Calvin Basketball Video

Here is a video I found made by students at Calvin. The shots are pretty cool, but I wonder how many attempts it took to make this 2:30 video.

A Year in Photos: February 16, 2010

Hopscotch indoors! (Can you tell I'm going crazy being inside with sick kids?)

A Year in Photos: February 15, 2010

This frog has been a lifesaver at night in Layne and Abby's room.

A Year in Photos: February 14, 2010

Boycotting bedtime

A Year in Photos: February 13 2010

Trying to keep a croupy Molly happy.

A Year in Photos: February 12, 2010

View from Grandma and Grandpa's house

A Year in Photos: February 11, 2010

Pin the heart in the heart

Valentine's Day Party

A Year in Photos: February 10, 2010

SNOW DAY!

A Year in Photos: February 9, 2010

Dancing!

Slug Bug

I love Super bowl commercials! I thought that this year there were quite a few good commercials. I really like the Betty White commercial for Snickers and the all of the baby Etrade commercials were hysterical, but my favorite commercial was the Volkswagen commercial with Stevie Wonder. This was so funny for many reasons. I grew up doing "slug bug" to my family members whenever we would see a VW Bug (ahhhh childhood memories). My family had an awesome VW Van when I was little and I drove a VW Golf (with no heat or AC) when I was in college, so I think that VW's are pretty great. I even tried talking Andy into getting an VW Eurovan when we were van shopping last spring, but he shot that down real fast. The best part of the commercial was when Stevie wonder said, "Red one," and then slugged Tracy Morgan. Hilarious!! What were your favorite Superbowl commercials?

A Year in Photos: February 8, 2010

It's a zoo at our house!

A Year in Photos: February 7, 2010

Layne found my lotion.

A Year in Photos: February 6, 2010

Abby thinks it is fun to pretend that she is a piece of paper!
Good things it's washable.

A Year in Photos: February 5, 2010

Layne - double ear infection

Abby - single ear infection (I thought we put tubes in her ears so she wouldn't get these anymore!)

Fun Friday Finds

These chicken enchilada roll-ups look easy and great! (Annie-Eats)

This Valentine's Day skirt tutorial looks adorable (At Second Street)

These wool felt crowns would be great for kids birthdays (Frontier Dreams)

I love this idea for a scratch and sniff valentine's bag (Frugal Family Fun Blog)

These Valentine hair clips would look great in little girl's hair (Make it Do)

I wish I had this much luck at garage sales. The lamps turned out so cute (Buzzings of a Queen Bee)

A Year in Photos: February 4, 2010

What I did today!
**See the cutie peeking through the piles of laundry**

A Year in Photos: February 3, 2010

Guess what we've been working on?

Striking a pose

A Year in Photos: February 2, 2010

This is how Molly and I spent our day!

A Year in Photos: February 1, 2010

Tired after a long day of traveling

21 Days to a New Habit

I've heard that it takes 21 days to start a new habit. I figured that if I posted what I want my new habit to be, then I would be more likely to follow through with it. So, what is my new habit? I want to try and get up by no later than 6 am everyday and be dressed and ready to go before my children are up. Some of you might be thinking why would I want to do that or that 6 am isn't early, but I find that my days go so much better when I am up and dressed before my kids are up and usually my kids rise around 6:30, so I figured that would be enough time to get dressed and mostly ready. I'm going to try my hardest to do this, but that will mean that I have to be disciplined at night and go to bed at a decent time... not so easy for me. I'll try to put up weekly updates throughout the month to let you know how it is going.

*** I haven't forgotten about my daily pictures, but I lost the cord for awhile and then Andy took the camera out to Colorado, so I'm going to try and update some pictures tonight!