Sledding

We have not been sledding for 2 years. Not since little Sadie was first born.

Look at her little infant self! And Megan's gap-toothed smile! A lot has happened in two years.

We've all grown up!

Once again we headed up to Mt. Charleston.

Megan and Jackson were master sledders.

Now, I thought that Sadie, just barely being two, would be slightly fearfull of getting on a sled and racing down a mountain, but I was proved wrong. The first time down, Eric sat her on his lap (screaming). She was not screaming from fear, but rather from anger. She wanted to go BY HERSELF!

So we obliged:

Each time she reached the bottom, she would roll out of the sled, jump up and say, "My turn, again!" She took quite a few turns, until her hands and feet got cold, and then she was grumpy, grumpy. But all in all, we all had fun.

12 X 12 - March

For the past week I have been starting out my day with one of these. Saturday night I had to get up at 2 am to take one! My allergies have been HORRIBLE!

After recovering from my terrible fits of sneezing, I continued on with P90X.

Sadie also likes to participate, and is quite good at a few of the moves.

Then it was time to shower, and get ready for the day.

After picking Jackson up from Kindergarten, we headed over to Cafe Rio to have lunch with friends. This place at lunch time is CRAZY! It is chalk full of small children and stay-at-home moms. Obviously the preferred lunch dining experience. I personally am not a fan of Cafe Rio, but am a fan of having lunch with friends, regardless of venue.

I came home, put Sade down for her nap, and proceeded to clean. I had some help from Jackson, since he LOVES to clean mirrors.

While cleaning I found this pleasing pile courtesy of Sadie. I think the troll dolls add a nice dose of color to the lids. Don't you?

Time to go back to school to pick up Meg.

My favorite part of the day, is when Eric comes home.

It's Sadie's favorite part too.

We decided to go to dinner at Macayo's. Jackson and I always choose a green sucker when leaving. Eric, Megan and Sadie like to mix it up.

Per usual, Sadie melted all of our hearts with her cheesy smile before bed.

Pretty good and typical Friday.

Jewelry Stamping

I have really wanted to try jewelry stamping for quite some time. I have been slightly obsessed with it, and have been known to peruse etsy admiring all of the metal stamped necklaces and rings. So after doing a lot of admiring, and some research, I decided to attempt it myself.

About 10 minutes into the attempt, I realized I needed a little help. I just did not have enough hammering power in me.

For my first project I decided to make birthday necklaces for all of my Young Women at church. Each charm has one of the Young Women values stamped onto it. I had seen a similar idea on Sugardoodle, and I felt like I could attempt it. However, the project was a bit more time consuming than I originally thought. Luckily I have my trusty assistant who is always willing to help, and I only have 8 Mia Maids this year.

Here are the results: (For some reason, my new computer is not allowing me to click on pictures to enlarge them. I find this beyond annoying, and have no idea how to fix it. So I apologize in advance if these pictures do not come across well enough to see the detail. If anyone knows how to fix this problem, please let me know!)

Science Night

While downloading all of my pictures, I found these from Science Night at my kids school a few weeks ago, and realized I never blogged about them.

Science night was actually pretty cool. We started off in the Planetarium they set up in the lunch room. For some reason I have no picture of it, but imagine a GIANT silver balloon, that held 20 people, and allowed for plenty of room to stargaze. Unfortunately I was not able to go in, because Sadie was TERRIFIED of it, but Eric, Megan and Jackson enjoyed it.

Here are some pictures of our night.

Imprinting leaves into clay.

Balancing

Playing Telephone

Here is the poster Megan and another girl from her class made.

Electricity Project

This goop was made out of cornstarch and water. I'm glad I was not in charge of clean-up for this station. I have no idea how they got it all off the carpet.

I'm so grateful for fun schools. Science night was followed by movie night the next week. But much to my children's dismay, I was not fun enough this year to take them to that. I have my limits.

Back To The Blog

I have been away from blogging for so long, and have missed it. I feel like our life has passed in a blur these last few weeks, especially since I have not been documenting any of it! Mainly I have not been documenting any of it because we purchased a new computer. And since our purchase, I have not been able to commit to a new photo editing software, so my pictures have remained hostage on my camera. Well today I committed, so hence I am once again blogging. So here is a bit of an update.

Today I started month 2 of P90X. Sadly, I notice no difference in my body, but happily there are a number of things that I can do now, that I couldn't even think about doing 4 weeks ago. The first week you are supposed to take a before picture. I couldn't face this my first week, but finally committed to the process and ended up taking one. Since Eric was out of town, I had Megan do the honors. Her reaction confirmed my initial feelings, that this type of picture taking was a bad idea. Now bear in mind, I was wearing biker shorts. Ok, now take that image out of your mind. Also remember that I gain all of my weight in my stomach, which these biker shorts cut into and accentuated said weight. Well, Megan took the first picture. She then put the camera down and asked me, "Are you sure you want to be doing this?" Already so concerned with my well-being. When I explained these were not for the blog, but rather pictures that would never have a chance in hell of resurfacing, she resumed her duties.

Speaking of Megan. She has discovered the joy of doing hair on a live model. It is a good thing Sadie is a willing subject.

Now on to Jackson:

These blocks make an appearance about every 4 to 5 months, get played with for about a week, and then disappear again. But they provide hours of fun for Jackson everytime he rediscovers them.

Lastly, I will end with a picture of chocolate cake I took this weekend. I probably should not have taken a picture of it, because now that I am looking it, it just makes me want more.


This is The Great Wall Of Chocolate from P.F. Changs. I love this chocolate cake. I love the raspberry sauce. I am pretty sure I could eat raspberry sauce on just about anything.