Scavenger Hunt Sunday {1.29.12}

Smile

Little Miss Aubrey has been 10 months old for nearly two weeks, but I have been waiting for her cold to go away before I took her monthly pics. I decided this week she was finally well enough and gave it a shot. What a difference a month makes! I could NOT get her to sit down on the couch; she kept trying to crawl off the edge. She would not hold still on the floor either. She insisted on standing up, so I had to figure out how to make it work. It was a lot of work, but I love how this picture turned out!

Stand Alone

We FINALLY got a good snowstorm. My boys were so happy, and I loved taking frosty winter pictures. I wasn't thinking of this prompt when I took a picture of this tree covered in snow, but it works for me!

Rusty

This rusty old car is sitting at a vintage gas station not far from my home. I think it is beautiful and knew it would be perfect for this post.

Artificial

This prompt was a bit challenging for me and I could not think of anything good to photograph. So I went through my kids play food and found this fruit to photograph. They almost look real, right?

Repeating pattern

I don't have anything against condos and townhouses (I lived in one once upon a time), but I am glad I don't live in one now because I would never  be able to figure out which one was mine!

Snow Day and Wilbur the Snowman

Last night an amazing thing happened... it actually started to snow! The boys were so excited, especially after all the rain that we have had this week.

When we woke up, everything was wonderfully wintery white.

The boys desperately wanted to play in the snow, but I knew that by the time Jonah got out of Kindergarten the snow at our house would already be starting to melt. So after lunch we took a little drive and went up the canyon to a park just past the mouth of the canyon.

There was a lot more snow there than there was at home, and the boys were excited to get out and play!

There was only one little problem. I got the boys dressed in their boots and snowpants before we left the house, and told them to grab their coats as we headed out the door. As you can see from the picture above, somebody did not listen to mommy and forgot their coat!

It would not have been a problem, except it is a bit colder up the canyon and Eli was wearing short sleeves. Since his little sister was sleeping in her carseat, I figured Eli could borrow her little snowsuit to keep his arms warm.

After I put the little snowsuit on him he was warmer, but I almost could not stop laughing! He looked like he had a little bear hanging out on his back or something! It was hilarious, but he didn't mind at all because his favorite colors right now are pink and purple.

Canyon View park was great. We had the place to ourselves and there was plenty of snow. The boys had fun throwing the snow off the bridge into the water, and I enjoyed the scenery.

Of course we could not let our snow day pass without building a snowman.

I helped the boys roll the snowballs, and they packed them down. And of course every time Eli turned around and I saw the little feet dangling out the back, I had to stifle more giggles! Hehe.

We had a great time building our snowman in the park! The boys were happy to know that he would last longer because it was warmer, and at night when no one was looking he could go play on the playground equipment!

We named him Wilbur (as in will-brrrr!) and waved goodbye to him as we drove away.

When we got home our grass was already almost bare, so it was a good thing we drove up the canyon to play in the snow! I hope it snows again so we can play in the snow, even if we have to take a little trip to play in it!



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Little Dish Washer

Somebody decided she wanted to help me do the dishes! It kind of freaks me out that she climbed up there by herself!

Did I mention that she figured out how to pull herself up to a stand the past few days?! Save me!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday {1.22.12}

Sunset

This week was one storm right after another! I almost didn't think I was going to get to take a picture of the sun setting, since it was always behind the clouds. Then finally one afternoon it cleared out a tiny bit. So I quickly drove down to Utah lake to get some pics of mountains and the frozen lake.

Black and White

 

As I mentioned, this week was very cloudy and wet. It mostly rained, but the mountains did get a little snow. There are some pictures that I took of the mountains to the east of our home. The sky was already white, and the mountains where too so I figured they were practically black and white already.

A Day in My Life

My poor baby girl caught a nasty cold and is currently cutting three teeth. Poor thing! She has been miserable all week, and a lot of my time this week was spent trying to get her to sleep. I felt pretty brave taking this picture of her when she finally settled down for a nap!

