Dorito Bouquet

Dave knows that flowers are one of my favorite things. He also knows that I think it's a waste of money to spend the extra money for flowers on V-day when the prices are all higher. He also knew that his boring wife suggested to be frugal on V-day and not buy gifts. This presented Dave with a dilemma.

So when we sat down to our V-day dinner that he made me last night, he brought out this beautiful bouquet of Dorito roses.

Next to flowers, Doritos are high on my favorites list. I love to eat healthy food...except when I am presented with Doritos. All health consciousness leaves me and I could devour a bag in no time.

Dave spent an hour and a half hot-gluing Doritos, one by one, to chopsticks. He had to wait til each one was completely dried before starting the next chip. Good thing there were chips left in the bag because these flowers weren't quite so edible after all of the glue was put on.

Is there something I can do to make these last forever? It makes me smile every time I walk by and see them.

A lot of women like diamonds and jewelry and fancy restaurants. Not me. I am quite content with a bag of Doritos for a gift. I have really classy taste-buds, I know.

Nate's favorite book

A 5 minute video of Nate...for Grandparents and friends that think watching Nate for 5 minutes is actually really exciting (like his parents and siblings do). I could sit and watch him all day and be fully entertained.

A few random things in this movie of Nate:

Nate loves"reading" this book. I love how he has to check to see the animal on the next page before saying it.

And the second part of the video...I was just going to video my cute little boy, and then Dave brought in the snake.

When we were in CA, we watched The Sound of Music with my family. It's a Christmas tradition for us. My Grandma Colleen took my dad to the theatre to see it when it first came out years ago. Ever since, Nate has loved the music. We have the CD and that's all he wants to listen to.

At the end, Nate is singing the song he composed about making pancakes with Grandpa John.

Snowy Days

We had a good snow storm last week. For us, a good snow storm is about 3 inches of snow. We had lots of fun with the snow. We did a lot of sledding at the nearby junior high (with a good hill), we sledded at the little tiny hill on the side of our yard, and Dave and the girls made the igloo in our backyard.

Nate wore Ashlyn's underwear all day. Dave was so happy to come home to his son dressed like this.

The difference between girls and boys. The girls play "house". Nate plays "I'm a snake in cage. Feed me a rat!" Then he went around giving me Legos to pretend they were rats and wanted me to dangle it in front of his mouth.

Our California Trip

Just a few snapshots from our trip. So many more were taken but here are just a few of our fun times.

This picture just made me laugh...guns on each side, while sleeping on the pillow case Ashlyn made for her bed.

I just love this picture.

With Grandma Walton

With Great Grandma Bowen

All of the Walton cousins

It meant so much to have the cousins come by and see Brie's sweet spot.

Popcorn and M&M buddies. The yellow bowl in between them is full of the popcorn.

Enjoying a beautiful California day. Ashlyn made a fun picnic.

Good thing Nate brought his gun.

Cora and Nate having so much fun together...Cora was a sick patient.

We made mom a birthday dinner - Scott and Dave made tonz of crepes! It was a delicious dinner! I wore that apron when I was little.

Nate and Grandpa John reading stories.

On the carousel at Disneyland!

Christmas Eve with Grandma Fishbein