Art Project by Mircea

We got these awesome boxes of projects through Ginny's MOPS group. This morning Mircea did a cut and paste collage. She says it is for her Dad. Thought you all might like to see her artistic abilities. (This is pretty much her first time using scissors!)

We miss Dewey

We were talking about "Uncle" Dewey today, and we decided we missed him, so we thought we would dedicate this post to him! "We love you Uncle Dewey, and hope you like it in California!"

Snow Week

December 19,20, 22, 2008

Bry went out and bought Cea new Snow Boots.
They are pink and black--and she picked them out.




Spending some time indoors next to the fire.
(snow wasn't all that exciting to Casper)

Cea and Porsche spend time outside--here is the start of the snowman. She was a great help!


The finished project.

Off to the backyard--it is hard to bounce!


An "Angel" making an "angel"





Heading back to the front yard


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Daddy went to fast, this is more like it!


Fixing the snowman

Making more snowmen

Snow Day

(So you might be wondering why I am blogging about past events.--well, we never got to share it with Daka and Grumpy before--so now is our opportunity.)

SNOW WEEK:
December 18, 2008

We got a lot of snow (stop laughing all you people from Alaska, the midwest, and the east) maybe I will add to my sentence--we got a lot of snow FOR US here in western WA. So here are the pics of the 18th, when Bry and Cea went out into the snow. Then that evening, we had 2 of our workers join us to spend the night. We ate a dinner of sauerkraut pizza and were talking about the snow, and somehow it came up about how much fun it would be to go sledding. . . so we did!

Getting all the snow clothes on!


Bye Mom and Casper

Cea has the right idea on how to go up a hill when it snows.
I don't envy Bryan his job!


After dinner we all head out to sled.
Here is Heidi and Cea

As we walked up to the sledding hill, Bryan started heading down the hill.


Here is Courtney heading down the hill. . .

Heidi and Courtney

The hill


The Race!

Porsche and Cea (This sled went the slowest--which Cea preferred!)


Cea and Bry in a sled that didn't work out so well as a sled.

I believe the comment was made here at the top of the hill, "I would love to go one more time--but I don't think I want to climb the hill again!" (we did all go down once more anyway, and huffed and puffed our way back up. It was too fun not too!)

Snow Angel Time


Can you tell it was fun!?!?!?!

It was quite sad when Courtney and Heidi left the next day!
I thought they were quite brave with all the driving in the snow.
I stayed home and didn't go anywhere unless Bryan was driving.

Mircea's 3rd Birthday

Mircea's Birthday was a lot of fun and a bit of work. Her birthday is February 15th.
We had our babysitter Kyleah spend the night the day before her party--which was a big help. (I have the best babysitter in the world!--and my kids absolutely adore her. I am so glad we have you Kyleah! :) And to top it off, Kyleah gave Cea a princess dress, that she wore her whole birthday. (Picked out by Kyleah's dad, Gary--he has excellent taste! :)
Anyway, Mircea had seen a picture of her friend Carter's birthday cake--a spider man, so she wanted a red princess cake, so she could be just like him--her logic not mine! :) I decided to make her cake--my first attempt ever of making a 'fancy' cake. AND I am quite proud of the result!--as Mircea said, "Oh, Mommy, she is beautiful!" I couldn't have received a better compliment!
The birthday Day was planned like this: First we would meet up with Mircea's friends (including cousins that are her friends) at music class that Mircea goes to each week. After music class we would come home and have lunch and cake, open presents, play, collapse. (the collapse was what the mom and dad would do! grin) And here comes the pictorial of the busy day.

The beautiful Dress. Sigh, it was perfect! Thank you!!

At music class, after the main singing part, the kids with birthdays got to go to the front of the room to get a birthday prize, and have the birthday song sung to them

Now it is Snack time (isn't that awesome?!?! a music class then snack time, then play time. I love going here!) They put out different colored cloths for the kids to sit on. They get raisons, string cheese, fishy crackers and a cup of water.




hmmmm I forgot, this day they handed out juice boxes instead of water.









We come home, and my amazing husband has everything set up and ready for us. He set the table, made all the food! It was perfect!! Thank you Thank you Thank you Bryan!


Mircea obviously loves it! What a great day for her!


Grandpa brought the balloons--some of them didn't make it. . . :(
We told him he could keep that one!

We served variations of Peanutbutter and Jelly sandwiches, grapes, baked cheetohs, cantaloupe, chocolate milk and apple juice.
(yes, the moms got to eat as well--they had hot sandwiches and salad.)



Normally naptime--but managing to stay awake.

Jan and Casper


Playing outside ont he deck, blowing bubbles, etc. while we clean things up for cake!

My masterpiece--I mean, "Mircea's Princess Cake"






a little bit of a meltdown.--no party is complete without it! :)

Cea and her Carter





You can do anything in a princess dress!

Still smiling when the party is over! That means--SWEET SUCCESS!