Exploring Fort Stevens State Park

Camping at Fort Stevens

A day bowling with the Adams family...

Madison all dressed up and ready to go to Hawaii....

A day at the zoo....

Makenna

Makenna wanted her picture taken with her new purse, that she got from Grandma and Grandpa.

Madison and Makenna

Madison and Makenna in their new sparkly, snow angel shirts.

Madison and Mommy.

Madison and Mommy trying to do some plastic canvas. We may need to wait until Grandma can help us... :)

The kids had fun playing with their new toys.

The girls playing with their new toys.

We had to beg the boys to take a break from playing their games and come downstairs to get something to eat.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

We had alot of fun this morning opening gifts.

Christmas Eve pjs.

Every Christmas Eve we all get to open a present, some new pjs. We also watch a movie, this year we watched The Polar Express.

Artists at work.

This year all of the kids painted a picture for me and Michael put them in a frame for me. They are beautiful pictures and they had lots of fun painting them for me.

Braxton and Madison

Christmas Eve Braxton and Madison had lots of fun covering pretzels in chocolate. Yummy!

Ouch!!

Well, I didn't really want this for Christmas this year :( On December 4th I was headed down the stairs, like I do so many times everyday, to go get Braxton from school, and on the way downstairs my leg, arm, and right foot decided to go their separate ways and my ankle went pop, pop, pop and looked like it was barely hanging on. I called for Landon to bring me the phone so I could call Michael, he got home in about 15 min. Meanwhile, I tried to pop my ankle back to where it should be, held it in place and tried not to pass out. Michael got home and we called 911 since I couldn't move further down the stairs. Finally, the firemen and Ambulance got here, they splinted my ankle and took me to the hospital in the Ambulance. Poor Braxton walked home to our house wondering what could be going on with the Firetruck and Ambulance parked outside. On Wednesday I had surgery, and now I'am among the group of people that have metal plates, and screws in their bodies.

Madison and our Christmas tree

Madison in front of our tree, we are going to hopefully finish hanging up the ornaments either today or tomorrow. :)
should be a good Sunday or FHE activity.

our bird

The bird as found a new landing pad. In the kitchen above our table, we will have to be very careful when we are eating that nothing lands on our food....yucky..
The bird likes to fly into our entry way and land on our mirror and talk to its "friend" . It is fun to have around.

our poor puppy

Puppy is getting very old and has been very sick since August. Here she is after my attempt at cutting her hair and bandaging her up.

Makenna and her bird feather.

Makenna had one of our birds feathers, and she came in and told me that it broke and that she needed some FEATHER TAPE to fix it.

Makenna loves cheese

Makenna saying "cheese" while she is eating cheese.. :)