~January 3rd~

Today is 'Festival of Sleep' day.  At least according to the Oriental Trading calendar...

Rest in Peace...lol...

=)

~The Lovely Crown~

Ok, so Kenzie decided to get out her Magic Nuudles that she got for Christmas and make a hat out of them for Chloe.  Lovely, right?  Well, these things are cool.  I have had some for several years, Grandma Linda used them as packing peanuts one time for gifts.  Well, as you can see in the pictures, they are just like packing peanuts.  Except they are unique.  You lick them and they stick to each other.  Pretty cool (and kinda gross) right?

Well, Chloe has a new 2010 style.

Chloe was watching Kenzie curiously as she put together the 'hat'.

She would cock her head when Kenzie would ask Chloe her oppinion.

This is how the hat started out as...a somewhat angel halo.

Then it grew into a crown...

It was fun to watch her as she thought through what she wanted to do with it next.  Then Dad got an idea...

The Pope's hat.  Isn't it great?!  It was beginning to look like a football helmet, and Dad decided to add a cross on top to make it the Pope's hat.  It was too funny! 

We'll see how long the hat lasts before it finally gives in and just falls apart.  I say it'll be about 3 days tops if we're lucky.

=)

~2010~

HAPPY NEW YEARS!  2010 is finally here...

=)

~Cre8ivity~

Today the supplies that Kenzie and I ordered off of Oriental Trading arrived.

Kenzie needed some new craft supplies and I needed to get some much needed supplies to start on the bottlecap jewelry stuff Mom and Dad got me for Christmas.

As soon as they arrived Kenzie and I told Zack "Sorry, but we don't want to play the Wii any more." And we got right to work...

Kenzie was having fun stringing some beads together and adding on buttons and other stuff to make some necklaces.

She had all her supplies spread out all over one of our two tables. 

This was my work-space.  One-half of a table.

Here were my supplies.  Pliers, jumpring opener, jumprings, earring charms, and earring hooks.

Here were my charms.  Owls and Skull Keys.  Two totally different things, but two things that I thought looked neat.

Completed.  I made a Christian cross pair, the owl and skull key pairs, and I even made Kenzie a pair of button earrings.  (She never takes her earrings out, but she said she would try it now that I made her some and she has a pair to switch out.  We'll see...)

=)

~HAPPY NEW YEARS' EVE!~

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE TO ALL AND TO ALL A NIGHT OF STAYING UP LATE! 


It's hard to believe we are going into 2010!   It's kind of funny how I'll still write 2008 on things and we are 2 years past it almost.  Oh well...

~Survivors of our first North Dakota Blizzard~

YAY US!  We have survived our first blizzard in the frigid North Dakota.  We got 9.2 inches on just Christmas Day.  Lucky for us, however, we are in an open enough space that all the snow floats and blows.  Even though we have so much snow, we are not feeling too much of the impact around our yard and house.  We can still see the blades and tips of the grass.  How? you may ask.  Well, all of the snow has blown into drifts.  We have a snow drift right up to our window, (probably was almost a foot or so higher than the bottom of the window), and was probably almost 4.5 feet or so.

For those of you who have seen Chloe in person or in a pic up to one of us, you know how tall she is.  Well, the snowdrift is a foot of two taller than her. 

Here is her going out to the bathroom.  Poor thing, she doesn't know what to do with all this snow!

Yesterday, after it had slowed down, my curiosity got to me and I had to go out and stand in the drifts.  We have one (I don't have a pic, but I think Mom will put some up on her blog ) that is in our field and the snow is all the way up to the fence.  Well, I kept falling into the snow and it was coming up to my hip and I could have gone deeper.

We have successfully survived our first North Dakota blizzard, and luckily the Weather Channel's website says we aren't due for any snow showerd until Sun January 3rd, and then some more on the 4th.

Let's hope that every time we get snow, it's light and fluffy and it all blows out of our yard.  The snow drift next to our sidewalk has made itself our own snow fence...litterally.

=)

~The Day After~

The day after Christmas and everyone is enjoying themselves and their new possessions...

Zack has all his Legos out.  He was also moving all the extra pieces from his first Battleship game to his new one...

Look at all those Legos...

Meanwhile, Kenzie was enjoying herself while lying on the floor...

Poor Chole was lonely...

So Kenzie decided to join her.

Zack has been having fun with his Havoc Heli. 

I have to say, yesterday afternoon, Zack was flying his hellicopter, and he landed it in my hair!  It got all twisted and Mom had to get it out.  Zack was laughing so hard, as I was stunned with shock.  I was crocheting and next thing I knew there was a flying object in my hair!

Fun times...

I don't have any pics of Kenzie playing with her stuff, but she was having lots of fun with her Littlest Pet Shop stuff.  She also has been having fun with her craft stuff.

I haven't been able to start any of the bottlecap jewelry, since I have to go out and buy some supplies.  I've been saving my money up for a bird (I want a Sun Conure, but those are around $700 so I think I'll start with a parakeet or something cheaper), but I can't get one until my room is done.  So, I can't get one until next summer or so.  I'm not too concered about not getting any money since I started babysitting, so I am making a list of everything I need for jewelry.  The sad thing is, I don't know if I'm going to be able to get any of the stuff until after the winter because of the weather.  The snow had stopped after all day snowing yesterday, but it was short lived.  Visibility is back down to around a 1/4 of a mile.  Dad went out to help Mom deliver since she couldn't go out earlier, and now they're out in the snow.  Snowplows are even getting stuck!  Does that tell you anything?

Stay safe, and Happy early New Year!