So Tired

There have been many times when mercedes is so tired that she just falls asleep in many different places. I finnaly remembered to take some pics before I put her to bed. This was when she was in time out and she just could not take it anymore and fell asleep.

Here is another shot of that.

This was at Grandma Anderson's she had told me that she wanted to watch her show in the kitchen so I put it on and then it all of a sudden got really quiet and this is where I found her

Just another view of her sleeping. There are many more times when she has just fell asleep. I think that we all have pics of ourselves sleeping somewhere weird.

Mercedes Birthday

I know this is a little late but I have been a little busy. This was on mercedes birthday which was the 5th of December She had a Princess cake with the army men taking them hostage.

This is when we were singing to her she loves to sing happy birthday and she thought that it was great that we were singing to her.

Blowing out the candles

Eating the Yummy Cake

Opening Gifts, She got so excited about all of her gifts. Over all she had a good birthday. For lunch she had her favorite thing which is Broccoli, Noodles and Chicken. AKA Chinese Food and then she got her party so she was in heaven.

Build a Bear

A while ago we decided that we were going to take the kids to build a bear before geoff left for Afganistan so they could have something from daddy while he was gone. Geoff also recorded them a little message to put in the bear. This is the bear that Mercedes decided that she wanted

Here she is stuffing her bear. She thought that it was cool that when she pushed the button the fluff went into the bear.

Little Geoff thought that it was more fun to push all of the hearts as they lit up.

Here he is with his bear.

Here is mercedes with her bear.

ICE

Last Saturday we went to Nashville for the day. We have been wanting to go to the Ice down at Opryland Hotel. This year we finnaly got to it. It was so cool. They gave us all coats and then we went through a door and it was FREEZING COLD. This year was the How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We were told that they start making the ice sculpters back in Oct and they are there until Jan. They did a really good job I could not believe that everything was ice. Here is Mercedes in front of Cindy Lou Who. We called her that when she always had pigtails when she was younger.

This was in who-ville. It was so detailed

This was at the very end. I thought that it was really cool how they made it look like icecicles

They had slides that you could go down. They even had them for the adults. The first time mercedes went down she did not get enough momentum and went so slow. I thought that she did not like it. As soon as she got off she was like "do it a again" and that is what she said for about 5 more times. She loved it.

They are waiting for mercedes to go down the slide. Little geoff looked so funny all bundled up. He could not move his arms.

All in all we had a really good time.

Mercedes Cooking

While we were in Canada visiting my family Mercedes decided that it was fun to help grandma cook. Grandma was making meatballs. Mercedes helped all the way through. The only bad thing is now that whenever I'm cooking she wants to help. Here she is rolling the crackers.

Putting the crackers in the measuring cup. "You have to make sure you have enough"

Rolling a meatball. I really thought once they got to this part that she would not like it. But I was wrong. She loved it.

Putting the meatballs into the frying pan.

The meatballs cooking. Don't they look yummy?

This is the finished project. YUMMY!

Geoffrey's First Haircut

Well it finally came to that time where we needed to cute the hair. It was getting way to long and was always in his eyes. Well I first trimmed his bangs and then it just looked funny so I decided that we would just buzz it. This is the Before pic.

This is so easy

This is what it looked like after we were done. We decided that we like it short but not this short. Next time we will leave it a little longer. It has almost been a week and it looks alot better.

Potty training

Well Mercedes is really not interested in potty training. She will say she has to go but that is because she has already gone or she wants to read a book. When she does sit on the potty this is what she does.

Geoff's 1st Birthday

Sorry the pics are out of order but this was his first birthday that was on Oct. 5th. I know that I am a little late. He loved eating his cake and for once I think he was full. Hope you enjoy.

Family Pics

We went and got family pics taken a couple of days ago. They went alright. We had an apt at 2:00 and did not get seen until about 3:00 by this time Little geoff had fallen off of a chair and got a big goose egg on his head and we were all tired of listening and we really had to work to get the kids to cooperate here. But some of them did turn out ok.

This is our favorite one.