Twenty O' Nine

Here are a few photos you may have or may not have seen over the past year... Just for Fun!

Paper Snowflake Ornament

Soooo easy, fun and awesome holiday decor, or cute for a girls bedroom as you can see the first one we did wasn't in Christmas colors so we put it in Emma's room... the 2nd one I didn't have any 12x 12 Christmas colored paper so we cut red & green construction paper to 8x8 square and used that... you can also do 6x6... for a video how -to see the link below... Can't take credit for it my mom & sister found this one... :) have fun... :)

http://ourfoxtales.blogspot.com/2009/12/so-this-is-christmas.html

ice ornaments !

Do you live in the freezing cold north? If so, you can make these ice ornaments ... My sister who does not live in the freezing cold north emailed this idea to me... I guess I'm the only one she knows who lives somewhere so cold these will last til May...:)
this is how you make them...

You'll need :

~Christmas shaped cookie cutters ~ribbon or string ~9x13 pan ~food coloring ~water
~below zero temperatures...


A few hours later you'll have ice ornaments, run some warm water over the pan and chip off the extra ice and pop them out of the cookie cutters, hang them up... they'll hang around as long as the cold temperatures do...

Easy, cheap, fun for kids...


they look kinda cool too....

Parade of Lights

Last Friday was Vanderhoofs Christmas Parade of Lights and midnight madness sales... Emma & Kael and some of the other cousins got the chance to ride on a float... advertising their aunt Jana's home decor store Upon the Shelf. They got to sit in -12 degrees weather(and loved it... good thing the parade wasn't very long) wave and throw candy out... Then we walked around town seeing if there was any good deals to be had...

Christmas Tree Hunting !

Kids getting ready to go!













After about an hour of hunting and 2 sleeping kids later, we found our tree... It wasn't very far from the road (so Kaelen didn't have to go far to cut it down or drag it back to the truck.) Once we got it home we had to cut it down alot and rearrange the furniture to fit it in. It looked alot smaller out in the wild, than it did in the house... but it smells really good... and it only fell over once after it was all decorated, braking a few glass balls... But it's up right now, redecorated, and tied to the wall...

Halloween 2009

Here are some of the photos of all of our costumes. Emma went as Princess Fiona (and wasn't a big fan about painting her face green, after all how many princesses have green facces?), Kael was too sick to dress up as a race car driver, Max was upset about beinga penguin, Kaelen was a stick in the mud just went as himself. as you can tell by the picture, and Rochelle... well... you get to figure that one out.