my simple life.

Have you ever just looked around your house and thought, "WOW, this place is filled with a bunch of CRAP!"?

I feel that way today. The kids have tornado-ed the playroom, I think every single toy is out! And last night while grilling up some chicken I went to look for my basting brush and it has somehow disappeared into the deepest darkest abyss of the kitchen drawer, never to be found again ( I bet it's downstairs in the playroom).

GARAGE SALE anyone?

At times like these I like to look back and remember my simple life. Living in a teeny house with 2 teeny bedrooms, 1 bathroom to clean and single row of kitchen cabinets, and I definitely knew where my basting brush was! In my old simple life I had one wonderful luxury and that was a beautiful garden. When Andy and I bought our first house I saw the flower bed and

thought about filling it up with grass seed. But the next month it started to bloom and my love affair with flowers began... I never would have thought I would love to garden. but I do. I love pulling weeds, watering, digging, planting and just admiring the beauty of a simple flower.

Our new house doesn't have a garden yet, and this time I get to pick and plant everything myself. I'm so excited to get a taste of my simple life once more. I have so many things to be thankful for.

OH, there's my basting brush!

He's FIVE?!

I've been trying to do this post for a LOOOOOOONG time. The pictures will just not download, so once again you'll have to tap into your vivid imaginations to paint a picture in your brains from my words, got it?

Will turned 5, well, all I have to say about that is that is went by fast . super. fast.

Will threw an awesome Angry Birds Party for his cousins and friends, we made balloon Angry Bird decorations, we played chuck a red angry bird pom pom at a stack of cups with green pig pom poms on it, and we even played pin the crown on the pig. Then finished it off with a big ol' slab of Angry Bird ice cream cake.

And if you have no clue what I am talking about well then, Welcome to Earth, we have ipods.

It was such a fun time. I still can't believe Will is 5 years old. He's like a man now pretty much. On the day of his actual birthday I got to go to school with Will for his special day, it certainly was special :) I loved every single second of it. Will is polite and kind, he is so smart and I love that tall and skinny little guy so much.

impromptu party

On Family Day we threw together a party for Penny! All of the Evansons' were planning on swimming at the pool that day, so Andy and I thought, "Hey, why not just get it over with ?!" ( I know it sounds like we don't care, but this is what happens when you are on your 3rd child)

So last second plans were made and it was PARTY TIME!!!

Swimming plus pizza plus a PERFECTLY SWEET ice cream cake that seemed to be just made for Penny and waiting for us in the deep freezer of the DQ.

equals SUCCESS!

That was so easy we might even throw Penny a 2nd 1st birthday party!!

a promise is a promise

I bet you did expect a post that fast! I am just that cool I guess.

I just wanted to share some of my latest creations...

As well as headbands, I also am dabbling into blindfolds...

ok ok ok...

Well it's been just over a month since my last post. I guess I should get my butt in gear and start doing more posts, or not, we'll see... I wish I could stay off of Facebook for more than a month, that would be an accomplishment wouldn't it!?

The past month has been a month of teething sorrow in our house, poor little Pen Pen, she is by far the WORST teether we've had. She's CAH-RANKY! earaches, snot face, diaper rash, name a teething symptom, any teething symptom, she's got it.

Fortunately, all days are not bad days. Here's the at home crew participating in one of our famous family movie nights. Penny just can't get over Will. She lights up when she sees him, Aubrey on the other hand is, well, we're working on being nice to our little sister.

Skills such as:

-Gentle patting on the back

-screaming in the baby's face, yes or no?

-Dragging baby aroung the house by the foot of her sleepers, should we or shouldn't we?

-Chokeholding baby , why it's wrong...

Needless to say, when Aubba comes around, Penny gets a little tense.

...and lastly we'll touch on my new love in life, crochet.

I've been cranking out these cute little headbands for young, old and inbetween.

I'm glad I found a little hobby that I enjoy doing. It's always fun to find a new passion and pursue it. Now all I need to learn is how to read those accursed patterns...

p.s. I promise to TRY to blog at least one more time this month.

ketchup

I think I forgot how to blog for awhile. Now I have to do some major recaps.

The best things that happened during Christmas 2010 are...

#1 - We were BUSY, from Dec 24th on we had a family gathering or dinner to go to every night for 7 days straight, we were fed well!

#2 - After Christmas was over Andrew shaved off his beard, Hallelujah!!!!!!

There really are more then 2 things, but since I've just started blogging again, I feel the need to ease back into it slowly. AKA I am too lazy to type right now.

I'll leave you with some cute pictures of our 2 sets of cousins we got to spend time with at the holidays! Those aren't even all of them!

The Aloha Anderson's

The Exciting Evanson's

Stay posted for the awesome adventures that 2011 brings!

be yourself...everyone else is taken

I let my kids dress themselves, this is a dangerous phrase. But I do. Somedays they look great, they can really suprise me! But some days they just look plain ridiculous. I'm sorry, once again no picture of the fashion faux paux's that I'm about to vividly describe, You'll just have to use your imaginations.

Fashion Victim #1 - Will

Today's wardrobes choices were as follows:

• underwear ( i think)
• pj pants with rockstar guitars on them
• blue basketball shorts over top of those pj bottoms
• one superman shirt
• one spiderman jersey
• one matching pj shirt to the before mentioned rockstar guitar jammies.
• fireman gumboots

Will and I even left the house today with that array...

Fashion Victim #2 - Aubrey

• underwear ( i know)
• a dress that was WAY too short
• one pj button-up shirt over top

So amazing. I wish that I had enough confidence to walk out of my house wearing tights with basketball shorts, a swimsuit top with my bra on the outside and a big fuzzy toque on my head with high heels on. Maybe I will one day.

I love my kids, they are awesome. They help me learn things everyday, like WHO CARES for instance and ACCEPT IT. THIS IS WHO I AM. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. DEAL WITH IT because World, I'm coming outside with ALL this and you can love me or hate me.

And really who can't help but love kids with that much fashion sense? And whose to say, maybe in a few years shorts over pj's will be all the rage.

Oh, these two...