The Three Little Pigs

Before I get to the Three Little Pigs... let my explain the first two pictures. The first... "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth", or rather, my one front tooth. I really thought we had a few years before the teeth started falling out. We're not even to kindergarten yet. Speaking of, I personally didn't lose a tooth until the second grade!

The second one is Nick and the kids being lazy on a sunday afternoon watching "Polar Express."

Back to "The Three Little Pigs"... Yesterday the three little pigs sat down to build their annual gingerbread house with some of our friends. At first, things seemed to be going well. Mom had neatly baked and cut out all the gingerbread pieces for three families' houses.

Nick took charge in getting our four walls to stand up, which they did quite well. So far so good.

Everyone contributed to the candy... Do we have enough?

Up went the triangle pieces. Moving right along...

Ella was eyeing the sprinkles. Is she planning on putting them on the house, or just devouring them, personally?

Wait a minute, wasn't this thing supposed to keep the icing from getting on your hand? Stupid trinket. Did I say that?

Now for the finale, one house stood well- was it made of bricks? The second held tight for a while- then the roof collapsed - (straw?) and the last, well... let's just say it worked out well for a tasty lumber yard.



Moral of the story...Burn it or buy it. If you're going to make your own gingerbread, you'd better burn it to the point of crisp, rather than soft and tasty, if you don't want those roofs coming down. Or... buy a kit!

Twilight, a quirk, and a RedBull race

So I know that I'm one of the last to finally read the Twilight books... but I can't deny that I'm hooked now. Ten days before the movie came out, I buckled down and decided to read the book. Since the first page, it's been hard to put it down. If I didn't have two kids demanding all my time, I'm sure I'd be finished with all the books by now. But with only a little time here and there to read, I'm in Eclipse now. Love the books. Guess I should have read them long ago. :) Yeah, I know. By the way, I LOVED the movie! Anyway, I guess those books are part of my excuse for why I haven't blogged in a while!

Two funny stories about Jace...
1. Jace has this quirk about how specific he is about things. Recently while I was driving home a babysitter, she told me that in order to show her EXACTLY how far he wanted his door to be open while he fell asleep, he found a jump rope, measured how far from the edge of the open door to his bed and then tied a precise knot to his bed, indicating to the babysitter exactly how far to open the door. We had a good laugh.

2. He has also been using this jump rope to practice roping. He and Nick have been watching the rodeo championships on TV lately. So Nick showed Jace how to make his jump rope into a lasso. (If I'm using the wrong words, I'm not very learned in this area.) Anyway, so Jace has been all interested in being a "cowboy." The other day it suddenly occurred to him, and he exclaimed, "Well if I'm going to be a cowboy, then I'm going to need a bigger rope!" I don't know if the humor comes across in this blog, but it was really funny the way he said it.

So, now for some pictures...

Nick took Jace to Longbeach with our friends to see the RedBull Drift Racing World Championship. Jace had a thrill watching the cars race around the turn that they were standing just feet away from.



I have to say that after the years I spent teaching elementary school, I really love being the Mom now. It's fun to change sides. Jace's preschool did a Thanksgiving play and then had a Thanksgiving feast.


We went to visit Nick's family in Elko over Thanksgiving. Here is Grandma Welsch and Ella. I am really glad that we got to go spend a few days with them. Thanks for everything, Welsches! We enjoyed being there!