Monkey trap

OK so school was not this fun when i was a kid.  Mitchell had to create a trap for a stuffed monkey.  and this is what his group came up with after 3 group meetings that lasted about 5 minutes each and were followed by wii battles.  

simple yet elegant

SEE WHAT HAPPENDS........

when you remove the technology from the house for a few hours, boredom, book reading and pandemonium.  I got a bug up my but and wouldn't let the kids watch T.V. or go on any computers the other day and boy howdy were they ever unhappy.  Connor was forced to read a book,  and the girls had several wheel barrow races witch quickly became "let's pull Ellie's pants off" Mitchell hid out in his fortress of solitude, I'm not sure what he was doing in there, he is 12 and most of the time i am pretty sure that i don't want to know.  this pic is when he came out to see if the ban had been lifted, it hadn't hence the look of dejection on his handsome face

                                                                               

    

my monkey at the park.  she loves the park so much!  it's coming up on two years since this little one came home and i can't recall life with out her.  She's even starting to think her daddies kind of  cool.  i just can't express how lucky i feel to have the family  that i have been so incredibly blessed with.  I must have done something really fab in a past life or something.  Please note that there are more pics of ellie here simply because she is home all day with me and also because the big three run faster then i do (but i'm going to the gym again, i'll catch em)

Ellie on her new bike!

My big girl o n her new big girl bike. she could not be more pleased with herself.

fun with the mac book

I'm trying something new with the new laptop so far i cant do anything but sinc kyleigh's i pod but who knows what the future holds

SNOW FUN

yes thats snow, and yes thats my dad's front yard. We had a fun Christmas surprise when santa's helper delivered some fresh Tahoe snow to us. many snow balls were thrown and and we quickly discovered that all of my children have remarkably bad aim.