Gymnastics & Randoms

New Fish is going to try a little gymnastics class for a few weeks and see how things go.

Building a boat

Reading to her dog

Crazy lateover crowd

One of my favorite paintings that Red Fish has ever done.

Crazy house and crazy girls

May The 4th Be With You

Yoda Soda

The girls are currently very into Star Wars. This is kind of funny because Two Fish and I had never really been into Star Wars. I watched the movies once as a teenager and Scott watched two of them for the first time with the girls. But we decided to embrace their current fascination and celebrate Star Wars Day. We went all out with a special dinner and decorations. The girls loved it.

Princess Leia

yoda apples

pretzel light sabers

yoda sticks

Homemade headbands for Princess Leia, 2 Yodas and Princess Padme

Random

Take my picture Mom- I look soooo Hip Hop

I just love the way Pixie is looking at Two Fish. She stayed with us for a few days and she would get so excited when Two Fish came home from work.

The scarf New Fish is wearing is named "Mr. Bear." He has magical properties that make New Fish a great skier. He is an important bear around here. The lift operators always recognize New Fish because

The Rest Of January

The girls' current past time- making beaded keychains in the shape of animals. Aunt M.E. gave them the beads for Christmas.

She still loves our dog Lautrec.

One random night we went to the mall for Family Home Evening and rode the crazy motorized animals they have there. They didn't go quite as fast as the girls had hoped but they were still ridiculously fun. Sometimes you have to be spontaneous and enjoy the crazy. Scott was purely a spectator on this one.

New cheetah print glasses.

The Good And The Random

 Most ski days are wonderful. Sometimes there are meltdowns. Some days are just hard no matter where you are.

 These little buddies have so much fun together. New Fish only goes to half day kindergarten so she has been able to spend some extra time with Nixie lately. There is nothing better than playing in the snow.

 Red Fish has decided to learn to play the violin. She is taking lessons from my mom. She will be a third generation violinist.

 Pearler beads are all the rage at our house right now.

 A little visit with Lovely L and company. New Fish was in her element reading to her little buddies and entertaining them. She loves little kids!

 Blue Fish loves to listen to Red Fish practice. It doesn't matter if it is squeaky violin or the piano he sits right next to her and listens the whole time.

 Little bit of an update to our front room.

Every single day I find this kid tucked away some place reading. She is a book worm through and through.

Sunday

 We had such a lovely Sunday.  We went to church in the morning. After lunch we went on a drive to see the leaves.  We were much too late in the season for our favorite route but we saw a few yellows. We read books for hours and the girls made haunted tree houses with foam kits and hot glue guns while I made dinner with Two Fish. We made cookies and spent the whole day together.  Lovely weather, good food and beautiful scenery make for a good end of the week.  (I count Sunday as the end rather than the beginning.)

General Conference 2014

My girls were excited for LDS General Conference this year.  They had very specific ideas of how it should go and I really wasn't feeling up to it but I tried to power through because I was leaving on a business trip halfway through conference and I didn't want to ruin their excitement.  One of my visiting teachers gave us conference packets and games a couple of years ago and now my girls want them for every conference. There was also a primary lessons pumping the kids up to listen to conference this year.

I tried to keep it simple this year and just printed a bunch of things off the internet and sealed them in packets with pictures of general authorities on them.  Every time the girls could recognize the speaker they could open a packet.  They also built a fort to listen to conference in and were fully stocked on snacks and notebooks to write all of their thoughts on. They had coloring sheets, bingo games that required them to listen, special treats and a few activities to break things up a bit.

 One of their activities between sessions was to dye eggs.  We tried dying fake eggs this year because we don't enjoy eating boiled eggs.  They were a major pain to dye.