Make a Smilebox slideshow

Let's talk cake

ok so we all know i enjoy the baking and have a tendancy to get a little nutty with the birthday cakes but i have failed utterly this time.  Ellie requested a my little pony cake for her birthday.  and of course the my little pony cake pan has been discontinued.  enter lack of imagination here.  In my head this cake was to resenble a fenced pasture with my little ponies grazing on patches of green grass.  what i ended up making looked like this.  the kids said the fence posts look like a crown and the "grass" looks like it's  already been digested. ug.  well there you go.  I try 

5 going on 16

Oh can it really be true that this little beauty can be 5 years old?  Well she had a great day.  Aunt sherri was even here to share the day with us.  she got some fun stuff including a 6 foot long rainbow Caterpillar she has named Princess compliments of grandma.  and a great towel with her name on it from unta Lew and aunt sherry-o.  

man i love e this kid

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.

my Christmas wish!

Baking with Ellie

Kyleigh this morning announces that there is a party in her class and she would like me to bring some cookies for the class. I am not quite sure what she thinks that I

do all day but ill spare you for now. suffice to say she was flogged for not letting me know sooner. so being the betty crocker wannabe that i an (insert sarcastic sneer here) i of course got quickly to the task of baking. Ellie and i made peanut butter cookies with peanut butter cups pushed in to them. they are pretty yummy for as ugly as they are but you get what you get and you don't throw a fit. especially when you give mom NO NOTICE AT ALL!!!!

DID I SERIOUSLY....

Just pay a mere $28.12 for 17 and a half gallons of gas?? Dammit i did. that's right $1.59 a gallon now OK given it's cheap as$ gas but still, wow . I did a little Happy dance at the pump. I heard on the news that i had chairman oh wait I mean president (elect) Obam@ to thank for it, I am going to stop paying my mortgage and medical insurance too I'm told that will be taken care of too, and just in time too i was getting tired of raising and caring for my own children . Ugh and that planning for our future thing well that was just exhausting..Oh sorry went off a little there. please excuse me. No cast for Ellie. she couldn't be happier (and so are her siblings who are no longer being beaten to a pulp by her bug yellow club.

the case of the missing cast...

No not a Nancy Drew book, but Ellie Walsh. so the other morning Ellie is outside talking to grandma and her cast just slips off her hand. UG. she is so happy and i keep telling her that the Doctor may put it right back on. Suffice to say she is very unhappy with me. we'll see what the doctor says this afternoon.

my man's 12 and other stuff.

well Mitchell is 12 and the end of the world didn't come. I was sure it would but it didn't. He survived a birthday cake, a birthday pie and 12 wacks on the fanny from daddy. I can't beleive it's been 12 years since they handed me that beautiful baby that looked like he's been run over by a mack truck. He's turned into an amazing young man, patient, tollerant, loving, i could go on all day. I couldn't have asked for a better son.

my beautiful girl

This is just a pic that i love of my ellie. she is such a warm and wonderfull gal and i am so very lucky to have her in my life.

A shopping we will go.....

If you order it, it will come. ok so in a quest to save gas and take full advantage of the "free shipping when you spend 8 million dollars" i did the vast majority of my holiday shopping over yee ol'e internet. and what has befallen my livingroom is something of a horror. Today i was visited by the mail man, the fed ex lady and the Ups guy. all of them deleivered enormously oversized packages with oodles of packing peanuts. but i must say it's kind of fun it's driving the kids crazy (ok crazier). oh the fun!!!

Candy canes

I just unloaded the camera and this is my favorite pic. Ellie wasn't interested in the ornaments but she was all over putting candy canes on the tree. now she wants to know when we can eat them

Thanksgiving 2.0

We had a fun day with the walshes(and Borondas and Eckrotes) on Saturday. it is so much fun to get Connor and Cole together. They are great buds. All of the siblings are healthy and well. Every one seems to be keeping busy with work. All the newlyweds still like each other and the old timers are getting closer to empty homes every day. Ug were getting old. It's great to get together but it does make us all think of Mary and Larry and miss them even more.

VANITY

Thy name is Kyleigh Donna........

thanksgiving '08

Well another wonderful thanksgiving was had here by one and all. We spent the day visiting with the other Walshes here in town. Aunt Judy was again the hostess with the most est and there was more yummy food and great company then we know what to do with. Thanks so much beautiful lady for always including us in your family, it means more then i can express.

Brian graciously showed Mitch that if you run your finger quickly through the flame of a candle you wont burn yourself. so i bet you can guess what he did for the rest of the night. (see fourth photo)

The list of things to be grateful for this thanksgiving is too long to list but they are topped by my previous 4 favorite thing and my most handsome husband whom i couldn't love more. Happy Turky day to all. may the triptophan hangover be bearable.