The Norlund Clan

Merry Christmas

2011-12-30T09:49:00.000-08:00

We had a nice quiet Christmas this year. Hope everyone had a great Christmas.

Sugar cookies

2011-12-30T09:46:00.000-08:00

Aurora and I made sugar cookies for Santa Christmas eve. Here are some pictures of her decorating them. I can not believe how grown up she is getting.

Ice Skating

2011-12-30T09:44:00.000-08:00

Jay took the friday before Christmas off work and we decided to take Aurora ice skating at Conagra. It was her first time ice skating, if we go again will not be there. We got there and found out they did not have any skates big enough for Jay so he had to just watch us. Then we had to wait over 20 minutes to get the right size skates for Aurora, there were too many people and it was not that well organized, but it was fun to watch Aurora try to ice skate anyways. Here are some pictures.

Bob day 29

2011-12-30T09:30:00.000-08:00

This was the day before Christmas eve, and Bob's last day to cause trouble. When he left with Santa he left his notebook for Aurora and a M&M filled candy cane. Bye Bob see you next year.

Bob day 28

2011-12-30T09:25:00.001-08:00

Bob day 27

2011-12-22T05:51:00.000-08:00

Bob was nice enough to save the messes for when Aurora is out of school.

Bob day 26

2011-12-22T05:50:00.000-08:00

Bob wanted to see the nativity scene up close

Bob day 25

2011-12-22T05:48:00.001-08:00

Bob climbed on the chandelier

Bob day 24

2011-12-19T05:56:00.000-08:00

Bob tried to open a card for Aurora.

13 years ago today....

2011-12-18T15:19:00.000-08:00

I married my best friend.

Ward Christmas party

2011-12-18T15:17:00.000-08:00

We had our ward Christmas party last night. The primary put acted out the Christmas story, and Aurora got to be Mary. She also had a special singing part with a couple of other kids. We brought one of her baby dolls to be baby Jesus. In the middle of the play one of the nursery age girls snuck on stage and tried to steal baby Jesus, Aurora saved him though. At the end of the night Santa showed up.

Bob day 23

2011-12-18T15:10:00.000-08:00

Last night Bob found Aurora's baby book and was looking through it.

School Concert and Christmas dress

2011-12-18T15:07:00.000-08:00

Aurora had her school concert last Thursday. I pulled out her Christmas dress to wear for it and did her hair up pretty. The school was having their holiday store at the same time and Santa came. Here are some pictures of Aurora in front of our tree in her dress, at her school concert and with Santa. There are two videos at the very end also.

Bob day 22

2011-12-18T14:48:00.001-08:00

Bob got into the granola bars for a snack.

Bob day 21

2011-12-18T14:47:00.000-08:00

Bob tried to sew something, but he forgot to plug in the sewing machine.

Bob day 20

2011-12-15T05:52:00.000-08:00

I guess Bob does not know that Family Home Evening is suppose to be on Monday.

Bob day 19

2011-12-15T05:51:00.000-08:00

This is how Aurora found Bob yesterday morning. He was trying to crochet.

Bob day 18

2011-12-13T07:14:00.000-08:00

Here is a picture Bob drew for Aurora last night.

Bob day 17

2011-12-13T07:12:00.000-08:00

My mom bought Aurora a cute Santa letter paper with envelope. Bob found it and started a letter writing what he wanted. Aurora needs to finish it and sned it to Santa.

Early Christmas

2011-12-11T17:27:00.001-08:00

My mom came out this week to visit and my dad came out Friday night so we could have an early Christmas. Here are some pictures from their visit.

My mom bought Aurora a little tree and ornaments for her bedroom, and they spent an afternoon decorating it. It even has peace sign ornaments.

Emmitt on after opening presents.

Everyone hanging out

Me and Brayden

Me and Emmitt

The girls eating waffles Opa made

After breakfast the guys took the kids sledding, here are some pictures of all the fun they had.

This afternoon my dad brought Kenna over to see Aurora one more time before he had to leave. The girls love cuddling Opa.

Bob day 16

2011-12-11T17:15:00.001-08:00

Bob climbed up onto my angel shelf.

Bob day 15

2011-12-11T17:12:00.001-08:00

Bob spent the night at my brother's house Friday night with Aurora. My dad came in late that night and all the grand kids wanted to be there for him. While at my brother's house Bob at my niece's, Brielle, gingerbread house.

