Santa Claus is coming to town!

This is a video of Olivias Preschool Christmas Program. Enjoy! Merry Christmas to all! Love, the Miner Family

I have been pinned!

Thats right, Isaac got his bobcat the other night! He is so excited to have something on his shirt. Its funny how self concious he was with nothing on there. But now he is official, earned his first rank. (is that the right word?) Anway, I am so proud! They stopped doing the whole hang the kid upside down stuff since I've gone to scouting stuff. Apparently too many kids were dropped on their heads. Anyway, YAY ISAAC! I am so proud...

This ones for you Dad!

"Its not for eatin' its just for lookin' through."
The Outlaw Josey Wales

Cutest thing I've ever seen!

Olivia had her dancing debut tonight! I am sorry if its kinda blurry, I couldn't get it to focus anymore than this. I know they all look the same, but Liv is the one just to the left of the girl waving like crazy at the beginning. Anyway, it was so precious! I kept laughing so the video is shakey, but my heart just wanted to burst I was so proud of her and she looked so stinkin' cute! And she had a blast too! I have to pry her off my leg when we go to nursery (toys, treats, friends galor) and put her on a stage in front of hundreds of people?! Piece of cake! If you enjoy this video 1/10th as much as I did, I will be happy!

Letter Boxing

Okay, so those who follow Lisas blog, already know about letter boxing, but she got us hooked too! My kids think it is "totally awesome" to go look for treasure all over our cute little town of Cedar City. We found our first one at the lighthouse in Providence Center. Its such a fun thing to do with the family! Figuring out clues, finding it together, it was a really fun time. There are still 5 more in our area to discover. The best part was that the kids were having me blast the intro song to pirates of the carribean in the car on the way there because they felt like pirates finding treasure! Cute kids.

More bows!

So my friend gave me a tutorial on how to make bows. I pretty much just looked at the pictures and copied. I think they turned out pretty stinkin' cute though! I am thinking about making and selling them. Hmm... What do you think? I also love the flower ones and they are fun to make too.

Twilight...

Oh yes, the day finally arrived and me and some girl friends got to go see Twilight on opening night! We were as giddy as on Christmas morning! How emberassing right? Not a chance! The movie was good. Bella was kinda dry, but besides that I think they did a really good job with keeping with the story and everything.

And something awesome on the side, parts of it was filmed in my hometown of Vernonia Oregon! Crazy huh! The scenes where she is just arriving in Forks for the first time in her dads cop car and also the scene of the attack in the boat and the police station that followed. Both Vernonia! Crazy small world. I did totally think of Vernonia whenever she was discribing Forks, it sounded identical to me! And apparently they thought so too!

Anway, it was a lot of fun, in the movie theatre lobby , they had a gazebo set up that looked like the one from the prom in the movie, so we had to take our picture. :) I know we're dorks, but we know how to have a good time!

Logans 6th birthday!

Logan had his batman birthday party today! It was a lot of fun. I made batman capes for each child with some $1 fabric from walmart, they had some "bats" in a blanket, (lil' smokies in a crescent roll) had a scavenger hunt for their gift bags, (Joker had stolent them!) pined the face on batman, played a game called "bat collector" where they each had 3 batman carstock cutouts on their backs, then they had 1 minute to get as many as they could 'collecting' them off others backs. It sounds kinda lame, but it was hillarious! I highly recomend it. We all had a lot of fun! Logan got a lot of fun toys and a good time was had by all. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN!!!

PS Amy, if you are reading this, send me an invitation so I can see your blog too! My email is apeface98@gmail.com.

Carving pumpkins!

I know, I know, halloweens over, but I never got around to posting our awesome pumpkins! So this will be a quick one. From Left to Right: Kailey with her cute pumpkin, Olivia with her Tinkerbell pumpkin, Logan with his Hulk pumpkin, and Isaac with his very scary pumpkin!

Halloween Party!

Well we had a halloweens party at our house, and we had tons of people and fun! It is crazy how big our family is when we all get together! Good times. The decorations were great (thanks to Lisa!) and the company was great too! There were some very silly costumes! I loved Soleil and Trents Thing 1 and Thing 2 from cat in the hat! So funny.

also theres a pic of me and the kids (including lots of cousins!) trick or treating. Fun city!

Isaac's Baptism

Isaac got baptized on Saturday. It was such a wonderful special experience! It was so great to have our family be there, you don't know how much it meant to us! Isaac is such a sweet loving boy and it has been such a blessing watching him grow into a young man. (sheesh, hes only 8, but he seems so big!). Jacob did a beautiful job on the baptism and confermation, it was an emotional experience, I was already crying during the first line of the opening song! I am so grateful to have the priesthood in our home and to have the knowledge of the true gospel. And I am so grateful for loving and supportive friends and family. Thanks to you all for being such good examples in our lives. We love you!

Leo Lionni

This is one of my favorite childrens authors! I love his simple sweet stories that bring self confience and happiness in being who you are and to be content and happy with the world and to realize how wonderful of a place it is with you in it. I just had to give a shout out for him because I think he's great. His artwork is wonderful. He is a calcot winner and the art in Pezzittino is so simplistic and amazing. We just checked out Pezzittiono from the library (don't even get me started on how much I love the library! We are faithful visitors who go every saturday! What a wonderful resource!) Anyway, just to give you a taste, I will tell you the summary at the beginning of Pezzittino: Little Pezzettino is so small he is convinced he must be a piece of somebody else. A wise man helps him discover the truth.
Anyway, go to your local library and enjoy!

Fall Family Fotoshoot...

