Saturday, January 21, 2012

Snowbound in Boise

With all the room decorating going on, the girls were not using their white dressers anymore so I offered them to Tammy for the boys room.  I decided to load them in the back of the van drive to Boise over the 3 day weekend. Melissa came with me.  (I was shocked that she didn’t mind missing school!)  Well, our 3 day trip turned into a week because of winter storms in the Blue Mountains.  Wonderful to have a reason to stay!  It was so much fun to be with the boys and Tammy for a whole week.  Melissa had a lot of makeup work to do but surprisingly she had a great attitude about it!  The weather down was sunny and beautiful, but that all changed in a few hours.

Road trip

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I hit snow in the Blues but only for a bit.  Then it was clear and beautiful. Melissa was glad to have the boys to herself! 

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Then we woke up to this on the morning we were going to leave…. Mother nature thinks it’s winter time!

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So we decided to stay and have more fun! Tammy taught me how to use my silhouette and we made awesome projects.

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Crafting keeps us sane!

I had tons of play time with the boys!  We might have had a few treats….

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Melissa taught them to dress up and have tea parties everyday.

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Blue tried to learn to crawl… He is working on it. 

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I got to feed him lunch.

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I was invited to a few tea parties too and to family prayer and reading books.  We all laughed so hard at Wes saying, ‘Not me’ for who wants to say the prayer….

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Sometimes, Wes has his own version of fashion. I like your boots Wes…

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Toby and Melissa stayed busy on the ipad and the smart phones.

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Finally, there was a break in the weather and we had a safe drive home.  What an unexpected wonderful vacation! 

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Katie is busy!

Katie is a busy girl with friends, school and now a job.  She was hired on at Dairy Queen.  She listed her job as an ice cream artist on facebook.  She can’t believe she gets paid to have fun.  I hope she always feels that way.

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She has been trying facial masks.  How could she get more beautiful???

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Katie is such an exceptional girl.  I can depend on her for so much.  She follows thru on everything, work, school, spiritual life.  I couldn’t be more proud of her.  I love Katiebug (my password child!)