Sleepover

February 15th was R&J's anniversary, so the kids came to our house for a sleepover.  Lulu the dog took a nap in her doghouse while we fixed Galaxy grilled cheese and light sabres for dinner.  A worked hard cooking up a surprise birthday party.  The food was delicioso.

J&S blended up some delightfully delicious delectable darn good milkshakes.  For dessert we made flying saucers with some strange looking aliens that flew them right into the mouths of J, S, & A.  Nana and Papa had a few mouthfuls too.  We had fun making ducks & dinosaurs out of pipe cleaners - c m bd ii, they were tricky little bounders to glue on.  Jacob used his own creative juices and created a magical necklace.  

We put on our PJ's and then rounded up a bunch of stuff from around the house, put it in a sack then each drawing out a different item we made up a crazy adventure of Jumpin J, Super S and Amazing A.  You should have seen S eyes when he pulled out a bottle of salsa.  It was a wild story.  We all jumped in bed and covered up our head z-z-z-z.  Whipped up some waffles for breakfast.  Nana, Papa and the kids had a great time celebrating R&J's anniversary.

Nana's birthday party in the snow

Since Feb 6 was such an important day we thought we had better celebrate by holding the 2nd Annual Winter Birthday Extravaganza. It was a perfect winter night. No wind (amazing), clear skies with lots of stars, and c-c-cold! The menu for this grand event consisted of hot dogs roasted over the fire, chili, mac and cheese , hot chocolate, smores, and a lovely birthday cake built out of donuts which we are sorry to say we did not get a picture of due to immediate snarffing after the candles were blown out. Activities consisted of making snow angels, sled races, and putting on A's gloves at least 55 times during the evening. We had a great time. Happy birthday Big Nana O , 56 years young!.

Party on...

While the cats are away in Paris, the mice will play at Nana's and Papa's

Some of Nana's and the kids creative juices were displayed as we prepared a homecoming surprise for R&J, complete with a replica of the Eiffle tower made from popsicle sticks. We dined on Star Wars cuisine each night as chosen from the Star Wars cookbook by the kids. We had Yoda soda and Galaxy grilled cheese, Tie-Fighter ties, Jaba jigglers, Jawa Jive milkshakes and Wookie Cookies. It was a galactic gourmet delight. Even Zoe slept over. We had lots of fun.

Better late than never2!

Better late than never!

Thought we would post a few of our "most excellent" pictures to update you from New Years to now.

Christmas 2007

We captured a few pictures of the holiday, as well, which we would like to share with you J and C [and also ME&T].

As you know, we like the turkey dinner on Christmas Eve. Always means you have to get the bird in the oven early enough to enjoy the smell during the day and have it ready at the appropriate hour. Because the turkey was smaller this year than in years past, we didn't have to get after it as early in the day.

 

As you can see, it turned out alright.  We were worried it wasn't going to go around when we started carving, but we had plenty of leftovers, which we're still enjoying.

We all got around the table to enjoy the meal. You can see the white Christmas building in the background through the window.

Grandpa O was able to spend the evening with us. He showed us how to play Pinnocle at the end of the day before he had to leave.  It was such a pleasure to have him make the journey to our house and enjoy the evening with us.  

You probably got enough pictures of the program from the other blogs that we don't need to include our pictures here.

Breakfast on Christmas morning turned out great. Mom O tried out a new trick with the sticky buns and as you can see, they turned out lovely. The goo in the buns stayed soft instead of turning into hard tack candy. You'll have to get her to share her secret. Grandma and Grandpa D joined us for breakfast and few of the other morning activities before they headed to Eagle Mountain.

Just thought we would share the picture of them with the rock band.

JS&A spent the day in their new pajamas. They looked so comfy in them all day long. Anyway, we all had a great time and missed having the rest of the family here. Happy Holidays!