Christmas VACATION!!!!

This is a completely random and odd post. I have about 3 minutes to type this all. I hope it makes sense.

It has certainly been a long time since I've posted and I apologize! I will try to catch you all up with what the Misseldines have been up to.

Christmas was at our house this year. We had family join us and it was fun to not be alone after last year. (See last year's blog entry).


Logan and Trevor love this lacrosse set my brother and sister-in-law gave them. They make a lot of trouble around the house when they play with it (think small hard ball getting flung all over the place).
Samantha is normally a smiley girl, but I think grumpy pictures are so dang cute! She was tired after all the Christmas excitement.

Trevor has been excited about the "car" books he received and has been reading them in between studying for the BAR.

Here is my sister Alysa. She's gonna be mad about this picture. Why were you giving me this weird look Alysa?
And introducing Laura. She's available and super cute! Know anyone? Contact me.
I got a new lense. I love my camera! I was trying it out in this picture.

All in all we had a lot of fun! I took a zillion pictures and everyone got sick of me in their faces. It was a good holiday!

I'm bursting at the seams today! What a happy day! I'll share a bit of my joy with you.

Happiness is a ginormous big clock that I made all by myself. They said it couldn't be done and I set out to prove them wrong.
Let me tell you, it is even MORE beautiful in person!

1 2 3 Magic. Go check it out at the library. It is a great parenting book. I feel like I am FINALLY regaining the control in the house that I lost when we moved.

The best tip in the book you ask? Kitchen timers. They are the best motivating tool ever invented. Set the timer and let it do the talking for you. Sweet little Logan is finally returning to our house...ever so slowly.

A photo shoot in the backyard. I love these kids!

check it out!

STOP THE WORLD!

Everyone has got to go check out this blog my sister-in-law recently showed me. It is Fab-u-lash! The most important thing is that you check out her "mistreatments". Holy cow!

www.nestingplacenc.blogspot.com

I recently did some re-decorating and will post pictures soon. And yes, I mistreated my curtains. I'm sorry Mom and Dad. It's true and I have to confess. I made you curtains out of sheets....but you would never know they were sheets. I promise! Please don't have a heart attack! We are taking good care of your home!

This is what law school has done to the size of Trevor's brain.
Did I mention he has been lifting weights?
I went out shopping yesterday. It was fun elbowing and shoving people around the stores to get what I wanted. We got Trevor a new laptop and guess what it has built right in? A webcam! Pretty cool I know. We have had a lot of fun playing around with it.

A few of my FAVORITE things. These are the people that make me smile. I hope you can all just ignore that last post and smile just like I do when I look at these pictures.

I have tried to post many things lately but just ended up erasing them because they sounded too depressing.

Here's what we have been doing:

Thanksgiving dinner early at the Misseldines. A fun evening of food.

I have been doing craft fairs like crazy. It has been a good experience and fun to hear what people think of my handiwork.

Trevor gets to do his first trial. How exciting for him! I think maybe next week it starts? Not really sure on the details.

Teaching Logan in pre-school. He is such a sponge. He is learning how to put letters together to make a word. What a fun kid!

Samantha is FINALLY mobile! Yep. She is just now crawling.

Sorry this isn't a very exciting post. I am having a hard time with our ward and everything here. I couldn't make it through church on Sunday without tearing up every time someone looked at me. Because that's what they do here. They look but don't talk. I gave everyone huge inviting smiles the first three months, but alas that hasn't worked on their cold hearts. I am praying someone nice will move into the ward and be my friend.

Hmmm... I wonder who is behind that mask!
Logan loves to help Daddy work on the cars. He has really loved watching the "fire" or welding as we adults call it. We just make sure he has a mask on at all times so he doesn't burn his eyes.
We are still working on this dang Jeep, but I have called it quits for the winter. It's too cold here! I'd rather be inside trying to catch the mice. KIDDING! But we have caught four so far! And I must tell you all that I emptied my first mouse trap all by myself! It was horrible! I put these big leather gloves on to keep the mouse grossness from getting on me. I couldn't help the little shrieks of disgust that kept escaping my lips as I struggled to free the dead carcass from the trap. YUCK! I shudder just thinking about it.

I think it's time to hit the hay now, so goodnight one and all! I'll leave you with this picture of father and daughter. I think they look so much alike in this one! Well, minus the nose.

It's A Bird, It's A Plane...

IT'S SUPER LOGAN!

I just don't think it is possible for me to be a good blogger right now. What's up with that?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE re-invite me to view your blog (if your blog is private) if you haven't already!

