The Mathis Family: 2010

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Our Christmas!

This was our best Christmas EVER! We are in a new house...our kids actually know what's going on and are excited about it...they slept in Christmas morning...breakfast turned out just right! (meaning I didn't burn the cinnamon rolls)...I have an awesome husband!...and awesome family on both sides!

We feel so lucky to be where we are and I have a hard time not crying when I think about it all.

Anyway...

(My memory card is little and ran out, hence, the cutting out at the end...)

Oh! Did you see that I have proof of Mike wearing a ruffly pink apron! Ha!

This is what Santa brought.

Lucy wanted a "kid magnifying glass" for a long time. It's all she ever said when people asked her want she wanted Santa to bring. Lydia always just said "treats" when asked. She LOVED the doll house, though. In fact, she wouldn't leave it to come eat my yummy breakfast! We all ate at about 7:45. She didn't decide she was hungry till 9:30! I guess that means Santa did a good job in her book!

These are what ~~Mom~~ Santa made:

The girls LOVED their tents. Lydia calls them Temples.

I saw tents like these online at Pottery Barn, for mucho dinero of course, and I thought, "I could TOTALLY make those!" No sooner, I saw other ladies in the blog world making tents just like em, so I gathered up my ~~free~~ donated fabric (thanks, Mike's mom) and sewing supplies (thanks Mom), pulled out my engineering genes (thanks, Dad) and concocted a plan. I'm just impressed they turned out! I HAVE SKILLS! (I only spent $2.30 each for the hoola hoops inside!)

I also made slip covers for this little table and chairs to match. All out of some left over fabric I scavenged!

(By the way, this whole organized-mannered-happy tea time lasted about 2 min.)

These petti coats/tutus are the cut off bottoms from really nasty lacy baby dresses I got at the DI. They make for cute skirts, though!

And finally...

The doll house!

I got this doll house in March or April from savers for $5.99! It was pretty ugly with a pale blue all over paint job and coming apart at the joints, but I could see it had potential. It got a major over haul and I think it turned our pretty good!

So...this was our thrift store/ homemade Christmas, and our best one yet!

Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

This is my next project:

This is an antique flat top steamer trunk. I found it at the DI for 20 bucks! These things are a hot item and I was SO excited to find one at the DI! I got there right at 10:00 when the doors open one day. (people seriously line up at the door waiting for the DI to open!) As I was examining it in the store about 5 other people came and stood behind me, or continued to circle around seeing if I was going to take it. Well. I bought it. (Mike doesn't know I bought it yet...He'll just wonder why there is a smelly old piece of garbage in our basement. But he probably won't notice it for a while...)

Someone attempted to "restore it" by spray painting the clasps gold, but did a REALLY crappy job. I'm going to attempt to restore it. This will mean lots of steel wool, elbow grease, and man hours, but I'm so excited for this project! I want to put it in our basement family room to hold blankets, when ever we get furniture down there...So, if you care...I'll post finished pictures. It might be a while till it gets done considering it's not fun to work in a freezing cold garage.

Our first snow woman in our own yard!

Isn't she beautiful?

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Reuben, This one's for you!

Happy Birthday!
I know it was yesterday, but here is my gift to you...

A virtual slice of 4 layer dessert.
We had it in honor of you.
Go ahead...lick your computer screen...I know you want to.

Happy Birthday!
We love you and miss you!

Friday, December 17, 2010

Quality Sister Time. Nuf said.

Dutch Christmas

We had Dutch Christmas last weekend. Every year my grandma teaches us a new dutch word or phrase that we have to tell her as a password before we can go down stairs to open presents.

This year is was: (NOT spelled right in dutch, I'm sure) "I'm ya leva lassie" which means "I'm your lovely little girl" or something close to that... (The boy cousins had to say: "I'm yur stouta youngin" or "I'm your tuff little boy")

This is the girls giving the password.

They both got cute little outfits and little gifts...

...but I think the best part is the chicken noodle soup with cheese and bread sticks! YUMMY!!!!!

SNOW!

Ever since last winter, all through the summer, Lucy kept bringing up snow angels. She's been wanting SO bad to make a snow angel. Well, she finally got to!

It's hard to see, but she has a huge grin on her face!

Lydia just wanted to help shovel. And eat the snow. Her face was bright red and chapped from shoving show in her mouth for an hour!

Lucy's latest art work.

I may be biased, but I think she's pretty good!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Gingerbread House and an Anatomy Lesson

After Thanksgiving dinner we made ginger bread houses. It was really fun and REALLY messy!

(That's Krista's house in the picture. She put up some stiff competition...)

It may look like Mike's helping make the house...no...just came see what was going on during half time. I did all the hard work... Lucy and Liddy helped put the candy on. I think more got in their mouths than on the house.

This is Lydia's anatomically correct gingerbread woman. She did this all by herself, totally on accident. I was watching her and she just plunked em on there, I swear! Then Lucy saw it and said in an embarrassed whisper "Look mom...boobs"

After we finished ours, Lucy went to help Anna finish her house. Every square inch of that house was plastered with candy! They really worked hard on it! It looked...like two 4 year olds decorated it! It was actually really cute though!

Here is our finished product!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Hooray for PSE!

I just got Photo Shop Elements from Circe! (Thank you!) It's awesome! Here is an example:

Before

After

It makes me look like a much better photographer! I can't wait to doctor up some more photos!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Oh! There's my Belly Button!

Just in case you couldn't see it. She colored it in for you.

(this picture was taken after MUCH effort to clean it out.)

A Rainbow!

We saw this rainbow out our window a couple weeks ago. It was HUGE. I couldn't get all of it in a picture. The girls were so excited about it, we had to go take a picture.

(They both look like they have to pee, but really, they were cold from being in the night air just in their jammies and just having had a bath.)

I wish I could have gotten a better picture. It was really pretty!

"Sinter Clause Kapuncha"

Our ward is doing a video of people saying something in a foreign language for part of the christmas party. So I had Lucy sing this little christmas song we learned at our family Dutch christmas.

It says:

"Santa Clause, dear,

put one in my stocking,

put one in my shoe,

Thank you ,Santa Clause!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Happy Halloween!

Yay for Halloween!

Here's some of my favorite pictures:

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Wisdom of Children

Lucy: "These are the most beautifulest mountains I never seen!" (8-13-10)

Lydia's version of tyrannosaurus rex: "Dinosarus Shrek"
(8-26-10)

We were writing in a birthday card for Krista and I asked Lucy what she wanted to say to her for her birthday. "um...I love playing with Jason." Lucy LOVES Jason. Another day Krista asked Lucy if she loved her. Lucy said "Um...my sister loves you..."
(9-14-10)

One night at dinner, Lydia rolled her head around and said "Delicious!"
(9-17-10)

Lucy was sitting on the couch with Mike. Lydia ran up and asked Lucy if she would come play. Lucy said "No, I'm just watching football," and turned and watched the game with Mike.
(9-28-10)

Kelsie made a giant cupcake for Jason's birthday and wrote "happy birthday" on it in sparkly blue icing. Lucy saw it and said, "Why is there tooth paste on the cake?"
(10-3-10)

We all went to the mall, just to get out and walk around somewhere. Lydia kept saying "Is this the mall?! Amazing!" "This is amazing!" It was like she'd never been to the mall or like she'd never been out of the house!
(10-15-10)

Last night, the night before Lucy's birthday, Lucy came staggering in my room with squinty eyes at 10:00 and asked, "Is it time to wake up yet?" I said no, and she said, "but it's so hard to sleep..."
(10-16-10)