Monday, January 31, 2011


This morning the kids are making worm cupcakes, a project entirely of their own invention. Here they are at work!

The recipe looks fairly normal, really, except for those 10 cups of worms!

Friday, January 28, 2011


It's my thirtieth birthday, and here's my first picture wearing my new contacts!



Here I am opening presents a little later tonight. It's been a great day!

Monday, January 24, 2011




The kids are busy reading books together again this morning!

Saturday, January 22, 2011


Sorting all the tub numbers and letters by color...

and knocking them back down as fast as possible!

Monday, January 17, 2011


These kids love to read!

Sunday, January 16, 2011






Tim and I spent a good portion of our time in Payson sorting through the Playmobil toys his parents had saved since their kids were young. They literally had dozens of sets and hundreds of people, but since Tim's mom had also saved many of the pictures and instructions, we were able to reconstruct most of the sets almost completely! It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun, too! Tim's parents generously offered to divide the sets among their kids, and here are Tim and the kids playing with some we brought home this afternoon. We all love Playmobil!

Sunday, January 02, 2011

Day 15 in AZ:

A pretend key made by Uncle Rob

Grandpa Steve playing the Uncle Wiggily game with Joseph and Rosalie

Saturday, January 01, 2011

Day 14 in AZ:

Playing Kids of Carcassonne

The snow didn't want to roll, but we did our best!

At Green Valley Park for a little in-town sledding















Down the hill!

Here comes the big push!




Joseph loved going down by himself best of all

The three people I love most in this world

Bananagrams marathon!