Jake discusses his favorite subject ” Legos” with Grandma Marna after the birthday party…
Years ago I remember a “Zack the lego maniac” commercial. I keep wondering where to sign Jake up at so he can become their next spokesperson.. He has every catalog and set memorized…
This week we celebrated Justin’s Birthday.
The Cake…
Grandma Marna Joins the Party Via Skype and Web Cam…
This was a fun part of the party since she doesn’t get to attend many family events…
It was great to have both grandma’s in attendance
Justin poses by his Present the Little People Airport… With Grandma Mona in the background
Who let the puzzle begin.. Thank goodness Jake is such a good helper. He helped us put the set together fast using his ” lego set” assembly skills.
We did run into some snow on our trip, and my kids thought it was great fun to help everyone shovel their driveways…
this is fun plowing snow….
this shovel may be bigger then me, but I am going to make it work.
must have been fun… she’s smiling…
time to lean on my shovel and take a little break….
Grandpa is a “Dam” Mechanic… so we enjoy a trip to the dam he works at pretty much every time we go to visit…
lower side of the dam
upper side of the locks
Mom i’m tired can we go home now…
Look there are fish swimming up the fish ladder!
Is it snack time yet?
I sure hope those upper lock doors hold, or we are going to get wet….
We even had a chance for Sydney to go riding a horse, while on vacation…
I just can’t wait… hurry and get sugar saddled up….
look at us cow girls go…
This is fun.. To bad it is only 30 degrees out right now….
Look at me.. this is fun…
Even Dad got a turn to ride….
This year we received a gingerbread house kit as a gift… it was fun to build….
and now for the best part of the whole project….
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM……
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM….
Yummy….
Are you telling me I FINALLY get to open a present….
Yeah new christmas pj’s
Talk about one crazy pajama party…
My uncle always says you don’t know if the trip was fun or not until you have seen if you were smiling in the pictures…
From the looks of these pictures,I guess it was a fun trip…..
As you can see AJ doesn’t miss a beat when it comes to being in the middle of everything….
Here he is helping to set up a round of mr. mouth…
Look Mom and Dad I got my first motorized car…
Go, go, go, go, go….
Justin has sure enjoyed his gift from mom and dad.. and it even survived a stairwell 4 x 4 trail at our house.. The Tonka engineers/designers hit a home run with this design…
My son had a new take on the traditional “no room at the Inn” part of the nativity story..
He created a “no room in the stable” scenario that was quite humorous…
The funnest part was trying to get all the animals to come back out of the barn….
In the construction industry this has been a year of cut backs, and I have found myself wearing sooooo many hats at the company I work for that I often get confused about which hat I should be wearing when… That aside I am grateful to be employed and for the lessons I have learned about dealing slow economic times.
With Christmas and New Years falling as they did this year we were able to take a 10 day vacation to visit my parents in South Eastern Washington… It was great to get away from it all and just relax for a few days. It was also wonderful to get to spend some much needed one on one time with our children.
Over the next few days I will be posting some pictures from the trip…
Enjoy….
look mom it is our new daddy chair….
so dad what happens when I pull this ornament…
Jake and Aj were having fun tonight. Aj was riding in Jake’s tonka truck.
Here is a picture of this evenings pajama parade…
Here are the results of our living room makeover.
Now for the story. About 2 years ago, I did some trade work with an aquaintance of mine. He never delivered on his end of the bargin and our living room shelves were never built. This has annoyed me for the last few months. I then stumbled across a quote from an unknown author that said: “I must do something.” always solves more problems than: “Something must be done.” It struck a nerve and moved me to action.
For 2 years Tina and I have been stating something must be done, and we have went as far as we could to be the squeaky wheel and encourage that other party to follow through.
After reading the above mentioned quote, I realized that I could make a difference if I would just change my perspective. I started planning what was needed and envisioning it in my head and on paper. Soon after doing this I was guided to find the parts I needed to completely build the project and as a bonus they were even on sale and fit my limited budget. Amazingly in one evening my 4 “apprentices” and I had the shelves in place and later the next day we had the boxes all unpacked and have been enjoying having easy access to our “library” and a clutter free living room.
It is so cool when the Lord helps to guide you in reaching your goals. He will help you when you listen, and look for alternative ways to solve your problems, instead of just blaming others’ faults for the lack of meeting your goals.
On a larger scale, I have wondered a lot lately what would happen here in our country if we each would start to do the little things we must do to take personal responsibility for the state we are in, instead of just sitting around saying “something must be done” and then complaining when it isn’t done right.
For the last several months our living room has been filled with boxes of books. Work and other “emergencies” have kept me from being able to make a better setting then this.
In fact, one acquaintance ask me when we were moving, because of the boxes.
Anyway this weekend, it has all changed.
Stay tuned more to come….
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