Bob day 14

2011-12-09T07:09:00.001-08:00

Bob read Aurora's library book.

Christmas Tree

2011-12-09T07:04:00.001-08:00

Here is a picture of our tree. Aurora picked it this year, and my mom bought us some new ornaments to go on it.

Bob day 13

2011-12-08T18:52:00.001-08:00

Bob set up one of the nativity scenes and was playing with it.

Aurora took the picture

Bob Day 12

2011-12-06T17:47:00.001-08:00

Bob was found playing the keyboard.

The Pledge

2011-12-05T19:09:00.001-08:00

Aurora got to lead her school in saying the Pledge of Allegiance with another boy in her class. I hung around long enough to watch her and video tape it.

Bob Day 11

2011-12-05T19:02:00.001-08:00

Today Aurora found Bob sitting in the basement with her daddy's action figures.

When I was taking her to school she asked me to take Bob to work with me. Here are all the different places he was found throughout the day

inside the ice cream freezer

in the snack closet

having lunch with the principals

in the drink cooler

close up in the cookie cart

in the cookie cart

on top if the cappuccino machine

on the snack cart

on the top of Lucy's door.

Yes we had fun having Bob at work with us today.

SNOW

2011-12-04T18:46:00.001-08:00

It snowed on Santurday. It did not stop until some time after 6. The first 3 pictures were taken around 11:30. Then the rest are from when Aurora and I went out to shovel the driveway and ended up playing with her friend up the street. Her friend Faith came over when she saw us out there and her dad sent her brother over with the snow blower to clear the driveway and side walk for us. Those pine trees on the side of the house are ours, I love how they look covered in snow.

Bob Day 10

2011-12-04T18:44:00.001-08:00

Bob climbed into the game closet to see what games we have.

Smurfs

2011-12-03T11:36:00.001-08:00

The smurf movie came out yesterday and on of the websites I am a member of (crowdtap.com) selected us to throw a smurf party. Aurora had so much fun. She has not seen her friends from Tara Heights since we moved. It was fun to have them all together. I made them all smurf hats, we painted faces, made smurfs out of clay, played freeze dance, played "Pop a Smurf" (I put the names of smurfs inside blue balloons and they had to pop a balloon then act out the smurf and everyone else had to guess who they were. They loved it. We also colored at the end just before everyone got picked up. What a nice way to end the evening. For snacks we had smurfberry muffins shaped like butterflies, bees and ladybugs, smurfberry cake, smurfberry juice, and cinnamon roll popcorn with smurfberries. I forgot to get a picture of all the food, but I did get a picture of the muffins.

Bob day 9

2011-12-03T11:13:00.001-08:00

Bob dumped all of the crayons on the floor.

Bob day 8

2011-12-02T05:53:00.001-08:00

We are having a smurf party tonight. Last night Bob pulled all of the stuff for it out and put on a smurf hat.

Aurora's room

2011-12-01T05:56:00.001-08:00

Over Thanksgiving break I painted Aurora's room. I am almost finished decorating it. My mom is going to bring us some vinyl letters for over the bed. She still loves the princess and the peace sign stuff so we are trying to make the two fit together.

Bob Day 7

2011-12-01T05:55:00.001-08:00

Bob played the Cootie game last night.

Bob Day 6

2011-11-30T05:47:00.001-08:00

Bob decided to see what he looked like with Aurora's hair clips on.

Aurora Hula Hooping

2011-11-29T19:17:00.001-08:00

Aurora was playing Wii Fit and it was fun to watch her try to hula hoop. She does not quite get it.

Bob Day 5

2011-11-29T18:44:00.001-08:00

This morning Aurora found Bob had been doing puzzles last night.

Here is a picture of Aurora and Bob watching Rudolph on TV tonight.

Bob Day 4

2011-11-28T19:11:00.001-08:00

This morning Aurora woke up to find Bob had made her chocolate chocolate chip muffins for breakfast. What a nice elf!

Pictures taken by Aurora

Bob day 3

2011-11-27T16:10:00.001-08:00

This morning Aurora woke up to find Bob had pulled her art stuff out of the nook and started coloring the Rapunzel picture. Here is the picture she took of him.

Bob Day 2

2011-11-26T17:24:00.001-08:00

Bob got into our cinnamon roll popcorn.

Happy Thanksgiving, and Welcome Back Bob!!!

