Fantasy Up do.

We had a project this week to do a "Fantasy Up Do". By "fantasy" he meant the most far out thing you could think of to do with hair. My partner and I decided to try to do a carousel. Apparently our idea was a little more complicated than I'd originally thought it would be, but we got it to work. 

We make the carousel part out of a rotating cake stand, the motor to a Thomas the Tank engine train, Christmas ornaments, and the spool from curling ribbon. 

We wrapped the hair around some foam and a funnel to give it the shape and then painted it. Now granted, it DID NOT turn out like Tiffany and I had planned, but it was still cool that it spun and you could totally tell what it was supposed to be.

 Here are my 2 favorite entries.

 I'm pretty sure that this one will win, cause it's perfectly made. The girl that did this one is the head Wigmaster at the Shakespearian Festival. She's AMAZING!!! It's Repunzel's tower... perverts! Ha!

It was a super fun project!

Go T-Birds

The girls danced at the SUU basketball game last night. As Chris was sitting waiting for me to return from dropping them off, a lady asked Preston if he'd like to present the game ball to the refs before tip off. He was so excited. They gave him a  t-shirt, which he's STOKED to wear to school tomorrow! HA! He's suddenly the biggest fan of basketball and Gandolfo's (they sponsored the ball presentation thingy and gave him the t-shirt)  

The girls did an awesome job! Sometimes the littler (a.k.a. smaller) girls get lost in the crowd and I think my girls like it when they have smaller performances so that they get their teachers undivided attention.

Abby!

My sister Andrea had her first baby on Saturday Morning at 11:04 am. 

Little Miss Abilgail Laine Adams

 6 pounds 5 oz 

19 1/2 inches long 

 Boy, I'm baby hungry.... but then I remind myself that they turn into this:

Ha!  She may not be tiny any more, but I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world!

Makeover

I had to do a makeover on someone for a project at school. Brittany was nice enough to drive all the way down from Salt Lake to let me do it on her. For the record: she DOES NOT normally go out like this! She had to arrive with no makeup, un-styled hair and grungy clothes for the "before picture"

I LOVE the new look and she was such a good sport to let me experiment on her! It was fun hanging out with her for a few hours too. I don't think we've ever really gotten to hang out that long! Thanks Brit! 

 A few days later, Preston was with me while I finished a few things at school. He found the washer and was FASCINATED!!! All of us got quite a kick out of him watching the washing machine. Obviously, we don't have a front load washer. We need to get this kid out a little more HA!

Friendly fun!

Yeah, Yeah I know... it's been a while! Sorry! The kids got new rollerblades for Christmas so a few weeks ago, I took the kids skating for a play date. They had a blast! 

Tubing at Brian Head

It's sad that we live 30 miles from Brian Head Ski Resort, but have never been. Neither one of us ski or snowboard, but Chris LOVES to go tubing. We got them new snow suits for Christmas, so he took the afternoon off work to take the kids tubing. They all had a BLAST!!!  It was a perfect day, weather-wise. No wind and it was bright and sunny!  

Morgan couldn't even wait to get out of the parking lot before she started sledding. 

 It's quite a tubing hill!! They have a pulley system that drags the tubes and people up the hill.

My little snow angels... Morgan learned the hard way that you have to be careful how you sit up when you're in the snow... poor girl ended up with a butt full of snow. HAHA!

 Waiting in line to go up the hill.

 Morgan and Preston were WIPED!!!OUT!!!

 Super FUN activity that we will DEFINITELY be doing again!

ON THE ROAD

I've had the whole week off from school, so I decided to take the kiddos on an impromptu trip to Sat Lake City. They'd never been to the Planetarium, so I decided to take them there. (Mostly cause I was trying to find something cheap and fun) Believe me, the planetarium is much more of a "Dad" thing. He could definitely have explained the exhibits better than I could (he's kind of a science geek LOL) but oh well!!
We started out at the cloud exhibit. The kids thought it was pretty dang cool! You'd have thought they'd never seen fog before LOL

 Next was the telescopes.

 Preston was convinced he was getting struck by lightening.... there was no convincing him otherwise.

 The Black Hole exhibit was pretty funny! You insert coins and they spin down into the "Black Hole". Of course, the kids had to give it a try... after his quarter disappeared, he said (VERY LOUDLY) "Wait, did that thing just waste my quarter?" Everyone around us just busted up laughing! Too bad he didn't figure that out BEFORE he wasted the quarter HA!

Racing to see who could turn the light on the fastest.

 Making the pendulum swing

 Who know a globe could be so fascinating?

 I thought boys were from Jupiter....

 Um... it's the moon that doesn't have gravity, baby girl!

 After the planetarium, we went to dinner and then went to ZooLights at the Hogle Zoo. It's really not that great, but the kids thought it was pretty fun! Basically, they just put thousands of Christmas lights up and turn off the other lights. I have to admit, the zoo is CREEPY in the dark. Here they are trying to see the monkeys. It was pretty funny watching them freak out when they discovered that the little eyes staring back at them WERE NOT theirs! HAHA!

 Preston LOVES the giant Elephant at the Zoo. He always has to climb on it and make it "scream"

It was a FUN trip!

The Real "Tis the Season"

You all know that I LOVE Christmas. Usually I go all out with decorations and all, but honestly this year I just wasn't all that into it. We've just been so busy that I haven't had a ton of time to decorate. Oh well, we had a good Christmas anyway! I did, however, get my tree up!

Every year, the 1st graders do a little program and invite the parents to make gingerbread houses with the kids. Preston has gotten to make them with the girls, so he was stoked that it was finally his turn. 

One of my fave traditions is decorating our own stockings. I plan on giving them all of their stockings when they get married. This year, Preston dumped an entire bottle of glitter on his. He said, "Um... lesson learned... you only need just a LITTLE BIT!" hahaha

 Of course, we opened out gifts on Christmas Eve. I think everyone LOVED their presents. I know I loved mine! I got a new iPad! This was the first year, I haven't figured out what I was getting. I was totally convinced that I was getting a KitchenAid. But I LOVE the iPad! Chris got a new gun, but he won't let me post pics!

 After opening our presents, we got snuggled up for bed. It wasn't a smooth night, but oh well... stuff happens I guess. Anyway, After the kids were finally in bed, Santa arrived.
Preston is WAAAAAY into Beyblades, so that's pretty much all he got this year. I think he ended up with 15 new "beys". He's had a blast with each of them.

 Morgan got a new Rip Rider 360. She's had SO much fun with this thing.

 After taking hunters safety, Shelby has been begging for her own gun. She and Chris went hunting for jackrabbits the day after Christmas and had a ball. 

All in all I'd say we had a very good Christmas! Most of all, it was fun to spend the whole weekend together!