This little piggy...

Got put up!


Abbey's first pig tales!

Field trip...

Ethan's pre-k class along with the pre-school had a field trip to a local fire station! This is always one of the favorite field trips for the kids, because they get to sit in the fire truck and spray the HUGE hose! Here's some pictures of my fire fighters!

double digits

10 months:

~ You have 3 teeth, two on bottom 1 on top
~ You have learned how to clap
~you have learned how to wave “HI”
~ You are pulling yourself up on everything, and have climbed the stairs a couple of times
~You love cruising/walking around anything
~ You will let go of the sofa and stand by yourself for a few seconds (slow down girl!)
~ We are starting to introduce a sippy cup of juice
~ You have the funniest deep laugh/growl
~ You experienced your first snow, and loved crawling and sledding in it!
~ I love hearing "oh, she's so cute!"
~ You are getting so much hair now, and it's wavy
~ You are wearing mostly 12-18m clothing but have a few items that are 6-12m
~ You are now in a Big girl car-seat!

I have found Pinterest!

This weekend has been a great almost free crafting time, thanks to pinterest! Next Sunday I will be making a slow-cooker baked potato soup, yummy! Here are some of my projects!

Simple photo idea...





Here's the almost free project!


I had the frame, and learned how to do the fabric rosettes off a tutorial online. The fabric is old tee shirts. I had to buy a 1/2 yard of the red tee shirt material and the scrap-booking paper, so this project cost me around $3
I love the idea of leaving little notes to members of our family with a dry-erase pin; great way to show your thinking of someone!

My next pinterest project is still in the making. It includes these rosettes that are going to be placed on a headband!

From snow to Ice...

The Seattle area has never seen an ice storm like this. I was snowing/frozen rain to ice balls (different than hail,) all day. Over 100,000 people are without power because of down trees due to the weight of the ice on the branches. Luckily we still have power, and have Andrew's dad here for the night because he lost power at his house.

the back of my car (every car looks like this all the way around!)


Our beautiful Japanese maple all iced over


a lone spider web strand, looks like one of those pop-beads I played with as a little girl!


The trees on our street and nice and small!

SNOWMAGEDON 2012

(video's at the bottom of this post)

~Round 1, we just got a dusting and black ice; enough to cancel school. Only to have a day similar to a sunny spring day; can you say disappointing and frustrated.

~Abbey's first snow!


~and why have a hot tub if you can't go in it during a snow storm!


~waiting for the next snow storm



~Round 2
School was called off before 5pm the night before, without a single snowflake in the air. The projection was record snow fall in the entire western Washington region. we could see anywhere from 3-12 inches of snow. Before Andrew and I went to bed we noticed what looked more like rain covering the street and cars. We were awaken to 3 inches and two very excited boys! Our snow total is 5 inchs, that may not seem like much, but 1: we are very close to the water and 2: we are very close to sea level. So for us to get any snow is a miracle!

the kiddos:


one of our peony pots:


Eric's snow ball:


Enjoying my kiddos in the snow:


Our little snow bear:




Sledding:


Triangle park in Milton!





Abbey's first sledding


the boys sledding


Andrew sled-boarding?

Two video's!

This video is Abbey saying "up" more, but it's not very clear! (Sunday)


This video you can hear her clearly say "up" at 39-40 seconds! (Monday)
Abbey came down with a cold late Sunday night, so she looks sickly~