Sunday, February 7, 2010

Crafty Clothespins

Since we've been snowed in the last few days I've been looking for things to keep me busy. I came across a cute idea in a friend's blog:http://thislittleproject.blogspot.com/ . She has some really neat ideas in it. One was for this cute little valentine:http://brownpaper--packages.blogspot.com/2010/01/clothespin-valentines.html

I decided that we would make these for Eden's Sunday school class. I haven't assembled them yet (I'll post pictures when I do) but I did make the clothespins. They were incredibly easy to make and have made a cute little addition to their art wall. All you need to do is put some Mod Podge on a clothespin, cover it with a piece of scrap paper and cover with more Mod Podge. Viola! I think for the vday cards I'm going to put a magnet backing on the clothespins so that the kids can hang drawings on the fridge.




"SNOWMAGEDDON!!"

Our first winter in DC has turned out to be a pretty snowy one. Obama coined the term "Snowmageddon" and I think it fits nicely with the pictures.

Here's Andrew throwing chunks of snow out from our car so he can get out tomorrow and go to work.

Our car wasn't blocked in too badly.



This is the car next to us- not so lucky.


The tree next to our place has completely tipped over and is touching the ground. That's what most of the trees in our complex looks like. I hope that they recover.


Here's Bela having a great time in the snow. It's pretty hard for him to manuver around in it. You should see him try to go to the bathroom.


The parking lot. Nobody's going anywhere today. They say that they won't get to secondary roads until tomorrow at the earliest.


Everyone was out trying to shovel the snow out away from their cars. I heard a lot of explatives in Spanish flying around (hey- I took Spanish in high school- I know...) After people got their car out they would leave chairs and shovels and things (someone even used an extra car door propped us by a broom handle) to hold their space so that no one would take it.



This is our back patio. If you look closely you can see Andrew's bike.


We are supposed to get more snow on Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm not sure how much though. We're enjoying spening time indoors. We've got power and everything we need for the next few days so we're happy. Luckily Andrew has the weekend off. So, give us a call. We're home.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Monkey Business

Eden just started a dance class at a fun little place called Monkey Business. She loves it! It's so cute to watch her through the glass trying to keep up with the other girls (Eden is the youngest in her class). While Eden dances, Fox gets to have fun in their padded play area. Everybody wins!



Monday, January 4, 2010

Christmas 2009

Eden really got into the Nativity. Here, she is Mary, Tiger is Baby Jesus.

Our Gingerbread House (actually, townhouses). We made it from scratch and designed it to look like the types of places we've lived in. Eden helped with the decorating.





Fox is so athletic, he can already dunk a basketball on his new goal.



The kids opened most of their gifts over Skype. Eden is thanking Grandma Pam and Papa for her Princess and the Frog set.

The kids helped make some Christmas treats. Fox enjoyed crushing peppermints...

... and Eden coated chocolate-covered pretzels with them...

and behold!

Reading the Velvetine Rabbit.

Eden gave Fox his first guitar (of many more to come, undoubtedly).
She got it for a great price-- free at a toy swap.

The Christmas morning mess

On Christmas Eve we told Eden Santa couldn't come unless she went to bed and stayed there. She took it quite seriously; the next morning it was hard to convince her that she could go downstairs. But she finally relented and was pleased to find a stocking full of Sleeping Beauty figurines--especially Malifacent.

And Fox's stocking had trucks. In fact, most of his toys this Christmas had wheels, except the guitar and b-ball goal.

Eden slaving away with her Kitchenaid mixer.

Our neigbor brought us Honduran Christmas soup--complete with clams, shrimp, octopus, and crab legs. It was actually phenomenal!

Grandma and Grandpa Burton made good on their promise to get Eden a black dress like Malifacent's.

Fox's rocket ship

The demise of the gingerbread townhouses




Sunday, December 20, 2009

16 Inches of Snow!

Eden was anxious to brave the blizzard. It took 15 minutes to get suited up and 5 for her to decide it was time to go back inside--the snow was just too deep for her to walk through. But we had fun while it lasted.









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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

White House Christmas

There's only one place in the world with this view and last week we saw it for ourselves: The White House. A sister of a friend of ours who works there took us on a Christmas White House Tour. Of course, it was incredibly beautiful with all of the Christmas trees up and the decorations out.






This was in front of one of the many thousand foot trees they have set up inside. The kids loved looking at them. We dressed them all up in holiday cloths for the event, knowing that we would get some pictures (and hoping we would see the Obama's).


This White House replica is completely edible- well, maybe not the lights and furniture inside. It's a gingerbread house of sorts that they do every year in December.


This is where the Obama's stood and took pictures with Oprah last week. Cool. Although Eden looks a lot cuter in front of it I must say.


The White House nativity. Wow! It was really incredible.


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!




Friday, December 11, 2009

What a FOX!





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