Quote of the day

Can you get this out of my nose?

Kate Thompson

Yup, thats right, Kate was putting beads on a string and must have wondered what would happen if she put one up her nose. 1st time this has ever happened in our household, it was resolved quickly as it was a tiny bead, I plugged one nostril and made her blow and out it came. Then moments later another 1st, we were just sat there when thud! a bird flew into our window, does that mean my windows are astonishingly clean or what?!! And see my sweet girl sleeping above? Samarah from church gave us all of her barbie stuff that her daughter has outgrown, lots of dolls, clothes, shoes, hair stuff, glasses and even a little house, there is tons of it, thanks Samarah, Kate loves it, she is taking a nap right now clutching Ariel and Prince Eric.

Hope your all enjoying a lovely and fun Sunday too.

Up for discussion

I may be the only person this bothers, every time I buy my kids clothes and I remove the tags I always end up seeing this - made in ..................... and it always brings to my mind some 8 yr old girl in some impoverished 3rd world country sewing my kids clothes and getting paid about a penny an hour to do it. Where in the world is Macau anyway? Any thoughts?

Lets go fly a kite...

The beauty of living in sunny southern California, Dec 29th and we went to the beach to fly Eric's kite, and what beautiful weather. It actually wasn't windy enough but we did have fun, here are some cute pics of my cute family, love them, love them, love them.
Getting ready.

Do you read Frog and Toad? we love those books, Kate loves those books. One story is where they fly a kite, you have to run with it and shout "up kite, up", so we did, and it worked!


Alright, enough pics I know, they are just irresistibly cute though.

Merry-go-round

Hope you all had a great Christmas, ours was fun, quiet but fun and thanks Chris and Amber for letting us crash so much. Another thing I really love about this time of year is that Eric's work days are shorter as its quieter at his office, just for the week between Christmas and New Year but its wonderful to have him home more. Yesterday we took advantage, Kate loves to ride the carousel, has been asking to go and ride one for about a week now and so after he got home we headed out to Griffith Park to ride the merry-go-round there.

Located in Park Center between the Los Angeles Zoo and the Los Feliz park entrance, the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round has been a Los Angleles family attraction for over five generations. Built in 1926 by the Spillman Engineering Company and brought to Griffith Park in 1937, the Merry-Go-Round boasts 68 horses, everyone a jumper. Each horse is finely carved with jewel-encrusted bridles, detailed draped blankets and decorated with sunflowers and lion's heads. A Stinson 165 Military Band Organ, reputed to be the largest band organ accompanying a carousel on the West Coast, plays over 1500 selections of marches and waltz music.

Sorry for the boring stats but it is a fun and beautiful little merry-go-round, a great alternative to the Topanga mall and its only $2 to ride and the ride lasts a lot longer, plus its right by Shane's Inspiration so after the girls rode (Kate rode twice) we let the girls play on the park for a little while. Here are some pics to liven things up a bit.

Sara only rode once, she rode the first time with me on my horse but didn't enjoy it so much, strange as she has ridden the carousel before and liked it, although the music did play a little loud, maybe that was why she didn't love it so much this time.

Shane's Inspiration, a really fun park, a little far away but fun for a change of pace, they have lots of cool stuff to play on, and as always Sara loves, loves, loves playing in the sand.

Its all quiet by our house...

Hard not to be able to get into the Christmas spirit if this was your next door neighbour!! Got the link from Eric's old mission buddy Matt Sherry, for more of this guys amazing display click here. Winner of the 2007 KFC America's Festive Fanatic Award.


Amazing Grace Techno - Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

7 shopping days left.....

O.K., O.K. so you all voted in favor of the tree skirt. Thank-you Rachel for the Cost Plus tip, I headed there today on my run of errands and bought the pretty tree skirt you mentioned and I think it does look good. Also, an added bonus to buying a tree skirt a week before Christmas, it was 50% off and so only cost me about $15, not bad, not bad. I've also kindly included a full length picture of my tree for any of those out there that don't have kids yet or kids that are mobile, when they do get mobile your tree will look like this with all of the decorations congregated around the top half of the tree!! And I think I must be insane but I ventured to the mall today to pick up one last thing on my list and had to run to target after that, I generally like the hustle and bustle of the Christmas shoppers as it makes me get into the festive spirit but today just drove me crazy, parking was terrible and now the crowds just make me nervous that I'm going to loose one of my children or that whilst I'm chasing one of my runaway children someone will nick my wallet that I left in the stroller. Anyway, we all made it home safe and accounted for but I may have to stave off the mall until after Christmas or until at least I can be by myself. Merry Christmas everyone or as we more commonly say in England,

Happy Christmas.

A wonderful glittery winter wonderland

I had this crazy idea of creating a winter wonderland in the primary room by hanging snowflakes from the ceiling. I found this great website that has some free snowflake patterns and my awesome hubby helped me cut out numerous snowflakes and didn't complain as I added glitter to them so they would sparkle. I love glitter, its one of my favourite things about Christmas crafts. And Sara hung out in the primary room yesterday, she was most happy sitting by our amazing pianist Sis. Vickie Kern, this girl I could learn a whole lot from she is not only amazing on the piano but just in general she is amazing and a fab mom to boot.

And Kate is all ready for winter, she went on a walk with Eric and Britain last night all bundled up and looking cute. We went on a walk with Britain this morning too and I have to say this is my perfect weather, I'm not sure of the temp, weather.com says its 59ºF but it has to be warmer than that. In the direct sun it was very pleasant, this is my ideal summer weather, I am definitely in the wrong state!!