Happy New Year 2011

Our girls making their own devices to make noise. Enjoying our sparkling apple cider.

We are ready for an amazing new year. Welcome Twenty Eleven!

*Pictures taken Saturday, January 1, 2011*

Hanging Around

Just some random pictures of the family.

Nephew, Roko.

Daughter, Olivia.

Daughter, Sora.

Niece, Kalia.

The gang climbing the tree.

And I couldn't forget my son, Oloiso. On his tippy toes with his cute little bum bum.

*Pictures taken Sunday, December 26, 2010*

Happy Birthday Sora

Sora turns 11 on the 21st. But we celebrated her birthday on Sunday.

Happy Birthday Sora!

*Pictures taken Sunday, December 19, 2010*

Christmas Wreaths

Sora & Olivia had their friends RaeLynn & Tina over. So what better to do than a craft, right? So I saw this idea on-line (not exactly sure where) on making Christmas wreaths out of paper. It looked rather simple and fun. Plus I liked how the end result looked (at least on the website I saw). Now actually doing the project took a little more time than I thought and well not so easy for the in-experienced girls. But all in all their wreaths turned out nice. Although there were burnt fingers from the hot glue gun. Oops!

So you cut these little circles out. Of course I wouldn't do it if I didn't have my handy dandy cricut.

Then you fold the circles like so.

Then you stack the folded pieces in fours one inside the other.

Then glue it on a large round circle. And well this is kind of what they are supposed to look like.

After the friends had to leave. Sora and I decided to work on another project, tissue paper trees. Saw this on my sister Dacia's blog. Olivia was too tired and went to sleep so Sora & I stayed up until wee hours in the morn making our trees. Really time consuming. But her tree turned out cute!

*Pictures taken Saturday, December 18, 2010*

7th Birthday - Trina

Happy 7th Birthday our beautiful grand-daughter, Trina.

*Pictures taken Saturday, December 11, 2010*

Happy Birthday Daddy!

We love our daddy, grandpa, husband, our Rocky!

Happy 52nd Birthday my love!

*Picture taken Sunday, December 5, 2010*

Tradition After Thanksgiving

So it's been tradition for me to put up the Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving. Something I inherited from my mom. This year I had all three girls to help me so putting it up went a lot faster than normal. Here is the progression of our work.

We got all the branches on, now time for the ornaments. I have to divide them evenly between the girls or they have a fit that one has more than the other. Plus I have to divide the really nice ones evenly between them too. Seems like more work dividing than just putting them on. Sheesh! Oh well at least everyone is happy. I thought this was a funny picture because I had the camera on timer so I could be in the picture too. And well I guess I wasn't fast enough. I got faster after each one. Hehehe!

These pictures were Selena's idea while I was busy. Notice Sora had to change her clothes.

Well the girls are all dressed for the day and I have the ornaments divided. So now it's time to decorate. Have at it girls.

The end result. Not too bad. I try to tell them not to put all the same colors in one area. I think they did a fantastic job! Okay, so I went and moved a few around afterwards but so what, that's the OCD in me.

I love this picture because it shows each girls personality.

*Pictures taken Friday, November 26, 2010*