Today's Hair

Lexy and I have fun doing her hair in different ways. Yesterday it was french braided, but I need more practice. At the hockey game last night she wanted to take it out and wear a pony tail. Went we got home I got the pony tail wet, put some moose in it, and set it with her foam, twisty curlers. Off to bed she went, and this morning look and the cute curls...!!

Isaac's Amp

Isaac has been really enjoying playing with the PS3 that the Payne's gave us and we fixed. He mostly plays Infamous 2. He enjoys it so much that he has made his own AMP from the game. I did help him cut the pipe to length, but the design, assembly, and everything else is all Isaac. I love that he makes this type of thing to play with.

All the parts from Home Depot... $10.

New Hangout Coming Soon

Isaac is soooo excited. We are getting a Cabella's here in Charleston... He says, "I love Cabella's, all my Grandpas take me to Cabella's. They love it too."

I wish the back ground wasn't so bright... It is was it is... We cant wait...!!!

Magnets

Isaac has a science project due today.  We have been working on it for the last week or so.  It was pretty fun.  We used some cool stuff.  The instructions said to use a strong bar magnet, so I found the only two cow magnets in all of Charleston, WV.  They seemed to work pretty good.  Not what I had planned, but it was successful.  I hope he doesn't get in trouble for the poster looking so cool.  We put it together in AutoCAD and printed it out full size.  It is on the poster board the was requested, but we glued a full sheet of paper to it. Ha.  We was excited that it was just one piece of paper.

He did add one hand done drawing of a bar magnet to the poster just above the conclusion, but I like this clean print instead of trying to post a photograph of it.

This is his written portion of the project.  I saw one misspelled word in it but forgot to tell him before it was due.

 

Good Luck Isaac, I hope you get an A+++

What a Win...!!!

 What a win for the Broncos...!!!  The Tebow haters have to sit down and shut up now.  I really gotta say that the Free Safety Quinton Charter (#28) had a spectacular game too. The whole game had me on the edge of my seat...  So much fun when your team wins in the end.

 Lexy got in on some of the Bronco love too...  She is wearing her little pink Bronco's tee shirt.

Here is a side note for Isaac.  He got some Dragon Ball Z action figures in the mail on Saturday.  I love to see his face lit up like it is in this picture.  He has had so much fun playing with them this weekend.

The Muppets (2011)

The kids and I went to the movies, for the first time since May, over the Christmas break. We went and caught the new Muppets movie.  I loved the Muppets as a kid, and I am not sure if you ever grow out of them.

Well, we LOVED this movie.  The kids had so much fun.  We use the lines from the movie almost every day.  

We bought the sound track on iTunes (Thanks to the iTunes gifters).  Both kids sing along with the songs.

Man or Muppet

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Me Party

Life's a Happy Song

Forget You

Rainbow Connection

and on and on...

Good Tunes...!!

Always my favorite, ANIMAL...!!!  

Drum!! DRUM!!!  Aaggghhh!!!  DRUM..!!!

Lexy and I have a fun game going.

This movie gets three thumbs up from us.

A Little Work for BIG Reward

I think we all know that Isaac loves to play video games.  He found a game at Worst Buy that he really liked, however it was only for Playstation.  We don't have a Playstation.  He saved for a few days, but it was never really in reach.  So Mr DP asked me several months ago about trying to fix his PS3.  I said sure we can try, next thing I know he had bought himself a new one.  Here about a week ago Mrs. CP wondered if we still wanted to try to fix the PS3.  So we brought it home.  I has been hard to find time to work on it, but with three or so hours (on three different days) we got to work.

We followed some instructions found on the internet and a YouTube series.

Here is Isaac cracking the case.

You gotta get the dust out...

We had it in pieces.  Just about every part that could come off did.

More dust removal...

Some reassembly.

Plugged it in... and...

It worked...!!!!  He now has a PS3.  Look at him go...!!!

Good Job Isaac....!!!  We make a great team...

Thank you DP and CP..!!!!

Christmas Morning

Well, more like Christmas weekend...  The kids and I had a great Christmas.  WE carried out most all of our traditions, so fun.  Here are the pictures we collected.

Isaac got a little wrapped up in the Christmas lights.  He was ok with it though.

 Then Lexy tried.  Yep, she was tangled too.  Here is her frustrated look...

 Before it was all done they were both covered in lights.

