Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Paper Hats for FHE...


Two of our favorite people (pictured above) Kurt and Bonnie came to join us for Family Home Evening. They were in charge of the activity, and they decided we should make paper hats. We had so much fun!!!
The finished products (and many silly faces)

Ice, Snow, No School, No Power and a Platypus

The Criddle Family gave us tickets to see Phineas and Ferb at the Showare Center for Christmas. It was so much fun!

Which one is Perry?

"Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman. Once there was a snowman tall, tall, tall. In the sun he mountain, mountain, mountain. In the sun he mountain, small, small, small" - Jaron



We let Jack take the leash on the dog for a bit....it didn't turn out so well:
My angels making snow angels :)
Enjoying a snow day!


Saturday, January 7, 2012

The Architect....


Jack - our Architect in training, received a giant bucket of Legos for Christmas (Thanks Brian!). Since then he has been building many different creations. We take pictures of them and then we have battles :) He asked me to post some so he could show people some of the things he has done. Here are a few that I was able to capture before they were put away.

This is a park. You will notice the police station where someone is sleeping on the job. He also created a fountain in the middle that rotates, and a mail box with actual mail inside. He has a story that goes with every piece of the park.

This is a pizza place - with delivery man heading out the door. The yellow diving board looking thing in the back is the oven where the pizza comes out on a conveyor belt.

This is a a public park...I can't remember all the details.

We build a lot of ships. Mostly they are pirate type ships and then we battle using a dice so no ones creations actually get destroyed. These planes are some that Dad and Jack created together.

Jack is a pretty creative kid. I hope he sticks to the Architect idea - he definitely has the mind for it.

Christmas Catchup

Christmas 2011 was awesome at the Sampson household. Renton city has a lights display called "Clam Lights" down by Lake Washington. It's a little weird, but pretty fun. We ended the night with some hot chocolate and marshmallows...yummm....

In preparation for the day we made some gingerbread houses and sugar cookies. Olivia came over and helped make the sugar cookies - it was a big mess, but a lot of fun.

On Christmas Eve the Battys and the Sampsons joined us for our Christmas Eve party which included a Penguin Piniata....


Here they are Christmas Morning:




The day after Christmas we went over to Sampsons for a party. It was so much fun. The adults played a game called "Hedbanz" which I would totally recommend.