Killdeer

While we were waiting for Elora's bus, Zach spotted this Killdeer about 5 feet from us!

It's guarding it's nest. Hopefully none of the other kids disturb it.

It made it's nest in a huge field that is fenced off, but it's nest is so close to the fence, right where the kids wander around while waiting for the bus.

Xander was jabbering away to the bird!

He's really good a making crazy faces right when I take his picture :)

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Snow!

We got a little snow last week, so our yard (and Grandma & Grandpa's house) looked like this.

When Xander looked out the window his face looked like this:
He was being silly :0
Danika showed Zander how to put stickers on his face, so that's what's on his face : )

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February Fun

During February Pete's sister and her kids came to visit!

It was also Grandpa, Makelle and Mandy's B-days!

So we had a group party!

Noah and Zander had lots of fun together!

So did Makella and Danika!

Danika has a band aid because she busted her chin open on the edge of the bathtub.

(she has more scars than any one else in our family)

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Etsy! Oh yeah!

I did it! I opened my own shop! On Etsy!

Click on the box above to visit my shop.

I'm trying to add a few things every day so keep on checking it. I've been thinking about doing this for a while now, but couldn't find the time to get everything together.

Now that we have somewhat of a routine down for homeschooling, I'm finding little bits of time here and there(the house is still a mess though).

I'm not sure what the focus of my shop will be yet, but I'm having fun playing around with it.

I got these pics of Danika while I was taking pictures of my Etsy items!

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Just Plain Silly

Elora and Danika being silly.
Zach wearing the shirt Aunt Amy made him for Christmas.

Pete and I sporting Amy's shirts, aren't we sweet!

And Xander in Amy's shirt!
He has the silliest grin!

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Scripture Time!

It's that time again!

Time to redo the bulletin board in the Primary room!

December is so busy, we can never seem to get the board done before the middle of January. Last years was really neat, but this years will be even neater! (Is neater a word?) So, I took pics of all the kids and primary workers (including me, last year I wasn't up there. Hehe. Some people questioned why the Primary President wasn't with everyone else :)). Everyone is either reading their scriptures or looking off in the distance like they are thinking about what the are reading. Scattered among the pictures of everyone are going to be 3x4 pictures of scripture stories by Steve Nethercott (I love his pictures). My 1st counselor had this picture printed on a blanket and that's what we used for our background. It worked perfectly. We were going for a Sacred Grove kind of feel.

I think these pics turned out really cute!

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Christmas! Yay!

Pete's brother's family came to visit us before Christmas! We had tons of fun with them and the kids were especially sad that they couldn't stay until Christmas day. While they were here we had a Polar Express party!

Christmas morning! The kids were a little excited!

After the presents were all opened.

Zach got a terrarium with a Fire Belly Toad and a Salamander in it!

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