Winner!

And our winner is: Jamie of Thayne 6.

It was Mini Soda- or Minnesota. Yes that was a lake in the middle of our ring of mini sodas, because Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes. And it did have fish in it. We made the lake out of soda and put Swedish fish inside. The ribbon was representing the state flower, Ladies Slipper, which is pink and white.

This little guy, along with a bunch of gorgeous ribbon is on it's way to Jamie. See, Morgan, you didn't want to win anyway! LOL

There is a prize in it for you!

That's right! For the first person to guess correctly what state Sam did a center piece for Blue and Gold! (All the Cubscouts got a state and had to come up with a center piece for a table. Then we guessed what each state was.) Here is the picture of the center piece. Leave your guess and I will let you know soon what it was.

Just in Case

Just in case I let the cat out of the bag too early- I do that with my kids all the time! We aren't going to Hawaii until June. We are just very excited!!

Getting ready for Hawaii

We are getting our goggles on and getting ready! We are so excited to see all Rob's side cousins and our Mr. Scott and Ms. Jodi!

SPT- Eights

Since Rob has gotten home from Iraq, I haven't done much blogging period and definitely haven't taken the time to do an SPT. I decided to try it out again this week. This month is all about how 8 is great, mostly because Lelly's boy turned 8 this month. So here is my picture-
I finally dealt with all the crazy falling off sticker labels on my photo albums. I made labels with my Memory makers label maker and rub-ons and then secured them with ribbon. They look much better now- don't you think?!
PS. My self portrait only involves my thumb this time- have to jump back in slowly!
PPS. Do you see the '08 in a couple of the labels?

Sunday Traditions

Picture is actually from Dec 07

My favorite Sunday tradition: Snuggling in bed!
Sunday, none of us have to get up early to do anything, so instead whenever you wake up, you come and jump into Mom and Dad's bed and snuggle. Lots of rubbing, kicking, fighting for prime positions, and a few discussions of important matters like why your belly button is so deep, your elbows so pointy and why it's important to wait for just the right thing/time. Mom generally is the first to flee the queen sized bed filled with 6 individuals, but we all enjoy it for a short moment! Too bad that we forgot to turn our clocks forward an hour before we went to bed this Sunday. Snuggling lasted too long and we were a little late for church!

We were not prepared

You hear those words coming from news casters all the time and then they state how many people died because of the cold frost that blew in to the region over night. No, for us, it just meant we couldn't show our children how to sled properly. We took them to a golf course that isn't quite finished in the area, but all we had with us was one big Tupperware container lid and one tube with a hole in it. This is what happens when you get snow in March in Virginia and are unprepared!