Entertaining!

Tonight we entertained two of our favorite house guests: Gianna and Nicky!

We followed all the rules, like stay out of Mommy's room and no jumping on the beds.

 Nicky and Jeter understand each other.

 Gianna taking a break to make an important phone call on my old camera...

 My throw-everything-in-the-kitchen-in-it casserole was a hit!  Mary and Phil, don't you wish you stayed now???

How cute are they?  Watching a movie before saying goodnight. Now it's just a quick clean-up. Goodnight!

A very lazy day

Mimi and I are just hanging out, playing dolls, taking baths, cuddling with the dogs, folding clothes, and waiting for Max to get home. 

                                                     This is my very favorite ornament!!!

                                                       And this is my very favorite girl!!!!

This is how we crunch it.

I happily report that we're getting a natural foods market 5 minutes from our house!  Here's the gorgeous model pointing to the sign.  Not sure when it's opening yet...

Here's the store from the front!  I'll let you know when it opens. Danna, how soon can you move back??? 

A crunchy and super cheap and easy craft for Christmas: we arranged 18 q-tips in a snowflake onto a cookie sheet covered with plastic wrap. Then we tacky-glued them and sprinkled on the glitter.  Let them dry overnight and peel them off, and we hung them up with crochet yarn. Super, super pretty!
 

The picture really doesn't give them justice, they're so pretty!  I LOVE snow, but I have the feeling that we're not going to be getting tons this winter (we were really spoiled last year).  So we made our own snowstorm in our kitchen :)  It may be snowing in other rooms soon...

Crunchy (and super cheap & easy) project #2: We take tin cans (or other containers) that are headed for the recycle bin, wash them and cover them with pretty paper, then glue magnets to the back.  You get pretty pencil, pen or what-not holders that stick right to your fridge.  The short one we use for collecting pop-tops, box tops, and milk carton tops that we turn in at Maxwell's school.  We're making them for M&M's teachers for Christmas and filling them with goodies like highlighters and thank you messages!

Here's some more on the other side.  And this is our new tiny energy-efficient fridge.  This picture is making it look bigger than it really is... Our old fridge was 29 cubic feet, this one is 9.5!  So it's quite a bit smaller! A BIG plus is it gives us a lot more space in our tiny kitchen.  We TRY to keep only things that we use weekly and are in season in the fridge, and we also have a freezer in the basement for food storage.

And here's the old man in one of his favorite spots, under the kitchen table, watching me take 500 q-tip snowflake pictures trying to get a good one!  Isn't he just so handsome???

Chris and I are putting up simple shelving all around the tops of the ceilings all over the house. Our house is very low on closets and storage space so I'm getting creative.  I really believe in making small spaces work and not having more than you need and use.  I work on it everyday!  It's a process for sure.  And there's the kiddos dancing in the background, enjoying SPACE over STUFF! 

Concert

Here are some of the concert highlights from this afternoon...

The concert is still on-going... probably another 3 hours or so remaining, featuring "Moves like Jaggar" x's 1000.

Wacky night

 This is what happens when Pa works Saturdays and Mommy is still trying to get over her bronchitis... Dinner means little hot dogs on corncob holders with beans and hawaiian punch :) 

 Mommy is just too tired to ensure a reverent dinner...

 Things are getting dicey...

Taking hawaiian punch literally...

 Not exactly sure when the shirt came off...

 Hawaiian punch up the nose?

Hey, at least they brushed there teeth, right? 

First Lost Tooth

 A very exciting night at the Eggs: Maxwell lost his first tooth!  It came out while he was brushing his teeth before bed :) 

I couldn't get a good smile out of him, but you get the idea.  He was pretty tired and fell right asleep after the excitement.

Later The Tooth Fairy came across this envelope underneath his pillow  :)  Too sweet :)  Congratulations Maxwell! 

Bedtime

Bedtime was a little later than usual tonight at the Eggs.  We went to Family Fun Night at Central Ave School .  It was nice to be together after a long week of pnemonia, brochitus, and tons of overtime for Pa.  It's not quite over yet, but the end is in sight. 

 I'm not sure why this picture is turned on its side.  Any one know how to flip it? 

Tonight Pa read for us since I have a "clog in my throat" as Maxwell says.  Can you recognize the book?  It's a classic and one of Maxwell's favorites :)

Here's Mimi giving Pa a break and reading to him :)  She's an excellent "reader" :)

Maxwell has his first loose tooth!  It's hanging on by a thread.  I've been cutting up all his food into little tiny bites so not to upset the tooth :) There's a lot of anticipation... I think it's due out by Saturday.  We'll have to wait and see!