2011-11-25T08:04:00.001-08:00

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful relaxing day. The weather was amazing, shorts in November in Nebraska!!! Aurora wrote a letter to Santa awhile back asking of her elf Bob could come back. He send her a card telling her Bob was coming, and he showed up on Thanksgiving. So now we get to see what kind of trouble he causes every night.

Here is a picture of Aurora and Bob yesterday (yes she is in a summer dress, 65 is warm enough for that):

Here is what Bob did last night:

Halloween

2011-11-05T18:01:00.001-07:00

Here are pictures from our Halloween this year.

Pumpkin craving:

My mom sent us craft pumpkins that she had craved "Aurora" and "Norlunds". She also had stickers in the package for Aurora to decorate her pumpkin and iron-ons to make a Halloween shirt.

Aurora and I made cakepops for her class party.

Here she is in line with her class getting ready for the costume parade

She had a lot of fun playing the party games

All ready to go trick or treating. Jay stayed home to hand out candy and I went out with Aurora and the neighbors. She had so much fun running from house to house with them.

After trick or treating the neighbors had the kids bob for apples

And she had to find gummy body parts in powdered sugar

She did not like the messy face!

We had a great time on our first Halloween in our new neighborhood.

New House

2011-11-05T17:09:00.000-07:00

We bought a house!!! It is a 3 bedroom 3 bath. We have great neighbors. On the day we had our walk through they came over to meet us, then on the day we moved in Dave came over and helped Jay unpack the truck. Then later that night he stopped by to give us jambalaya. They have a TV in the garage and have BBQs when the Huskers are playing. We have gone over a couple of times. Here are pictures of the house

Dining room

Aurora's fish tank in the dining room

Living room

Kitchen

The nook table my mom and dad bought for us
Aurora in her bedroom
Family room in the basement

The extra bedroom is not done yet, it is going to be my craft room for now, and I do not have pictures of our bedroom.

First and Last

2011-11-05T17:01:00.000-07:00

Aurora started 1st grade this year. We were in the middle of buying a house so Aurora started first grade in one school and then had to transfer to a different one about a month later. She did great with the transition. Here are some pictures of her first and last day in Tara Heights:

Walking from the car to the school with Emjay, her best friend.

Emjay, Aurora and Taryn

Abby, Aurora, Taryn, Emjay

Taryn and Aurora

Emily, Emjay, Aurora, Abby, and Taryn (these are all her friends that were in her kindergarten class)

Emily and Aurora

Here is her last day with her class

Her teacher, Mrs Styskal
Her art teacher, Mr. Swanson

Warning!! Picture overload!

2011-10-23T15:35:00.001-07:00

So I have been horrible at updates. Here is a brief overview of what we have been doing from Aurora's birthday to the last day of summer.

Playing at the park

Zoo with Kenna

Easter

Kindergarten Field trip to Gifford Farm

Hiking at the Wildlife Safari

Cuddling Daddy

Playing at the splash pad

Crafts during the summer

Dress up tea party

Zoo with all the Brandvold cousins

Stormchaser game with Opa

The next set of pictures are just a few of my favorites from the trip Aurora and I took to see my parents. We had a good time, but we misses Opa for most of it. My grandpa passed away the first day we were there and Opa had to go out to Arizona. Aurora and I were still able to have fun with Oma, and the dogs. Aurora and Ziva became best friends.

Opa being silly

Pretending to milk a cow in Intercourse

Relaxing with Oma and the dogs.

Bedtime with her new mask. Zeva laid with Aurora every night until Aurora was asleep.

Face painting and having fun at the children's museum

Gardening with Oma

A visit with Oma and Opa would not be complete without seeing the horses. Even though Tinkerbell no longer lives with Oma's other horses she made it possible for Aurora to spend some time with Tinkerbell.

Tinkerbell

Boomer

Nico

And of course we had to go to the Hershey factory with Oma and Opa

They were tired of me taking pictures

We got to go to the new Turkey Hill Experience and see how they make their ice cream, and sample it.

Opa showing off his new toy.

The last day of summer I took Aurora to the zoo just the two of us.

Orangutans

Feeding the birds

Aurora's 6th birthday party

2011-04-01T20:02:00.000-07:00

We had Aurora's birthday party at a local bowling ally. All of the girls had fun. I made Aurora a peace sign dress, and a peace sign cake. Here is a picture where you can see Aurora's "pink hair" (no it is not really dyed). The girls having fun, and Jay helping them all. Getting ready. Celebrating Aurora's strike! (She bowled I think 104.) The banner and cake.

