Monday, December 30, 2013

What a fun day with nine guests in our home.  The older boys played video games and Rock Band.  Darrel's kids wanted to go on a Razr ride so James took them.  Later Addy wanted to go for a walk to take some pictures. Of course Ruby and Rowan wanted to come too, but they ran on ahead of us.  As we were walking only Addy said to me: "It's so beautiful here.  I wish we could live here."  So do I Addy, so do I!

As we were walking down our road James picked us up on the Razr. The kids, with Ruby steering, all wanted to go to Chocolate Lake because it's frozen.  That's where James took them this morning.  They had so much fun walking and running on the frozen lake.

 Ruby ready to brave the cold.

Ruby on ice.

Addy and Rowan.

When we were leaving a woman was walking along with two dogs.  Ruby yelled at her over the drone of the Razr: "Hey, no dogs allowed!"  I am not sure if the woman heard or not.  

Back at home we had hot chocolate and then Rowan wanted to watch The Wizard of Oz.  He always gets out my little mini Madam Alexander dolls I got at McDonald's a few years ago.

The starring cast of the Wizard of Oz,

minus Toto and the Wizard.

After the movie James and I went into town.  I needed to get appetizers for tomorrow night's New Years Eve party at the Dewitt's and James wanted to fix the Cat tire and get gas for the Razr.  I also bought the game Joshua got for Christmas, Boom, Boom, Balloon.  While we were gone the kids watched the movie The Croods.

Darrel made tacos for dinner and Brian made chicken fettuccini alfredo.  I had a taco.  Kim always works on a puzzle while she is here and of course the kids were interested but the puzzle was too hard for them so I got a 100 piece puzzle out and did it with Addy and Rowan.  Here is a picture of Kim's puzzle.

Chocolate in over 1,000 pieces.

I played a game of Five Crowns with Kim.  Addy came over and chose to help Kim, and guess what?  They beat me.  

Ed and Wes Miller came by to work on the heater.  They said they would be back again tomorrow.

We did a FHE on family and church history.  I told a story from church history and James told a couple from his familiy's history.   Ruby wasn't very interested.  She found the feather duster and was dusting everything she could find, including my glasses.  Here are some pictures I took:

Our fearless leader and teacher.

Ruby dusting the pine cones.

Rowan hiding under his blanket.

The older boys and part of Darrel.

Playing Boom, Boom.  Notice

Rowan covering his ears.

After FHE and Boom, Boom, Balloon, Darrel's kids came in our room and watched "The Rise of the Guardians."  The older boys and Brian and Darrel watched ASU get beat by Texas Tech in the Holiday Bowl.

Facebook finds:

Joshua playing with his

Schaub cousins.

Max bought season five of The Mentalist

for Sheri with his Christmas money.

He is now the favorite son.

Eric & Christy Wanlass on
their wedding day over 20 years ago.

Friday, July 20, 2012

At a midnight showing of the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises", in Aurora, Colorado a madman set off a tear gas bomb and went up on stage and began shooting at people.  At first the audience thought it was part of the show but then pandemonium broke out when people realized it was for real.  12 people were killed and 50 wounded.  Such a tragedy.  Why do people do such horrific things?

The kids went out this morning to look for lizards and came back with this guy.

They named him "Flash."

Kylie is the one who caught him.

Lexy and her kids, Kylie, Kayla, and Kreed left this morning around 11:30.  They will be missed.  We had alot of fun while they were here.  I especially enjoyed hearing Kreed call James Grandpa.

Today was Darrel's last day at his work.  He had to do a presentation and then they had a luncheon for him to say goodbye.  Trina and the kids went and Trina took her famous chicken, black bean enchiladas which were a big hit.  

This afternoon Darrel, Trina and I and their kids went to the Butterfly Museum in Greer.  Addy had studied butterflies in school and so she was excited to see some butterflies.  It turned out to be kind of a dive and more of an historical museum than a butterfly museum.  There was a small display of dead butterflies in one of the rooms.  We had fun anyway because it had been raining and the weather was gorgeous!

Being Silly.

Love these kids.

Back at the cabin Grandpa caught a baby bluebird and brought it inside.  

There seems to be alot of bluebirds around our place.  Alex caught one when he was here too.

This evening  I watched the Wizard of Oz with the kids because Rowan asked me to.  We had to get out my little miniature dolls I collected from McDonald's.  Rowan said he had been looking for the Munchkin in the movie that looked like the Munchkin doll but he hadn't been able to find it.  He was so excited when we saw the one we thought was her.  He snuggled against me and even put his head in my lap.