Superbowl Celebration

I have to admit, we love watching the Superbowl every year. Most years we don’t have a favorite team, but this year was different, because Brian served his mission in Louisiana, we were cheering for the Saints! It was so fun to see the underdog take the game, especially by a score of 31-17! But I’ll be honest, football doesn’t really hold the kids or my attention, so we decided to make Valentines Day Cards while we were watching.

Here’s my very creative six year olds combination of shapes, textures and animal prints sprinkled here and there (this is just a sample, we made 20 for his class, and some for his cousins too).

This is Emma’s creative round up. You can’t tell she’s a girl who loves girly colors can you? She loves to combine things in different ways to make something unique.

Here’s my three favorite that I made. I used old sheet music and a falling apart reading book. I keep trying to tell myself that I don’t have any problem tearing apart the reading book, but I do. It about gives me hives. But I am using it to make something new, otherwise it was bound for the garbage. Does it sound like I’m trying to justify it in my mind? I am.

No it’s not sideways, I put it on that way on purpose.

I loved this picture in the reading book.

Isn’t the title perfect?

Brian made us a really yummy dessert of pudding cake in the crock pot. Doesn’t it look scrumptious?

Review: Hotel On The Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
This was the first book I read towards the reading challenge (I know I'd better get reading faster, or I won't be able to get anywhere near finished). I loved this book. It wasn't long, but it was superbly written. I loved the different time periods it was told in (it swapped back and forth between past and semipresent). I enjoy reading about the time during WWII, and the view of a Chinese American was not on I had read before. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to know what it was like to be a minority in a large city during WWII.

Reading Challenge

I recently stumbled on a challenge that I think will be fun to try and accomplish in 2010.....to read at least 100 books. It will be a challenge for sure (although one lady commented that she had read over 500 books in 2009, what?). For more info or to sign up, head on over to J. Kaye's Book Blog. I will try and keep a list updated in my sidebar of what I've read.

Nathan

Remember when I said that I love to take pictures of Nathan sleeping? I went to check on him tonight and this is how I found him. He was bundled up in his Snuggie that Emma gave him for his birthday, under his flannel sheets and two blankets. How cute is that?

No Music

My cute son loves to listen to music while he’s going to sleep.  Tonight he bright me a cd and said “Mom, I’m trying to listen to my cd, but it’s dirty” (he often gets cd’s dirty).  I took it from it to clean it, and I said “Honey, this isn’t a music cd, it’s your school picture cd, there isn’t any music on it.”  He came back with “Oh I didn’t know that, it had my name on it.”  Poor little guy thought that he’d listen to it because it was his.  How disappointing.

Brian’s Birthday Letter

I started a birthday letter to you, but I deleted it on here.  I will write an actual paper letter.  You are private, and I don’t want to share things you wouldn’t want shared.  Just know that I love you and enjoyed celebrating your birthday yesterday!

Resolutions

I don’t make New Years resolutions, I haven’t for years.  I have just decided that it’s not that I don’t have goals, it’s that I want to be working on them all the time.  I make new goals throughout the year, and thus, not usually any brand new ones at the first of the year.  I just resolve, so to speak, to try and work harder on the goals I have already been working on.

I working on said goals, one of them was to catch up on this blog.  While I was talking to my cute friend the other night (thanks Sunnie for the indirect advice), she said she doesn’t try and catch up.  I decided that that was a more manageable goal, to start here and now and not try to pile on things that aren’t going to be easily accomplished.  I will try and post some pictures and highlights of our holidays as I get a chance, but that’s it.  I guess that is kind of a resolution if you want to look at it that way, but I prefer to think of it as simplification.