Life at the Gregg's

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Another Black Eye

Someone in our family aquired another black eye...Josiah! He was taking a bath, slipped, and hit his head on the side of the tub! Ouch!

So, Emmaline came to me today and said "Mom, I killed a bug in my room! Do you want to come and see it?" Me, "hmm, I guess so". Upstairs to her room, and discover she didn't kill just any bug but a wasp! (or some kind of bee, not exactly sure what). She just took a block and smashed it! The other half of it was across the bed! Not me, I don't go near them if I can help it! Brave girl!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

First Snow!

We finally had our first snowfall a few weeks ago! I was beginning to think we would have a completly dry winter... We only got about a 1/4 " but it was so beautiful. The kids were so excited, Elijah wanted to build a snowman! Mark and I had to explain to him that there wasn't enough snow to make a snowman but maybe "next time". (IF there is a next time, you never know with Colorado!)

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we went to my mom's house for the day. We almost didn't go because my Uncle was there also and he was VERY sick. After talking about it though we decided to go anyway, and had a wonderful time! And none of us got sick! I forgot to take pictures but everything was lovely! My mom had everything you could possibly want for a Thanksgiving feast! She even made pecan pie, my favorite! We played games and just had a great day!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Emmaline's 5th Birthday

Our little Princess turned 5 last week! We celebrated by having a small birthday party for her with our immediate family. (I have decided to try and keep the birthday parties as small as possible.) Both sets of grandparents were there, as well as almost all the cousins, Aunts and Uncles, so it's still a pretty big crowd!

Bookshelves

Recently online I saw the idea of rain gutter bookshelves -
http://raisingolives.com/2009/07/raingutter-book-shelves-tutorial/

Elijah and Josiah's bookshelves

Emmaline's bookshelf

I thought that they were so neat and decided to put them up in my kids rooms. Mark and I took a Saturday and went to the store to purchase all the materials. The intention was to hang them up when we got home but... Mark went to hang them and couldn't find the studs, as whoever built our house did not space them evenly! So, we had to go back to the store and get a stud finder! After getting the stud finder though it was a very simple matter to hang them up and took Mark all of 15 minutes. I really like how they look and the kids seem to read the books that are on them a lot. (Technically only Elijah can read but that's not the point!) I think they look pretty nice!

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Cooking Fun!

After reading a friend's blog about allowing her kids to cook, I decided to give some of my kiddos a chance to cook too. Elijah was the first one to give it a try, I let him make corn muffins from a box mix. He had a great time and required minimal supervision since he can read! They turned out really good and he was soooo proud of himself!

Jeremiah's 2nd Birthday!

For Jeremiah's 2nd Birthday we celebrated with a old west/farm theme. I made a barn cake and animal cupcakes and we decorated with "rescued" decorations leftover from VBS this summer.

After much prayer and discussion we decided to only have family at his birthday party. Jeremiah finds large crowds to be overwhelming and usually has a "melt down" when he is overwhelmed. So, it was just grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, which is still a big crowd (13 adults and 10 kids counting our family)!

Fall Leaves!

Elijah, Emmaline, Josiah, Jeremiah and I had a great time last week raking up all the leaves in our front yard and jumping into the pile! It had been very still the whole week prior so all the leaves from our tree ended up in our yard instead of blowing away. Normally we don't need to rake up the leaves, we just leave them and the wind takes care of them for us! We had a pretty good size pile going and the kids had fun burying each other, throwing the leaves up in the air and making "leaf angels" (snow angels in the leaves). After the kids got tired of jumping in the leaves we played duck duck goose and freeze tag. It was a lot of fun!