Saturday, January 8, 2011

Fun decorations

Mark and I went on a date last night, first we went to eat Thai food, the kids aren't a fan of it, but we love it! We both got a big plate of Pad Thai, and then got in the car and said to each other "now what??" We drove all over downtown just talking and looking. We ended up clear out at IKEA. We ended up getting the kids each a really cool decoration for their bedrooms. When we got home we told them "on Saturday morning you need to get up and clean your rooms, we are talking really clean! Dusting, vacuuming, organizing..."

The kids were so interested in what we got them, but we wouldn't tell them until the rooms were done. They did most of the work, but I got in there and helped, and four hours later they were ready for their new decorations.

Jessie got a new light fixture. IKEA has the cutest lights! They are all very inexpensive too, which is a bonus. Jessie was beyond happy about it, she has wanted one of these lights for a long time. The bedrooms in our house have vaulted ceilings, so it was fun that the light actually fits in the room well. I think the light is 30" across... it's BIG.
Curren got a hanging chair! It hangs from the rafter of his bedroom, and he can read or play the Nintendo DSi in it. He thought it was super cool.
It was fun cleaning and fixing up their bedrooms a little bit. We really want to paint their rooms too, but haven't been able to do it yet... maybe next time!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Fern Seeds

Mom did you know you can scrape the little brown seeds off of the ferns... you see them??
You can mush them up into paste...
and they cure stinging nettle... is there any stinging nettle around???
No Curren there is not.

Ecola State Park

We love going to Ecola State Park. Our friends were in town for the weekend and we decided to head to the beach. The waves weren't too good, so we did a hike instead. It was really fun...
Natural Dread Locks

Tillamook Head Lighthouse 12 miles out in the ocean...

Gigantic tree stump, awesome.
Gigantic log, you can walk right under it.

Mark thought he could fly after eating this mushroom.

Pictures

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Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Snuggy

Mark decided for Christmas gifts this year all of the siblings had to make something homemade for each other. Mat was lucky, we got his name...
Mark wanted to make him a snuggy, but not just any snuggy, a WAR snuggy. Mat collects army stuff, and this seemed to be the perfect thing... It was hilarious to make, and Mat loved it! Go figure. :)

The Jarvis's

Ever since our friends Andrea and Kasey moved to Utah in October the kids have been DYING to go and see them. We finally did! They live up by Park City, so playing in the snow was really fun for us, there was a lot of it.
Cute Lucy!



Jessie the Unicorn


We miss them again already, we'll have to come out soon. Thanks for letting us stay with you!

Visiting Utah

We drove out to Utah this past week to visit family. We had planned to go out there for Thanksgiving, but due to bad weather we didn't go, and rescheduled. We first visited Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle Dave and Uncle Mat.
Curren and Grandpa played a mean game of checkers.
Kylie came over to hang out with us, they made a gingerbread house.
We then drove to Temple Square to see the lights. It was so beautiful! Everybody loved it.
We also took a tour of the Conference Center.