art, gingerbread house, pantry, theme cooking

Really, just some random stuff from the past several weeks...


Sabine's been doing a lot of drawing lately -- this is her "Mr. Toast" -- in this one he might be a fairy (see the wings and wand?) but then again, there's a baseball cap...hmmm...



We wanted to make 2 gingerbread houses, and got half way there. The girls had a blast decorating this one (bought pre-assembled from Costco...someday I'll make my own gingerbread/royal icing/etc...but not this year...)


And for Memet...the pantry! Bret built the shelves -- it really makes my (not overly cabinet heavy) kitchen WORK to have this space. While I sort of miss the doorway that used to be there, it was totally worth it.


We went to a Mad Men (1960s) themed holiday party in December. I had found the orange flowered tray recently, and it made the perfect vehicle for the cucumber herb butter mini sandwiches. The mandoline made easy work of creating ultra thin cucumbers.


Us, with friends Ben and Kristen at said party. My dress was bought at Deseret Industries for $6 (and it's hand made!), gloves belonged to my grandmother, Mimi, Bret's vest and tie are from my Great Uncle Lionel -- the tie clip says "GE - The Golden Value Line of the 60s". Classic.

Little Pocohontas

We finally succumbed to Netflix...I had so many friends in Jackson who said they loved it, but I never wanted to deal with going to the PO Box just to get a movie. And there's this really cool looking independent movie rental place right around the corner from us...which I really DO want to support, but my girls...they just don't like leaving the house very much...soooo...here we are.

We watched Pocohontas (both one and two, if you must ask) and Vivian wanted me to make her a Pocohontas dress. Now, I can sew...but from scratch, I figured she'd be over it by the time I finished it...so we modified a dress that was in the dress-up box...cut off one sleeve, and sewed one shut. Fortunatley it already had a stretchy neck in place...She's pretty pleased with it.


She's also going through this phase (please, it must be a phase...) of drawing on her face...with pens, markers, whatever...


And here she is making...soup. What else could it be?

Best Cat Ever

I remember trying to dress up our family cat, Annie, in baby clothes, but I don't ever remember her being this patient. That Cisco is one cool cat.

Halloween, Corvallis Non-Con

Bret preparing to take the girls trick-or-treating


In the wagon (they went to a neighborhood a few blocks away)


At the Lugo's in Corvallis...this is what happens when the mommies go out for an hour or so...swinging on a hill above a creek and dart-throwing. Can't see anything wrong with that, can you?

Somehow we forgot to take our camera out of the bag at the Gold gathering (too much fun playing music and talking with the great folks there...), but we had a great time!

Reading, dressup, sister snuggles

Sabine had us write down words for her to read, once she read them we had to draw a picture of them...sometimes harder than you might think! The girls are still loving dressing up. We had a nice morning together, our first cloudy day (after about 3 weeks of sunshine!) so it was a good day for snuggling under a blanket on the couch.

 
 
 
 

Princess Vivian

Sabine is her personal photographer. And her tattoo artist in residence.

What Sabine wears when gardening...

In her defense, she was actually waiting for her ride to a birthday party at the gymnastics studio...