Winter Wonderland

Ok I know I say I hate snow, but I do love the way it looks, I just hate having to drive in it, clean it off cars, and slip in it. Other then that it can be really beautiful, especially the day it snows. Today it was snowing all day so I thought I'd take some pictures of the things I saw, I just wish the camera could catch it exactly how I see it, today was beautiful!

My view out the window of the bushes

Early Dismissal!

The boys got out of school early today because of all the snow!

It was fun having them home, we watched a movie, ate popcorn, and here's a picture of C helping me make fudge! It tastes soooo good!

Play Dates!

Today we went on a fun play date at Caroline, Connor, and Christina's house. I love that my boys have so much fun playing with them, it makes me happy that all of the kids I love can have fun together! We stayed for a long time and even had dinner there with them. But in order for us to be able to stay for a long time we had to do our homework there before dinner, so here are all six kids trying to get their homework done so that they can go play some more!

But as you can see their hearts weren't really in it!

Making Cookies

Susanna really is my helper! Today we made Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and they turned out sooo yummy!

It was soooo cute, when I was walking to my house with her I was asking her if she wanted to make the cookies and she said that she didn't like raisins and that neither did her sister or brother, but her parents do and that's why they got married. Haha what a good reason to get married, because you both like raisins :)

New Year’s Mormon Message

I liked the little movie they have on this site about the new year:

New Year’s Mormon Message Encourages Optimism about the Future

New Years Eve

For New Years Eve we played a bunch of "Minute to Win It" games, it was soooo much fun! It definitely made midnight come a lot faster! Here are some pictures:


This game you had to get six ding dongs balanced on your head

This game you had a candy cane in your mouth and you had to use it as a hook and get candy canes from one bowl on one side of the room to another bowl on the other side of the room, it was pretty funny.

This one has some LOVELY pictures, this was seeing how many marshmallows you could stuff in your mouth, Rob stuffed 11 in his mouth and could still close it.

This is a game where you have to put an oreo on your forehead and without using your hands get it from there to your mouth, Katie was the only one who could do this, eventually I think Jason got it too.

This game is where you wear a headband with a slinky on top, the first person to get it to stand up straight wins.

This one was definitely entertaining! So five people stand in a line, each has a toothpick in their mouth. The first person puts a lifesaver on their toothpick and you have to pass it down the line until it gets to the last person and when the last person has five that's when it's over. Very Interesting game!

Next game you line up a bunch of cans then you put a stocking on your head that has a ball at the end and you have to knock over the cans by walking and bending over and walking like an elephant hitting them with your trunk.

This one you start with two pencils and you balance them on the back of your hand and then flick them up in the air and catch them, then you progressively go up by twos, first person to balance and catch 12 wins

Then we moved outside for something a little messier! These guys are watching from the window so that they wouldn't get cold!

This game was fun! You have to try to drop a mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke. You know who wins because they react to each other and the soda starts exploding out of the bottle!

Then of course we had to make it even more interesting! We wanted to see how big of an explosion we could make if we shoved a bunch of mentos in! Well by the look on my face in this lovely picture it scared the crap out of me!

Basically I had a WAY fun New Years with my family I'm glad I was able to be in town!

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!!

Bowling with the fam!

Today I went bowling with my family! So much fun! Here are the pictures!

Katie, Jason, and Johnny



My sister-in-law Jamie



Rebecca's mad skillz



Kaitlynn skills!




Josh, Amelia, and their baby Alex



Here I am trying to get Alexander to smile, he was kind of smiling just before this, he's still a little young to be smiling.



My brother Chris and his son Jonathan



John john



Emma



Christopher



Rachael



Rob, John John, Me, Kaitlyn, Rebecca, and Kaitlynn



Amelia, Josh, Jason, Alexander, and Katie



(Back Row) Dad, Mom, Maria, Jonathan, Chris, John, Jamie, and Grace
(Front Row) Rachael, Christopher, John John, and Emma



Katie and Johnny



I think this picture is awesome! Catching him in motion!



Here I am with two of my sister-in-laws and one of my sisters!



I was so excited to go bowling with my brothers because FINALLY I'd have some real competition! I got a 162 and my brother Johnny beat me by only 2 points! I demand a rematch, jk that was so much fun!