Spring Break

What are you doing for Spring Break?  Here are some quotes & photos to get your day started...

Yoda,"Why do books live at the library?"


Mimi on the way home from school, "my back is full of school!"

We had visitors!

 

Video by Parker and Quotes by Yoda

Parker (speaking for the alien that is holding a creeper), "My creeper...not yours...you can't steal it...or I will go range-mode on you...clear?...good..."

After he made the video, "is that blog worthy?"
How could I say no?
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Yoda, "When I'm a dad I can eat thousands of hamburgers!"
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Me, "I'm so tired"
Yoda, "Sleepyhead"
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Yoda, "I'm exhausted"
Me, "then go to bed"
Yoda, "What does exhausted mean?"

Mimi got baptized

Blanket

Yoda woke up in the middle of the night because he lost his blanket
So he hit himself in the head *facepalm*
Me, "don't hit your head."
Yoda, "I like to hit my head when I lost things."
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Yoda, "When I'm in the water they get bumpy."
Me, "What gets bumpy?"
Yoda, "My fingers!"

Mimi's jokes

Mimi, "How does a cow get home in the dark?"
Yoda, "I don't know."
Mimi, "By the Milky Way!"
Ha Ha!


Later

Mimi, "How does a cow get home in the daytime?"
Yoda, "They just sees it?"

Mimi turned 8! 

A little something

Yoda sitting next to me at church noticed my pantyhose, "Are those BIG socks?"
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Yoda chewing gum and nervous about swallowing it, "but can I drink the gum juice?"
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Mimi was sick for a few days and had to stay home from school.  But as soon as the Tylenol would take effect, she was super energetic again.  I caught her rocking out to this song at a good moment.

Winter Activites

This is a rough winter.  But I'll say this now while in the middle of it... I'd rather have a rough winter then a crazy hot summer.  

Of course, I don't enjoy being trapped in the house for any reason.  Somehow if it's snow, wind and freaking cold air trapping us in the house, I'm less sad about it.   6 months from now the sun will be shinning, the grass will be green and we'll be trapped in the house because it so absurdly hot outside.

So the things we have been doing to keep sane...

 Mimi's selfie with her doll and bracelets she has made. 

 Testing out the easy bake oven.

 Of course sledding in the front yard. 

 And a mush snow man.  A few days after she made this she marveled that it was still standing.  "I don't know how he does it!" 

 Bathtub bubble beard. 

 Yu-gi-oh dueling. 

 Puzzles. 

Baking cookies and general silliness.

Parker plays the Cello

 Parker started Cello this Fall and loves it.  

This was the first concert of the year, after just a few months of learning. 

 By the end of the night Mimi was pretty tired! 

Yoda playing his "invisible Cello"

Pretzels

After a recent hair cut...

Me, "you're hair looks great!"
Mimi, "Yeah, but it looks a little normal..."
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Yoda, "My pretzel is a guy!  He has no head."  He was laughing pretty hard. 

Today's Temperature...

Yikes! 

Playing with some of our Christmas Presents

 Joke Teeth! 

 Mimi, "I love the Gibby Volcano!"

Slippers!  

And a video of the Volcano Eruption....

A few unexpected things of 2013....

 

At this time last year I thought I would make a list of things I wanted to do and make happen in 2013,
I did none of them....
that's ok, because I did a bunch of other good things! 


(Does your family do this?  Put a knife in the doughnut box?  Greg laughs, he knows a Dickerson is around when he sees a knife in the box.... )

One thing I thought I wouldn't do was to go to NJ.  Um, I went like 4 times!  I love NJ so this was a good thing.  My sister Tina flew to Ohio from Colorado and drove with me to meet up with our big sisters in New Jersey.  It was a fantastic weekend.  Of course there were mom's sugar cookies involved!  My sister Jill had her baby shower and we had LOTS of silly fun.  

 

 The kiddos won a day of rock climbing, so Greg took them all one day.  Parker loved falling over and over.  

Greg got some new tools and started building some furniture.  

The first thing he made was a book shelf.  It's now in Yoda's bedroom and is well loved!

He made this shelf while I was SO sick with strep and the kiddos just helped along the way. 

Greg made a trundle bed to tuck under the bed in Yoda's bedroom.   

Greg also made this cool custom table.  I made up the design based on a photo in a magazine.  It's my favorite so far.

 I told Greg a few years ago, either he gets on-board with me painting the brick of the fireplace, or he figures out how to build a surround.  This year he built a surround.  The brick will now stay paint free. 

 

He built boxes and screwed them to the wall.  Then he built shelves and put them on top of the boxes.  The best part is he put a mantle on top of the brick.  It hides the ugly holes that someone drilled into the brick (not me!)

This year our little car turned over 100,000 miles.  So crazy!


Another thing that happened is that I saw my mom and dad way more then anyone expected :)  They were here, we were there.  It was very fun! 





I finally found and refinished a new kitchen table.  I've wanted a trestle table forever, but couldn't find the right one until this year!

No I just need to decide on the chairs...

 Every now and then Greg comes home with a black eye or different bruises from boxing.  Not expected...

We got weird carrots this year.  I need to re-think the garden...

I found this stool at a tag sale in Providence like 10 years ago.  I redid it and it looked awesome.  Then I abused it and it needed another redo.  This year I finally gave it a good cleaning!

My sewing area got an upgrade!  I've been looking for YEARS for the right sewing table and I found one for 65 bucks.  I was sad it was so much more then I wanted to spend, but I had waited so long I couldn't stop myself!  

It's a singer so I took out the old machine and put in my awesome one.  It fit perfectly! I also gave it a good scrubbing and a paint job.  The wood could not be saved.  While I was at it I painted this little chair that I think I got like 20 years ago.  It's been about 4 or 5 different colors since I bought it for $2 at a church rummage sale in NJ in high school.  I think I finally got it right.  The faux snake-skin is the best! 

I learned how to make really good omelet.  Why did I not know this before?

Our first time with Poison Ivy.  I can't believe it's taken this long! 

I mentioned earlier that we went to my sister's wedding in Colorado.  ALL of us.  The plane rides went better then I worried about.  The whole thing was really wonderful! 

While I was on my trip my mom showed me how her mom used to entertain the children during church.  She would fold her hanky into all sorts of shapes.  This one is "two twin babies".  I remember learning this when I was little too, it was fun to remember :) 


I don't know what to expect from 2014....