Handsome and Gretel

I never can get Joey to sit still for me to take his picture, and if he does...he will not smile...all he can think of is trying to take my camera. So I was amazed when I asked him to smile for me and he did (he posed himself that way)...two seconds later he was off, trying to grab my camera (which is the picture on the bottom!)

Two weeks ago when it started snowing we were so excited...we all went outside and played around in the snow for a while...Lily loved throwing snowballs at Adam!..she must have hit him with them a hundred times!! We made lots and lots of snowangels...so many that there were snowangels covering the entire front yard!! Here's some that Adam and Lily made... Then it just kept snowing and snowing....and snowing...until now there is so much snow, and all our snowangels are covered and all my Christmas lights on my bushes are completely covered because the snow is higher than them!!! yikes...

Anyone who has seen New Moon may have noticed Alice's blue wrist warmers in one of the scenes...it didn't show them for too long though. I made a matching pair for me and Lily, and here is Lily modeling her pair! Check out this website to see the picture of Alice! http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/09/alice_wrist_warmers.html

We started putting our lights up outside a good three weeks before Thanksgiving this year! It was so nice outside I couldn't resist...even though I had pumpkins outside too for Halloween and Thanksgiving! (I didn't turn the lights on right away though) We got our tree up and house decorated a few days BEFORE, yes before, Thanksgiving (with a few stragler Thanksgiving art projects done by Lily up around the house)...and the kids have been wearing Christmas clothes to church for the past few weeks too!... We love the season and want to make it last!!!

The kids and I have spent the last few days outside for a good part of the day. We are loving this so much!!.. We have gone to the park, bike rides, wagon rides, backyard stuff, everything we possibly can...Lily even helped me cut down some bushes outside!...we are trying to soak up each precious minute that we possibly can outside...poor Adam...we feel bad for him stuck in the office all day! :(

THE CAKE... I made this cake for Lily...she requested a rainbow cake with pink frosting and we put princess candles on it. THE GUESTS.... Lots of fun with Auntie Heidi and Lara...they came for the weekend! Lily with her grandmas (mimi and amma)...and, of course, Lara :) THE FUN STUFF.... A princess tea party with the Princesses...and Prince Adam. We also did a princess treasure hunt, played pass the parcel and played hide the comb. THE PRESENTS.... A 'swivel hoop' as Lily calls it from Mimi and Doc...She wanted this soooo bad and is getting really good at it!...she keeps practicing (and so does Joey :)) A Belle dress from Amma and Bumpa...she put it on right away and has worn it ever since! Now she has Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Tinkerbelle and Belle dresses to dress up in! All the aunts and Uncles got Lily this shirt and a very beautiful Tinkerbell book...Lily and Lara as twins!! This picture was taken a few weeks earlier, but I wanted to put it in with her other pre

Joey is my taste tester...he gets really into it!!! We made a couple different fun halloween treats the week before Halloween...Joey and Lily both love to help me bake (and eat it!) This is Lily and Joey before going to trunk-or-treat at our ward...it was a nice night outside and they didn't even need their jackets and they got tons of candy and had a great time. We spent Halloween weekend down in Cedar Grove and went to my parent's trunk-or-treat too!...we hit as many places as we could! The next day on Halloween we went trick-or-treating with my dad in Cedar Grove...Every year Lily gets to ride in the wagon, the lucky bum!... I wasn't planning on going along this year, but I couldn't resist. I love going trick-or-treating... the only shoes I brought with me were heels, so after two hours of trick-or-treating I had major blisters and then I got to ride in the wagon with Lily...after getting a piggy-back from Adam for about 5 blocks!(but sadly enough we didn't ge

Lily has been taking a gymnastics class at the Y and loves it. This past week she had her last day of class where the parents get to come into the class and watch....she did the balance beam, bars and floor...her favorite is the bars. It was so fun to see her in action, but I had to bring the little Joey man in with me, and that wasn't quite as fun!...I just had to take a picture of him during Lily's class for posterity sake...this was pretty much what he looked like through the entire class...he was upset because he wanted to run around on the mats and I wouldn't let him!...yikes!!!!

It has been quite chilly out lately, and we've had to get all those warm clothes back out. I came across this blue jacket for Joey, and it used to be Adam's when he was a little boy!! Joey is almost too big for it already, but hopefully we can squeeze him into it (and the hat) for the next month or so... I went shopping with my friend Ashli a few weeks ago and picked up this hat for Lily. When I got home and gave it to her, she wasn't quite sure about it, but as soon as I told her Ashli helped picked it out and loved it, she has wanted to wear it outside all the time!...I guess she's still not so sure about my taste! She is my voice of fashion, and she will definitely let me know if she doesn't like something I am wearing or something I pick out for her to wear. Along that same line, she lets me know if she doesn't like my hair on a particular day too!! Isn't it nice?...I never have to wonder.

Ok, seriously I do a lot of cleaning myself around the house...but you'd never believe it after seeing this!...Lily and Joey honestly got into a fight over who was going to vacuum today!...I had to distract Lily with telling her she could dust!!...finally that made her happy. Hopefully they will always be this willing to help me clean... (yeah right!!! ;) ) Are there child labor laws about this??

Joey swivel sweeping the kitchen....he loves emptying the dishwasher too :)

Adam just got back this morning from yet another LONG trip to Brazil and Chile. Everybody is excited when he comes back...it's always fun to have him back, but the question is...What did he bring us???? Almost every trip he takes to Brazil, brings me a new pair of shoes, and he has gotten soo good at picking out shoes for me.... He didn't let me down this time, and I have another very very cool pair of shoes! He usually brings Lily back some chocolate kitty tongues (not really, that's just the name) and Joey gets some bites of Adam's left over candy from the airplane ride. :) Things happen fast around here...almost everytime Adam leaves for a trip, Joey or Lily have some sort of major milestone. This time I cut bangs on Lily for the first time!! Lily loves getting her hair cut and so it actually took three separate days worth of cutting her hair to get them how they are now....she keeps wanting to cut more off so she can get her hair done, but I have to put the stop on

I would like to publicly thank Heidi and Chrissy for starting this blog for me!!...without them, who knows how long it would have taken me to ever do this. I have been wanting to do this for a few years now, so I feel an extra incentive to write since they took their time to get it started...Thanks you guys!!!! I love it :)

Two of Greta's biggest fans have started this blog dedicated to all things Greta; food, kids, hair, kids, Brazil, kids, clothes, kids, church and um....kids. We love you Greta! And we love those kids too!!! Love Chrissy and Heidi