Playing in the Bathtub

Almost everyday my kids get disgustingly dirty. Ruby is almost always a mess because she crawls around and puts everything in her mouth. Porter finds something bathroom related to do to gross me out, daily if not hourly. Lately if one of them is dirty I just put both in the bathtub and run the shower. They can play in there forever and the other day I let them. I got the laptop and sat on the floor next to the tub and they played and played.

50's Party -New

Our wards 50's party was a lot of fun. We got all dressed up and ate homestyle foods- meatloaf, mac and cheese, salad and rootbeer floats. There was 50's trivia, which we knew none of the answers and most of the time I was thinking...what? There was little paper convertibles on the tables filled with candy so the kids where all hyper and running around. There was a hula hoop and bubble gum contest. At the end some people wanted to dance so they moved some tables but we left at they started dancing. (Since my friend Leilani never posts anything here is a picture of her and Justin dancing.)

Poodle Skirts

Our Ward had a 50's party and my friends and I all decided to make poodle skirts, but I use the term "poodle" loosely because only two skirts had poodles. I, of course, love black, white and red, so I made matching skirts for Ruby and me. Our skirts had flowers that I made using ribbon and my knifty knitter flower loom. The skirts turned out really well and we are all trying to think of another excuse to wear the skirts. I got Ruby all dressed up and took her picture so she has the standard hamming it up for the camera, mouth wide open, squinty eyes smile.I will add more pictures later and probably another post about the party when I am able to edit pictures.

Sour Spray

Sam took Porter to the store the other day and Porter convinced his Dad to buy him a treat. Daddy of course let him pick whatever he wanted and didn't check to see what it was. Porter came home with one of those horrible warhead sour sprays but he must have tried it out in the car because the second he showed it to me he told me it was gross. Well for some odd reason I didn't throw it away and Porter decided that he wanted to give it another try. It was hilarious watching his sour face. He wanted to spray it in my mouth and I said not unless he sprayed himself first and let me take his picture. He agreed and this is what I got, I love it!

Opps!

Porter fell in the kitchen yesterday and really did a number on his face. Ruby had fallen a day or two earlier into the corner of one of our benches and had a big bruise on her check. For a few days I had to keep telling everyone that I promise I dont beat my kids they are just clumsy.

Valentine's Day

I made these Valentine cards and sent them to our family members. I had forgotten to send the Christmas cards. If you didn't get a Christmas or Valentine card, sorry, but I will try harder next Christmas. Valentine's Day is always fun around our house because no matter what we get lots of fun presents. My Dad always gives me See's chocolate, yummy! My father-in-law always sends roses to all the girls and this year Ruby and I both got roses! A friend came over and saw the roses and told Sam "wow you did good" but then Sam had to say "They're from my Dad", ha ha. Sam bought Porter and Ruby presents to show them how much he loves them. (I think it is really really important that little girls know how much their Daddy's love them.) I really didn't want to fight the dinner crowd for Valentine's Day so a friend of ours watched the kids while we had a fantastic lunch at Ninja's. I love Ninja's, it is a japanese steak house, for dinner but then we went for lunch and it is a whole different menu and it is so so good too!

Who needs toys when you have a box!

Like always kids think boxes are more fun then toys. We have had this box in the playroom for weeks and Porter has been having lots of fun with it. I finally decided to get rid of it and before it made it to the trash Porter found it again. And anything Porter does Ruby follows.