We recently had my in-law's dog for the weekend. I think I decided I don't want one for a while. Logan was so excited that the dog was staying the night he was generous enough to lend a pair of pajamas. They fit just perfect. We now know what size the dog is if they ever want to buy it some clothes.Logan insisted that since the dog was a girl, she needed a bow. He tried for an hour or so to make her one and then begged me to do it.
The dog liked the cows, but they didn't like her.

Too Many Videos

Well since my other camera is charging and I can't get any pictures off it until it is done, here are some videos I have taken recently. (I know what I could really use for Christmas. An extra camera battery!!)

Hmmm, well I can't seem to get the rest of them to upload. I'll keep trying. Sorry.


INTRODUCING.....CALVIN the Jeep. This is one of the cars we left in Idaho while we were off at school. We pulled it out of the shed it had been resting in and started work on it soon after we moved back.

I stripped off the stars and stripes paint job I previously put on while we were dating, and put on two coats of bare metal primer. Yes it is an ugly brown now, but just wait a little bit and it will soon be a lively color of blue!
I just realized that you can't really see anything in these pictures. Trevor is welding in a new piece of metal where he cut out a rusted piece. The jeep is missing the hood and fenders while we work on it. Just try to use your imaginations!

Look! There is our trailer in the background!
Wow! It pays to keep trying. Here are some more videos. This one is Logan singing The Jackson 5's ABC song. He got a little confused about halfway through and switched to the other ABC song. It's hard to keep him focused.


If I can get the video to upload, we just added a new addition to our family. A Kitten. It doesn't have a name yet. We just got him yesterday after I saw a mouse in our bedroom! YIKES! You all know how I feel about mice. We have killed two so far. I have screamed many times the past couple days seeing them around the house. I feel so violated!

Don't judge us by what we are wearing in the video. We are all in our pajamas 'cause I filmed it just this morning.

Quick question... Do I have "Leper" pasted on my forehead? Do I stink? I have been showering regularly. Do I do dorky things that make people want to stay away from me? Maybe I have gross teeth. OR BAD BREATH! That's it! It must be that. There is no other explanation for why NO ONE in my new ward will have anything to do with me!

Hi everyone! Another posting from slacker Alyson here. Sorry about my infrequent blogging. You all must be dying to know what we are up to! So here goes....

We took some pictures of Samantha as she was patiently playing while we worked on the Jeep outside. Who wouldn't want to take pictures of her. She is just so pinch her chubby cheeks cute!

We played with some baby chics...

We took a break and looked at the clouds...
We played peak-a-boo...
And most importantly we learned a new song...

WHeRe HaVe We BeeN?!?

Hello everyone! After a very long absence I have returned. We have had a busy couple of weeks, so I will do my very best to fill you in.

Just a few days before leaving Michigan, we received the news that my grandfather had passed away. It was not a shock. He was 99 years old for pete's sake. He was ready to go. He will be missed for his wonderful sense of humor and his love of life. He was a GREAT man!

We booked it out of town to try to make it to the funeral on time. We needed to make it to Utah by 11:00 on Saturday morning. We left on Thursday at 3:00 in the afternoon and drove all night and then all day Friday and then all night again Friday night. There were a LOT of prayers said on our behalf and we felt them. We made it to Utah Saturday morning at 6:00 a.m. with just 5 hours to spare. Talk about being tired.

Here is what our "moving truck" looked like. It was atrocious but it did the job.

Trevor made sure and wrote all over the sides of everything. We got LOTS of honks and waves from people. My favorite was "goodbye one state recession".
After the funeral we drove the rest of the way home to Idaho. It is GOOD to be home. I love the way Idaho smells... nice and dry. My AWESOME niece Miss M came for a few days and helped get stuff unpacked.
Can you believe she is only TWELVE? She was such a help. THANKS Miss M!!!!

After Miss M left we took a trip to visit Trevor's Grandma. It was a ton of fun! My in-laws took us all to Bear World while we were there. It was amazing how docile the animals all were. They have a petting zoo for the kids and then you get in the car and drive through the bear part.



They tell you as you enter the bear section not to open your windows and not to stop the car. SCARY! Look at how these bears are up on the side of this truck! We were three cars back behind them. They were all over the place.

We have been back home now for about a week and a half. I have been unpacking like mad crazy. Logan has enjoyed running free as the wind all over the property.

He goes "swimming" through the sprinklers almost every day.

He loves talking to the sheep. They love butting him when he goes into the pasture, which has led to tears a couple times.
Samantha has been enjoying herself as well. Thank goodness the sheep have left her alone so far. Just a sniff and nudge here and there.

And so fellow bloggers that is what we have been up to. We are glad to be home in Idaho, but we miss our friends in Michigan. I am trying not to think of how badly I miss you all.