Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We had fun celebrating St. Patrick's Day today. Normally we just wear green and leave it at that but today I made green eggs and pancakes. Jimmy woke up after everyone was already gone to school and I told him a leprechaun came in and turned our pancakes green.

I volunteered in Nate's class today at their St. Patrick's Day party...a great excuse to do some fun math games, science, and crafts. This is a 50 ft. long wind bag.

And of course, we all wore green.

Leprechauns came into Jimmy's preschool too and made a mess of gold glitter everywhere.
Here he is in the hat he made.

And last but not least, corn beef and cabbage for dinner (with potatoes and carrotts). So Good.

Will's first book

Will's been getting better at drawing and is really into it. He also like's to make up stories. His favorite types of books to check out from the library are comic novels. So one day he just decided to make his own book. He wrote and illustrated it. He drew it in pencil so it's a little hard to see. He says he's going to sell his books for ten dollars :) I can't believe how well he draws for age 7.

I especially like the how to draw Max on the back page.

Coming soon... Max and the Robot Factory

Happy Valentine's Day!

We didn't have school today because of budget cuts so we decided to make use of our passes for Disneyland/California Adventure. It wasn't too crowded but we thought so since we were spoiled from our last trip when we were able to walk right onto rides. We went a week and a half ago on a wednesday and our longest wait was 10 minutes. Yep, even space mountain and Dumbo. But we still had a great time today...the weather was perfect.

Gotta Have a Party!

Will chose a pokemon party this year and wanted to invite only a few close friends. Fine with me! So we had it our house. I had my boys decorate using the many many many pokemon stuffed animals they own. As the boys arrived they played with balloons for almost 45 minutes! They made their own pokemon cards, we had a pokeball cake and pokemon pinata. I had other games planned but they had more fun just hanging out and playing. One of Will's friends told his mom it was the best birthday party he had ever been to.

Andrew played his Clarinet while we sang happy birthday to Will.

Andrew is 12!!

Andrew's 12th birthday happened to be on a Sunday so how cool is that receiving the priesthood on your birthday! Nani and Papa, Grandma and Grandpa, and Aunt Tracy all came for his big day. Andrew is such a good boy. He makes such good choices, is very responsible and successful in all that he does. I forgot to get a picture of him after church but here he is when we went bowling to celebrate his birthday a couple days before.

Here's another photo of his first trip to the temple in San Diego to do baptisms in March with all of the youth in our ward.

Santa Barbara

Mike and I went to Santa Barbara for a Christmas party/opening of his art at Cabana Home.





The food was yummy and we met a lot of great people. A couple of his art pieces were sold that night. We stayed in a beautiful hotel right on the beach...the Oceana. They had complimentary beach cruisers, so before we left for home we went for a ride along the coast and out onto the pier. It was a really fun getaway.

My baby's starting school!

Disneyland decorated for Christmas

Andrew's band concert

Andrew is learning to play the clarinet this year at school. They have an excellent band program. He has gotten so good in just two months! They had their first band concert and it was so good! He's a natural. Unfortunately our video camera was out of commission. I'll have to try to video him playing at home sometime.

STAR WARS sugar cookies

Nani and Papa sent star wars sugar cookie cutters, aprons, and sprinkles to us in the summer. The kids LOVE making sugar cookies. We finally got time this month to make them! Now everytime I make dinner Jimmy gets out his apron to wear and help me cook.