Our middle child Ben is just about 3 1/2 yrs old but he is bigger than a lot of our 5 yr olds friends. John is tall but I bet Ben will be taller than his 6 feet 3 inches! We were at the doctors for flu shots (and to make sure Jamie’s ear infections [...]
We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas today! Here are the pictures from our Christmas card. Unfortunately no one has received one because they haven’t come to our house yet! I’ve got all the envelopes addressed and ready to go so at this rate I hope they come in the mail tomorrow and I [...]
John just called down a few minutes ago (around 11pm) and told me to run up with the camera. I never imagined this is what I’d find! Ethan is so cute. I don’t know how we’ll get the boys to go to bed tomorrow on Christmas Eve!
The 3 lucky winners of our Shrek calendar contest are:
Mama Zen, Daniel & Brook
We’ll be taking a little break from contests for the holidays!
With the writer’s strike in full swing and no new shows in our TiVo todo list I decided to do some searching and find a few good nature shows to watch with the kids. As luck would have it, Ethan and Ben’s favorite wildlife presenter, Nigel Marven, has a new series on Animal Planet called [...]
I’ve written a number of posts about how easy it is to build a backyard ice rink. Well, it is only fair that I post the story of my FIRST rink. A lot of work during that first winter has made it much easier the following years.
It all started when we bought Ethan [...]
We got this ‘recipe’ from a magazine last winter and it was a big hit with the kids.
Ingedients
1 big rubbermaid
snow and lots of it – the fresher the better
1 shovel
bath tub
finally, add a couple kids and their toysoptional
washable paint diluted in water
icicles
cups and bowls to make snow castles
spoons for excavation
This week we are giving away THREE neat shaped 2008 Shrek wall calendars. They are shaped like Shrek’s head! John was supposed to put the picture up with this post but last night we were up VERY late with a sick kid. He was the one that cleaned up all the throw up so I’ll [...]
Jamie is starting to get a social life, two outings with kids her own age this week! These pictures are from this little guy’s first birthday party yesterday. I’m working on arranging a marriage between him and Jamie. She seems happy with him so far! The three babies were so cute together but unfortunately Jamie [...]
