Thanks for all the gifts!

Merry Christmas!

Here is a sampling of our merry-making!

Happy birthday Lizzie!

Happy Halloween!

Have you been "Boo-ed" lately?

We've been having lots of fun 'spooking' or 'boo-ing' the neighbors lately. You leave a poem and a treat at the door of your neighbor, and ask them to spook 2 more neighbors. Pictured above are some carmel rice krispey nummies mysteriously delivered by one of our neighbors. This is the poem and instructions that were attached:

The air is cool, the season Fall,
Soon Halloween will come to all,
Enjoy this treat, and have fun, too!
Spook someone else, like we've Spooked you.
Give something sweet or cute or shrewd
To help us spread the festive mood!
Be cool, have fun - but don't be seen . . . . .
While you share the Spirit of Halloween!


You have been Spooked! Please keep it going by following these directions:1. Enjoy your treat.2. Place the Spooked! sign someplace visible, like your front door or window.3. Make 2 copies of this note, and make 2 treat bags.4. Secretly deliver to 2 neighbors who haven't been Spooked!5. Keep an eye on nearby front doors to see how far and fast it spreads by Halloween!

Here is the recipe of the treats that we delivered:

Raisin’ the Dead Snack Mix
1 pound yogurt covered raisins
1 pound salted cashews
1 (14 ounce) package chocolate covered peanuts
1/2 pound stick pretzels
1 pound candy corn
1 pound M&Ms

BOO!

Playing Dress-Up

Aunt Meg made us this cake when we came to visit

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Getting Ready for Holloween

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Dog Walking

Making Wontons

This is what we did today after working up an appitite at the pool. We have lots more to tell you soon about horse camp, Girl Scout camp and upcoming Camp Grandma.

It is Summer - and life is good...

Guess what? One day I was in school and my teacher gave me an assinmant to write a story about how to make the world a better place. It was a compition held by an author, and I am a finalist!



from lizzie

Tori's Grade Update

Well the report is in and Tori has had a fantastic year academically! (lizzie too!) Thank you for all your support!

1st Communion Celebration

Welcome Cousin!

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Welcome our new cousin, Paige Nicole.

Tori's Grades

Im proud to say that I have kept all of my grades up.I realy hope I can keep them there,knowing how hard it is im going to have to put alot of efort towards the school work.I'm hopeing that family and firends can encerage me as far as geades go.well i got to go see ya latter bloggers. love you ,Tori

SNAKES

This quater in my sixth grade year I got the best 8th hour(sometimes called mini classes). The class is called slithers when you get to handle and feed snakes right there in the class room. The best part is evryone is assinged to a snake and I got assinged to a snake named Braz he is a brazilian rainbow boa and he looks amazing afFter he sheds and unfourtuently i don't have a pic at the moment but i will try to get one asap. My teacher has the snakes in her class room. Now I have heard about crazy teachers but she is just amazing, and her name is Mrs.Schmitt. My snake eats three live hopper mice once evrey two weeks at the least. I have learnd so much about my snake in the past weeks and I guess that comes in handy when you have to write or type a speech on it like I have to do after the class is over. I hope I will remember to post some pics of my snake next time but until then see you later bloggers.
LOVE,Tori

Lizzie Update

my friend xander and I are trying to make the largest crochet ball in the world and the world record is 38 miles long and we have done at least 1 or 2 miles already. He has been working on it since third grade. He is hoping to finish it before he is in collage.


by:Lizzie

Uncle Bob passes through Colorado!

Uncle Bob drove into town today so we met up for some bison burgers and catching up. It was great to see him again! Sending him your way, California!

In this pic me and my sister are wearing ponchos that were sent to u
s by are grandma (the best in the world).We had descoverd them in a closet from a while ago and mysteriously fit us perfectly.

Happy New Year!

The bugs rang in the New Year with some sparkling cider and learning how to embroider! Mom's skills are pretty rusty so we took it slow. Even so, Lizzie sewed her work to her jeans!

The inspiration to learn embroidery seems to have come from seeing young girls stitch in the American Girl movies.

Merry Christmas to All!

Cookies for Santa and reindeer food!

Hope you all enjoyed a wonderful holiday! Thank you for all the thoughtful gifts and cards!!