Olympic Games

So typically I extremely dislike watching sports (or playing them for that matter), however the Olympic are a different matter. While I don’t enjoy every Olympic sport (Hockey) yes I know that I may be escorted out of Canada for having that opinion. But I may be able to stay for saying this, curling intrigues me. I believe that curling may Canadians second favourite sport. I believe this to be so because in the very small town we live in, which lacks a good deal of amenities, it does have its very own curling arena. Now I have never curled (if that is how one would say it) I don’t know the rules or really what one does to win a game. I've tried to watch it but it seem to me it’s a lot like bowling fun to play but not every fun to watch on TV. So when I say it intrigues me I don’t speak from experience, and anyone who knows me knows that I am not an athlete in any form and I don’t pretend to be. But curling seems like a sport that I could get into. Sweeping I can sweep I sweep every day (however their sweeping looks more like scrubbing) I think I could manage. Sliding down a lane on ice, again I slide from our porch to our carport on ice nearly everyday pushing along a kid or two. Yelling, they yell a lot, not really sure what they are saying all the time but I’ve got the yelling part down I just got to know what to yell. So the way I see it I’ve got the skills I just now have found the sport to put them to good use. Maybe one day, I’ll get a chance.

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...