Bathroom Accessories

We got new bathroom towels for Christmas. Woo-Hoo I know, but Michelle made a curtain for our bathroom to go with them that turned out nice. Here is the kids bathroom:

And here is the curtain that Michelle made to hang in out bathroom to match the new towels. Notice the clock on the wall. We hung a clock on the wall there when we first moved into the house. That clock died in May of 2008. It hung there until we replaced it at Christmas. Even though we knew it was dead, Michelle and I both continued to look at the dead clock to see how late we were while getting ready in the morning. You would think that after half a year we would have learned to not look at the dead clock. Better, yet you would think that it would have taken us a lot less time to replace the clock.

Piano Lessons

Well, back in May Michelle convinced me to buy her a piano. It has been on our long term plan to get one, and she felt like this school year was a good time to start Rebecca on lessons. She got some beginner books for the kids, some at Rebecca's age and some at Tyler's. Rebecca and Tyler have been practicing and doing really well with it. I am not usually home when they practice and so I don't have the opportunity to hear it very often. Tonight after dinner they each took turns playing their favorites for me. Rebecca is learning Christmas songs so that she will be ready to play them next year.

Tyler played his favorite out of his book.

And you can't forget Meagan. She always turns to the same page in Tyler's book and just lets it come naturally. Notice there is no music on these pages, but it is always the one that she turns to. The name of her musical masterpiece is "Hands".

Hiking

Michelle took Tyler, Meagan and a few friends for a hike up Honeybee Canyon. It is basically a walk up the wash. The kids had a great time and did it all without complaining.

It wouldn't be a hike without collecting sticks along the way.

Mailbox

We left one evening and when we came home we found our mailbox looking like this:

It happened on a Saturday evening. I didn't do anything about it on Sunday and when I came home from work on Monday, it was back to normal. The neighbor must have put it back up.

Meagan's Birthday Party

Meagan had her first birthday party with friends.

Rebecca pretty much took care of all the entertaining and organizing throughout the party. She had as much fun doing that as Meagan had with having friends over for a party.

Air and Space Museum

The day after Thanksgiving Rebecca, Tyler, Grandpa and I went to look at the airplanes at the Air and Space Museum. Here are a few of our favorites.

The SR-71 Spy Plane

Anything with shark teeth on the front (remember Rebecca's soccer team this year was the blue sharks).
Grandpa's planeThe Guppie transport plane

Why I hate blogging

It took me over half an hour to post my last entry. I finally sat down to post something and Michelle came in to plan the day and put together a "To Do" list, the kids started fighting, I felt guilty for sitting at the computer... It is a never ending battle. Sometimes I wonder why I even try.