Thursday, July 15, 2010

1/30/2010 At home

Saturday

Cea gets to play with her lite brite while Casper takes a nap

Cea and Me

A special privilege--a movie in bed!

1/29/2010 Casper and the green marker

Friday

You know the book series "Harold and the Purple Crayon"?
Well, this is nothing like that book!
Needless to say, Sunday Casper still had a green tint when we headed out for meeting.


Anyway, today was actually the day Bryan and I celebrated our birthdays. We left the kids with Sean and Carol (Thank you!) and we went out to dinner at El Gaucho's. We were dressed up nice, so we should have taken a picture--bummer. Anyway, it was a delicious dinner. However, we decided that since we get our beef from Nebraska, (and it is amazing beef), that really steak restaurants don't impress us so much--we can do just as good at home! I can't decide if my favorite was the banana's foster, or the cheese/fruit/nut platter that night.

Happy Birthday to us! I am 33 and Bryan is 32. We have a 1 year and 16 day age difference.

1/25/2010 Spaghetti

Monday dinner

Mircea is our clean eater.
This is actually pretty messy for her--nothing on her clothes just a bit around her mouth.

Let's just say that Casper is different from Mircea! :)

1/23/2010 Sledding with Daddy and Uncle Dewey

Saturday
Mircea, Bryan, Uncle Dewey and a friend of Dewey's went sledding.
You can tell it was fun! Cea still isn't all that fond of going fast though! You may note that Cea and Dewey have the same brand of hat.




1/19/2010 Casper in pink Cowgirl boots

Tuesday

Looks like we need to get him a pair of his own!
For some reason he doesn't have an pink outfits that they would match!

1/16/2010 Cea playing with Grumpy and Daka

Saturday evening

I have 2 stuffed muppets--the 2 old critics. Mircea started using them as her babies when she plays meeting. She named them after her grandparents: Grumpy and Daka. (really, it is a compliment! really!)


1/14/2010 Take our picture, Mom!

Thursday



1/13/2010 A normal day at home

Wednesday

So Casper found a hat that he really liked! snicker!
So cute to wear your sisters panties on your head!

Cea feeding Grumpy while playing meeting!

Cea working on her numbers while Casper snacks on grapes

1/12/2010 It looked worse before I picked some of it up

Tuesday

I guess Casper decided I didn't have enough to do today. While I took my shower, he managed to pull out all our art supplies, and preschool project bags and dump them on the ground. I was NOT happy. He hid under the table while I cleaned it up, cuz I kept glaring at him. Then we hugged when it was all done.
Unfortunately, the picture was taken after I had cleaned a bunch of it up. But I think it portrays a pretty accurate picture of a total pile of a mess! (To top it off, a lot of the art pieces were small items like beady eyes, etc.--so it was a lot of picking up and sorting!)

1/11/2010 & 1/16/2010 Cousins come to visit

Monday 1/11
My cousin Tricia came to visit with her family, as her husband attended some job interviews in the area. Since Tricia, my sisters, and I are all stay at home mom's (each with 2 kids) we decided Monday would be a great day to get together at my house and hang out. So we did.


The art project--we decorated door hanger things.

Keelin feeds our fish

Everyone playing in Mircea's room
The mom's chatted in the living room.


Saturday 1/16
Today, my mom had everyone over at her house for Lunch. This meant the dad's were along this time, as well as cousin Lester.
A yummy lunch of Lasagna, garlic bread, salad, and fruit

The kids eat in the kitchen.

Playing outside. Everyone got WAY dirty! It was a blast!

Uncle Bryan played just as hard as the kids did! They all loved him!

Bryan developed a growth on his leg

Isn't it cute!?

Keelin and Casper

Mircea wasn't feeling especially well, and so she went up and took a nap

The cousins--
well 2nd cousins, or twice removed cousins, or whatever you want to call them!
BackRow: Joe, Eli, Mircea, Samantha, Keelin
Front row sitting on the couch cushion: Danny, Casper, Alex


We asked the 2 blonde cousins who are pretty close in age to sit together,
and this is their response. So typical of kids! sigh

But we did get some smiles

Casper only had a somewhat clean t-shirt to wear after playing in the dirt!

Bryan shows us that real men can wear pink?????????

Grandpa making Danny and Casper giggle as he tickles them and pinches their noses!

Lester and Bryan. (Bryan is standing on his tiptoes!)

Getting ready to go home. Grandma and Cea play "stacking hands"