Clifford the "Fire" Man

So I woke up this morning to Clifford saying "sorry mom". And he showed me where he had started a fire next to my side of the bed. The fire was already put out with supposedly Clifford using one of my comforters to put it out (though I haven't found the spots yet). The smoke smelt awful-i opened up all the windows in the house. I haven't cleaned up the mess yet because I want Pete to see it, but from the looks of it, there's multiple burn spots on the carpet. From what I can gather, Clifford got into Pete's camping stuff (which Pete left out, yet again). Inside were a small box of matches. Clifford used those matches to torch my magazine I had on the floor. I swear-I never know what I'm going to wake up to each morning with my kids.

The Other Nielsens

Late Sunday night/Early Monday morning, Pete picked up his brother Eric, wife Jessica and the cutest little boy (other than ours) William from Sea-Tac. They're visiting from Hawaii for xmas. The boys had fun the next morning playing with their cousin William.

Visiting Mrs. Claus

The boys went and visited Mrs. Claus and some delicious cookies with her last weekend. When Mrs. Claus asked the boys if they're excited for xmas, Clifford responded to her reciting his xmas toy wish list. It was lots of fun.

Some Xmas Fun

Last night for Family Home Evening, we put together a gingerbread house kit that Aunt Janet gave as a gift. It was tons of fun. Pete was the "architect", Sarah was the "designer", and the boys over saw everything while eating the candy that came in the kit. Luckily, they left enough to decorate the house with. For it being the first time the four of us has ever put a gingerbread house together, it turned out pretty good. We're also completely done decorating the house for xmas and have our tree up. Gifts have been bought, wrapped and shipped off to the appropriate family. And xmas cards will be completed tonight. All I need to do now is relax until it's time to bake and the start of the enjoyable chaos that comes with visiting all our family this holiday season. 'tis the season!!!

Turkey Day '08

Turkey Day this year was a blast. We went to Pete's Aunt Janet's house. More of his family (uncles/cousins) were there as well. It was great to see everyone and to spend time with them. The boys made themselves right at home with everyone. The food was yummy, of course. However, I was the highlight of the night-dropping my whole plate of food just right after I dished it up on Aunt Janet's white carpet!!! All I could do was look down at my mess with my mouth gaping wide open. Luckily, the dogs there did a wonderful job cleaning up for me. Clifford and Kristjan sat at one of the tables with daddy and Aunt Janet. The boys had tons of fun with Aunt Janet, with her making them laugh and joking around. Pete said that Clifford wasn't eating, so Clifford decided he wanted Aunt Janet to feed him, which she did a bit. And Kristjan was a flirt with Franny and Tara. He also joked around with Michael and Uncle Tom. It was all around a great thanksgiving and look forward to spending more holidays there with the family.

Meadowdale Park

Yesterday we took a mini family trip to the beach. We hiked in to the beach (about a mile long). The boys were troupers. We saw some fish trying to swim upstream while on the trail. Daddy and Clifford thought it would be funny to scare mommy and Kristjan by hiding behind a tree and jump out at us. Once we got to the beach, it was beautiful. We looked for shells, had some lunch, and hung out. It was very refreshing.

Clifford's Projects From Preschool

Clifford has been enjoying going to preschool. He has lots of fun playing with all his new friends and making awesome projects to bring home. Here are some pics of his cool projects

Halloween 2008

We had so much fun this Halloween. The boys helped us carve 4 pumpkins. We also baked and decorated some fun pumpkin sugar cookies.  The day before Halloween, our ward had their Trunk-or-Treat. The boys looked awesome in their Halloween costumes. Clifford was a vampire-with all the fixings, including fake blood. Kristjan was a devil. At first, Pete just sprayed him down with hair color-hair and face. But that kept wiping off. So we made a stop on our way to the church to pick up some face paint. So Pete gave Kristjan a new "devil make over", which looked awesome. The guys at the church were coming up to us asking if he was a devil or baby HellBoy. Our boys were the spookiest kids dressed up there. And we had lots of fun going around for Trunk-or-Treat. The boys are getting older now to realize what Halloween is about. After a few cars, they're like "wow, we get candy for doing this?!"