Pixtons Feb 2015

I see that we are all trying to be better at posting--that's my goal for this year too.  I know I've tried for the past 2 months, but I couldn't log in for some reason and so I easily gave up.  But today I got it all figured out!  Yeah for me!!  I am seriously technologically handicapped!!

So, we had a wonderful Christmas too.  We made our Roladen, acted out the nativity,  and did lots of fun Christmas things.  For New Years Eve we had a movie, game, wii marathon.  It was great and we finally watched the last disk of the "Avatar-The Last Airbender" movies.  My kids were just introduced to them in the fall and fell in love with them  So we have now seen all 3 books.  Here we are seeing the lights at the Washington D.C. Temple.

I had a birthday and turned 39--I can't wait until next year when I hit the bit 40! 

We have had a lot of snow for us this year and it's been really cold.  The kids only had  4 hours of school all of last week because of Pres. Day, 2 snow days, one delay, and one day off because it was so cold (it dropped below 0 degrees).  We also had today off because of the snow.  It really makes a mess of the roads and the commute out here.  But it's been fun to have so many days at home.  The kids love playing LEGOS together from Alex down to Julia.  They make villages and make up games with all kinds of trading, swapping, etc.  They spend hours down there at the lego table.  It's fun to see!  Here is Alex with one of this little village homes--notice the garden and flowering vines growing up the wall.  The roof is removeable and it is set up into rooms inside.  Don't ask me about the dot on his forehead--it's just Alex.

During the snow days, Rachel and Isaac also finished their latch hook projects that we bought for our road trip last year to Utah. 

And of course they played in the snow and build a tunnel ....

Isaac and Caleb raced in the pine wood derby races.  We are just keeping up with daily life.  Caleb bought himself a Chinese dwarf hamster which he named Nevil.  He painted his car to look like Nevil.

We are redoing our basement.  We originally tore off the ceiling with plans to add a room down there for Alex.  But days before the walls went up, I changed my mind--Mom's are allowed to do that.  So all three boys will still share a room upstairs and now we are just going to put a ceiling in downstairs (it had a really low panel ceiling before) and maybe some new carpet--as long as the tax return money goes that far.  :)  Here are Isaac and Alex helping take the wall and ceiling down...

Let's see... Isaac earned his Arrow of Light and will cross over into 11 year old scouts in a few weeks.  He auditioned for the school musical and got a speaking part.  It was a very small production, but he had a great time.

Isaac is on the back row on the far right...

Rachel just finished her YW personal progress and hopes to get her medalian in church next week.  She wants to earn it twice so she is eager to start it all over again.  She also got her braces off last week.  She is loving that!! 

Before....

After.....

She also played volleyball and basketball with the YW at church and loved its!!


Alex fractured his toe playing soccer in the gym after scouts.  He wore a cast with his school colors and  paw prints for the Lake Ridge Wolves. 

Julia and I are still  having fun doing our own little preschool.  We actually only get to once in a while, but it is enough for her to feel like she doing something fun.  Here are her Artic animals that all start with "P"...

Okay, well that is enough for now.  We do think of you and love you even though I am so bad at keeping in touch. 

Please tell everyone hello from us. 

Love,

The Pixtons