Eli

Read this interesting blog post that my Pastor wrote about the new movie, "The book of Eli"......

http://www.myfefc.org/students/blog

saturday

What in the world are we doing swimming? you ask. Cody was on the winter retreat with our church so Jordan and I hung out all day....First we went to the pool at the junior high and did some swimming

then we headed to the library to play a little chess.....

came home and changed clothes and went to dinner at the Olive Garden courtesy of Ken & Debbie! Thank you so much. We had to wait an hour to get in so Jordan made a friend outside, Anthony, and they played in the snow a little together! We asked him what he wanted to do fun after dinner and he picked walk around the mall! How fun is that? Blah

lemonade

When life hands you lemons (five days of almost continual snow) what else can you do, but make lemonade.........

Tom and the "super sled" ( 2 pairs of skis from the trash screwed to a board for a seat) head up one of the best places around to sled ride.....WH high school...Cody.......and Jordan have both gotten pretty good on their snowboards....the olympics can't be far away....
Tom opts for a more traditional ride.....he also ripped his pants on the way down........
The super sled goes so fast there isn't much time to stop......Statement of the day, from Tom while looking for his gloves " if you aren't wearing gloves on the super sled, you can't stop"!

Good-bye 2009

We say a fond farewell to 2009 and begin a new decade on this big celestial ball. What will this year hold? Do we really have to take some of last year with us or can we have a fresh new start? These are just a few of the things going through my mind this new years eve. So many questions. I am not one for making resolutions, mostly because I never keep them, but somehow I feel like the only thing that we can do is trust God. To not try and understand why but to ask "how Lord, how can we make this happen"? Trusting Him to work out all for good, to His glory. Happy 2010! The only thing I really wish for us all is PEACE, may it fill your heart and your life this whole year through.

79th

We all went to Ruth's tonight to celebrate Mom's 79th birthday (belated).....We had a nice dinner and then it was time for cake...A quick picture with all the grandkids Happy Birthday Mom! Here's to another 20.......

christmas 2009

SO this is what the livingroom looked like at 3am christmas eve, right before I went to bed!and this is what it looked like at 11 am the next day! YEA Dad did good.....He got us Guitar Hero for our playstation.......(just what we need around here, the ability to be a rock band!)The kids also got new sleeping bags, which they stayed in all evening and watched TV........

chess

In the past year or so Jordan has learned to play chess. We go to the library almost every saturday. They have an older gentleman who gives of his time to teach the children chess for free. Jordan loves it. The teacher said that he is really good at it. He really stops and thinks about every move very carefully, soon he will be beating him. He even played this fall after school at the school for the deaf. Tom came home tonight after being out in the snow all day, to a nice fire in the wood burning stove, and his favorite dinner, chili. Then it was time to sit down and play Jordan in chess.........
as you can see Jordan took him to task! I can't even recall the number of times I heard "check"!

Let it snow

Yippee....the first "play" snowfall of the year!

knowing that I have been a little stressed out these past few days, my wonderful husband showed up afterwork yesterday with this in his arms....... It's so pretty!Sorry ladies but I think that I have the best husband in the world!

finals

Jordan's dek hockey team defeated a tough team to win the semi final round of the championship. They then played the first game of the championship and lost but it is a best of 3 series so next monday we have a chance to get back in it.......GO RANGERS!

ole'

So Tom decided for his birthday, which was saturday, that he wanted to go out to Don Pablos for dinner. Of course we "happened" to mention to the waitress that it was his birthday...Here they came, singing and putting this on his head. He did manage to get a free dessert out of the deal!Then it was time for his favorite dessert....cake
Happy Birthday honey, I'll love you forever!

thanksgiving

Tom's been off on vacation for 2 weeks so he's been doing some "odd" jobs around the house..

But he did manage to get it done in time for a thanksgiving meal....I had the job of cleaning up th plaster dust....man that stuff gets everywhere. If you visit our house and find some, please don't tell me about it!

b day

Tuesday was Cody's big 15th birthday.....We went out to eat.....Then it was time for presents. A new PSP game he wanted, transformers, and Dad took him out to get a new pair of roller blades.Then cake. Can't believe he's 15 already. Happy birthday Cody!

T or T

The force was ever present in our livingroom tonight.......
All this time I thought it was James Earl Jones....turns out it's Jordan. A good time was had, candy was devoured, and even some leftover snacks for lunches. Another successful Halloween!

skating

Cody wants a new pair of inline skates for his birthday so on a spare of the moment we went to skate and possibly check out thier pro shop.....Couldn't wait to get laced up and hit the floor (one way or another!)Poor kid was exhausted!

monsters

I made this cake for Cody to take to his CAP meeting for their halloween party, that's why he's wearing camo.......

finale

SO my final cake class was today (for this session) and we had to do the basketweave technique and place all of the flowers that we made through the weeks. So here is the final creation......
Tom keeps asking when we can eat it! He's a cake lover.

Airman

So Cadet McKelvey (Cody) worked hard these past months and passed his PT (physical training) test and his written leadership exam and got promoted tonight to Cadet Airman McKelvey! He is so excited he was practically dancing!

These are his dress blues uniform.

bargain

Just got a great deal on fabric softener.......There is a coupon in the red plum coupon pack from the 10/04 sunday paper for $3 off on 1 Snuggle 32 load bottle. So I went to the dollar general and got a whole bottle of fabric softner for $0.80! Love getting bargains.

let em eat cake

So here is the latest saturday creation..... chocolate cake with cherry filling, decorated like this......

dinner

Cool fall days......rain......means spend the afternoon making soup. Today's menu includes Baked Potato soup! It is so yummy..

I'll get some nice crusty bread started in the breadmaker in the morning and dinner will be a breeze tomorrow!