These Days...

Seems like we moved from this...

 ...to this...

...to this...

 

in such a short amount of time.
After the temperature plunge this week I have been keeping warm with things like this...

 ...and this! So if the baby weighs 10lbs you will know why. :D

The solution to ice cream cravings when its freezing cold. Mint ice-cream in hot chocolate. YUM!

Plus it has put me in the sewing mood. Here is a dolly PJ project I did.

These cold cold days keep us indoors and working on projects to keep the tempers from getting short. ;) So heres a few of the things we've been up to the past couple weeks.

The kids had a day in school where they chose a community helper to dress as. The Boy chose a Firefighter and Miss Kate chose a Vetrinarian. I believe Aubrey was being a Mommy. :)

Another day they made indian headbands and "buckskins".  They were supposed to use brown paper bags, but believe it or not we have exactly zero paper bags in this house.  I know of one store in town where I could get some but rarely ever go there. :D  So we got a little creative and made them from the vinyl tablecloth leftovers that I had used to make The Boy's fireman pants. They used colored permanent markers to write the designs on with.

Giving me their best solomn indian faces. :D

 My indian children finishing their school. :)

In case you were wondering, they live in our basement. ;D

Then we started doing some Thanksgiving preparations in spite of the fact that it would only be us and Grampa D & Gramma Jo. We treated them to a very quiet Thanksgiving...although I was hoping for a little baby action for Gramma's sake. :)

Anyhow, we made these fun little Acorn Bites one afternoon...

...some pilgrim hats another afternoon (which were a big hit)...

...and these silly turkeys another day.

 Of course I had to set up the cornucopia!

 And I had a little extra fun putting some verses on our barren kitchen walls. :)

We had to do the traditional treasure hunt on Thanksgiving day, and we had to keep it indoors. Miss Kate requested that their be 20 clues. :) Then we had fun trying out the newly acquired games that concluded the treasure hunt.

On Black Friday the guys went out and got themselves some toys. ;)  Much time was spent flying the remote control helicopters over the weekend, and much fun was had by all. :D

Of course Grandpa D had to work on some kind of project while here! He patched up the giant hole in our basement ceiling that has been there since a major water incident in the summer. :) We are SO happy to have our ceiling back together.

This was just the beginning of ripping out a huge chunk of the ceiling after a water overflow upstairs.

As you can see the patch is fairly large.

Grampa D had it looking good as new by the time he left. Hooray! :D

And here is some winter entertainment from the "Basement Band" ! :D

Please excuse the blurriness. I was trying to keep my presence unknown to the band members.:D