Happy Easter!

Easter 2012

Another Try

Here's round two refashioning.
I saw a "dress from t-shirts" on pinterest a few weeks ago at this site. I totally loved it.
4 shirts later and this is the result:

Cute, huh? Brinly LOVES it!

Dress from a shirt

I made Brinly a little dress from a men's shirt. I've never done a "refashion" before, but I think I'm hooked!

Christmas Vacations Favorites

1. Skiing for the first time!! (Abby, Brinly, Jordan)...but NOT the ski lesson! (Brinly and Jordan)

2. Ice Skating and tubing at Grandpa Winters Ponds. Everyone wants to take ice skating lessons now!

3. Seeing all the Grandparents.

4. Sleeping in.

5. Movies!!

6. Too much good food.

7. Playing with new toys--favorites were nerf guns for Jordan and Bryant, digital camera for Brinly, and CD player for Abby.

8. Trevor's campout/ice fishing/swimming adventure with the scouts.

9. Playing games. (Has anyone played Pandemic? It's a good one!)

10. Great weather!

Bryant's Three!

Bryant had a birthday this past week. I can't believe he's three! He celebrated with a green Mickey Mouse cake and a huge Mickey Mouse balloon. He was one happy kid.

Bryant is such a sweet and funny little boy. All of us love him so much.

A few things about Bryant:

• His favorite color is green.


• He is very compassionate. If he sees one of his siblings is upset he will try to make them feel better, usually with a hug and a bandaid.


• He loves to give hugs.


• His mommy is still his favorite person. (I love this one!)


• He likes to tell jokes and tell us how funny we all are.


• He usually picks out one toy that is his favorite and that is the only one he wants to play with for extended periods of time.

We're so happy Bryant's in our family. Happy Birthday Bryant!

Happy Halloween!

Unicorn (Brinly), Mickey Mouse (Bryant), Spider man (Jordan), Pocahontas (Abby)

I had to include a picture of our pumpkins and dahlias this year. The flowers didn't freeze until right before Halloween and I lucked out when I planted them that the orange, red, and yellow ones ended up here. It ended up being a nice fall display!

Happy Birthday Jordan!

Jordan is now five!

Jordan is a great kid. A few months ago, Trevor asked me if Jordan could stay this age forever. I totally agreed. He's just so fun and interesting. We love hearing what he has to say!

For his actual birthday, I let him pick out an ice cream cake and we had pizza. Picking out the cake was the highlight of his day. We also had a friend party. Jordan wanted to have a dinosaur party. It was a lot of fun to put together. The only part Jordan cared about was having a pinata. We ended up getting this three foot tall dinosaur pinata at the local grocery store. He was so proud carrying it through the store. I'm so glad Jordan's a part of our family!