Keeping Busy...

Funny how I am in the mood to post when it's good weather outside. It's 50 degrees today, I sat in the sun and watched Makay pull Nora around the sled on the grass. I said, "Nora, what do you tell Makay for pulling you around?" her reply, "Atay (her version of Makay) ...Push." She was so sure of herself, I couldn't correct her, I just laughed and let the bossy-ness slide.

We had to get out the crafts to pass the time away last night. It is going to be a long winter cooped up inside our house every night.  She strung beads for almost an hour. I could tell she was done when she started shoving them off the table and shoving handfuls of them in her mouth.

Marcus got his Mission call to the Spain, Malaga mission and we are trying to figure out how to spend the last days with him before he goes. Looks like it might be a St George trip with everybody.

Nora is in her room destroying everything while she is supposed to be sleeping. She hides under the bed when I go to check on her, like I don't know what's going on. I just leave her. It's a nice break even though I have some major cleaning to do after I let her out. Let's just say....it's a waste of time to fold any of her clothes.

 Milo sang a song for us,  it's so cute, totally worth 1 minute of your time. He NEVER does stuff like this, so it's fun to see the softer side of Milo. I think the only reason he did is because we had one of his school friends over and he was so excited to sing it along with the movie. Somehow that made it cool to sing for your parents.

Makay LOVES his friends. He could spend hours in the basement setting up villages of houses for his guys to play in. The latest and greatest is the wood blocks Grandpa Mendenhall made. They set them up like a cage and put the animals in there.  He is also doing great with his reading, he loves to practice his letters. He was making letters for me out of 2x4's when we were out on the driveway today.

Josh is just finishing up teaching his first class at UVU. He liked it, but we couldn't leave anywhere because he couldn't really cancel class for a week.   He's loving working out these days, and he's even loving his job. We feel so lucky, because not a lot of people get to say they love their job. And it's close only 7 minutes away, which makes it really the best job ever. If he could figure out how to work in a mountain adventure during the day somewhere, his life would be complete.

I am doing the same old thing, laundry, picking up random items around the house, trying to get as many groceries for the least amount of money possible. To keep things exciting I made Stollen for the first time this year.  It is so YUMMY! I think it has too much sugar, but I just brush it off before i eat it. then I don't feel as guilty. Next week is the week for Toffee and Christmas cards. It's crazy how the weeks fly by in December as if there were only 1 week between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Here's to enjoying the most wonderful time of the year which is followed by the most miserable 3 months of the year. Here's to a Merry Christmas and Spring blossoms and tulips.

NORA'S MASTERPIECE

At least I got the wipes, lotion and baby powder put up before she could get to it. I forgot about the Costco pack of diapers sitting in there.  There is so much more, but this is all that would fit in the screen since she is sleeping right by the door, I couldn't get in there.  This seems so malicious to post pictures of her like this on here. She is sweet, beautiful, and fun, but this is definitely a big ugly part of our day around here.