Busy Baby

You know that age when a little baby starts becoming a toddler? Well, I'm there...next comes teenager, as evidenced by the fact that she is already talking to her friends on the phone...

And while I was cooking for Thanksgiving, Aubrey decided to "help." She made this big mess, and when I grabbed the broom to clean up, she wanted to help with that too. How great!

New Room

I have been dragging my feet a little bit on this project...Rachel mentioned moving down to the basement ages ago (Anna moved out in May), but I just hadn't been in a rush to do it. We had a Friday off school in mid-November, so I started really working on it on that Thursday night and then worked on Friday, Saturday to get it all done. Ikea furniture can take a long time to put together! So, she had wanted all this fancy painting-think plaid or argyle-yikes! Not that I couldn't, I just wanted something a little more simple. So we landed on two colors and embellishing with some vinyl stickers. Nice compromise. Well, she loves it. I think it turned out well. I just painted the closet white (3 coats-yuck) and the rest of it covered in two.

Only paint-no furniture yet

The desk (Ikea ) in southwest corner

The bed and bookcase

The bed, desk, and SWING (that was a bday present)
The desk also has a magnet board and some organizer over it (love Ikea)

It came together nicely. And she actually likes hanging out there. By herself and with friends. Abby came over and I let them put the vinyl up together. It looks good (you know, for the most part!).

Professional Pics

Time for a new family picture! We went to Camera Shy. Same concept as FotoFly (you get the CD and copyright but they can also print then and there for $4 a sheet). But I like the owner better :) Awesome btw-lots of variety in backgrounds and stuff. Nice for a change of scenery (literally). Can't believe it's already been a year since last family one.

The Whole Clan

This is actually Rachel's school picture (they did CD's this year-awesome!)

8 year old beauty (well, almost 8)

5 and these are the best smiles they could coax

14 1/2 months old-Crazy hair and thinks she's so big

All the kids

Family

Halloween '11

I was made to promise my dad pics of the kids in costume. Usually, by Halloween we have had like 6 occasions to wear costumes (ward party, Gardner Village, school, etc) but things were different this year (with Halloween being on a school day and all) and Monday was the first day that they wore costumes. We carved pumpkins Sunday-they were all grown from our little garden.

Seems safe...

Gross!

Do I have to??

Finished product

Ninja (with weapons!!)
Mrs Potato Head
Butterfly