Saturday, January 31, 2009

An Evening Project

On Thursday evening all of the kids plus Jonathan made gingerbread houses... graham cracker houses.



Susanna's


Jeremiah was diligent.

Jonathan got carried away! This is an amazing chimney!


pretzels and twizzlers...now how do you pronounce pretzels?





This was before we started.
Lots of candy

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

*Cold Days at Home*

a sweet picture of Levi

Mum has been painting...

...and some of us have been painting...don't worry...there will be wall paper


~Company and Colouring~

~Entertaining~

~Levi~
I wonder who that is he is drawing?

~Naomi and Levi~
These two are missing both of their front teeth!

~writing~

~reading~
~making a snow man~

Friday, January 23, 2009

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Grandma Whalen's Birthday was Saturday the 17th.
We celebrated with Cake and Ice Cream!
Ice Cream, Yum!

Cake, Yum!

Uriah enjoying his.

Levi and Uncle Dan played Chess but neither of them won because the board up ended.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Let it Snow!


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On Saturday night Dad gave us all a ride behind his car on a sled!


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A snow ball fight between Nathan and Sarah.


Mr. Snowman

Uriah made this Igloo/tomb. (notice 'stone' cut out)

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Melting down Candles...

old candles in containers melting down




*jars*

Pouring the red wax into the jars.

*vanilla*




*homespun*

Lizzy and Susanna

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Shooting!

On Christmas day we went shooting!

Levi and the 22


Jared and the 20 gauge

Dad with one of Jon's guns


Nathan and Uriah


Uriah with the 410/22. This is a pretty neat gun. Just choose between the 22 barrel or 410 barrel.


Levi, an interesting character.


Jonathan

Susanna...uh...scary!