Make Overs

After several years of not really wearing any make-up, I decided to try it again.  My sister Kaitlin gave us some of the make-up she never wears, so I thought I would try some.  I have only worn it a couple o times and didn't get any pictures of me with make-up, but I did relent and let the girls give themselves makeovers.  The results were pretty entertaining.

The beginning of the party.

Whitney was quite happy with all the bright red lipsticks.  I think it mostly stayed on her lips.

And showing off her pink eye shadow.

Me attempting to stop Rachel from using quite so much lip stuff.

All the lip gunk went to the chin.  I don't know if the silver chin look is in yet.  Rachel would take it by the fingerfuls and just rub it wherever she wanted on her face.

And this is from make-over day the second.  I decided that little girls can only put on make-up on Saturday mornings.  This has led to some groaning, but I refuse to have to wash it off all the time.  Whitney put everything on all by herself, can you tell?

Megan didn't get a make over.  But she did get some stylish glasses that were in the bag from Kaitlin.  She seems content enough with those.  Thanks Kaitlin for the fun times.

A Happy Valentines Day!!

We had a good Valentines here in Umatilla.  It was nice to have it on a Friday when Will's work day is shorter so we could spend more time together. 

We secretly made snickerdoodle cookies for Will.  Whitney helped me make the dough.

I have never made shaped cookies besides sugar cookies, but I think the snickerdoodle hearts turned out pretty tasty.  Then we hid the cookies so Will wouldn't be able to find them and we even aired out the house so the smell wouldn't be so noticeable when he came home from work.

I made coffee cake for our Valentines breakfast.  Will cut it into a heart shape.

We gave Whitney and Rachel some Valentine goodies also - little Hello Kitty chocolate hearts.

And they received Valentine cards from Grandma and Grandpa Keeler.  Thank you guys for sending them; they arrived right on Valentines Day and were a perfect surprise.

We went to Will's work and heart attacked his door.  Each girl colored one of the hearts for their dad.

It was suppose to be a surprise and we were going to take off before Will noticed we were there, but it didn't work that way.  Oh well.  I think he still liked the hearts and the cookies.

Will sent me some beautiful flowers.  We were able to send the kids over to a babysitter that evening and go out to dinner just the two of us.  So it was a fun day.  The kids were pretty hyped up on chocolate, but I guess that is okay for the special day.

D is for Dirt

We have started alphabet days again and we had an especially fun letter D.  Here are some pictures of the kids.  I am doing it with another lady in our ward who also has three little girls who are almost the exact age of our little girls.

I let the kids dig in the dirt for dinosaur eggs (which were really rocks that Whitney and I had painted previously).  All the kids had a blast doing this activity.

I wish it had been warmer so we could just go outside to dig, but oh well. The dirt was easily swept up and taken care of after the activity.

We also talked about ducks.  So I filled a container with some water and we sang the duck song and had the kids take their ducks in and out of the water.  After the song, we just let the kids splash for a little while and they enjoyed that (until one little girl got a little too wet and started trying to take off her clothes).

These are our D's.  I always make sure there is something that we can hang on the wall as a reminder.  The Big D is for dog and the little d is for duck.  The kids do pretty good with the gluing and Whitney and Rachel are always proud of the things they make.

Then for snack we had dirt cups.  The kids mostly just ate the gummy worms and ignored most of the pudding.  But I discovered that pudding can freeze and become popsicles.  So I didn't feel bad wasting a bunch of pudding.  Anyway, it was a fun letter.  We do each letter twice a week to help the kids retain them.  I think Whitney is getting pretty good at recognizing all the letters and remembering what sounds they make.

Here is just a cute Megan picture.  She is five months old now and is starting to reach for everything and knocking things over.  I like this shirt that says 'Smile if you think I'm cute.'  She is definitely cute and can always make me smile.

And Megan wearing her pretty church dress.  She was a happy girl.