10 Minute Snowman

Yesterday the kids asked to make a snowman.  I figured that the snow wasn't going to be around much longer and that I'd humor them.  Little did I know it would snow again and here it is Saturday night and the snow is still here.  I'm still hoping it'll melt before Wednesday for Halloween festivities.  Anyway I spent about 10 minutes making this snowman "with" the kids and about 10 minutes after this picture was taken it came tumbling down.  I wasn't too heartbroken and thankfully neither were the kids.  

 With the 6+ inches of snow we've received over the last few days I was ambitious and shoveled the driveway and walk, and boy did I pay for it the next day.  Originally I only shoveled one lane of the driveway.  We only have one working car right now and I really didn't want to shovel the rest.  Carson decided that he was going to shovel the rest of the driveway in case someone namely Nathan and Maegen decided to come over they would have a place to park out of the snow.  So I let the kids at it.  After a few passes they decided they were through, and guess who had the joy of finishing what they started?  I will admit that there was a lot of wet snow which is heavy and can tire a little one out.  Heck it tired this big one out!      

Snow

Today is October 25th (yes, it's not even Halloween yet) and this is what we woke up to this morning.  I was quite surprised.  The weather said we had a 30% chance of snow today.  Well at 7:30 this morning we had about 4+- inches of snow.  Well it is now 10:30 and it's still snowing!    

Tony's Hunting Trip

I am not a hunter and to say that I could care less about a dead carcass hanging in my garage would be an understatement.  But my husband likes to go.  It gives him an opportunity to spend time in the great outdoors and some quality time with his dad and brothers.  So how can I say no?  This year they went up near Soda Springs, Idaho and had some success.  Nathan and Thomas were each able to bring down a buck.  Tony and his dad got a shots off.  Maybe next year Tony will be able to bring one in as well and then I'll have to figure out what in the heck to do with all that venison.   

 Nathan with his buck. 

 Perry, Nathan, Thomas, and Tony

Thomas with his buck.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Alaina's Skirt cont.

So I sewed some ribbon on Alaina's peasant skirt and made a matching hair bow.  I think it looks much cuter.  But I must admit that I've got to get a hot glue gun before I attempt to make any more hair bows.  

Apples and Raspberries

So on Tuesday the kids and I picked the apples off our tree and raspberries off a neighbors bush before the cold set in on Wednesday.  I made apple sauce out of about half of our apples, which took forever because the apples are so small, and I made raspberry jam, well more like syrup, but it tastes good.  

 The raspberries were beautiful and ripe.  We couldn't help but eat a few right off the bush.  

 The apples are pretty and taste alright, but they are small and pretty wormy.  So lots of cutting out the yucky parts.  The apple sauce tastes good.  But next time I'm going to borrow or buy a food press or sieve so I don't have to peel all the apples.    

The finished products.

Silkie

I've been wanting to make Charlie a little silk-like blanket for awhile now.  Alaina had one when she was a baby and still uses it.  The "Silkie" as we call it, it great to take in the diaper bag or such when you don't want to hall around a huge blanket.  

 Charlie already carries around the house.  It's just the right side that he's not tripping over it all the time.  

Monkeys for my little Monkey.  

Fish

This last weekend was Tony's cousin R.Jay's open house.  They had goldfish as centerpieces on the tables.  Anyway the kids wanted to keep some.  Honestly I'm surprised they survived the trip from Pocatello to Rexburg.  They seem to be doing fine.  As of now they are named Alvin and Brittney.  Yes, like the Chipmunks.

Haircut

Charlie's hair has been in need of a trim for awhile, last night Tony went ahead with Charlie's first haircut.  

 The before enjoying a granola bar.  The mark on his forehead is from hitting the bed frame earlier in the day.  He has quite the goose egg there now.  

 Here we go.

 As you can tell, Charlie didn't care for the clippers that much.  

 I think this picture says it all,  "What are you guys doing to me?"  

I ended up having to hold him for the rest of the hair cut.  Considering that Charlie's only 13 months old I think he did pretty well.  

 The After, side shot 

The After shot

I couldn't hardly get a picture of him at this point.  He was enjoying the rest of the brownies that had been left on the table.  

Photo Shoot

We had a bit of a photo shoot last night.  Some of the poses the kits came up with we quite humorous.   

"New to Me" Skirt

So awhile ago I got a box of old cloths and I'm going to re-purpose them for me and Alaina.  I've already taken in a shirt and now made this pencil skirt.    

 I know this picture is a bit cheesie, but we were having a bit of a photo shoot that I'll post about later.   

 I put some tucks in around the bottom of the skirt to make it a bit more interesting.  

A close up of the tucks.  

Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out and the best part is that it didn't cost me anything!