This week we....

Made this two headed dragon pinata for Ed's birthday at Grandma's next week.  It was kind of a lot of work, but fun reliving paper mache in the 3rd grade.

packed 20 lunches 4x5= lots of plastic bags

 Logan has hardly lost any teeth-so I'm still taking picture

every time he does, even though he's almost 13.

We went snowshoeing at Crater Lake.  We saw a very foggy lake for about 2 minutes before a blizzard rolled in and it dissapeared into the mist.  We

had a great time on our snowshoes once we got out of the snow and into the trees. 

 Follow the leader!  Our volunteer

park ranger informed us about animals of winter, that Crater Lake is receiving less snow then

it used to, and that you can get a bad sunburn from all the sunlight bouncing off the snow...

very informative.  We had a great time!  Johanna unfortunately had previous plans to

watch movies and eat cookie dough with friends.

Vingnettes of Thurman life

Haircuts-the boys really needed them.  I sit them in our old booster seat and cover them with the old crib sheet-upcycled baby stuff!  Then they can watch a movie while I cut their hair (Harry and the Hendersons this time-thanks, Katy!)

 I promised them a treat if they took quick showers after their haircuts-all the "treats" were gone, but we had delicious straw-ban-peach smoothies

Cam's Blue and Gold scout dinner had a Luau theme this year, complete with this backdrop for photos

Nice face Sofi = )

Cam performing the "Haka" with his troop

My beautiful cupcakes from pinterest

 

What do you have in your dollhouse? Dolls, maybe? 

Ta Da!  Welcome to the table of treats-prepared for my piano students after our Valentines Recital

 Happy Presidents Day!  My own little Lincoln

Showing off the shoes Katy gave me with my Valentine's Dance outfit-Oh-this is also her skirt and the belt  from the dress she gave me. 

Valentines was fun I made a scavenger hunt for the kids-they had to decipher riddles to figure out where to find items for ice-cream sundaes-Cam and Ed just loved it.

My Valentines dinner-so good chicken cordon bleu, breadsticks, fresh green beans...some other stuff

We played hide and seek and Ed hid in my buffet.  Cam said he could fit too-we didn't believe him, but he sure showed us!

 Logan asked me to take a picture of this his gorgeous art project-it's very modern and um....well I just don't know what else to say about it.  He wanted Grandma to see it, so here it is!

Johanna modeling pajama pants at our Young Women's activity.  The girls had fun sewing them, though they turned out a bit large-they are now christened by Johanna "The balloon pants"

Ed on skis-first time and he did great-a real trooper

 Cam and the mountain

Here i am

I had to include a picture of Blake in this post

The three boys-Johanna couldn't come-she was at play practice, but the boys had fun and did well-even though the snow was horrible!

Random pictures of January

Ed and Cam love playing with the library blocks

 Blake and I enjoyed an afternoon of x-country skiing recently.  It's only 45 minutes to the snow from our house and it's so beautiful!  I'm standing on the lake that we swam in last summer at girls camp!  We stayed close to the shore in case the ice wasn't as frozen as it looked!

Ed got hot at church and took off his sweater-this is what was underneath.  I think he walked around like this for most of church.  That other kid is his best friend, Steven

Johanna and her friend Ireland in the middle of filming a video-an activity they do frequently.

Inky's fave perch

our ward had a Grinch themed party-the youth put on a production of "the Grinch who stole Christmas"  It was really fun-Johanna and friend Sofi directed and narrated
it actually snowed a bit the week before Christmas-so pretty!  Our tree was really pretty this year too.
Christmas
was spent in Salem with Grandma and Grandpa Hoth.  Danielle, Scott and the girls came up from Albany every day we were there.  We also had some visits from Kevin-we played him scores of player piano rolls!  That's all he wanted to do (except eat the yummy dinners).  We had fun playing games, making cookies, playing soccer/basketball at the gym-though we almost killed grandpa, going to see the Hobbit, making gingerbread houses, cooking a lot, and hanging out.
All the Christmas
Eve pajamas fit-yeah!  Johanna is posing with the scariest movie ever-she had nightmares for several days after watching it last time-I literally had to sleep with her in her twin bed-thanks, Katy!
A Christmas day visit to the carousel is our tradition-it was great to have Danielle with us this year.  A few days after coming back to Medford, Lindsay, our cousin from N.C. came for a very short visit-we celebrated by ice-skating in Ashland-so fun!  Eddy, Log and Cam are starting to get the hang of it!

Johanna and
her friends were so excited for the church New Year's Eve dance-they all came to our house to get ready and they had a great time-Blake and I had to actually stay up for the new year so that we could pick everyone up-well, Blake picked them up, and I waited at home to hear the report.  Our boys celebrated the East Coast midnight by watching the big apple fall on the laptop and banging pots and pans.  On New Years Day we went on a "first day hike" that turned into more of a walk, but oh well-it was nice to get out in the crisp,cold air.  That's our beautiful local mountain-Mt.McGloughlin

Just yesterday we went sledding at Lake Hyatt in Ashland.  It was a bit sketchy driving there, but we were rewarded with absolute beauty and some great outdoor times.  All the kids-and adults too! enjoyed sledding and playing in the snow.  Johanna and I built this adorable snow hula woman. 

Johanna thought we looked like penguins-but i think we look like a couple of weirdos....A great last day of a great vacation!