Cousin Visit

My Sister-in-Law Sarah and her four kids came up to spend a few day with us. We also went to Portland and went to the Saturday's Market and saw Hunger Games together (which was awesome) The cousins had a great time playing together and the adults had fun relaxing together (and staying up till midnight playing a hilarious game of dominoes). I always mean to take more pictures than actually end up on the camera, but here are a few that I took at the park.
Cheese ball Julia
Cutie pie Jenna, Alyssa loved to sit in front of her and make her laugh
Miles
Megan and Noah (Dora and Diego)
Three pirates


Alyssa wasn't feeling great for part of the weekend, but she refused to admit it. Even when she fell asleep on the couch and Caleb picked her up to take her to her room she mumbled, "I'm not sick..."

Roller Rink

There is a roller rink on base that only charges a dollar on Wednesdays, and Alyssa has half days from school every other Wednesday so we try to go skating once a month. Alyssa is getting a lot better at balancing. She doesn't have the flow down yet, but she can get some speed going.


Megan wears walker skates that don't roll but she can't even stand up if she has on roller skates. She gets tired after the first hour of skating but enjoys it for a while. She asks me why I don't wear skates when we go and I told her I would next times, hopefully she forgets by then.
Caleb was gone for a week and so I got my craft on! I made this wreath for our door. Then I painted some wooden eggs and did some cross stitching. I got to craft while he got to play soldier in the mountains with a bunch of stinky boys, we were both happy.
Megan wanted to hold my hand the whole time but I let her go for a minute to video so she isn't moving but dancing is cute too.

Valentine Day

Here are some pictures of my Valentines this year. Of course my little sweeties.
Got to love a man in uniform, he wasn't very excited to take the picture, he had already take off his tie and was halfway out of his coat before I told him I wanted to take the picture.
Hoo's your Valentine? I made this cute paper owl as part of my Valentine decor, it is cheap and corny but it makes me happy.

Soft Kitty

Megan and Chloe have been getting along better, she use to run up and yell 'HI KITTY" right in her face, which not surprisingly Chloe did not like. Now Chloe will choose to sit with Megan sometimes and Megan loves to snuggle with her.
This song is from a show called 'Big Bang Theory' if you are not a fan of the show...you should be.

More snow!

More snow days! It Alyssa hasn't got to school all week and I don't think she will go tomorrow, but we have had a lot of fun playing in the snow because we know it won't last long. Last night it rained and not all the snow is iced over so it is not as much fun and all the trees that were heavy with snow are breaking from being frozen. one hit our roof last night, but I don't think there was any damage.
I decided to take advantage of the snow and take some Christmas pictures in January, the time line won't matter in the scrapbook.


Three little stinkers all in a row.
Caleb went behind the tree and shook it so the snow fell down on the girls, I was hoping it would fall on their heads more.
We made a giant snowman in our yard, Caleb and I had to put the middle ball on a folding chair and lift it because it was so heavy.

Snow!!

I really didn't think there would be any snow this year, just rain, but I was delighted when we woke up one morning to SNOW!! The girls were so excited and started to get ready to go out at 7:30, but I made them wait till 8:30, and even though there was barely an inch of snow they had a great time.
We went over to a friends house and went sledding on their 'hill' which was maybe 3 feet tall, but they didn't care.

I told the girls to smile nice and this is what I got, I guess I should be grateful they sat still at all.

Snow angles!

After playing with friends we went inside for a hot chocolate break and then it was back out into the snow. We built an awesome snowman which the girls decided was Mrs. Claus because she had eye brows.


Then we went to a slightly bigger hill for more sledding. I thought the hill would be all torn up because it is practically the only hill in the neighborhood but no one else had touched it. Caleb was on his way home from a weekend in Portland but he showed up for the last 5 minutes.

The next day Caleb took the girls sledding again in the morning and then they played in the front of our house for another hour and a half after lunch. I thought they would be sick of snow by now but Alyssa said "I can't wait to play in the snow tomorrow" when I was putting her to bed, unfortunately she is back to school tomorrow.

Alyssa 6th Birthday

My little girl turned 6 this year (if you add her birth date together 1-11-12 (1+1+1+1+2=6) it equals 6, awesome). Someone at school told her about smiley eyes and so she wouldn't give me a normal smile. We just had a classic birthday at our house, I thought of a few games and thought that it would be enough...wrong! my games lasted an hour and then we had to fill the rest of the time trying to think of games, but the kids had fun and I don't think they noticed.
The first activity was crazy balloon frenzy, the kids just went cray playing with the balloons waiting for the guests to arrive.

After the initial chaos we decorated tails for 'pin the tail on the donkey'

Duck, duck, goose
Playing freeze tag outside
Megan froze in silly ways
Making necklaces
musical chairs with alyssa's favorite songs 'dancing queen' and 'mama mia' by abba
Of course there was cake
Alyssa wanted an ice cream cake with her name written on it and whatever my baby wants my baby gets! there is chocolate ice cream on the inside, yum


Hello Kitty is Alyssa's favorite character at the moment
Mom and dad got her a new bike because she has already out grown the one I bought her last year for her birthday! I'm glad that she had the smaller bike while she was learning to ride without training wheels, but it was time for an upgrade.
Megan was a stinker all week because she wanted it to be her birthday, she has six whole months to wait!