Handbag Lady

I saw this clip from MSN home page today, it's amazing!  This 72 year old lady takes on these bold robbers... with her handbag!  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41469462#41469462

Digger/Birthday Boy

Well, Jameson has this new habbit of digging in the garbage.  Tonight, he happened to go into the kitchen, opened the garbage where I had just placed a freshly USED pull-up from Halle.  He pulled it out and put it on his arm like a purse!  YUCK!  At least the waistband was the top of the "purse".  We were laughing pretty good over that one!

Here are some pics from his 1st birthday!

... and our little party for him

BYU Divine Comedy

Okay so I've found some hilarious mormon make-over music videos! Tell me which you like the best!
(I added another one we enjoy watching.) 

 Provo, UT Girls-BYU Divine Comedy

Single Ladies

Halo-Devine Comedy
Party By BYUSA

Flower #4

Well, I decided to make another flower only bigger this one is about 13". I folded it before I spun it (it still wanted to rip a little, but not nearly as much as the blue!) This one I used 9 pieces of 12" paper and glued all the edges together. I could've made it bigger even, but I liked the tight rolled look it made.

I drew a spiral on the back, cut it out, then starting on the outside folded it in half and then rolled up. I used the center as the base. I'll re put in the link to the YouTube video where I got the idea (someone said my link was hard to find).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq_URjXDHDo

Here's a picture of the wall.
FYI; The green and pink ones are about 8". The blue is about 10" and then again the purple is about 13".

Charades

Last night Scott and the kids were playing Charades (I was getting Jameson to bed), when I came in at the end Wesley said he needed help to do one, so Kamiah offered to do it with him. Wesley was excited and said, "Is your brain full of lots of good things?!" We thought that was a good one!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve Morning we woke to LOTS of snow which continued as the day want on!! (I'm on the WARM side of the door taking pictures!)

NOTE these pictures are taken in the first half of the day, but the piles got higher as the day went on!
One of our kind neighbors Fritz brought over his snow blower for Scott to borrow, you can see how deep it is!

Here are a couple shots from our deck... some snow was there already, but more than half of it was new from last night!

Another angle on our deck.

So I got this idea from again my terrific Aunt Chris! I couldn't resist! And yep, even Scott and my door got one!

We have a few Christmas Eve traditions at our house,
#1 We have our traditional Crunchy top ham/potato/cheese casserole with other fun things.
#2 We do the Christmas play with Joseph Mary and Baby Jesus. (I don't have pictures this year).
#3 On Christmas Eve we open one gift... PJ's (or the like). This year Scott wanted to do all John Deere! Kamiah said, "Was this Daddy's idea?" Of course! :)

And the winner of the best gift given Christmas 2010 award (according to me) The footed PJ's for Scott!! Ha ha ha!

Complete with a back flap! Scott said, "and you paid extra for that??!!" Yes and it was worth every dime! Oh it made me laugh! Every time someone mentioned the word "PJ's" I couldn't help but laugh!

You too could be the proud new owner of these fantastic PJ's!http://www.bigfeetpjs.com/ or http://www.footedpajamas.com/ or https://www.orderforeverlazy.com/flare/next?gclid=CPnR1Y7vrqYCFQO8KgodvQmzoQ there are of course others too!

Oh what a good sport my husband is!! Wearing his new PJ's that he was thrilled about!

#4 Scott and the kids go out to leave treats for the reindeer.

#5 we make cookies for Santa and Kamiah normally leaves a card too! (this year we cheated on our "homemade cookies" we still made them at home, but Pillsbury made the dough!)

And this is the very sad face of the girl who didn't want to give Santa the cookies! At first she was so excited about the cookies, and was helping get everything ready... and then she realized they were for Santa and NOT her! We told her she could have others, but she didn't want any for Santa! (and she Definitely didn't want her picture taken, this was the shot I could get!)

Classic

Quotes from my kids in the last 24 hours!

Kamiah, "Sometimes I get tired of boys at school being so gross!" (Time will change that!)

Wesley, "every car is special!" (Very thoughtful.) (fixed version... I typed it wrong the first time!)

Halle, "I wish I was a mom and could make garlic!" (I guess she really liked my garlic bread!)

Wall Flowers

No we don't have the curtains back up yet... we keep forgetting about those.

Well, I'm sure most of you have seen the new fad paper flowers? Typically they are about 1-2 inches in diameter, they're really cute and I was thinking "what if I made them big, say 8-10 inches and put them on my girlies' wall?? So I got 4 12" pieces of paper in the about them the same color family and glued them together and made a large flower. I did this with three different colors that went with my girls' room and I was really excited about them especially that they are each a little different. Here's a link to a YouTube video on how to make them.

My first one (blue) I had a harder time doing it kept wanting to rip on me! So I discovered some tricks. If you want it the folded look like my blue one is do one (or both) of two things; fold it in half after you cut the spiral, before you spin it up that would probably work better. And/or remember in elementary school when you took brown paper bags and rubbed them on them self to make them soft and worn looking? This might make the paper easier to fold in half if it's a little softer.

My pink one I didn't fold too much and I think they worked because most of the paper I used for that one had color on both sides. So when the paper is straight you see color instead of white on the back.

The green one. By this time I started figuring out what I was doing and what I needed to do to get it to look right! So, since I made it bigger, if I wanted just the tips folded I needed bigger hills and valleys as I cut, then it was easier to fold without ripping! Anyway, if you try it good luck!

The kids and I one day were hooked on watching some howdini.com cake making videos (I'm not sure how we got started?) But we decided to decorate some cakes, the kids had lots of fun being creative!

Make sure you've got some extras for 3d toppings! I'm amazed at how creative they are at howdini and how simple it is or at least seems!

And of course you have to sample along the way!

Family triathalon

Well, one friday I decided we needed to do something fun. We were going to have an Evans Family Triathalon. The first event was inspired by my awesome aunt Chris, bowl races! Yep! The kids loved it!

The kids tried two versions:

the first, bowls upside down pushing them across the floor while ontop,

the second, standing in them and twisting a lot trying to moved forward.

Halle needed some extra help.

For Scott and I we needed to improvise... we were too heavy for the upside down bowl race. So we raced on all fours. Scott tried to be extra tricky! If you think that looks easy you should try it!

Next race was hopping on one foot which was Wesley's idea (which he made should we knew it was his idea so he made the rules, some of which change as we were going ) :)
A since we were all busy hopping I don't have any pictures!
The last act in our family triathalon was soccor--and I know it's not an individual event like most triathalons have but it's our own so we did what we wanted!
Then we ended the night with some homemade ice cream (another great idea from my aunt Chris!)

We had a blast and decided we need to do that more often!!

This is a picture of Jameson the night of fun games.. but he missed out because he went to bed. Don't you just want to clean his cute little face up and give him a big smooch?!