 By the time we were ready for bed on Christmas Eve Lexy had written a letter for Santa and borrowed a dollar from Isaac to leave with it.  (Sorry I couldn't get this to rotate right, so I gave up.)

The letter says:

Dear Santa,

Here is a dollar for all the joy and cheer you give to all the boys and girls.  Please enjoy your hard tack, cookies and milk. 

Sincerely, 

Lexy

PS  Here is a pencil to write back.

You'll have to ask her about the reply.

Isaac was super excited about the DragonBall Z game that Lexy gave him.

 Lexy opened new skates and was ecstatic...!!!

 In the made at home gifts category, Isaac got a shadow box full of pucks for each goal that he has scored this year.  There is room in there for more.  Go Isaac...!!!

Lexy got a shadow box with her skating medals all displayed for viewing.

 Now the best for last.  Isaac spent a bunch of his own money to make sure he got me something that was special.  Both kids, as well as the people that knew, couldn't hardly wait for me to open it.  C.Payne said that she loved shopping with Isaac because he was so thoughtful.  So, on Christmas morning neither kid would open a single present or look at their stocking until I had opened this present.  Isaac bought me a MICROWAVE..!!!  That little stinker.  How cool is that.  We haven't had one since we moved in October.  Not that big of deal to me, but boy we have used it since he gave it to me.  It's a nice stainless steel model.  THANK YOU so much Isaac..!!!

Lexy got me some sweet new PJ pants to lounge in and some Snickers bars.  Both kids opened presents from each other before that got into the Santa stuff too.  I think they both are understanding the joy of giving.

I hope you all had good Christmas' too...!!

Random December Stuff

So this post has a bunch of random pictures and topics.  Not because I don't have something to post, but because I have too much to post.  The kids and I have been so very busy, with Christmas shows, hockey games, Christmas parties, etc.  Here are a few snapshots of our live the last few weeks.

Hockey, hockey, hockey...  Isaac's team, the West Virginia Wild (PeeWee's) is still undefeated.  They are now 12-0.  This last weekend they beat the Queen City White Railers who had been in 1st place in the league.  Both games were shutouts 4-0 and 6-0.  The shots on goal were the huge difference, 38-8 in the first game and 45-10 in the second.  Isaac played defense in both of the games.  He didn't think he played all that well, but they shut out the other team.

Last weekend was the Learn to Skate Christmas Show.  They decided to do a Charlie Brown Christmas, and asked Isaac to be Charlie Brown.  Here he is in his Charlie Brown shirt with this skates and hockey stick ready for the show to start.

Lexy skated to some of the 'elevator music' from the sound track.  It was fun to tease Ms Heidi that she kept playing the same song over and over.

After the show I was able to get some pictures of the main characters.

Lexy got these rain deer antlers.  She loves them.  This is her deer in the head lights look.

We had another set of missionaries over the make gingerbread cookies last week.  They sure enjoy it.

Everyone enjoys it.

Here is the plate of 'diet' gingerbread cookies that I took to work.  How do you like the dramatic lighting...?

Saw a hair bow made of hair picture in Pinterest last week.  So, I did Lexy's hair that way.  I like.

On Friday night the kids had their Alum Creek Elementary Christmas Dance.  They were both so excited.  Lexy rules the roost.  She and her friends were having so much fun.  No she is not wearing lip stick, my guess is the flash in the dark made her lips stand out.

I hope to post some video from the skating shows in the next few days.

Third time makes it a tradition...

So, this is the third year in a row that we have had the missionaries over to decorate Christmas cookie, make candy etc.  I guess that makes it a tradition. The other night we had Elder Stoker (from St. George) and Elder Wiederholt (from Portland) over to frost cookies.  I am pretty sure that they had a blast.  Here is one action shot.  Lexy was making sure they knew how to frost.

 Then we have a lot of poses with the decorated cookies.  I told them that the standard protocol was to eat the first one that you frosted.  These trees are the first ones that they did.  It was pretty funny they were each claiming to be Number 1.  Then on one picture E Stoker said, "Let's do Number 2."  E Wiederholt fell for it and we got the picture below.

 So, E Wiederholt make a stocking that said "#2"... And E Stoker was teasing E Wiederholt about his crush on Taylor Swift by making a cooking proclaiming the love...

We even got one group shot of all of us.