Opening presents.

First haircut

2011-04-01T19:56:00.000-07:00

Aurora has been asking to get her hair cut. She wanted bangs, so Oma took her to get it cut just before her birthday party.

Here is the final results. She also got a barret with pink hair so she could have a strip of color in her hair without really dying her hair. I did not get a picture of her at the saloon with it in.

Swim lessons

2011-04-01T19:49:00.000-07:00

Aurora started swim lessons on the same day as her birthday party. She loves being in the water. We got her a new swimsuit that of course has peace signs on it. (She is obessed with them right now). Waiting for her class to start.

Hanging out with friends.

Getting in:

Playing with cousins

2011-04-01T19:45:00.000-07:00

Oma came out for Aurora's birthday, and she brought Aurora's cousins over to our house to play. Here are a couple of pictures of the kids playing. Brayden was all about the video games, Aurora played some with him and then went into the bedroom to play with the girls. They have a lot of fun together.

Catching Leprechauns

2011-04-01T19:37:00.000-07:00

For Saint Patrick's Day Aurora made a leprechaun trap to take to school. The principal asked if she and a friend would be on the school news to talk about how to catch a leprechaun. Here is a picture of Aurora at school with her trap and a video of her talking on the news. A leprechaun did fall into her trap but got out. He did leave a note and chocolate coins for all of the kids. (I did not get a picture of the note.)

Cuddle time

2011-02-22T07:48:00.001-08:00

When I had my surgery a few weeks ago, my mom came out to help us out. I forgot I had taken this picture and I just saw it today. Aurora and Oma spent a lot of time together and I love this picture of them cuddling on the couch watching TV. Thank you Mom for coming out to be here with us. We had a great time with you and we miss you.

Bedtime Suprise

2011-02-22T06:56:00.001-08:00

Aurora made our bed for us yesterday. When we got ready for bed we found a note under the
top pillow.

Here is a close up of the note:
It says: Dear mom and dad plaese look under your pillows even the midle love Aurora PS i love you. Those are hearts before and after the ps. She needs to work on her spelling still.
And this is what we found under the pillows:
(one for mom)

(one for dad)

And under the middle we found blow pop minis, we found them after I had put the camera away. Aurora is so sweet.

Here is a picture of her sleeping just because.

Crazy old lady

2011-01-17T18:49:00.001-08:00

Aurora lost two teeth recently. When I blow dry her hair after her showers she makes weird faces in the mirror so she can see the holes. I think it makes her look like a crazy old lady. You can see one of the adult teeth growing in already :( Does she really have to grow up this fast?

Snowman and a snowball fight

2011-01-17T18:18:00.000-08:00

After work today Jay took Aurora outside to build a snowman. She has been asking to build one since it first started snowing, so since it was warmer today (almost 40) they did it.

Once the snowman was built Aurora started a snowball fight. Jay was a good sport to go out in the cold with her. I stayed inside and took the pictures. Isn't that what dads are for?

Snow Day

2011-01-10T15:12:00.001-08:00

We had a snow day today. Aurora went out and played a little. This around 11:30 this morning. It is still snowing and her tracks and the snow angel she made are almost completely filled in already. We tried to make a snowman, but it is just powder and will not stick together enough to make one.

Baby Emmitt and a squirrel

2010-12-12T18:12:00.000-08:00

We had dinner over at my brother's house tonight, and Aurora got to hold her cousin Emmitt. He is so cute and getting big.

Also this afternoon she sat and watched this cute little critter eat right outside our back door.

Aurora's new look

2010-11-29T16:05:00.000-08:00

Aurora's left eye is just a little weaker then the right, and they are hoping glasses can fix it.

Meet Bob

2010-11-25T09:34:00.001-08:00

At the beginning of November Aurora wrote a letter to Santa, asking him if he would send an elf to play with her until Christmas. This morning she came out to find this:

His name is Bob. Santa said he will be with us until Christmas Eve. He is going to help Santa keep an eye on Aurora and let hiim know how she has been. Aurora is excited to have an elf come and stay for awhile.

So far he is doing everything with her.

Ever night he will write in his notebook about how she behaved that day, and he might get into some mischief while she sleeps. I told her she has to clean up any mess he might make, because she asked for him to come.

