Leane Rimes

Last night was the Leane Rimes concert. We have this brand new arena here in town and it is just beautiful. This was the first "big name" concert so it attracted a lot of people. It was pretty fun. We had some friends of us hook us up with some tickets and we sat fairly close to the stage. She put on a great concert!

Sunday already??? What a week. Monday was a holiday so the kids and I went to the play gym. It has been quite awhile since we have done this. I think they really enjoyed it. I pretty much didn't see the older two the whole time, they were too busy running around. Cate and I hung out mostly on the swing. She was a little unsure of all the chaos. The rest of the week consisted of my hubby working a TON of overtime so I got to play single mom. I had some help (thanks grandparents!) and for that I am always so grateful for. Weeks like this make me appreciate my husband. I don't realize how much he pitches in at home until he is not around! WOW!

So he was off making me some good money so I of course got to work spending it for him. We are going to Vegas baby!! I am super excited. It is our first time to Las Vegas. I am not exactly sure what we are going to do when we get there, probably a little of everything. We are going with another couple so it should be lots of fun.

Anyways, I better run. It is my long work week. I am sick. My voice is shot and I am tired and cranky!

When a 4 year old gets ahold of the video camera....

How can one little boy melt my heart so?

To help set the scene. It has been a busy day. Kids were screaming, wild and a bit needy. To top it off I had an extra kid as well. Emilee had a play date. I spent the day cleaning. Before I know it the clock says 4:40, I am suppose to be ready for dinner with my hubby by 5:00. I rush to get ready. I scramble out the door to the Eric and the kids awaiting in the truck. I plop inside and hear.....

"Oh mommy, you look so beautiful tonight".

Eric assured me he didn't set him up to say that, and then my heart melted.

My New Flip!

I don't think I have shared about my new Christmas present. Eric bought me this adorable digital camcorder. It is so small and cute, and better yet... simple to use. I have had it for a week or so and haven't really had anything to record but I just couldn't wait any longer to post a video so we played around and made a couple of goofy videos. Enjoy!

Introduction of a BIG GIRL BED!

"What did you do to my crib?"

"I am not to sure about this mom!"

"Okay, maybe this isn't so bad"

"Wait! Your going to leave me in here?"

"Forget this! I'm out of here"

" I dare you to stop me."

"I WANT MY CRIB BACK!!!!!"

Great story?? Maybe the first time, but by the third or fourth time I was having serious doubts about making the transition from crib to big girl bed. She did just fine though. Finally fell asleep, never fell out and all it fine today. Well... I did wake up at 6:15 AM to this horrible sound of something pounding. I asked Eric to go check on the mystery noise. It was my little angel pounding on her door! Next step, explaining the concept of SLEEPING IN on the weekends.

Happy New Years!

We are back from Idaho! The already long 4 hour trip turned into a even longer, more miserable 7 hour drive due to snow. It was a terrible trip home. Very strong gust of wind blowing snow over the roadway. It was crazy! It is good to be home.

Winter Wonderland

Sunday afternoon at the Wentworth's. Eric and the girls spent the morning running around town looking for Rockband for the Wii, no luck but I think we tracked one down in Idaho, (that will have to be another post,another day), Cody went to church with Grandpa and I got a little sleep. After I woke up the kids and I ventured out into the backyard in hopes of building the perfect snowman. The snow wasn't right for for snowman but we had a good time anyways. We had a snowball fight and made some snow angels. The kids lasted for a bit longer than I thought they would in the cold and then we headed indoors for a cup of warm cocoa. Next it was off to the horse stables to care for Scotch. It was too cold to ride so we just loved on him a bit. The kids wanted to go out to eat so they picked....Denny's. I was under the impression you had to be at least 65 to eat at Denny's but I was pleasantly surprised. It was pretty tasty and very inexpensive. We may go back!! (Kids eat free on Tuesdays) Then it was off to home for bedtime, well for most. I headed off to work for a long, boring night with NOTHING going on. One more night of work and then I get a week off!!!

It's the day after Christmas. The kids are hyped up. Bouncing from one new toy to the next. There is wrapping, and packaging thrown all about. There are toys to be assembled and batteries to be installed. It was a great Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve with Eric's mom and Christmas morning with my parents. We had a lovely meal yesterday afternoon and then we all CRASHED! Today we are off to make a few returns and hopefully find some Christmas lights on sale!!!

What a fun day!!!! For most....

While I was snuggled warm in my bed with dreams of sugar plums dancing in my head, the kids were off having fun, without me! How can it be???
Emilee spent the day with my dear co-worker who graciously offered to watch her while I slept. She showed Emilee a great time. I could barely get her to leave. She went sledding!!! I was totally jealous. She went on and on about how much fun she had. I was pretty happy for her. Now I just HAVE to go, I am sure Cody would love it also. I have been waiting for warmer weather and I hear there may be some in our future. We will see!

Not only did she get to go sledding but she had a tea party, and made Christmas cookies. Lucky girl!

Cody and Caitlyn also had a pretty special day. They had a Christmas party at daycare. The kids all brought gifts to exchange. Then a very special visitor showed up......

Santa came to daycare!!! Those lucky kids. As busy as the big guy is he found time to visit a daycare. What a guy!!!!

We came home and ate dinner and gave the kids a bath, it was 6:30 and Emilee was ASKING to go to bed! That is a sign of a productive day.

Photo credit: Flickr.com

The excitement of Christmas being just days away has set upon the Wentworth household. The kids are bouncing off the walls! They are excited for Santa, they are excited about the snow and they are overloaded on sugar. I am a bit excited too I will admit but I do have one little wish! Warmer weather. Double digits would be nice, it's not asking a lot. Just warm enough so I can throw my kids in the back yard and enjoy a cup of coffee in PEACE AND QUITE!

Alright a quick weekend update... It was my long weekend. Yeah! I worked a short overtime shift Friday night. It was cold and snowy so there wasn't much going on so I was able to finish a book I have been reading. It was great, check it out! (Thanks RV for letting me borrow it)

A friend of mine did my hair for me. I went with RED! I have been every other color so I thought, why not??? It took me a couple of days to get used to it but I like it. Thanks Molly!

In exchange for the new do, I offered to take Molly's family pictures. What a great family! They were fun to photograph. Being much older kids I was surprised they were as willing to participate. They had a great attitude and I think they turned out pretty good.

Eric had his co-workers over Saturday night for a little Christmas party. That was fun! Great group of guys and lovely significant others! We had a great time. The kids got to have a sleepover so they were thrilled. The girls went to Grandma Cheryl's. Emilee went on and on about how much fun she had, so thanks Cheryl! Cody spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa Hendricks. He is so funny. Grandpa picks him up for church every Sunday and he didn't want to miss out on that so he decided to stay there instead of with the girls. Note to self, buy that kid a new shirt! He wears that one EVERY week!!!! Other than that, we got a lot of snow!! It is beautiful. Very cold but beautiful. We drove the kids around to look at lights. The local paper has a list of what they say are the best in the valley. I would have to disagree with some of their choices but some were very impressive. It gave us a few ideas of how to step it up on our light display and maybe we will be in the running here in the next year or two!

That's about it. I better go. Emilee is home from school. She is wanting to do a little craft. See ya'll.

Christmas Video 2008

Back by popular demand, well basically for you dad! Here it is the Christmas video for 2008.

Parsely Family Photos

Two photo shoots in one week! I am loving this. Check out this adorable couple!!