Grandma Kat over the break.
Annie just started preschool and dance. She loves it and can't wait to go to school everyday like Ruston. My kids are all growing up to fast. About a week ago Lindsay was sitting in the high chair saying MOM and I would say what and she would say MOM and I would say what This went on and on so I stopped answering and she tilted her head looked directly at me and said Janice! She is so funny and smart.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Christmas 2010

We had a super busy and FUN Christmas Season. Here are the cracker houses the kids made.
The kids wanted to eat them that night and I told them no that much sugar would make them sick. So when it was time to eat them Ruston looked and me and said, so is this a good day to get SICK? I had no idea what he was talking about it was funny how concerned he was about it being ok to get SICK. I finally caught on to what he meant and said sure you have 10 mins to eat as much candy as you can and then they are going in the trash. He couldn't finish is house before he had had enough. Annie on the other hand ate all of hers and half of Lindsays!



The kids had a great time making sugar cookies. I found a fantastic frosting that works like easy cheese cans it was so smooth!
Alder Super Saturday


After the Alder party Lindsay cut her finger on a glass Christmas tree bulb. She came to me really calm and placed her thumb on my arm I looked down and saw all the blood dripping off my arm and raced her to the bathroom. I could not get it to stop bleeding and it was really deep so off the the ER we went. She fell asleep on the way there but she ripped the bandage I had put on off so blood was just dripping down her coat for 20 mins. She looked like a war scene by the time we got to the doctors. It took seven stitches to close her thumb up. All the nurses were eating her up as she calmly watched with interest as they stitched her up and she kept saying thank you to them. What a brave little girl.

Christmas EVE

Rusty & Ruth

I made a quilt out of Ruston's baby shirts.
Ruston built his 600 piece pirate ship by following 48 pages of instructions. What determination I only helped a little.
I repainted a toy box for Annie to store all of her dolls and dresses.
We had a wonderful Christmas. On Christmas eve we were in the bathroom brushing our teeth getting ready for bed and Ruston looks and me very seriously and asked "Mom am I going to have sugarplums in my head tonight. Before I could answer his 7 year old cousin Eli says Ya! (Like how could you even question it) It was so funny. So the next morning I asked him if he did have sugarplums in his head he simply said yep.
We were all sitting around the dinner table and Ruston said, How come Lindsay has ELK teeth. None of us got it and then five mins later Grandpa said do you mean BUCK teeth? Ya why does Lindsay have BUCK teeth? We all had a good laugh. My Ruston is so funny.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

The first Snow






An Alder Thanksgiving

We had a great time thank you Dean & Lori for hosting this year! KayLyn we missed you

Friday, November 5, 2010

Indians

With Halloween over we are ready for Thanksgiving. We had a play date and were Indians.
We made fun headbands and necklaces, then we built a super fort. The boys had a fantastic time hunting for food and the girls had a great time cooking it.

Annie of course was an Indian Princess!
I love this time of year because it reminds us of how much we have to be thankful for. We have been so blessed with wonderful family and friends. We love you all so much. Life is good!

Halloween

We had a great time carving pumpkins this year. Ruston even stuck his hand inside once! He was much more daring than last year.
Annie wasn't scared she jump right in and pulled the guts out!


Lindsay was ready for a nap this was the best picture of her

We made Sugar cookies and I made sure we didn't give any that Annie made away. She was a finger licking candy touching monster. They even made me a little cautious watching her decorate the cookies.


Too bad she didn't like the red hots they were her favorite thing to decorate with. After she had completely covered about four cookies she tried one candy and spit it out I tried to warn her but she wouldn't listen then she wanted to eat Ruston's cookies.


Ruston got to walk in his first Halloween parade. Too bad he was running past and his pictures were blurry. He was a cute little blue dragon. Here are the girls watching all the costumes. Annie was looking for princesses like her.


One more attempt with the pumpkins look close at Lindsay's face in this one too funny!
Oh Lindsay!

My cute little Dorthy and she just loved caring her dog around

Yes that little tiny hair stickying out is an attempt at Dorthy pigtails



The church Halloween party

Lindsay and Skylee

The Beecher gang out trick or treating
Happy Halloween! Annie wanted to go in every house and sing them a song and show off her beautiful dress. I told her we just ring the doorbell we don't go in and every time she would tell me, "they want me to come in they can't wait to see my dress!"