Christmas Day

Christmas Eve

Christmas even we ate samon, broccoli, sweet peas and sparkling cider. After dinner we played "Operation". Alexis said it was a gross, and nasty game, she really was disgusted with the whole family for even playing it!

Christmas Eve Day in Sedona/Oak Creek

Alexis get curlers for fun

If there is anything to say about Alexis its that she knows how to penatrate her great goodness outward, and here it is in all it glory!

Holiday Baking with the Kids

Granda Lott made the kids aprons and sent them cookie cutter for Christmas. We also made a gingerbread house with lots of tasting going on. We took cookies to some of the kids friends, the kids tried to Christmas carol as I watched from the car, it was more like laughing or screaming "We wish you a merry Christmas!"

Future Snowboarder

Alexis launches a ride down the Dave hill. The faster, the steeper, the more dangerous the better!

Lollypop Ballet

I took the girls to the Lollypop Ballet, they loved it. Now they want to take ballet!

Di Can't Bake!

I usually don't have such a hard time baking pies, although I do burn one out of every two grill cheeses. For some reason this year I just had no luck.

I forgot 4 eggs in the pumkin pie, cornstartch in the apple pie, yes that is a half eaten apple pie despite what it really looks like!

I told Arden I just can't bake and she felt really bad for me and told me that I was a "good baker" despite the burt remenants of Grill Cheese and Pie Crust in the garbage. I can't go wrong with an instant pudding pie now can I and it really is alway a hit!

Old Town Philadelphia

We recently took a trip back east with the whole family. We stayed in Phili and Newark DE. We also made it to New Jersey and Maryland. We had a wonderful time. The fall leaves were absolutely spactacular. There are leaves bigger than my head there and the colors were so briliant. We were gone nine days total. The kids didn't want to come home, since they had no chores and really were having a wonderful time.

Delaware Natural History Museum

Greenbank Mill

We went to the Greenbank Mill, once apon a time ago a working mill where the Green bank family bought wheat and milled it with a gigantic stone mill powered by a water wheel. The Greenbank family also raised sheep, sheered them, spun there own wool and made textiles for sale.

My kids got to separate the wool and rake it into strands and them give it to the tour guide (dressed in old fashioned atire) where she would spin it into wool strands and then each of the kids got to weave. The kids fed the sheep and Arden dressed up like a 18th century girl.

Trip to Washinton D.C.

We took the Metro in and had a great time at all the Smithsonia museums. The giant squid is gone I am so disapointed. We ended the day with dinner at The Hard Rock Cafe which I will never take my sheltered six year old to ever again! Too many bad videos!

Longwoods Gardens

An absolute must if you are ever in Pennsylvania, the most magnificant conservatory I have ever been to. The Crisanthiams were in bloom and there were every kind in the world there! There was an enchanted kids garden that was so cute, the kids loved playing in the water!

Brandywine Zoo in Wilmington DE

No dought the smallest Zoo in the entire world, but my kids loved it and the surrounding Brandywine Park! It was so so beautiful in the fall.

Potato Chip Factory in Maryland

We went to the famous Herr's potato chip factory with the Herman Family while were we back east, the kids thought it was pretty interesting plus they got hot potato chips right off the factory line!

Spin Park in Wilmington DE

My kids fell in love with all the spinners at this park! They begged to go back everyday!

Aquarium in New Jersey, November 10

We went to the Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey and saw every kind of thing that lives in the water! The kids got to pet horseshoe crab, lobster, sharks, starfish, and jellyfish!

Dave's Triathlon

These kids sure love their Dad! They were so pround of him. He took 2cd in his Clydesdale division even though he rode 6 extra miles on his bike. Way to go Dave!