The White Witch's Reign Has Begun

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside.... (April 2nd)

....think Again.... (April 5th)

...and again.

Thus our long winter continues. Ther are some who may try to convience you that this is really spring snow. They are liars. This is only a misguided beleif the local population created to help them feel better about 9 months of winter. Just stay inside with some hot coca and hangout with the family.

I'm hoping school gets cancelled tomorow.

Sping Has Arrived.... Hopefully!

Yesterday we traveled to a small town in Iowa that has a job opening, so that Ben could give them his resume. the place is only about an hour and a half from my parents and we feel really good about the area.
We found the City park while we were there, it is very nice for such a small town. And the area is beautiful, it would be about a fifty min drive to church but really that is only another 10-15 min more then what we are getting used to here! And everyone is so friendly, I must have waved to over 1/2 a dozen people who where just walking by.

So even though we would love to find a job nearer to cousins we figure an hour and a half isn't to bad and since there doesn't seem to be any job openings around here at the time we would really appreciate it if you would all keep us and Paullina, IA in your prayers. We really look forward to finding a job and getting into our own little place again. We love my parents but yearn to be our own little family again.

Castles and Science with Dad

When I was I kid I had really cool blocks. The were plain woodblocks, I think scraps that my Dad picked up when he worked making cabinets. Though these are plastic the general experience is the same. With the added action figures. Karrah likes to pretend to be a "monster."

The other thing we do is science time with Dad. Today we covered a few concepts using glass jars, a spoon, water and food coloring. I filled the diferent jars and talked about high or low pitch, then we added red to the high ones, blue to the middle ones, and yellow to the low ones. After that we just experimented with colors and playing music.

I've been tagged!!!

I have been tagged by Trish (Trish, if you look closely AJ is in this picture!). I have done a tag that you take the fourth picture from your fourth folder, well things must be progressing because this tag is your sixth picture from your sixth folder so here it is! This is February in Las Vegas, I’ll have to post a picture of February in Minnesota!!!

I now tag Nicole, Natalie, Amber and Rachel.

Ben's Desk

Some of you may have noticed that on my side bar under my blogroll there is a link for Ben’s Desk and if you have ever clicked on it you will have noticed there wasn’t much to it but this post is to announce that there is now finally a post so feel free to click here to view it.

Auntie Tinker Bell

For some unknown reason Hannah has started calling my sister Valoree "Tinker Bell" almost exclusively. The other day we were asking about where Valoree was and she said " I think Tinker Bell is in Valoree's room" So here is a picture of Hannah and her Auntie Tinker Bell

Wishing You Were Here ?

Also thought you might enjoy some pictures of the snow, the currently very unsed tree swing above, and the barns and buildings below. The girls are enjoying themselves on Grandma's Farm, yes that's right there are a few animals in the barn in the middle back, about 10 chickens ( no more buying eggs for grandma) and 4 goats.

My little Domestic Goddesses

Karrah got this vacuum and laundry center you see behind her, complete with

ironing board and iron for christmas
These are the hot pads they got in their stockings they match the aprons they are wearing in the picture below, yes they are homemade but I got alot of help from my mom especially on the edging although I did do the quilting which was fun and I am rather proud of

I want to thank Amanda for the Apron pattern I used to make these beauties although I still don't think they are as cute as the one she made for Madie

Hannah and her "New Vanity". You can take that any way you want!!!!

Finally A Christmas Post

This picture was taken Christmas Eve hannah decided to make some sort os structure out of her toothpicks, crackers and hot dogs grandma amde especially for the girls while the rest of us were fonduing
This is Hannah waking Karrah up to open presents, Karrah just kept rolling around and kicking Hannah if I could figure out how to post a video you could hear Hannah say "stop kicking me"


Karrah loves her new baby doll and car seat!!!

Santa had a hard time getting all those goodies into those stockings

Graduation

Well we finally did it, we graduated, well okay Ben graduated but it feels like quite the accomplishment on my behalf as well. For those of you who don't know he graduated from UNLV with two separate and distinct Bachelors degrees a Bachelors of Arts in Secendary Education and Bachelors of Arts in History

Tag

This tag involves posting your fourth picture in your fourth file, we have a folder from our old broken camera (top picture) and a the rest from the new camera(the picture below). it is funny to me that both pictures are of Hannah the first one when she is about a week old and the other at three years old, I hesitated to post the later becuase of how incriminating it is to me as a mother(the messy hair thing) and it is totally random! Anyhow here they are and I now tag... Emily, Tonya, Nicole and Brittany Wadsworth

Halloween Fun

This was the girls first time really trick or treating, Hannah was sick last year and before that we only had done the trunk or treat thing. Hannah did really well with saying trick or treating!! She also got in a few Happy Halloweens. Karrah tried to walk in at the first few houses when people opened the door but got the idea soon after the funniest part was when people would let them pick out their candy Karrah always grabbed a little fistful!!!