Gingerbread House

2010-11-25T09:25:00.000-08:00

I am one of the leaders in our ward for the Activity Day Girls. They meet before Jay is off work, so Aurora gets to go with me and join in some of the things the girls do. Last week we decorated gingerbread houses. Here is a picture of Aurora with hers, and then some pictures she took of the house.

November

2010-11-16T20:13:00.001-08:00

I started this month off by turning 30. My sweet husband had roses delivered to my work. Aren't they beautiful?

Aurora just had to have her picture taken with them.

Halloween Festivies

2010-11-16T20:00:00.000-08:00

Jay's work had a Halloween thing at Vala's Pumpkin Patch that we went to. We got to see a show with a pumpkin eating dragon, roast hot dogs and marshmallows (for s'mores), go on a hayride, jump on a giant jumpy thing, pick a pumpkin, and just have fun. There was way more to do then we could have possibly done in one evening, and Aurora was so tired by the time we came home.

The weekend before Halloween Aurora and Jay carved the pumpkin, Aurora still hates to stick her hand in and pull out the pumpkin guts. She does not like the way it feels.

Since Halloween was on a Sunday this year our ward did a Trunk-or-Treat the Saturday before. Aurora was Marie the cat from Aristocats, but people thought she was a lamb, a polar bear, a bunny, and a bunch of other things.

Catch up

2010-11-16T19:36:00.000-08:00

So I have been really bad about updating the blog. Here is a brief update for the end of Sept. - beginning of Oct.

There is an older couple in our ward that has an apple orchard and they love having ward members over to pick the apples. We went with another family in our ward, their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Aurora, for family home evening. Aurora had a lot of fun and we made apple cobbler from all of the apples.

At the beginning of Oct we went to a local educational farm for their annual start of fall festival. Aurora got to hold a chick, ride a pony, and pet a bunch of different animals. There was a lot to look at.

Then Grandma and Grandpa came to visit for a long weekend. We went to the zoo, a Halloween carnival, and the Heartland of America Park. Grandma and Grandpa got lucky to have good weather the whole time they were out.

I do have a lot more picture of all of this stuff, but I did not want to over load the blog with all of them.

Princess

2010-09-25T19:36:00.001-07:00

Aurora went her cousin's birthday party last Friday evening. It was a princess dress up. I did not take any pictures of the party, but her a few of Aurora before we left. I should have taken a picture of the back of her hair, we did it to look like Belle.

Dr. Norlund

2010-09-25T19:31:00.000-07:00

For school last Friday Aurora had to dress up as a community leader, and she chose to be a vet. We found the blouse at the Goodwill and she helped me sew the pockets on to make a lab coat. Then she fixed her turtle's shell, and her dog's leg.

First day of school

2010-08-17T19:57:00.000-07:00

Aurora started kindergarten today. Here are some pictures we took. The first two were taken last night at the back to school night. Today they did not let parents in the classroom, we just dropped them off in front of the classroom.

At home ready to go.

In the car just before we got out.

Her hair from the back

Saturday

2010-08-17T19:49:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to the outlet mall to a end of summer fair that they had. There were a few games. Then we went by the sheriff's thing, and they had a "ride" that shows you what it feels like to crash into a brick wall at 5 mph, Aurora wanted to try it. The officer slowed it down to 3 mph for her. She thought it was fun. Here is a picture of her getting her seatbelt on and a video of her ride.

After the ride she got to side in the back of a cop car.

Sarpy County Fair

2010-08-09T08:17:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to the Sarpy County Fair. It was hot, but we had fun. Aurora loved the petting zoo, and the funnel cake.

Aurora's hair

2010-08-09T07:54:00.000-07:00

Aurora's hair is long enough to do different things with it. We have been trying different styles to see what is fast and easy to do for school. She starts next Tuesday.

Park

2010-08-03T08:24:00.001-07:00

On Saturday we took Aurora to the park to play. She loves going to new parks.

Scriptures

2010-08-03T08:21:00.001-07:00

I was upstairs and Aurora was too quiet downstairs. When I went to check on her this is what I found.

June Update

2010-08-03T08:08:00.001-07:00

I know it has been a while since my last post. So here are a couple of picture highlights of June.
Aurora went on a hike with Jay and they yong men. Here is a picture of her in the car after, it was hot and sticky.

