I LOVE painted walls!!!

We just had a mission team come to visit from Brandon MS. They had asked what would help us personally and we told them we would love for them to help us paint our townhome!! They even had a very talented artist in the group, so Emma and Ty told her what they wanted on the walls and she was so sweet to meet their requests! They painted the whole apt. a tan color and then we had one wall in the living room that was a steel blue color. Then in Emma's room she wanted lime green with flowers and her name on the wall. Ty had the tan, with one accent blue wall. He asked for the Canucks hockey logo and his name. We are so grateful that they were able to help us out like this. To me, a house just isn't a home until it's painted... now I have a HOME :)

Emma's room.

Ty's logo.

Ty's name.

The blue and tan walls.

We also rearranged our furniture and it's a little roomier :)

Snow and Sledding in the City!!

We finally had a full day of snow here in downtown!!! It snowed all day and then all night and we had mounds of snow to play in!! Because I have the best husband and our kids have the best daddy EVER, he allowed them to play in the snow and make a snowman at MIDNIGHT!!!! We had had some friends over for dinner and we took the last family home around 11:45 because they lived the furthest (about 7 or 8 blocks). When we got back, Jeff said, "let's make a snowman!!!" So at 12:00 am we were in our courtyard building a snow man!! The kids had so much fun. The next day we put on our snow gear and headed out to sled. We found a hill about 2 blocks away that was perfect for sledding.

Daddy, Ty, Emma, and our snowman!
Building the snowman.

Emma sledding.

Ty sledding.

Taking our sleds to the hill.

Ty and Emma going at the same time.

Valentine's Day 2011

We did our annual, Valentine's Dinner/Scavenger Hunt again this year and the kids had so much fun. Emma made all of the placemats, also making cards for all of the food. We had fried chicken, then the kids went on a scavenger hunt around our home, looking for clues and then finding their treasure in our ottoman :). It was another great Valentine's Day!!

The fried chicken :)

Daddy's placemat

Emma's placemat.

My placemat.

Ty's placemat (he did do the part on the right :)

The name card for the mashed potatoes!

Going to look for clues.

Reading the clues.

One was on the top bunk :)

Finding the Valentine treasure!!

Singing at the Korean Church

For a while we were praying for the Korean Church every Sunday afternoon, while they met. After they met, one of the young women, Sunny, would teach Emma, Ty, and Carson Sunday School. They loved going each week, and at their last service (they had to move buildings and we no longer meet with them on Sundays) Emma and Ty sang a song and did motions for all of them. They had a great time and enjoyed every minute!!

Sunny, Ty, Emma, and Carson!!

20 Questions with the Kiddos!!

I got this idea from a couple of friends' blogs and thought it was a great idea!! I asked Emma and Ty 20 different questions and thought you might like to read their responses!! They definitely get their indecisive nature from me!! For the questions you were only supposed to have one answer, but you can see it didn't quite turn out that way :)


Emma:

1) What is your favorite color? green, blue, yellow, purple

2) What are you really good at? rock climbing

3) Who is your best friend? "in the whole world?" asks Emma. Adyn, Halle, Alaira, KB

4) What is your favorite thing about having a brother? sometimes he plays with me

5) Who is Mommy's favorite 8 yr-old? ME!

6) What do you want to be when you are a grown up? teacher; gymnastics teacher; famous rock climber; famous figure skater; nail tech; work at a hair salon.

7) What do you like to do with Daddy? go to build a bear

8) What do you like to do with Mommy? see a movie.

9) What does Mommy say to you a lot? baby

10) What is your favorite food? fried chicken

11) What do you like about church? Sunday School

12) What is your favorite toy? Sprinkles

13) What is your favorite song? Toby Mac; Selena Gomez

14) What do you like to do outside? swim

15) What is your favorite animal? leopard, cheetah, giraffe

16) What makes Mommy happy? kissing me

17) What does God do? Saves us

18) What is your favorite movie? Alvin and The Chipmunks-the Squeakqel; Beverly Hills Chiuahua

19) What does Mommy like to eat? Beef Stroganoff

20) How much does Mommy love you? A WHOLE BUNCH!!

TY:

1) What is your favorite color? black, blue, green white, red, purple

2) What are you really good at? hockey

3) Who is your best friend? Jake, Joseph, Vladislau

4) What is your favorite thing about having a sister? she plays with me

5) Who is Mommy's favorite 6 yr-old? ME!

6) What do you want to be when you are a grown up? famous hockey player; policeman; famous writer

7) What do you like to do with Daddy? go on rides at Six Flags

8) What do you like to do with Mommy? play

9) What does Mommy say to you a lot? hockey??? When asked a 2nd time: that you love me.

10) What is your favorite food? grilled chicken and baked potatoes

What do you like about church? playing in the hall

12) What is your favorite toy? hockey

13) What is your favorite song? don't know...something Toby Mac

14) What do you like to do outside? play

15) What is your favorite animal? bull, horse, dog, cat, lion, tiger

16) What makes Mommy happy? playing with me

17) What does God do? helps us

18) What is your favorite movie? all hockey movies and Elf

19) What does Mommy like to eat? Beef Stroganoff; Daddy: Roast

20) How much does Mommy love you? A WHOLE BUNCH!! and then he added, & DADDY does TOO!!

Christmas in February!!

Well I feel as if I haven't taken down my blog, "Christmas Tree" :). I know it's been forever since Christmas, but I just haven't been able to put pics up, some from lack of motivation and some from busyness!!

So here is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!! We set out cookies for Santa, put reindeer food on the roof, read the Jesus Christmas Story, said goodbye to the elves, looked for Santa on NORAD, and then went to sleep. Emma woke up about 5:45, but being the bad parents we are:), we made her wait until 6 and then we woke Ty up. They loved running down the stairs and seeing their presents! We played all day long, made a Happy Birthday Jesus cake, and then we had friends over that night to celebrate with!!

It was a WONDERFUL Christmas!!

Putting cookies out and saying goodbye to Tyler and Emily, the elves.

Throwing reindeer food!

Tracking Santa on NORAD.

Santa came by :)

Ty loved his jersey!

Emma looking at her FurReal puppy and sewing kit.

Putting sprinkles on Jesus' cake.

Singing Happy Birthday to Jesus!!

Christmas Traditions

Well in one of my other posts I told you that at Christmas we have many traditions that we do and that this year we wanted to start some new ones to go with our new city! So we did some of our usual, decorating cookies, decorating gingerbread houses, looking at lights in pj's and with hot cocoa, but then we added in a couple of new ones too, looking at incredible gingerbread houses and sledding(that was actually after Christmas).

Jeff and Emma decorating Emma's

Ty decorating his.

Decorating Cookies.

"Willy Wonka" in Gingerbread form (it was my favorite!!)

A gingerbread village complete with a hockey rink!

Close up of Wonka!

Giant Gingerbread house.

Houses that we looked at.

Ready to go!

All bundled up in pj's and blankets to go look at Christmas lights!