Popcorn Anyone?

This is for you Tris

I just had to post these after I saw Tris's pictures of her kids in the bathtub this morning these where takin last night! To compare just go Here.

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Memories

Here's what you do:

1. Leave a comment about a memory you have with me. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. If you want to put this on your blog, let me know in your comment. I will come to your blog and leave you a comment about a memory I have with you. If you don't want to do this on your blog, I will put my memory of you in my comments. (So make sure you come back to this post to see what memory I have about you.)

There's Always Room For Jello

Sometimes I wish I could be a kid again! Karrah was ecstatic to be covered with chocolate pudding. The smile says it all. This classic cameo was accompanied by the cutest little girl laugh; a soft chuckle followed by sucking in air with the perfect smiley eyes. It is easy to see past the mess. No duck squeezing Wal-mart camera operator (no offensive) could capture such a pure moment of childhood. Got to love it.

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Ballet Class

I thought it was time to get Hannah involved with something, she needed something that would help her follow instructions, nursery only helps so much and since we are planning to homeschool I thought we better jump in to the extra curricular activities. Although I am not sure this is going to help her learn to sit still for sunbeams in January (poor sunbeam teacher)!!
Hannah had so much fun, I think her favorite part though was looking at herself in all those mirrors and hanging from the ballet bars(which I unfortunatly didn't get a picture of!)!! Sorry about the window pattern they made us sit outside becuase of "lack of room" even though it was a huge room before they split it in half with a partitioning wall which isn't a big deal it just didn't make for very good picture taking :) !!
In a class of 3-5 year olds most of them tended to do their own thing everyonce and a while but I am pretty sure Hannah was one of the youngest, even one girl that I thought was Hannah's age was at least a year older. She definetly was doing her own thing more often then the others.

But I find myself asking the question does this come from age or from personality?

I thought this was a fun effect for ballet class, I just figured out how to get the camera to do this while sitting there at the rec center. Oh and the others are a little fuzzy becuase I was having a hard time finding the kids and pets setting!!

Tag your it!!!

Okay so you may think I am completly weird but I have always wanted to do one of these and was to chicken to just do one when I wasn't tagged but I finally got tagged so here goes
1. What is your occupation? Mommy, Wifey, Enrichment Counselour ( I definelty think that qualifies as an occupation!!) Ican Librarian (although I am not doing much with that besides attending meetings and searching DI for VBAC books)
2. What color are your socks right now? not wearing any
3. What are you listening to right now? The girls playing
4. What was the last thing that you ate? breakfast
5. Can you drive a stick shift? Nope have only tried once
6. What color would you be, if you were a color? Purple I guess
7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Enrichment Leader
8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes
9. How old are you today? 26 years, 359 days)
10. Favorite drink? Can’t decide
11. What is your favorite sport(s) to watch? Volleyball-also my favorite to play
12. Have you ever dyed your hair? Only highlighted, never a full on dye
13. Pets? nope
14. Favorite food? Dark chocolate!!!
15. Last movie you watched? In theatre- Kung Fu Panda at home-Miracle
16. Favorite Day of the year? First snow
17. What do you do to vent anger? Sleep when possible
18. What was your favorite toy as a child? books
19. What is your favorite, fall or spring? both
20. Cherry or Blueberries? Cherries (have you seen my kitchen!!)
21. Do you want your friends to email you back? Sure
22. Who is most likely to respond? NA
23. Who is least likely to respond? NA
24. Living arrangements? Living with Husband and two daughters in a two bedroom duplex
25. When was the last time you cried? Few months ago
26. Who is the friend you had the longest that you are sending this to? NA
27. Who is the friend you have had the shortest that you are sending this to? NA
28. Favorite smell? Certain laundry detergents or shampoos
29. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? cheese
30. Favorite car? cadillac svu it’s a thing of beauty
31. Favorite cat breed? Dead, sorry a little morbid mabey I should say the one that never existed
32. Number of keys on your key ring? Depends on the key ring. I have three - two on my “everyday ring, three on the ring for my in-laws and parents and 5 on my church ring33. How many years at your current job? Wife-4 years and 1 week , mother-3 years
34. Favorite day of the week? Friday I guess
35. How many states have you lived in? 4 if you count the mission… if not 2
SO now I get to tag some of you. Okay here goes...Tapperz(you can post without a picture and this may be a fun thing to get you going) Brittany W. , Monica, Amanda and Sandra and just for fun to see if you guys are ever going to post again...Chrys K. Heather, Yvette and Julia (yes you) .......TAG YOUR IT