Thursday, December 16, 2010
Christmas Dance Recital 12/11/10
Friday, December 10, 2010
Good Friends! 12/8/10
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Christmas Contest
Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.
1. What is your holiday wish for your family?
Happiness & good health! (I am getting old apparently!)
2. What is your Christmas morning / Hanukkah Nightly tradition?
We open all of our presents & then go to Grandma's house for a delicious Christmas breakfast.
3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?
A completly new wardrobe!
4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?
Spending time with family. We love to play games!
5. What games did you play with your family growing up?
Skipbo & Phase 10
6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?
Christmas Nativity reenactment on Christmas Eve
7. Where would you go for a Christmas/Hanukkah-away-from-home trip?
To the cabin!
8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year?
Nintendo DSi, Super Mario Galaxy 2, & Rock Band
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
November in a flash!
Doug & Keli also got a tree. (We are getting to the presnowball fight now!) Mom & Dad got a tree too but I didn't get a picture! But get excited for the next picture because she is a beauty!

Trent read 'The Hunger Games' while we were there! Keli had brought it for her to read but Trent got a hold of it & read it all!
Now we are back to the weekend before Thanksgiving! You may be thinking, Hey I've seen this picture already! But you'd be wrong! While attending a birthday party, Olivia ate some pizza & knocked out her 3rd top tooth! That's right 3 missing teeth in a row! Talk about a new verse to the song! Did I mention that the other top tooth is loose? Not the easiest way to eat a Thanksgiving dinner!
This is a cute center at Rigby's preschool. They love hammering the nails & then pulling them out of the foam!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Catch up!
Rigby got to play soccer this year & I got to be his coach! I'm not sure he learned a whole lot but he did have fun! We had 6 very young boys on our team & we got smashed every game. We're talking 13-0 in a 20 minute game! Finally in the second to last game we scored our first goal! Hooray for Dawson! Then our last game we scored 2! Both by Coben, the other team secured our first & only victory by scoring 2 more goals for us! We'll be playing in the spring as well.
Lainee played again this year - Olivia opted out because it made her tired to play soccer! Lainee's team is the Purple Pirates! Front row: Delilah, Carissa, Jessica, Lainee. Back row: Aaliyah, Abbie, Monica, Kia, & Kenya. And coach Jessica & her husband (I don't know his name but he basically took over & coached.)

Once again, Lainee proved to be a great asset to the team! She was a high scorer for the team! In the picture she is holding up 2 fingers for 2 goals - not for peace! She continues to be a good athlete & enjoys sports!
This tree is what I see going out my front door! Unfortunately its not in my yard! But isn't it beautiful? It belongs to the church that I live across the street from.
So speaking of my house, I wanted to show some updates! This is the before picture, kind of plain & dead grass.
After! I made & installed the shutters myself! Didn't it just dress up the house?! And notice the grass! Back to green! We (ok Trent) reseeded the grass & its growing in nicely! Oh I also painted the house numbers to stand out.
This picture is far away but its to show the before picture of the side window that partly behind the bush.
And after. Again, kind of hard to see behind the bush but you can see the shutters! (I still need to trim that bush!)
This week at school Lainee gets to be the "King of the Jungle" spotlight. She made a poster of some of the places she's been to & got to answer questions from her class.
Good job Lanes!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The Last Few Weeks
The girls had CrAzY hAiR day at school & this is what we came up with. Excuse the 6 year old throwing the fit! As for Rigby, how could I not take a picture of that cutie!
Then came the deer hunt... it was my first rifle hunt & I NEVER got to use my gun!
We did get a flat tire though! Good thing we had 3 guys to change it!
We did see a lot of does. If you look closely you can see a line of deer making their way up the hill, just none with antlers!
Next was the kids Halloween parade at school.
Well since I can't get the pictures in order, next is Olivia after school showing me that she lost one of her front teeth! We've been working on the one that's still in & she got knocked at school & it made the tooth that fell out really loose so when she ate a french fry at school her tooth fell out! Then she lost the tooth at school but the tooth fairy still gave her 6 quarters - one for every year old!
Ok now its the school parade! Lainee was Cleopatra! And of course I managed to take her picture with the sun glaring behind her! Olivia was a gothic ballerina! We decided later that she was a zombie ballerina & her teeth looked more zombie-ish!
Then it was Saturday night, time for some trick or treating! Lainee was Cleopatra, Rigby made a comeback as a bat again, & Olivia was a wizard - she was embarassed to wear it to school so she just wore it trick or treating.








