Lego Star Wars Fever

For Christmas we got the Lego Star Wars Wii game. We love it and have been playing it ever since. The kids really love it and have learned how to play it too. Since the kids love it so much we decided that it was time to show them the real Star Wars movies. We started with Episode I and the kids loved it. They kept commenting on how it looked or didn't look like the Wii game and they were so excited. We loved hearing their comments and their enjoyment of the movie. Michael loves Jango Fett and was disappointed to find that he wasn't in the first movie. Neils told him that Jango is in the second movie and Michael has been begging us ever since to watch it.

A while ago, as we were going through boxes after our move, Neils found a lego Star Wars figure that he had gotten when he was younger. The kids liked it but didn't really know what it was. When we played the game, the kids remembered that they have one of the guys and immediately went and found QuiGon Jinn. Michael has been playing with it ever since. I did a little looking on line and found a couple of Lego storm troopers for him and Karen as well. Karen also found a little Minnie Mouse figure that is dressed up as Queen Amidala. They are discovering and loving everything Star Wars lately. Karen even came home the other day with a Star Wars book from her school library. Neils is in heaven that his kids are becoming Star Wars geeks like we are. We are so proud!

Here is Michael with his toys and the game.

Homemade fun

Michael loves cars. He always seems to have a car close by and he is vrooming them all over the house on a daily basis. One morning I came out to the living room and found this:

The piano had become his parking lot. I had a good laugh and thought how creative he was to do this. Of course later I made him clean it up, but it was really cute.

On Sunday the kids got really excited for Valentine's Day and decided to dress in pink and red. Karen of course in pink and Michael in red. Michael thought Karen was so beautiful that he just had to take a picture. He did a pretty good job.

He then had to have Karen take his picture. This was his pose, it made me laugh.

The kids got me in the mood for Valentine's Day and I thought "why wait?" so I made this to celebrate. The kids loved helping and were very excited for this cake, and I thought it turned out pretty good.
Karen said that it turned out so well that she wants me to make her wedding cake for her. I was honored and then told her about my wedding cake and that her grandma made it for us. She was very excited about that and wanted to know what it looked like, so we dug out the wedding album and showed her. She declared it beautiful and said that now she wants grandma to make her wedding cake for her. I am happily willing to let that happen since I don't think I could ever do that well.

From our family to yours.... Happy Valentine's Day!

New Member of the Family

We did it! We found a new car! It's so exciting we can hardly contain it, so we decided to share with you all. We found a Toyota Camry Hybrid for an astounding price at the LDS Church Office Bldg Fleet Sales dept. (www.lds.org/fleetsales) We just couldn't pass up such a great deal that we snapped it up as quickly as we could.

Here's a picture of the newest member of our family :)

Hopefully with the Neils driving to and from work every day in this, it will help us save money on our gasoline bill.

RIP

Well, we lost a special member of the family. Neils baby (his first family car) the Dodge Intrepid finally lost it's life. It gave us a good long run, 125,000 miles, many fun trips, daily voyages to work, only one speeding ticket and no accidents. On Wednesday evening it passed peacefully from our life to it's next life at the junk yard. Throwing a rod was the cause of it's demise. We found out Thursday that we would not be able to fix it. We are sad to lose this part of our family and are now looking for another vehicle. It is survived by it's owner and family. He will be missed.

Catching up

December brought us lots of snow fun. Before it got below freezing, the kids had many days of fun in the snow. Even if it was up to Michael's knees.
In our traditional family Christmas party we have the little kids act out the nativity scene. This year Michael and Karen got to play Joseph and Mary. They were so cute! Michael was very gentle with "Mary" and the new born baby Jesus. It was fun to see them be so nice to each other.
Christmas was very magical at our house this year. The kids were old enough to really get into the magic of the season and it was fun to see it through their eyes. Karen also really understood that if she was a good girl then she would get presents from Santa. So she became a more agreeable and more obedient little girl. Santa was so happy with her that she got the present she wanted most, a little fur real puppy that barks and wags it's tail. She was so happy!
Michael and Karen also wanted pillow pets for Christmas and Mommy didn't want to pay that much, so they asked Santa. Santa found a great deal because they both got the exact ones they wanted.Michael also wanted a Buzzlightyear and he was so happy when he got one from his cousin that he hugged it and hugged it and didn't want to let it go. When we got home that night he insisted that we write his name on the bottom of Buzz's foot just like in the movie. He can be so cute sometimes!We really had a fun, enjoyable Christmas this year and hope you all did too.

This year started off with a bang. Karen lost her second tooth and now has another hole being filled with a grown up tooth that seems too big for her mouth. It's a good thing that she will grow into it.