Cupcakes!

So hey! I don't know why this is underlining everything, but I decorated these lovely cupcakes in class tonight. Yeah, Abram looks a little funny. But hey, I'm just a beginner. Enjoy!

Cake, Curtains and Sunday Night Funsies!

Hooray! Things are going pretty well here. I completed my first cake class assignment and the curtains for the kitchen. We also had an awesome time last night at the Barker's in Stansbury. We had fun playing Wii and dining on some delectable porcupine meatballs. HAZAH!!

The classic Super Mario Fire Flower!

I finally finished the curtains for the kitchen! :)

Colby getting ready to throw.

SWING!!

It's all in the wrist.

I sure do miss those snappy stinky shoes!!

Colby Man bowling



Playing Tennis

Happy New Year

We had a wonderful New Year's party this year. Lots of food, friends and fun. Mom, Dad, Baron, Brie, Autumn, Leslie, David, Michele and Kory were all in attendance. It's he most packed house we've had yet, and it was great! Special thanks to Mom for her most excellent quiches and Hawaiian meatballs, not to mention the 2009 charade game. Also thanks to Autumn and Leslie for the queso and fresh guacamole. Delish! We had fun playing Wii Bowling, charades, and a crazy 3-player Super Mario. Unfortunately I only took about 3 pictures. Oh well. Thanks to all for coming and we hope that 2010 is a good year!!

David bowling

Dad charade-ing

Christmas Decorations '09

So here it is! My first ever attempt at a homemade gingerbread house. Indeed, a little overdone, but I just couldn't help myself!




Our chubby little tree. And there's even some presents under there!! YAY!!

Even the boys have gotten festive. I took this shot before I realized that Joseph had apparently passed out.

After I helped Joseph up.

The classic Rudolph clings. "I want to be a dentist!"

The stockings I just finished. Names still pending, though I'm sure you can figure out who gets the little ones, hehehe. :)

The mini tree on the tv. Hey, it has presents too!

I added two names to the advent tree too. Hooray!

Happy Halloween

We had a great time at Baron & Donette's Halloween party. There was great food and lots of fun, not to mention some great costumes!!
Baron & Donette: the perfect established 50's couple
Mom & Dad: a gumball machine and penny
Brie: hula girl
Colby: Thomas the Train
Airie & Abram: Butters and Moochie
Thanks for all the fun!! :)

Haircut and Snuggle Bugs

I whacked off about 6 inches of my hair. Hazah. And here's more more pics of the fuzzlets.

THE BIRD!!!!

So I've found so little to blog about in the last few months, (well, mostly I've just been busy and haven't bothered to take pics of the new place yet...sorry! Those ARE coming, I promise!), I'm proud to announce that I have an amazing story for everyone:


Yesterday morning, I awoke to a metal scratching sound in the house. At first I thought that the ratties had somehow constructed some sort of "rudimentary lathe" and were attempting their Great Escape. But when I walked into the living room, they were both asleep, and somewhat annoyed at my waking them. I went back to bed thinking it was our upstairs neighbors or something. But the noise persisted, and I realized it was coming from the hall closet that contains our furnace and water heater. By this time, Abram was up and we discovered to our chagrin, as we peered into the dark closet, a feather sticking out of the furnace. Oh no...there was a bird in our furnace! We spent the next hour taking pieces of ducts apart, trying to get the poor thing out, which looked horribly wedged and frightened. Finally, we gave up, knowing we had to get to work. So we closed the closet and left. I called an HVAC guy that said he could come by later that afternoon. "The bird will die!" I kept sobbing, and could think of little else during the day. Well, the maintenance guy never made it. Apparently his previous appointment went too long or something. So we went home determined that by hook or by crook, that poor bird, dead or alive, would be freed from our furnace.


We opened up the closet when we got home, and couldn't hear anything as we tapped on the ducts. "It's dead," we said quite soberly, and Abram left for his bishopric meeting, stating that he would fix everything when he got back. I went to the kitchen to drown my sorrows in doing the dishes. Then I noticed a little feather on the floor. "That's strange," I thought, and as I continued around the house, I noticed SEVERAL feathers and little turds in various places. OH SNAP!!! The bird was IN the house somewhere! I can't imagine how it got under the furnace closet door, but upon inspection, I found a little feather stuck to the bottom of the door; a serious Houdini move! I called Abram, who was luckily able to come home, and we began to search every nook and cranny of the house for the little escape artist. Autumn and Leslie came over to help too. At long last we realized that our feathered (so-called) friend had found its way into the swamp cooler. Unfortunately, we couldn't get it out from the outside. We had to get it to come back into the house first. We coaxed it up to the front vent, turned on the cooler, and the air rushing up behind it convinced it to poke its little head out. He looked at us as if to say "Oh hello!" I was by this time quite unsympathetic, and was wondering why I had every shed any tears over this bird. It at last flew out of the vent, circled around the kitchen, landed on my dish rack, and then at last out the patio door. GOOD GRIEF!! What a special bird, and what a bizarre adventure. We're not sure what kind of bird it was, but it was similar to the one in the picture here. I would have to say one of the funniest parts of this whole ordeal was Moochie and Butters. They were peacefully asleep nearly the whole time as if to say, "Oh well, another boring day." It's hard to imagine what kind of excitement would get them out of bed in the afternoon. :)