Three Days of Snow Fun

Friday night is when it all began. It snowed and snowed and snowed. It was going to be the biggest snow in a very long time and......... It was!!!


I woke up Saturday morning and there was so much snow!! It was somewhere in between 4-6 in.


Very excitedly I hopped out of bed and got up my brothers. We all sat in the living room watching TV until our dad got up to feed us cinnamon rolls. Then we all (Yes, every single one of us, even Sarah) finally got bundled up and ready to go play in the snow. Sarah had on a very precious snow suit. She looked so cute! Around 11:30 we went outside to find that the girl that lives three houses down was all ready out.
We invited her to go sledding, and then we all went to the best sledding spot ever, the massive hill next to our neighborhood swimming pool!!! It was so much fun! In my next post I'll post a video of Luke and me sledding down that massive hill!


My mom and dad went sledding too. During that I held Sarah and Ben took a video. Look at this pic of me holding Sarah! Isn't it so cute!

The next day it was themed, "Snow Fun!" Because everything we did was related to snow and it was a lot of fun! We made a snowman together and then pretzel snowmen together!



Today (This is the final day) I started to make a snowman in our front yard and then Ben came out to help me. Shortly after, I went to my friend's house unaware that he was going to move the snowman to our backyard and turn it into a snow alien! Oh Boys!

I am very glad that it snowed and I hope it last 'till at least Wednesday! Happy Snow Days!

Hairdo Anyone? Part 2

Yesterday, I got a new hairdo. (well, not really a hairdo, more like a haircut) Well anyway, here's what happened, my hair went from long to short.


I walked into the shop with a picture. My dad looked at the lady and said, "She would just like a trim." Then I told the lady, "I would like it a tiny bit shorter than the picture." It turned out like this.


It's a few inches shorter than it was before and with less layers. (it still does have layers, you just can't see all of them) My dad calls it "The Stubborn Girl Haircut". He thinks that I couldn't communicate to the lady and tell her what I wanted. I did tell her what I wanted and I did get the haircut I wanted. I think it's cute!

Hairdo Anyone? Part 1

Yesterday I gave Gabe a hairdo!!!! I made it very fluffy or as Gabe says, "ROCKIN" Here's how I did it.


First I used a curling iron to bring back the upper part of his hair.

Second I added a little gel for shine, volume, and body and then combed through it.

This is the result.

Isn't it just fabulous? (or rockin')

Tea Party!!!

Yesterday my sister and I had a tea party. First I laid a pink blanket out on the floor. Next, I set up the tea stuff! Here's how it looked. (minus one plate that Sarah ran off with right before I took the picture)

Sarah was a little disappointed to find out that there wasn't any real food, but why let the ruin a tea party, when there's pretend food!


I tried to teach her "pinky's up", but she was a little busy mixing the tea with sugar, cream, and her desert. (invisible banana split, yum!)

Sarah wanted me to wear a straw hat with flowers so badly but she didn't know how to tell me, so she tried to force it on to my head. During this the camera was in my hand and I got this pic!

I love having a little sister to play with!

The Wild Fun

I have a story to tell today, and you'll probably find it quite interesting. Ok, this is where it all began.

I was in my room laying on my bed doing a math test, then I heard it, "Whaa! Whaa! Whaa!", the crying of a young boy. I hopped off of my bed and walked into Jaden's room. He was laying on the ground crying and Ben was sitting next to him. If you know Jaden then you know that he has horrible mood swing, and I mean horrible! So about two seconds later he stopped crying and started laughing really hard. Then he walked over to his toy box, grabbed a few toys and threw them at Ben and I. Ben and I jumped into his crib for protection as he walked into the hallway to get another toy. Ben suddenly got the idea that I should cover him with a blanket, make him look like a giant pillow and then pretend I'm asleep. I did. As soon as Jaden walked back into the room with a plastic screwdriver I pretended to be fast asleep. Apparently he believed us because after a couple of tries to hit us with toys he went into his own fantasy world and left the room. Then Luke and Gabe walked in and suggested that I make a giant fort in the crib and make it look like there were a bunch of stuffed animals under the blanket. (Time out! I usually never do anything like that with them because they always make a giant mess. I don't know what on earth got into me) After alot of work this is what a got. (the basketball goal canopy was Luke's idea)


After it was done Luke, Gabe, and Ben jumped in there to wrestle! Oh, Brothers!