Four

Not far from our house is the Timpanogos Harley-Davidson. It is a very interesting building that is made from recycled materials from the old Geneva Steel Factory. So on the way home from lunch with my honey, I stopped and took some pictures.

Colorful

Since I spent most of my week inside because of the inclement weather, the most colorful shot I could come up with was this picture of one of Aubrey's baby toys. 

Home Sick with No Snow

What a week! Some of my little people have been sick, so that has put me behind on a lot of things. The first one to get sick was little Eli. He got a fever and a nasty cough, poor kid. There was one day that he spent nearly the entire time on the couch asleep.

He definitely had a fever, and you can see how much he sweat on the couch pillow. (Eww! Definitely had to wash that one!)

How can you not feel bad when your little boy looks at you like this?

Can't you just see the "I feel yucky, why can't you make me feel better?" in his eyes? It breaks my heart.

Speaking of heart-breaking, my baby girl was the next one to get sick. Audrey did not get the fever, but has a yucky cough. Top that off with the 3 teeth that she is currently cutting, and she is one miserable girl. Needless to say she has not been sleeping well, and I have rocked her to sleep many-a-night, many times a night. I never dared take a picture of her while she was sleeping because I did not want to wake her up!

Our sun catchers made of ice have both melted, which made the boys a little sad.

They are even more sad that it did not snow yesterday or today... it rained. Can I just say that January in Utah is turning out to be a bit strange! There is no snow on the ground and I can't remember it ever being this warm. I actually don't mind the lack of snow, but I hope for my boys' sake that it snows soon!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday: The rainbow collection {1-15-12}

Stacked up

I recently opened a box of baby toys for Miss Audrey, and it was kind of like Christmas all over again. There were all the stacking cups and toys that the boys played with when they were babies, and I know my baby girl is going to love them!

Winter Wonderland

When I suggested "Winter Wonderland" I was sure that we would have snow here in Utah by now... not so! My boys are so distraught about the lack of snow that to appease them we made snowflake window clings. Now we can at least pretend that it is snowing outside.

Usually by this time of year we have had a few good snowstorms and the mountains by our house look like this picture I took last year instead of mostly bare and brown:

Sweet

Nothing is sweeter than my sleeping baby girl!

Hole

I almost feel like I cheated with this one, but can I help it if my stacking toys have a hole right down the middle? I guess I could have used this picture for "stacked up" too!

Frozen

This week in another effort to make winter fun without snow we made a suncatcher out of ice. First we froze some colored ice cubes (shaped like stars) and put them in a pie tin with very cold water. Put that all back in the freezer an you've got a colorful, frozen suncatcher.

What I did on my Winter Vacation

So I want to tell you all about our vacation to Tucson over the Christmas holiday, but feel like it is a bit lame to be still talking about Christmas on January 11th. So I am going to give you a brief overview. Something similar to what my boys would say if they were asked, "what did you do on your vacation?"

We got to spend a lot of time with Grandma and Auntie Em while mommy worked on a quilt. We played board games, did puzzles, and played with playdough.
 

We also got to help Auntie Em make cookies for Santa. She let us roll out the dough and cut the cookies and eveything. It was so much fun!

We went to a really cool place called "Winterhaven", but for some reason most of the pictures that my mom took there were a bit blurry or turned out with funny shapes.

Apparently we were having so much fun that our baby sister couldn't take the excitement anymore, so she cuddled up to mommy and fell asleep!

 Christmas was so much fun! Santa brought us exactly what we wanted!

After Christmas we got to do even more fun stuff (besides playing with our new toys). We made a huge hopscotch board on the sidewalk. It went from A to Z!

Then we went to the Saguaro National monument and saw lots of really fun cacti out in the desert. We counted how many arms the saguaros had, and one of them had 15 arms!

Most fun of all was going for a ride on Grandpa's boat! It was warm outside and the boat went really fast. It was the best day ever!

Our Christmas vacation was so much fun. But soon we had to drive all the way home. Being in the van all day long makes me sleepy.

There you have the (very) brief rundown of our two week vacation. Now we are home and things are slowly getting back to normal. At least I finally have Christmas put away!

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