Our ward had a "county fair" for an activity. They wanted everyone to dress country, and then they crowned a queen, king, prince, and princess. Aurora was crowned princess. Here she is with her crown.

Fancy Nancy Party

2010-06-16T07:12:00.000-07:00

Our library had a Fancy Nancy party yesterday. The kids dressed up "fancy". Here are some pictures of Aurora all dressed up.

Wedding weekend

2010-06-01T11:36:00.001-07:00

Aurora and I were able to fly out to San Francisco for Rob's wedding this last weekend. We had a lot of fun. Aurora was a flower girl and did a great job. Here are a bunch of pictures of the wedding and the reception. I tried to keep them in order much as possible.

Aurora

2010-04-25T19:31:00.000-07:00

When did she get to be so big?

Aurora's 5!

2010-03-22T09:10:00.000-07:00

Aurora turned 5 yesterday. Wow the time goes by fast. We took her to Boingz with her cousins on Saturday and then pizza hut. They had a lot of fun.

The Tinkerbell cake I made for her.

This is the dress and doll that Grandma sent her.

Last night before going to bed she told us that she feels 5. She is too funny.

Sledding

2010-02-08T08:30:00.001-08:00

On Saturday Aurora got to go sledding with her cousins. We had a lot of fun playing. Here some pictures from it.

Aurora sledding with Makenna and Brayden

She made Daddy pull her back up the hill.

A sledding train.

Here they go.

And it broke.

The kids resting on their snow pillows.

Aurora and Makenna

Playing in the snow

2010-02-08T08:19:00.001-08:00

Aurora hiding in the snow.

Snow ball fight with Daddy

Building a snowman

We know we are crazy

2010-02-02T08:53:00.000-08:00

We went from this:

To this:

By choice!

Christmas science

2009-12-21T10:43:00.001-08:00

Aurora and I made a crystal tree a few weeks ago. It was cool to see. We used bluing, ammonia, and table salt. It took a few days to grow. Here are some pictures.

These last two were taken the day after the other pictures. Once it got strated it reall took off.

Christmas Tree

2009-12-21T10:28:00.000-08:00

This year we decided to cut down our own tree at a lot just down the road from us. It was fun and Aurora got a baby tree to take home. Here are some pictures from that night.

Jay and Aurora when we first got there.

Aurora with the tree we picked.

Helping Daddy cut the tree.Pushing the tree to the car.

The baby tree.

Here is the finished tree.

2009-11-30T12:27:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Aurora's Solo

2009-11-01T18:08:00.000-08:00

Aurora is singing a solo in the primary program next Sunday. I took a video of her part while they were practicing in the primary room today.

Halloween

2009-11-01T18:05:00.000-08:00

Aurora went trick or treating with her cousin Luke. She got a ton of candy.

Carving Pumpkins and decorating cookies

2009-11-01T17:58:00.001-08:00

Last Monday we carved pumpkins and decorated Halloween cookies for Family Home Evening. Aurora really hated cleaning the "guts" out of her pumpkin. She picked a white one this year. I let her draw the face and then I carved it out for her.

Halloween at the Wild Animal Park

2009-11-01T16:54:00.001-08:00

On the 24th we went to the Wild Animal Park for their Halloween thing. It was OK. They had a few crafts and some trick or treating and some carnival games. Aurora liked it. Here are a few pictures from it. There was a bridge that led over to the games and they had a "troll" under it that scared Aurora at first, because she did not know he was there.

2009-10-07T12:14:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Aurora and I went to the zoo for a little bit. Here are two cute picture I took of her.
This one she was trying to smell the flower.

This is a mother peacock and her three babies that came up to Aurora. All four of them came right un to her.

I let her take the camera and take what ever pictures she wanted to take. Some of them are reall good. It is funny to see what she took pictures of. I put them into a slideshow for anyone who wants to see them.

I could not get the slideshow to post on here so here is the link to it:

http://www.slide.com/r/IBVpFU31zT_d9QWkWez3TA7ilafifCGT?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original

Sewing

2009-09-22T13:56:00.001-07:00

I decided to make myself an apron. I think it turned out OK. I was off on the measurements and it is kind of big, but it will work. The hand towel is removable and I can change it to match the season. I think I like it.

What post would not be complete without a picture or two of Aurora. My mom made her this shawl and I added a snap on it so it will stay closed. I love it and so does Aurora. It is so soft and cuddly.

