Monday, December 6, 2010

Meet Simon

This cute little guy somehow ended up in our backyard. It was there for a week. It was freezing cold at night (two of the nights we had frost)...I was a little worried about him surviving. When I say he's little, I'm serious. He only weighs 1.2 lbs. That's small. We finally caught him (he's a fast little guy)...he stayed in our garage for 2 days...then today we took a trip to the vet to see how his health is. We could tell he needed some food, but he seemed pretty good other than that. It appears that we are keeping this little guy. He's about 8 weeks old and Noah is rather attached. He named him Simon after Scott made a comment that he looks like he may have some Siamese in him. He's growing on all of us, especially Noah.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

A new friend

Tonight was another family homework assignment. Noah had to make a gingerbread man.... This was the final outcome. I'd say this was a 50/50 effort between me and him. But he turned out cute.

One of our Christmas Traditions

Somehow, somewhere, a tradition started, and it has stuck! Noah looks forward to this every year (not so much his parents). Last year we did this with a bunch of friends, but this year, Dad & Noah set out to build a beautiful house!

This is what he looks like until the whole thing is built...except the question is, "can I just taste this one, only this one, not any more!" Yeah, right!

Should we make a bet about how long this thing will last? Noah will actually eat it...can you just imagine how old it really is? I'm sure it sat at Costco for awhile before I bought it!
It's the memories, right? Not the cavities!

New Ward Home

Today we met in our New Ward Building...our new Home. It's a beautiful building. One funny side note, when we started looking at homes in Temecula, the first home we made an offer on, was literally across the street from this new building. At the time we were unaware that this land would be our new church building. Too funny.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Breakfast with Santa

Today was the start of a busy day...but this guy was so excited he got up very early, before I even got up! And I had to be there early!! This is the kid that barely even eats breakfast in the morning....
He came & ate pancakes, passed on the eggs & bacon...had orange juice, colored a picture for Santa and stood in line with his friends to talk with Santa and tell him what he really hopes for Christmas. He said he really, really wants a Zhu Zhu ninja pet...really, haven't heard that yet (too bad the shopping is done already)....
The kids had a great time, the food was good & everyone enjoyed themselves. These are the ladies I serve with, we were in charge of this early morning activity. After we finished the breakfast and clean up we had to pack up our "stuff" because we were moving over to our new Ward Building. After that I went home and prepared for our dinner group that was coming to our home that evening. We had 20 people over for a fun night, good food & lots of laughter. We have some great friends!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Thanksgiving WISH

Before we even arrived in Ohio, Noah said the only thing he wished for was for it to snow while we are at Grandma's house....every night in his prayers, he would ask for snow..... This morning when we awoke, there were the tinyest snowflakes blowing around in the sky...this child was E.X.C.I.T.E.D!!! He threw on his slippers & jacket and had to catch a snowflake on his tongue....

His wish was granted!

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving Day

We have a lot to be thankful for, I could make this a very serious post and list the blessings we have in our lives, but I will keep that for another time. We were in Ohio this year for Thanksigiving, spending time with Scott's family. We always have a fun time while we are there visiting. I lived in Ohio for 11 years so we have friends that still live there (and friends that come and visit when we come visit!)...There's never enough time to spend a lot of quality time with our friends, but I feel it's important to at least see them once while we are there.
These were the only pictures we got of our Thanksgiving Dinner at Aunt Deanna's house (Deanna is Judi's sister)...Noah was being silly...


This is Judi and her sister Deanna.