The Annual Christmas Wishlists

(As always, I do not correct spelling errors.  I just type what is written)

Brooklin

• Geek Shirt
• Sweaters
• Long sleeve under armor (for running)
• Pocket knife
• Earings
• Books
• Sweat pants for running
• Books A Million - pretty much anything in there
• That one Shakespearean Star Wars book we saw, that was awesome.
• Acceptance letter to college

Caleb

1. Books      1b. Star Wars Books 
2. PS3
3. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix
4. Kingdom Hearts Manga
5. Pants
6. Halo (or Xbox game for 4 people)
7. 2 more Xbox controllers
8. Headphones
9. A movie
10. Legos (A BIG one)
11. Angry Birds Star Wars II (for iPad)
12. A bean chair or circle chair
13. A trip to the gun range
14. Foozball table for the basement
15. Horse Shoes (the game)
16. Star Wars posters
17. Personal Rope
18. Bow Ties and Regular Ties
19. An under armor shirt
20. Mormon Ads
21. Lifeproof case

London

1. contacts
2. new iPod case
3. makeup
4. gun
5. pocket knife
6. kindle fire
7. The Elite (book)
8. Books
9. colored contacts
10. clothes
11. Catching Fire movie (if it's out)
12. Kingdom Hearts
13. Beehive necklace
14. Facebook
15. Converse
16. Head Phones (not)
17. Harry Potter/Hunger Games/Star Wars T-Shirts
18. Springy Circle Chair!!!!!
19. Ping Pong Table
20. BACON
21. earings

Isaiah

1. Kingdom Hearts books
2. Laptop
3. Legos
4. 3-D puzzle
5. Boxing gloves
6. Boxing gloves pen
7. Chello
8. Arctect set
9. slatwater taffy
10. Nook
11. Real tool set with would and nales
12. New knife
13. Minney TV
14. enlarged candey
15. Head phones
16. PS3
17. Bow and arowe
18. Gun
19. Hunters cetifacasho class
20. pagamas
21. pantes
22. Halo
23. Kirbey game
24. Cross bow
25. ipad
26. Art kit
27. skech book
28. Yarn
29. New snokol geer
30. shoes
31. cook book
32. iphone
33. desk
34. Air hokey
35. phos ball
36. ping pong

Kalia

     Although she can't talk very well yet to tell us what she wants, I am pretty sure anything with Bubble Guppies, Minions (Despicable Me), or Dora the Explorer on it would do.  She also loves candy, cheese, grapes, seaweed, cookies, crackers, and fruit snacks.  She really likes playing with her baby-sized legos and wooden blocks too.  

Senior Pictures!

Can't believe this girl is a Senior!  She only has a few months left in high school and then she is planning on attending BYU-I.  (Application is in...waiting on an acceptance letter!)  She is an amazing, beautiful, talented, artistic, smart, athletic girl and I'm so grateful I've been able to watch her grow from a tiny infant into a wonderful young woman.  Love you B!!  (I had to put off taking her xcountry/track pictures since it got too cold.  I'll take them in the spring when it's warmer).  =)

School Pictures

I have been waiting for weeks for the leaves to change colors so I could take the kids's school pictures!  We haven't experienced full blown autumn weather for probably 12 years and I was genuinely excited to see the trees burst into color!  Alaska has two seasons (winter and not winter) and Hawaii only has one (springish summer).

I remember last time we lived here, that Virginia has some amazing and beautiful fall colors this time of year.  What I didn't anticipate (or remember, I guess) is that when the trees turn all these beautiful shades of red, orange, yellow, and brown, the weather gets cold and it rains a lot!  I started to doubt if I was going to get any pictures where my kids weren't wearing coats and donning pink noses.  Luckily, the past three days have been overcast and 70 degrees, which are perfect photography conditions!

You will notice that Brooklin is missing from this post.  She is a senior this year, and we have only been to one of the three locations I want to go to take her senior pictures. The ones we did today are great...but no sneak peeks yet.  Caleb is a sophomore this year, London is in 8th grade, Isaiah is in 6th grade, and Kalia is sassy...and sixteen months old!  I took these pictures about 2 blocks from my house in an empty sloping lot between houses.  I'm so excited that I didn't miss out on capturing these amazing colors...and my awesome kids.