"Running" through sprinklers

2009-09-02T15:27:00.001-07:00

Twice a week the gardener waters the lawn with a homemade sprinkler system. One of those days is Wednesday. Every Wednesday we go to church for a play group and on the way home Aurora asked to "run" through the sprinklers. She walks up to them and squats in the middle until she is soaking wet. It is funny to watch and she loves it. Here are some pictures of her "running" through the sprinklers

Walking home.

Hair

2009-08-18T08:47:00.000-07:00

Aurora's hair is finally long enough to braid. It is still pretty thin, but she loves to have it braided. She also likes to have pigtails and a ponytail using my hair ties. Here are some pictures of her hair styles.

Trip to Pennsylvania

2009-07-10T07:51:00.000-07:00

So we have been back from our trip for a week now, and I am just posting about it. Something happened to our pictures and I can not access them, Jay is working on it. We had a great time. Aurora got to meet my Oma, who called her self Tic Tac Oma (my mom said clocks say tic tac not tick tock, and great oma is something in germany like hour grandma. So she figured Tic Tac Oma was easier for the kids to say.) Aurora also got to hang out with her cousins who live in Omaha. They hit it off right away and had so much fun. My mom bought Aurora a pony, even let her pick it out. Her name is Tinker Bell, she is so sweet and cute. Aurora was a able to ride her with and without a saddle. We got her from an Amish farmer, and his boys always rode her without. We aslo got a pony cart with her and Oma gave all the kids rides in the cart. Here is a picture of Tinker Bell hitched to the cart with the kids in it ready for a ride. (I "stole" these pics off my sis-in-laws blog. Thanks Melissa. When we get ours working I will post more pictures)

We also got to go to Hershey Park. It was a lot of fun, and it did smell a little like chocolate. Here is Aurora and me on one of the rides, and you can see Opa and Makenna behind us.

Here is a picture of the three girls in dresses that I made for them. The girls are so cute, aren't they.

Here is a picture at a farmers market. From left to right it is: Breille (the little one by the stroller), Tic Tac Oma, Oma, Makenna, Aurora, Brayden, and Melissa. Kevin and I were both taking pictures of them.

Thanks again Mom and Dad for having us. We really had a great time. Hopefully Jay will be able to get the other pictures working and I will be able to post them.

Happy Father's Day

2009-06-21T14:49:00.000-07:00

Happy Father's Day!! Here is Aurora's song about her daddy.

Aurora's final dance performance

2009-06-19T16:02:00.000-07:00

Aurora had her final performance today. It was at the Del Mar Fair. There were only 4 girls on stage (a fifth was there but she would not go near the stage). Aurora was great, and she had so much fun. She loves to be on stage in front of people. Here is a picture of her and her teachers, and one with her sitting with some other performers waiting for her turn.

Enjoy the videos. It is the same dances as last time, but I think she did better. Last time thought he performance in genral looked better because there were more girls.

Here is Aurora and Sissa after the performance.

After she was done we walked around a little and Aurora won a tadpole and Sissa won her a goldfish. The tadpole's name is Taddy and the goldfish is Beauty. Now Aurora has pets.

Pics from dino mountain

2009-06-16T19:18:00.001-07:00

Here are some more pictures from Dino Mountain. Close ups of the dinos, including the T-Rex that is in the picture of me and Aurora.

What does not belong in this picture?

2009-06-14T22:13:00.000-07:00

Aurora's first dance recital

2009-06-01T10:35:00.000-07:00

Aurora had her first dance recital last Saturday. She had so much fun. Here are the videos from it.

Helping Daddy

2009-05-26T14:32:00.001-07:00

A couple of weeks ago we got a new storage unit for our dvds. Jay was putting it together and Aurora got her hammer so she could help. She did a very good job.

Our Garden

2009-05-15T12:10:00.001-07:00

So I decided I did not like the plant that was in front of my apartment and my neighbor did not care what I did to it. So I ripped out the ground cover plant that was there and planted some new plants. Here are the before, during and after pictures. Aurora had a lot of fun helping.

Pictures at the Park

2009-05-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

We found a really cute, and shady park the the street from our new place. We went there last Monday to play and take some pictures. These are my favorites that we took.

The finished product

2009-05-13T08:11:00.000-07:00

Here is a close up picture of the finished planter box.