Broken Nose

 

 

Amelia has broken her nose, at least I think she did. The other night the kids were outside playing on the swings when Amelia started to cry. Adelaide brought her in yelling "Amelia fell off the swing and she's bleeding". Upon further questioning I found out that Amelia had taken a running start to dive onto the swing, but with all the momentum she flipped off the swing. According to Adelaide "she did a flip on the swing and fell on her nose and eye". She seems to be okay except for the big black and blue left side of her nose. But she is still so cute!

Canning Tomatoes

 

 

My friend Elissa and I spent Friday and part of Saturday last week canning tomatoes. It was a lot of work, but it was so exciting to see the end result. I think between the two of us we ended up with 52 pints of salsa, 42 quarts of tomatoe soup, and around 50 pints of just plain ol' canned tomatoes! Here in a few months when the weather is below zero and there is tons of snow on the ground, I am going to pull this stuff out and be so excited!

Ballerina Girls!

 

 

At any given moment at our house you could find the girls dressing up and dancing. Yesterday they decided to be ballerina's complete with buns, leaotards and ballet slippers. And of course there had to be a ballet show too!

Darn Sleeper Couch!

 

 

 

This year we are having an adventure, a homeschool adventure! We have been getting a room in our house all set up for school. Normally I try to do most everything by myself but I couldn't lift the big sleeper couch over the banister wall to get it out. I had been waiting and waiting for Arne to help me take it out. Well, the other day he finally had time to help me and we began moving it over the banister onto the stairs where we could just push it out the front door. While we were trying to push it out the door, the bed fell out of the couch and broke through the wall. Needless to say, Arne was not please. (I distinctly remember a few choice words flying out of his mouth.) The couch was stuck. After a few minutes of tugging and pushing and kicking the couch, Arne went to the garage and came back with the chain saw and he began to cut the couch to get it out the door. The kids loved it! And now, we have a nice school room, a scraped up door and doorway and a giant hole in the wall. What an adventure!

My baby is walking!

 

Abigail is walking! Well--almost! She is getting so brave. Walking is not her prefered way of transport (crawling is much faster of course) but she is trying to walk everywhere. Boy they sure grow fast!

Auli's been caught!

 

Auliver loves playing on the computer. He almost knows more about the computer than I do. I try to keep him off of it unless I am around. Most often he will ask to use it, but every once in awhile I catch him in the act. His new favorite thing to do now is look up family names on "familysearch.org". (Thanks for helping him Brother Garland.) He is getting to be quite a grown up kid!

Blueberries!

 

 

 

A few days ago we went and picked blueberries. I love blueberries and picking them! I think this is one of my favorite things about where we live. I get picking and have a hard time stopping because there are too many tasty lookings ones still on the bush. But like usual, I left the camera at home. So this is a post picking picture. The little girls also did thier fair share of picking too, but they were to busy to be in the picture. I think we ate a good amount of berries on the way home.....they were just too yumie!

Wow! Flowers!

 

I guess Arne really missed me while I was gone because when he came home from work the day we came home, he brought me a few roses. I really can't remember the last time he actually did this. Isn't he sweet? We missed him too and I was really glad to be home again too.

Happy Birthday Abigail!

Can you believe that it's already Abigail's birthday? Time sure does fly by. She is getting so big and is taking steps all around, much to the enjoyment of the BIG kids. She is such a cute girl and I can't imagine our family without her. She almost always has a smile on her face, and she gets so excited to see anyone she knows. She mimics sounds that the kids make, and they think that she is pretty funny. We love you Abigail! Happy Birthday!