And here are some of the trees around the neighborhood!  It is so beautiful here!!

 

Avengers Dress and Heels

One of Brooklin's favorite things is The Avengers.  

 She was surfing Pinterest one day and found a pair of Avengers comic book heels that she fell in love with.  The link took her to etsy.com where she learned that the heels sold for $85!  She also found an Avengers dress on etsy but it was pretty expensive as well...($200!!!)

She had a dance coming up, so I searched the web for a tutorial on how to make comic book shoes and found a few (here and here) that didn't look too hard.  I ordered some cheap comic books (from NewKadia.com) and then took her out to find some heels.  I also went on a search for some Avengers fabric and a dress pattern that was cute and had sleeves (way harder than you might think!)

It took us about 6 weeks to finish the dress and shoes.  She really wanted to help with everything, but she is rarely ever home...so what could have taken me a few days, turned into weeks...but I'm so glad I got to work on this project with her!  She had a great time at the dance and everyone loved her outfit!

The Finished Outfit!! So Cute!

Kalia - 1 month old

Piano Recital

The girls had their piano recital today.  Their piano teacher is so cute!  Her name is Yoshie Koga and she is in our ward.

London played "Landler in F major" and "Video Game Challenge" both by Alfred

Brooklin played "Seascape" by William L. Gillock and "Waltz in A minor" by Frederic Chopin

Kids' Christmas Lists

I will be fully cleaning off my desk in the next two weeks, so this entry will change as I find the rest of the lists.  ;)  I'm afraid I will loose these, so I'm breaking from tradition (only posting in chronological order and backdating) and making a real official post today!  Here goes!

10 December 2011
**So, I found the other two kids' Christmas wish lists.  They do not disappoint...hahaha!  Brooklin actually texted me her wish list this week! She came home from school and  Caleb told her that Darwin and I were out Christmas shopping, so she thought she better get something to me while we were out!  What a funny girl!


Brooklin

• Big fluffy pillow
• Juneau shirt
• Jeans/capri/shorts
• Gutair
• CD's
• Gun
• books
• Piano music

Caleb

• Black iPod clasic or iTouch
• New DS (mine isn't working right)
• Pants
• Small R/C hellecopter
• Phone?
• Smallish laptop
• Shirts
• Steel drum
• Lots of duct tape
• "Lego Champion" board game
• A nice chessboard
• Books
• A nook
• Another warrior head
• Lego sets (big ones if you can manage)
• A puzzle book
• New running shorts
• Tan slaks
• Super Mario Galaxy 1+2
• DS Games

London

• iTouch
• Laptop
• Guitar
• Phone
• New book
• Booklight
• Petshops
• DS Game (any)
• CD's
• Yarn
• New crochet book
• Earrings
• Squinkies
• Clothes
• Candy!!!!!

Isaiah

• Wii game
• DS game
• Net Book
• $20.00
• NOOK colers
• 3DS
• 3DS game
• DSi XL
• $10.00
• Zuzu arena
• AR books (books that he can read and take a quiz on for credit at school)
• Byonikols (I think this is Bionicals)
• Legow sets
• Rumaut cuntroll helicopter (remote control helicopter)
• Pokiy Mon
• A phoun / iphoun
• A ipodtuch
• ATV (which when I asked him about he clarified it was a TV, not an ATV)
• An ipad
• Temprpetic bed ajusibol (really?!  he wants a Tempur-Pedic Adjustable bed?!)
• A book

Fun at Target

We went to Target yesterday and the kids had fun playing with the superhero costumes in the toy aisles.

Isaiah-isms

Tonight Isaiah and I went to London's music festival at the high school.  Towards the end he was getting pretty bored and turned to me and says to me:  Mom? Mom! 

Me: Shhh!

Him: Mom! Can you get milk from a pig?

Me: What?!  Well...yes.

Him: (ponders that answer for a moment and then says) Is it good?

Me: Well, baby pigs like it...

hahahahaha!

Caleb's Track Meet

Caleb had his first track meet today.  He ran two (or three) relays and did an awesome job!  It was really hot and he got burnt pretty good.

OH!  and after I got home, I bought my plane tickets to MAUI to go and watch Brooklin run in the state track meet!  She qualified for the 300m hurdles!