We are MARSHALL: January 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Purple girl

Sidnie is very opinionated and likes to choose what she is going to wear and whether she will let me do her hair or not. (Or even if she'll keep what hair-do I've don'e for her.) On Wednesday morning she brought out purple socks, pink pants and a red shirt. I suggested that we get her purple outfit (purple pants and a lavender shirt)and amazingly enough she agreed. Then she also picked out purple clipees for her hair and put her purple shoes on all by herself. (We threw in a grey sweater with pink trim.) In the end she looked great. So amazing to match. It lasted most of the day as well. AMAZING!

And they're OFF

Kate got her braces off on Wednesday morning (January 26, 2011). She got them on on January 19, 2009. So it was two years and one week until she was done.
Here are the results...

Here she is before...

Here she is the day she got her braces on...

The morning of the 26th before she got them off...

And one last look at the AFTER (again)...

All dressed up...

Sidnie got into the dress up clothes the other day and came out with this on.

Spencer decided to get dressed up to and then they were dancing together. So cute...

Amaryllis

I bought an Amaryllis bulb that came in the pot with a growing medium (dirt of some sort that was super compressed and needed to be saturated) at Target on an after Christmas sale 90% off which made it $1. I planted it a while later and it says it should bloom in 4-6 weeks. [I'll be lucky if I don't kill it.] Here is it's progress just this week.

Taken Sunday, January 23rd

Taken Friday, January 28th

I have to rotate the plant every day because it leans toward the sun. But I hope to see it bloom soon. Stay tuned...

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Arkansas Walk for Life

Today, January 23, 2011 was the Arkansas Walk for Life. I had to stay after church for a meeting, so then I Kammie and I went and made it in time to join the walk that started at 2pm. I felt it was important to join the march for a cause that supports life. We started 10 blocks down from the Capitol and made our way up to the Capitol. I saw my OBGYN there and it was great to see him and others that support life too.

A look towards the Capitol Building...

A shot of the group coming behind us...

The crowd gathering on the steps of the Capitol...

I even got interviewed by KTHV news and may be on the news tonight. I was able to let them know I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. (I hope I represented us well.)

Ice Skating

On Martin Luther King Day they had free ice skating that we took advantage of at Arkansas Skatium. It was lots of fun...

Spencer and Sidnie on the cuddling up on the bleachers...

Our group of Jordan, Kate, Zack, me, Ana Grace and Kammie...

Blurry Jordan...

Ana Grace and Kammie on the move...

Zack with hands in the air...

We had fun, but had some spills as well. Kate cracked her behind with a fall and Zack his head on the ice. All are well though.

Party Central (Inflatable place)

On the 15th, James' co-worker invited us to her son's b-day party in Benton,AR at an Inflatable place called Party Central.

Kammie with the "dualing staff" with Spencer in the background...

Kammie with a big boxing glove (with Spencer in the background)...

Sidnie crawling through an inflatable...

Spencer...

Zack with the dualing staff...

Dirty Van

Our trip back from UTah at Christmas time was challenging. The roads were snowpacked the first day in several stretches and temperatures were low. The worst was from Bloomfield, NM to Cuba, NM around 8pm on the 31st of December. The car's tempurature gage read -15 below. James was gripping the steering wheel so tight. He knew if we went off the road, we'd freeze to death. Thankfully we made it. Our van was super dirty from that day though of driving on snow packed roads. Anyway, I just downloaded this picture from James' phone, so I had to post it. Yikes, huh?!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Kammie's new look

A few months back, I colored Kammie's hair with what I thought was a wash out color, but I was wrong. It was permanent. We mostly liked the results. But now, the roots are growing out and coming in a different color than the rest. I asked my friend, who does hair, to help me get it back to the color it was or at least the color the roots were growing back as. She came over this afternoon and was happy to help. In the end Kammie got her hair cut as well as the new color. She looks great!
[Thanks Sayra. You are too kind.]

This is Before we began (she had had a couple of little braids in her hair that gave it the pizzazz.

After the first round of color (Dark Blonde) and a partial hair cut to get rid of the ashy (greenish) ends.

A second color application, just waiting for it to take...

Kammie's new "Do/look."

from the back...

While eating her bedtime snack...

And since we had extra color and I am cheap and don't like things to go to waste, the boys got in on the action...

Zack

Spencer

I don't have after photos of theirs, because it's such a suttle difference that the camera really doesn't do it justice--just some Auburn highlights.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

SNOW DAY

I posted a few pictures from our brief Sunday night frolic out in the snow as it was falling on the 9th, but here are some more pictures of our adventures on the morning of the 10th when school and work were cancelled.

A view of our car out front...

A look out back. (If you look close, you can see the cat tracks in the snow.)

Sidnie cold in the snow with Kammie in the background having finished "sledding" on our piece of plastic. (We do own a sled, but it's in Utah. We figure we'll have more use for it there since it doesn't snow here often.)

Spencer, Zack, James, Kathie with Sidnie and Kammie. (Kate and Jordan were off with friends.)

Spencer - love the pink snow pants? That's the only color we had in his size...

More with "our" cat Peppy

As I sat down to do this entry, we heard the familiar "meow" at our back door. Peppy is hear for another visit. We were worried when we left at Christmas time how Peppy would do with us being gone for two weeks, because he had been sleeping here every night. James even thought if if got too cold, that he'd be a Peppy-cycle.
But he was just fine. Not more than a couple hours after were returned on Sunday, January 2nd, but he was at our back door meowing to come in. And he's back to being a regular fixture in our home. In fact, this past week, Kammie and I went to his owner's home selling Girl Scout Cookies and Betty and Charles asked if we'd seen their cat. I replied sheepishly: "Yes, he's at our house. The kids let him in." Their next question: "Did he sleep there last night?" "Yes" was the reply. They were worried that he was out in the snow storm. I said we had let him in when he came by and then we didn't have the heart to put him out when it started snowing. They did buy some cookies, but I'm not sure they are thrilled that we've taken over there cat, but they didn't say anything. And Peppy was a comfort to Spencer this week when he was sick with Strep Throat and a Sinus infection.

Here with Spencer on Mom's bed...

He definately loves being near people.

Curled up on a pile of pillows...

I don't know if you can tell what a funny position this is, but James was on his side reading and the cat crawled up and got settled in this not so flat position.

Closer up...

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Snow here in Maumelle, AR

Around 2:45pm the snow began falling here in Maumelle. It's a super fine snow, but it's coming down hard. We've got three inches so far, so school and work are already cancelled tomorrow. The kids friends (the Gustafsons) came over and they attempted to sled on the golf course hill.

The whole Gang: Zack, Luke, Ana Grace, Kammie, with Spencer in front, Jordan, Julia and Kate.