Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Fun We've Had




These past two weeks have been great fun. Not only were Grandma and Papi Frost here for Valentine's Day, Sarah and Phil Rogers paid a visit the next weekend from Australia. In between, Cosette learned how to downhill ski and wants to take it up as a hobby.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Valentine's Weekend

The weekend started with a Valentine party in Cosette's kindergarten class.
Grandma and Poppi came for the weekend, their annual President's Day tradition.
We enjoyed playing the Wii, even Mom!!
We were sad to see them go.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tonka and Truck

Track your order with Wood Delivery Service WDS.

The packages arrived at the Pocatello site at 7:36pm.
Below you will find Tonka (the black one) and Truck (the other black one).
All three packages ship out tomorrow morning around 10:30am pending favorable road conditions.
Don't worry the vehicle they will be traveling in is much larger and can handle the driver as well. For now they are kept safe in our industrial bedding.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Knock Knock Jokes


This is Ethan doing what he does best. If you get him started he will not stop...EVER.
Transcript:
Ethan - Knock Knock
Rob - Who's there?
Ethan - Water
Rob - Water who?
Ethan - (Water) you standing outside for? Come in.

Next Joke:
Ethan - Knock knock
Rob - Who's there?
Ethan - Boo
Rob - Boo Who?
Ethan - Cry Joke (Don't cry its just a joke.)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

California...

Ethan getting a free ride down the hill.
Christmas at Gma & Popi's house.
The Frost grandkids with their great grandkids.
Mom teaching Cosette and Isaac how to play marbles. Afterward, they counted them. Mom still has about 2,000 marbles in her collection.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Morning


We are building traditions at the Wood family. This is the first year we spent Christmas alone at our own home. Some of the traditions we have started are
1. Reading a childrens version of the birth of Christ before bedtime.
2. Tracking Santa with the NORAD "Google Earth" internet site.
3. Baking cookies and placing them on a special plate for Santa
Placing the cookies with a glass of milk by the couch for Santa to rest and snack

4. Once the kids were fast asleep Emma and Rob found themselves cuddling in front of a beautiful fire watching "The Three Tenors" sing Christmas songs on TV.

Santa came in the night and ate most of the cookies and drank all of the milk.
The kids were THRILLED to see he had come.

5. When Emma and Rob knew Santa had come, they placed wrapping paper up in the hall to prevent the kids from going in prematurely. They woke up at 6:15am and all together tore down the paper.


This is the sight they saw first, then found their stockings full of toys and candy on the couch.

Spending Christmas together developing traditions and lasting memories in our house was wonderful and more fun than we could have imagined. The kids have been so wonderful with each other and we have had the chance to relax and reflect on the reason for the season.
MERRY CHRISTMAS

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Pre-Christmas Fun

Emma and Rob had the wonderful opportunity to have a short but long awaited vacation. School finished up and we were exhausted. We were able to leave Cosette at a friend's for a few days while Grandpa Wood cared for Isaac and Ethan. He did a wonderful job and we are indebted to him and Darlene. Below is a picture of the boys at Grandpa Wood's

The week before Christmas Rob took off so have some festive fun. We all took a road trip to Salt Lake City. On the way we stopped to see some friends, the Woll's, both families had fun for a few hours. After that we went to temple square to view the lights. OUCH it was cold!

We attempted several times to get 3 wonderfully crazy kids to look in one direction. This was the best we got.How can we ignore the beauty?

This may become a tradition.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Knock Knock

Thanksgiving was nice with Ken and Darlene Wood. The food was great. We just finished the leftovers.
Decorating for Christmas. We don't waste much time changing holiday decor. This was done the day after Thanksgiving.
We invited our friends, the Clayson's, over for dinner and a movie. We watched the Polar Express. Here are our 6 kids hanging out together.


Isaac and Ethan love to trade knock-knock jokes.


Thursday, December 3, 2009

Turkey Time

Where did the month of November go? Ethan's birthday was November 3rd, and today is December 3rd. What happened?Ethan decided his truck would taste better with peanut butter on it.
Isaac loves preschool. If you ask him whether he has school or not, he says, "No! Preschool!"
Here's Isaac's fantastic potato turkey with toothpicks. Colored marshmallows were supposed to be the feathers, but he ate the marshmallows faster than he could put them on the toothpicks.
Ethan had a late nap this day. While Emma was working on school stuff, Ethan entertained himself by stacking drink mix containers and jello boxes.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Happy Birthday Ethan

Ethan's birthday was November 3 It was a lot of fun. Cosette and Isaac put together a "red carpet" of sorts from all the blankets and pillows in the house. it goes all the way down the hall.
If you can't tell Emma made cake balls for Ethan's birthday Hurray he is 2 years old. No party, just US for the night.
Ethan got a few gifts but this one was Rob's favorite.
Here is another look at Cake Balls. They are like lollipops on a stick. In a few pictures you may notice Ethan is not wearing a diaper... he has decided to be potty trained and does exceptionally well for a 2 year old. Underwear was his choice.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Hurray for Candy!

Halloween treats from Grandma
This is Halloween morning. Rob was trying on some old masks and Ethan just had to wear one with his bat costume of course. they wore their costumes ALL DAY.
So who is the one in the middle? This picture was taken as we were leaving to knock on doors all the way down to the church, then "trunk-or-treat" at the church, then knock the opposite side of the street on the way back.
Oh my goodness look at all that candy. Just looking at it is making my tummy hurt. How are we ever going to stop ourselves from getting sick everyday till it is gone?

So this is Halloween night. After all the fun was over the kids sat on the front porch and gave candy to all the "older" kids who came knocking. We closed shop at around 8:30pm. See our tree in the front yard? It is wrapped in orange lights.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

It's almost Halloween!

It's the week before Halloween and time to carve up the "punkins" Notice the look on Ethans face.. "ewww".
Rob helped Cosette and Ethan while Emma helped the wild one (Isaac).
Here is the finished product, nothing fancy like the last few years, just normal faces but tons of fun.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

3 Peas in a Pod

This is Ethan... SO CUTE! He is wearing his bat costume. Halloween was still weeks away.
All three hanging out in a box. What shall we do with them? Ship them to CA or TX?
Not sure what Cosette is doing here... playing dress-up I am sure.

Fall has arrived and hence all the leaves have fallen. Remember the days when we played in leaves?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

It's October!

Isaac is very proud of his work he does in preschool. He's such a big boy. Of course he would not be Isaac without a dirty face.

Slumber-party in Cosette's room. Occasionally we let them sleep in the others room. Most of the time they do not sleep and end up going back to their own room. This night they all fell asleep.

Watching a Disc Golf course be set up in the backyard. We always wanted to live on a golf course. Emma doesn't like the foot traffic but Rob doesn't think it is so bad.

Kid Wisdom

  • 6.9.15 (Sitting in Emma's office writing a string of abc's) Mom: You have to put a tail on the "u". S: You doesn't have a tail, Reesy has a tail.
  • 6.8.15 Isaac: You know, the grass-watering hose thing? Ethan: You mean sprinkler? Isaac: Yes, the sprinkler.
  • 4.1.15 S: I not sleepy {yawn}. Emma: You just yawned. S: What's "yawn" mean? Emma: That you're sleepy. S: I not sleepy!