Thursday, January 29, 2009

Gingerbread Houses

Here are the finished projects from this year's gingerbread house tradition. Every year I am amazed at the creativity my kids show.




Kalin created a shooting range for bows with arrows in the target.



Mason set up a living room inside his house with people too.






Morgan has a fish pond.








Colton made a board park with snowboarding gingerbread men.





And Kira found all the candy and thought making gingerbread houses was great fun.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Addicted to Chocolate!!


I know Kira loves chocolate, but it always shocks me how much. I like chocolate, but I would rather eat an Ethel M's caramel apple or something salty, so I do not know where Kira gets her sweet tooth. One day, Kevin and I grabbed dinner from Magleby's Fresh and Kevin got a piece of chocolate cake. We gave Kira a little taste. Kevin never got anymore. She kept wanting more and more. If I would try to give the box back to Kevin, she would freak out and bring the box back to me. She sat on the beanbag and ate almost all of that chocolate cake.

I love the Chocolate Smile. If you want Kira to love you, just buy M&M's by the bulk like Kim does. No wonder she cries when I try to take her from Kim's house.

16 means he is legal...

Kalin now officially has his driver's license. Besides the increase in our insurance and the fact that I have to drive my Excursion again, it is nice to have someone to help run everyone around and run to the store. And I don't have to worry about driving him anywhere. Although I just sit at home and worry about where he is and what he is doing. I try to keep the panic attacks to a minimum when he is gone. I have only freaked out a couple of times when he has been late and he has had his license for 2 whole months. Thank goodness for cell phones!! Maybe someday I will let him drive farther than Springville. :)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sweet Girls


Such sweet innocence! Morgan and her friend Jordyn were "babysitting" Kira one night. They decided to show us what good babysitters they were. They took pictures of Kira asleep. They actually did a very good job babysitting, although Kira probably fell asleep so they would leave her alone for a few minutes.