wii are having fun now

Good one, I know.

J finished earning his half of the wii in Dec, but we dragged our feet and just made the trip to Costco on Saturday.


Right before the purchase.



E is actually quite the bowler. She throws a pretty straight ball.


We are already seeing how we need to regulate it but so far it has provided family fun for all, as well as lessons on patience, and good sportsmanship ;)




Had to share this adorableness. E likes to fix Daddy dinner every now and then. I'm usually not invited.


She LOVES it.

V's

slide shows

It's truth project night and I have a million other things I should be doing.....those of you who know me well or mom who can relate to me on this can snicker all you want. But I wanted to figure out how to put the slide shows I've made for the kids bdays on here and I did! except the quality is not very good, so obviously I'm not doing something right. I have also just realized that I can only upload one video per post. E's is first, many of the pics are scanned since they were from our pre digital days. I also have changed them a bit, tings like removing the slide which has their full name and birth date for privacy purposes. (which reminds me, when you comment please only use their first initial, thanks).

Part-ay

So like most parents I hope not to gyp the 3rd child, but I have. E asks me while we were making the cake if we were going to have party hats. oops.... I did do this for the other two's first birthdays, I thought about it for this one and then simply forgot. Sorry V. BUT we did have a yummy turkey dinner on the fine china! But unlike the other two, no fancy shaped cake. Although J and E said it looked like a big donut. D's parents came over for dinner and then it was presents and cake. We ended the evening watching a slide show that I put on DVD of his first year. If I could figure out how to put it on here, I would, but it is on the long side.

First bite of cake (or any dessert for that matter...well at the farm show a week ago I let him have a few bites of ice cream, but that's it!)

He actually stopped and smiled for this picture.

After a bit he really was enjoying being in the spotlight and started to share how he felt about it all.

Saturday (before his first birthday as D was happy to point out) we tried to get him to walk and he took a few steps between us. The camera is positioned between my knees because he wouldn't come to me when I had only one hand stretched out.

1 Year

I can't believe it's been a year already. Birthday pics to come.


11 days


3 months


6months


9months


1 year

Congrats

A special congratulations to my dear friend Suzanne and her husband Aron who had their second child on Tuesday. Curren John came by his mommy's very hard work as his daddy encouraged her through an non medicated VBAC. So proud of her and happy for his healthy birth. They have some amazing birth pictures but their blog is private so I can't share...but they were too amazing not to mention them. Cheers for big sister Maggie too!

Ella's party

My niece Ella turned 5 and Denise allowed me to seriously help out. I LOVE party planning. Well, small parties, definitely kids' parties. Denise had the idea for a tea party. We let the girls decorate hats, I made place mats and cupcake toppers. Denise had a lovely spread of goodies for the girls that came in their pretty tea party dresses. The girls were so well behaved and really got into the theme. Such cuteness!


One of my other niece's, Elliot.

snow

Girls wanted to play in the snow, this is after a bit of it and they needed scarves to keep their faces warm.



Can I play too?



I put him down and he was off.



I couldn't get him to sit still for a pic.



Although I didn't capture his smiles, he was LOVING it.



First play in the snow was a success. He came in for lunch and promptly went to nap. The girls enjoyed hot chocolate with marshmallows and candy cane. Ella told E "you have a good mommy because she gives you hot chocolate after the snow." Then they proceeded to talk in their version of grown up voices and pretend they were drinking coffee, saying words like "lovely" and "darling".

Spangler Christmas

Den's family waited to do Christmas together with us in January. Here the kids are starting to gather to receive goodies from Mom Mom.

The boys in their robes from Mom Mom.

Gathering around Aunt Abby's iphone.

All they had to do was walk by each other...

This is Dwayne in Den's head lock....and it stopped being funny when they nearly knocked over the tree.

I have changed the settings on my comments. This is for those of you that do not have a google account, or don't "feel like" logging in, mostly speaking to the many of you I saw on my trip west. So for all of you out there who have been telling me "oh ya, I saw that on your blog". Leave a note, and say hi, sign your name...last names not required. Yes, I'm needy like that.

Tubby time

My prayer & share leader in CO called taking a bath a "tubby" one time and I was hooked on that phrase. E really had him laughing, but I don't think I captured it. Still fun.



For those of you I told I was making this, here is the finished product. My first taggie blanket for my nephew Joash. We're having Christmas with Den's side of the family and this was the last gift! The white side is terry cloth. I strongly considered chenille, but at this time in our budget I couldn't bring myself to pay $12.99 a yard. I am pleased.