Laundry Helper...could it be??

At our house I have wished many times for a fairy to help me with the laundry...knowing in all reality I must wake up and face the loads! But today I may have gotten one step closer. Cameron heard the drier buzzer go off this morning as we were trying to get everyone fed, dressed, and ready to get out the door. She decided she would go help. She comes upstairs and informs me that she changed the laundry, very proud I might add. My thought...should I be happy or extremely nervous. She took out dry clothes and found an empty basket to fill them with.
Then tonight as she is suppose to be going to sleep she seeks out of bed to find all the laundry in the living room that I have my nightly date with and asks if she can help me do laundry.
Bad mom for letting her stay up OR good mom for teaching her how to fold towels????

Making cookies or something???

Tonight the girls were keeping themselves very busy cooking! They found a real pan and were pretending that they were making cookies. Normally they do this on the play kitchen set. But tonight it was more fun to put it in the real oven. Luckily supper was over and they were not in any danger. Although I told them countless times that they had to use their oven, not mine! Of course what do I find in my oven after about 20 minutes of pre-heating and getting ready to try a new recipe??? None other than a yellow plastic plate with 'cookies' on it. Is now resembles something like Velveeta melting and dripping down through 2 oven racks and into the bottom drawer. And lets not fail to mention the rolling smoke that is coming out of the oven when I opened it to try to pinpoint the funny smell in our house. Lets just say our house doesn't smell like fresh-baked cookies :)

They are very into the cooking thing right now. Here is a picture of a snow day when we got out the Easy Bake over Cameron got for Christmas. I meant to take a picture of the end product, but they are so small the two girls gobbled it up before I could get my camera!

On the go

It is now safe to say that Parker is walking very well now. For the longest time it was just a step or two followed by a plop to the floor for a much faster crawl. Last week while she was testing the waters for her new skill, Morgan and her came around the corner of the couch at the same time resulting in big crash!


You can tell from the picture she is laughing and seemed to be ok. I'm sure this will be the first of many.....

Snow Day

Isn't everyday a snow day? Lately that seems to be the case. Starting off this week with a very early out and then a snow day...again! Yesterday afternoon Uncle Brett stopped by with a snowmobile and took Cameron for a ride. Morgan was offered a ride, but anything louder than her tricycle makes her run in the other direction.

We're still alive....

With the business of the holidays and string of colds I realized I have neglected the blog for some time now. Not that I had nothing to talk about, but just didn't take the time to sit and tell stories!

This weekend gave us a busy schedule and some good pictures that I wanted to post. Last night we finished up our Christmas celebrations for the year...maybe I should say the first one of the year. ?? My brother was not able to make it back for the original Christmas because of the weather and this was the first weekend that we were all able to make it up. It was nice to be able to have him and his new fiance with us this weekend.

This afternoon we celebrated Kyle's grandpa's 83rd birthday and ended with a church sledding party at the Cobra football field. The girls had a great time and could have stayed for hours longer. Once Cameron got brave enough she was going doing like a crazy women. Morgan decide she was brave enough about 5 minutes before we left. (the reason there are no pictures of her) Maybe next weekend we can try again.

Parker usually doesn't have too much fear and she was loving every moment of it.

I have to thank our friend Heidi for taking the pictures. Somehow with all the clothes, snowpants, hats, and gloves for 5 I forgot to bring my camera! That never happens :)

The first snow

Cameron and Morgan were waiting and waiting for Kyle to get home so they could go outside and help him shovel the snow. Since the snow wasn't going to stop anytime soon he decided to wait until tomorrow and took the girls on a ride around the house. It wasn't long before I heard knocking on the door to let them in. Too cold today, try again tomorrow.
Getting on the 'boats' as Morgan called them. She spotted them in the garage this morning and asked all day to get the boats down.

Collection Complete

This year when I unpacked all of the Christmas decorations I found myself unpacking the last box of my nativity scene. Over the past 4 years for Christmas I have been getting a piece of the Willow Tree nativity scene from my mom and grandma. Last year I received that last one to make the collection complete!

Cameron had to pose with it as she helped very intently to get each piece in the correct place.