We got our pictures done yesterday! They turned out so cute! Go check them out at http://winkfotos.blogspot.com/ Thanks Emily you did such a good job and it was a lot of fun!

only 6 weeks...

So Isaac has only been playing piano for 6 weeks now, and he can already play this! I am so proud. He only has 2 measures of the song left to learn and he is so psyched to have learned it all! I still can't believe he's 8! He's going to be baptized in a couple weeks, and will be starting cub scouts soon too! He is such a wonderful boy.

Ahh the memories!

This ones for you Mom! You used to think my hair was at its best when it was totally poofy and frizzy! So I took Livys hairdo out, and voila! Instant mom classic. It made my laugh so I had to post this for you. :) LOVE YOU MOM!

Autumn Outing

Our family went up Cedar Mountain this afternoon to witness the beautiful fall colors. Georgous! And we all had a wonderful time. This is our second anual "autumn outing." We brought up a pot of chili, and some cornbread and had a picnic and ran around in the woods laughing. So much fun! I have like a million pictures I would like to put on here, but here are a few faves... Last year when we did this, there were like 6 hangliders circling around above us, then they landed like 50 yards away from us. It was amazing! This year we went up the the Girls Camp and the colors and serenity were perfect. Plus enjoying nature with my family is always so memorable.

This little piggy....

So I apparently never sang the "this little piggy" song to my kids before because I sang it to kailey the other day and they thought it was hillarious and made me sing it over and over like 20 times. Literally. So we named all my toes and then they got to pic which color to paints "their" toe. Daddy was the red one, then Isaac was green, Logan was blue, Livy sparkley pink, then kailey hot pink. They thought it was hillarious and I even let them do it themselves. Except dad was at the fire station so I did his. and helped Kailey with hers. It makes me smile when ever I look down at my toes. Cute kids.

Bags!

Isaac needed a piano bag, and I couldn't find one anywhere the right size. So I made the camo one. Then Livy needed a bag for her tap and ballet shoes, so I just made her one too! They are cute eh? And very inexpensive!

Ever so Patient.

So this photo is taken outside the Bountiful temple just minutes before Lisa and Tyler came out as a married couple.
The planter box, the kids are lined up on, faces the temple. They were all waiting and watching the doors for Lisa and Tyler to emerge.
I walked by and just happened to notice this awesomely decked out entourage of cousins and had to snap a shot.
It's one of my faves from the day. Which is really saying something, because there were a lot of perfect moments captured.

Great kids...

1. Isaac sings (loud) while he vaccums....

2. Livy's new friend at preschool's name is broccoli
(actually brooklyn, but its too cute to correct!)

3. Logan loves girls and boys alike. Girl stuff, boy stuff, whatever, he is totally cool with it...

4. Kailey walks around with a book open right in front of her face singing...

I adore my children......

P.S. Aren't their Lisa/Tyler wedding outfits adorable?

Flip flops....with socks?!

This is one of the reasons I am in love with my little Logan boy... Out of the clear blue the other day he says:

Logan: Mom did you know that Lisa wears socks with flip flops?

Me: She does?

Logan: Ya, she puts on some socks, and then takes one off and put a different one on (because who on earth would purposely put on two NON matching socks!) and sometimes she puts flip flops on with her socks. And so I tried it and it just makes my big toes look like thumbs.

I laughed and laughed! This boy is awesome...

So today we were bringing some zuchini to a neighbor, and he could only find his flip flops. So he put them on (with his socks) and stuck up him big toes and said: "hey mom! Thumbs up!" He's so funny...

Today was Livy's first day of dance class at Dance Magic from Miss Jenny. She will tell you all about it! She is thrilled that now she can dance on her tippy toes. So cute. I couldn't wipe the cheesy grin off my face while watching her through the reflective glass. So cute!

its all about the comfort...

Olivia went to the pediatric dentist today for the first time, and did really well! By this picture, you wouldn't be able to tell that for the first few minutes she was refusing to open her mouth! But then she got sucked into the Barbie movie playing on the ceiling, and then she

was fine. Jake thinks it is hillarious that she is always in a comfy position. Ankles crossed in her carseat, legs tucked next to her while sitting on the couch, legs crossed when sitting on the pew in church, stuff like that. So I thought this picture was funny, because even when shes getting her teeth tickled at the dentist, she still has her little legs propped up and crossed. Not to mention the great view of ariel on her bummy for the people coming down the hall to see!

PS. Another tidbit: yes, that is logan in the background watching the barbie movie while waiting for livy. He could pick from Shreck, sponge bob, and barbie. And yes, my little boy picked barbie. What do ya do......... he is a very well rounded boy. :)

Awesomest Tree Fort EVER!!

So Jake built this completly awesome tree fort in our apple tree. The kids completely love it and are up there all the time. They have already had several sleep overs out there. (the only ones that succeed are are the ones when dad sleeps with them!), and we often read our current love Fabelhaven 3 out there too. Good times and many more to come!! thanks dad for the great tree fort!

Itchy Itchy Scratchy Scratchy

So aparently I had a crafty itch that needed scratched. Yesterday me and my friend made cards for hours and hours and today I made all of these flower hair clips! (except a couple that desi did to show me how) So, I am feeling pretty good. I love doing crafty stuff. I even made a couple that would coordinate with the little flower girl dresses for Lisa's upcoming wedding! Yes, I am a thinker! I now have roughly a billion little girl hair things and guess how many they are wearing today? Thats right! None! Lazy Saturday I guess. Hope all is well with all of you.....

For Cecil

The kids had such a good time at lisas picking raspberries. It was really fun. We sure love you Lis!