Finished Product

After his complaining about his aching back and shoulders, and what a pain it was to build this thing...I assumed Vic was finished with his igloo...however, I was wrong. He worked on it today for another two hours, and now he says he's done. Just thought I'd share the finished product.

Vic's Igloo

Winter Solstice

Sunday we had our now annual Winter Solstice Party. We ate pizza on the living room floor, drank rootbeer out of fancy wine glasses (the kids love that), and opened presents. We read a story that tells how the winter solstice came about and talked about how we share our light with the world. We made sunshine cupcakes, but no one ate them.
Erik got new Geo trax for his trains, and was really excited about that. He was mad because Taryn got a webkinz until he found his own gecko webkins in a different package.
I was concerned because we had gotten Taryn this beautiful doll at costco, but it was not an american girl like she wanted. But when she opened her she fell in love with Alice and has not left her side (except when Alice is in school, which she was late for today).
Overall, it was a fun evening. The kids were so happy with their gifts, which always makes me satisfied.

Christmas tree

We went to this awesome tree farm (tree factree according to Erik) on Saturday. It's in Maple Valley, called Wilson farms or something like that. The people there were so nice, we met this too cute 10 year old girl who gave us the tour. After we cut our tree down, they brought out a tractor to load it up in and gave the kids a ride around the farm. They had free cider and hot chocolate. I just can't say enough nice things about this place, it was so great.

We decided that this year we would have a home-made tree. The kids are going to make all the ornaments (ordiments). They have been stapling paper together and stuffing it with tissues, and today we put beads on string. It has been a lot of fun and given them something to do.