Fun with grandkids

Saturday morning Jordan called and asked if the kids could come and play while they ran some errands.  I was so excited to have something fun to do!  Savannah helped me make playdough.  She was so cute, as she was stirring it she looked and me and said, "I'm a big helper huh grammy"

I bought this fun cupcake decorating playdough set a while ago and have been waiting for Savannah to get big enough to do it with me.  Parker LOVED it too!

Logan asked if he could use my phone to look up how to make a 3 D perler bead jet.  I printed off the picture for him and he did it all by himself!   

What a difference a day makes!

Wednesday morning I got up and decided that it was time to paint my laundry room walls and cabinets.  Several years ago, I painted my cabinets red, and the minute I did it, I didn't love them.  I think I just got used to them. I called Krista, and she suggested I paint them black like my kitchen ones so I headed to buy paint. She also suggested that I wall paper the wall by my back door that you can see from my kitchen.  I disagreed with her on this.  I had done LOTS of wallpaper in the 80's and wasn't into the idea of doing it again. I headed off to the store to buy paint.  I got the paint and was about half way home before I decided that wall paper MIGHT be kinda fun there.   Krista got on line and found wallpaper similar to what Lani had put in her laundry room that I loved.  It was in stock at Home Depot out in Sandy, so off I went..  Mike helped me with the wallpaper and I am so happy with it. I LOVE a project you can do in a day!

 

Fun in the snow

Oliver really wanted to go sledding with the whole family, so Jamie called and invited everyone to come.  Amazingly enough, all our kids and grandkids were able to make it!  I had the great idea to bring hot chocolate, and Josh was sweet enough to carry the table and large thermos up to the top of the sledding hill.  It was a hit!

Krista's family

Jordan's family

Jamie's family

and Josh's family

The kids had so much fun being together!

The Bigs

The Middles

The Littles (who don't look that little anymore)

The Boys

and me and Savvy  She reminds me of the little kid in the Christmas Story movie who was so bundled up he could hardly move.  She stayed very warm so it worked!

Birthday Celebrations

Sophie got to go ice skating for her 9th birthday with her family.  She had a fun party a couple of days before with some special friends and they went to see a movie.  She is such a darling little girl!  I took her birthday shopping.  We went to several stores and didn't find anything she really wanted.  Finally she said "I think we just need to go to Hobby Lobby, I always find what I want there"  

She was right!

Here's her cute sisters that joined her skating party!

Savannah had a safari birthday party. It was so much fun!  They invited our whole family and Jamie's family too.  Jamie always decorates sooooo cute!  They had a delicious dinner and we all had a great time.  

                            We got Savvy a scooter and she was amazing on it!

What a fun way to end the year!  Glad we could celebrate with her.  

Jamie made Savvy the cutest cake.