Denvers first snow fall

Denver had it's first snow fall Friday. The kids were so excited when I woke them up and told them it was snowing. They ran to the window and could not believe their eyes. The weather man said it could snow a few times but nothing fell. The kids have been really sad, so then they woke up to snow on Friday they had huge plans to make a snowman once they got home from school. But the sun came out and melted most of the snow by the time they got home. I'm sure it will snow again realy soon. I'm not sure I am ready yet but the kids are.

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Kids Photos

Every October scene Vilate was born the kids have taken picture together. Some years the pictures turn out good and other years are not so great. I think these turned out pretty good.



2001 and 2004 are MIA. Hopefully they are in storage.... somewhere....

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How much is gas were you live?

Can you believed it? Gas for under $2.00. Tyson filled up his car with the high grade tonight and I could not believe it was only $26.00. How much is gas were you live?

Another Tea Party

The other day Vilate had a Tea Party at Grandma Great's house. She invited Olivia and Maddy and Grandma Great. The girls had ham and cheese cracker sandwich, chocolate peanut butter cookies with hot chocolate to drink. Taydom was the server. He was the best server I think I have ever seen. Every one was on their best behavior.

ROCK STARS!

For Halloween we all dressed up as rock stars. It started with Vilate wanting to be Hannah Montana. Then I found leather pants at GoodWill for $4.00. I had to put them with my tattoo shirt that I've had for a few years. I found tattoo sleeves for Taydom and Tyson. We had a lot of fun together. Taydom just LOVED his tattoos.

I bought red and black color for my hair but unforchanitly I spent too much time making a fun dinner for the kids and ran out of time to do my hair. My fun cousin Shelly also Rocked Out at the ward trunck of treat.

Halloween Dinner

Halloween Day I made a fun dinner for every one. I made candy corn jello and green slim macaroni casserole. The jello was fun to make. First I made orange jello and let it set and then I layered lemon jello. I wiped it to give is an airy creamy look. Last, white marshmallows. Wiping cream would be great too but Taydom can eat marshmallows. For the casserole I added green food coloring to the pasta water to made the macaroni green. The kids loved the fun dinner, too bad we had to eat it really fast to make it to the church Halloween truck or treat.

Spiders have taken over

A while ago I had this idea to make a huge spider web in the front yard; and then I got sick..... I finally started felling better and just put the webs up the other day. I had a great time making them them. I took white yarn and imagined myself being a spider. The kids loved them too. I took them to local discount store and bought a large rubber spider. They named it Charlotte from the book Charlotte's Web. First think every morning Vilate goes outside to wake Charlotte up. She talked to Charlotte and pretended that she would talk back. That's not quite what I had in mind when I made the webs or bought the large spider but Vilate loved it. Taydom thought it was fun to throw rocks and leaves at the webs to see if they would stick like a real web. He said we need to get a glue stick and rub it all over the yarn to make it sticky like a real web. I love how different my kids are and how they look at things so differently.

FUNtastic BooBall

Friday night the kids had a school Halloween Party. We all dressed up. Vilate was Hannah Montana, Taydom and I ware tattoo sleeves and were rockers/bikers. I found my shirt a few years ago at Harley-Davidson. I have worn it out a few times and love to see the looks I get from people. I found a pair of black leather pants at Good Will for $4.00. I had to buy them. They looked great but they were SO HOT. I worked the popcorn machine some of the night. That might have something to do with how HOT I was.


Yummy!!!!! Vilate loves Cotton Candy.

Playing spin the wheel. Tayosm played this game over and over. I asked him if he was trying to win the big price. He said, "NOPE, it's was fun to spin it".

Yep! More Cotton Candy. I don't get it. I never liked the stuff, and still today when the kids give me a piece and ask me to try it, I can not hardly stand it.

The school principal was such a great sport. The DJ was dress up as a Mad Scientis and cooked up a batch of slime. The DJ drew six kids names out a basket and they got to dump the slime on Mr. B.

Littleton Historical Museum

Thursday Taydom's class went to Littleton Historical Museum. It is a great place to visit and learn about the 1860s to 1890s. Inside the museums main building you will find the artifacts and display behind glass but out back is were the fun is found. They have a real working farm using only things of that time period. Taydom loved the blacksmith shop the best. I think all the kids did. The local community college offer a blacksmith class that also take place in the same place.


We also spent some time in the houses and school. The kids thought they were neat but not as cool as the blacksmith shop. In the house that was from the 1860s they had a real fire cooking lunch for the farm hands, and other women were spinning wool in to yarn. I ask them were they got the wool and I was surprised to learn they got it from the sheep they raised. They were making wool shawls for the winter. I asked them if they lived here too, They said No, they went home at the end of the day, they do this because it was fun.

Taydom thought the corn drying was really cool. We wanted to turn it in to popcorn
Taydom told me to take a picture of him reaching for the tomatoes. He said " I wouldn't touch them but just take a picture of he reaching for them."

Wedding Flowers

My mom has a small side business of flower arranging. She learned this skill from her grandfather as a child. She has worked in many flower shops and helped run her family flower shop. Today she has her commercial license and does it out of her house. She does not advertise but gets new clients from word of mouth. This last weekend see did a wedding for my brothers friend. Here are some photos. I did not like the flower choice the bride picked but my mom always seems to make it look nice.


Oops! I forgot to get a photo of this one with the ribbon rapped around it.

Missing New England Fall

I love New England in the fall. The colors of the tree are the prettiest I have ever seen. All summer long I would tell myself to hang in there with the humidity. It will not last and then fall with come. So I withstood the humidity this last summer but were is my reward. I miss the colors and the cool crisp New England fall air. So I thought I would post some of my favorite photos I took of last year.
The colors were so bright. These photos do not do it justice.

The parking lot of the mall had a great verity of colors.


One of my nighbors trees. This red was so bright it almost look like it was on fire.


This was a street just around the corner from my house. Down this road a little is the local farm. I tryed to buy as much of our veggitables there. Fresh from the farm veggies are the best!
My neighbors tree started changing color from the top down. It went though many colors of yellow, red, and orange. This one is one of my favorite because you can see my house and car in the background too.

First Tea Party with the new set

We had our first tea party with Vilate new tea set the other day. Or should I say Hot Chocolate/ Apple Cider party. Shes had a party almost every day since her birthday. She loves her new set. Shes told me many time that it is just the right size. It's not tiny like all the other sets and it's not too big for some one her age.

Maddy enjoying her cake

The perfect hostess.