6 Degrees

This morning when Pete left for work he woke me up to say it had snowed so to give myself extra time. Yesterday it had snowed also but just kind of dusted everything. So, I fell back asleep and woke up at the usual time only to see it had REALLY snowed. When we left for school it was six degrees out and the plows hadn't been down our street yet. Siobhan and Oscar are thrilled and I am glad that our backyard looks so nice. I hope it will keep snowing until we sell our house.
I am glad these two can cuddle and enjoy their warm blanklets, as Olive calls them, while I shovel the driveway and scrape the windows.

Adventures in drawing

While I was cleaning today I found these post its stuck to the bookcase hidden by the couch, just barely visible. I don't have a scanner working so I know these are blurry but I had to show them. The first was The Adventures of Hans. He's saying "weeee" and I'm saying "Setal down" The next is The Adventures of Olive, notice she has a halo on her head. She's saying "doo doo doo" and I'm saying "your so good"

The last is The Adventures of Siobhan. She is yelling " I want a cellphone" and I am yelling "NO!!!"
I am going to have to inquire into the adventures of Oscar. Maybe I'll have to draw my own. Oscar and Hans draw ALL day long and go through reams of paper. I have to say though, that for every ten drawings they give to me I'll find a random one hidden like these and they are usually my favorites. On another note, Pete is in Seattle today for his big interview and Alex has an interview at the same exact time so good luck to both of you!

Happy Birthday Oscar!

The closest Oscar gets to McDonalds in SLC.
Today Oscar is 9. We had a pretty fun day. There was maple donuts for breakfast.There was school and frosted cookies. We'll end the day with pizza and cake. An Oscar kind of day. We also went to the kids museum where he blew all his birthday dollars in the gift shop. I love you Oscar and I am so glad we were together today.

Partytime.

Yesterday was Oscars birthday party and it was quite a success. He had quite a few boys show up and they had a lot of fun. The boy with the serious pose wore his own cape and brought his own selection of light sabers.
Oscar opted to skip the cake and had a mountain of doughnuts instead. All the other boys agreed that doughnuts were the way to go. Behind Oscar is the Darth Vader he drew for pin the helmet on Darth Vader. I'll have to get a better picture of that. Olive was not impressed with all the boys invading her territory but she did enjoy putting the candles on her light saber dog.

Cake

Ever since arriving in Utah, cake and I have not been friends. My cake never rises, or it rises and then falls, and it ALWAYS breaks coming out of the pan. Pete has cut out high altitude recipes for me and offered many words of encouragement. None of this has helped though and lately when I announce that I am going to make a cake Pete instantly says "Don't be stressed." So yesterday when I decided to make a cake I didn't hold much hope and imagine my surprise that this is what I got!!
One more thing. How did I get a redhead???

May the force be with you...

Invitations are out!! Oscar has invited 8 boys over for some Star Wars adventures. I am really excited for him. I was going to make him some invites but he wanted the Darth Vader ones from Toys Arrest (honest, that's what the boys think the name is). I was happy that he made his own stickers for the envelopes. They look awesome, don't they? This was over the weekend and all I can say is that if you ever buy camo makeup at the army navy supply, be sure you have some pissed off remover.

Finally, Halloween

Finally my Halloween pictures are working! Trick or Treating is kind of Petes area so he took the kids out for a bit before dinner and then for quite awhile after. Here they are in front of their haul. Olive actually fell asleep at 5:30 and didn't get up until the next day so she missed out. Hans has eaten away half his mustache by this time.
I'm really happy at how the boys costumes turned out. Hans enjoyed the mustache so much that he puts one on everyday now.
We carved pumpkins the night before Halloween. Hans really worked at his though and repeatedly asked me to take his picture as he practiced different "working hard" faces. Last but not least is Pippi. This is probably the first picture I've taken in the past 6 months where she is not trying to hide from the camera. Well, onto birthday plans....