Christmas fun at Nana's

We had a great time at Nana's on Christmas day. Uncle Joshie got to meet his new Neice and fun was had by all! Thanks Nana, Papa, Josh and Liz for all the wonderful gifts!

Happy Christmas!!!!

What a fab 36 hours! We left our home in Forest Heights yesterday morning around 10am. We had SOOOO much snow up here I wasn't sure we would make it to my parents house in Wilsonville. It was a slippidy slidey drive there and many places where I just closed my eyes and prayed we'd be ok, low and behold we made it safe and sound.

Nat goes to work

Ryan was nice enough to give Nat and I a much needed break from one another. Poor girl's been stuck in the house with me for over a week due to the snow and ice. She had a blast! She handed out Christmas bonuses to the "wookohs"(workers) shoveled the lot and built a snowman!

Cabin Fever!

We have been stuck here in the house for a week now. The boys were out of school all of last week. It's been tough keeping everyone entertained. It seems all we do is eat and watch tv, I've run out of creative ideas mostly because I am soooo exhausted, the girls haven't been sleeping at night. Last night when I thought I had finally gotten the girls to sleep, in my bed of course, Natalie taps me on the shoulder and says "Mommy I cleaned the potty with the toilet wand". Yep she was cleaning the bathroom at 3 AM! Ryan and Henry have ventured off into the frozen white tundra. We are unable to drive down the hill so the are meeting someone at the bottom of the hill, lucky them, I need to get out of here soon before I lose what's left off my mind at this point. It has started snowing again this morning and we expect about2-3 more inches today.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

More Snow photos!

Having so much fun in our Winter Wonderland!

Snow!!!!!

We got our first snow here in Portland yesterday. The kids are having a blast playing in it, especially Natalie who loves the "snowcakes"(snowflakes) and building Mr Snowman. Yesterday was just a light dusting but today is super cold and windy. The snow is practically coming down sideways and hasn't let up all day. The forest and snow is the thing I'll miss most about living in the West Hills.

S'mores!!!! yum

Our advent activity yesterday was Christmas s'mores, that just means smores with green and red marshmallows. They were yummy and made everyone behave very sill as you can see in the pics, and right before bed YAY!!!!! It was really fun!

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Lights Out

Yesterday evening a car hit a utility pole down the hill somewhere and our power went out. I never really thought much about power outages, in fact the few we have had in the past were kinda fun, snuggling up and candles, like camping! With FOUR kids, not so much. Harrison was terrified, Natalie didn't get it "MOM turn my light on!" Bridget was still hungry after nursing and i had no way to warm milk for her, Henry of course thought it was cool! We have a house full of electronics, laptops, personal dvd players, psp, all of were either not charged or not working(that's another story).We were able to watch Kim Possible on my Ipod, all three kids fighting over who would hold it. I never realized how incredibly unprepared I am for any kind of emergency. I had only a few votive candles, no bottled water, nothing to feed the kids for dinner. Thankfully Ryan rescued us with some fast food. The blackout lasted only a little over an hour but felt like forever. Today I think I'll buy some flashlights..........

Don't look a gift horse.....

Weirdest thing, Yo Gabba Gabba totally calms m y screaming colicky baby. I found out by accident. I was fixing lunch for Nat we were watching Nick jr. Bridget was in her bouncy wailing, screaming her little head off and then it came on "yo gabba gabba yo gabba gabba YOOOOOOOOOO" wimper, wimper silence. 30 minutes in her seat silent and transfixed. It was unreal. Thought maybe it was a fluke, had to make dinner, again Bridget's screaming. I put her bouncy angled towards the TV(mother of the year....YAY!) and turn it on. Wimper wimper silence! It's a miracle, a totally bizarre weird a** show miracle! Go Figure!

Oh happy day!

I adore my boys really I do but holy shnykies they can be a whole heck of a lot of work when combined with a colicky baby and a whirling dervish of a 3year old! They have been out of school since friday before last, PPS take the entire week of Thanksgiving off and I have no idea what yesterday was about but today's the day, BACK TO SCHOOL, back to routine, back to only fighting with them between the hours of 3pm-8pm! Don't get me wrong they're great boys but they are full of 'tween attitude these days. Henry is always complaining about something, not sure why, both those guys have a pretty good gig around here. They'd have never lasted a week in my childhood, not that it was bad at all but we had this thing called accountability, a concept my kids have yet to grasp. I guess I only have myself to blame huh? Oh my gosh I totally sound like "I walked 2 miles uphill both ways to school" just then, "kids these days"!!!!
Anywhooooo- the boys are back in school today and I'm back to our routine! Thank gosh for for The Klubhouse(drop in childcare, yay!) taking Nat to Target these days with all the christmas stuff is total torture.

Picture of the day

Tried something new with my camera and here's what I came up with, I just wanna eat her up!

What a great day!

Thanksgiving was wonderful! Good company and great food. Mom and dad showed up around around 10am with the bird. We spent the morning and early afternoon just hanging out together cooking and decorating. I made carmelized shallot and sage mashed potatoes, just about the greatest thing I've ever eaten, geesh were they good. One of the best things was drinking mimosas with my mom at noon, who da thunk it? When I think of all the years wasted not seeing what an amazing (&fun!) person she really is it makes me a bit sad! The icing? Nana and mom cleaned EVERYTHING up for me! Yay! It really was the best Thanksgiving ever.