This is what it looked like once they were done! Afterward, Ben and I cleaned the room very quickly before my mom could see the mess! It was alot of fun! (not the cleaning, building the fort)

Sleepovers, Picture Frames, and Butterflies

I have three things to blog about today, sleepovers, picture frames, and butterflies! I'll start with sleepovers.


Friday night I had two of my friends spend the night. It was a bunch of fun! We curled our hair, stayed up 'till 4:30 a.m, watched "American Idol" (one of my favorite shows!!!), and of played "Pretty Pretty Princess". ('cause that's what all the 11 year old girls play now a day. don't you know?)

We also decorated a pillow case with fabric paint. Isn't it so cute?



Now we move on to Sunday, time to blog about picture frames! My mom had gotten me a cute little heart picture frame, the kind you can paint!! I painted it purple with white polka dots, then I added sparkly silver paint around the boarder.



Now it's time to blog about butterflies. I was cleaning out one of the drawers in my room and I found these cute paper butterflies. I used my masking tape to put them on my wall. Don't they look great?!

Little Brothers!

Little brothers can be fun sometimes, like when they do Broadway musicals with you.......





Or when they let you paint their fingernails.......




Or when they play in your room with you.....





See, little brother can be fun sometimes! Who woulda' thought?

Oh, The Things You Can Do With Fabric Paint

For Christmas I got fabric paint and two plain pillow cases. I decorated one of the pillow cases, but saved the other one. I realized you can do alot of stuff with fabric paint like, add grips to the bottom of your socks, decorate the top of your socks, and decorate a T-shirt. First I'll tell you about the T-shirt. It was the night before New Years Eve and I knew we were going to a New Year's party, so I decorated a T-shirt. Here's how it turned out.
Next I'll tell you about the socks. I decorated two pairs. I used 3D fabric paint. On one pair I made gripps, on the other pair I did them both differently. One had my initials and the other had polka dots. Here's how they ended up.


Now, the pillow case! I decorated it with memories from December 2009. Isn't it cute!




I can't wait to decorate the other pillow case! Fabric paint is so much fun!

Snow Day!!!!

I got up yesterday to find a nice surprise!!!! SNOW!!!!!! There wasn't much snow in the morning, so I decided I would eat breakfast and do school before I went outside. Once I finished I decided there was enough snow for me to go outside and play. When it snows I like to bundle up!! I wore three pairs of pants, three pairs of socks, one shirt, three jackets, one coat, two pairs of gloves, and earmuffs!!!! Then it was time to go outside. After I went outside Luke came, and then surprisingly, Gabe came outside!!! Poor Ben. He missed out on all the fun. He slept in incredibly late, and then we he did get up, he would not come outside!! Catching Snowflakes

Gabe, Luke and I came up with a fun plan to surprise attack our dad!!! We all picked a spot in the yard to collect as much snow a possible and make them into a bunch of snowballs, then Gabe would go inside and ask dad to take a picture of us, and when dad came, we would throw the snowballs! We ended up with about twenty snowballs, and our plan worked!!!!

After a while we got pretty cold so we went inside to warm up. I decided to make some smores to warm us up. They were yummy!!

After eating smores there was alot more snow outside. That's when I decided to something that my dad makes look so easy. Run outside in his underwear. Since it was snowing I slightly changed it to, Run outside in a tank top, gym shorts, and flip flops. Here's a video!!!!

After warming up again I decided to make a snow sculpture of my sister, Sarah. It took a lot of sweeping, scooping, and collecting snow to make this but it was worth it!!



When it got to dark to play outside my mom and started on a delicious snack! White Chocolate Covered Pretzels!! They were really fun to make! First we melted the chocolate!
Then we dipped the pretzels, laid them on parchment paper, and added sprinkles!!!

They turned out cute, and delicious!!!


It was a great Snow and Snack day!

My Trip to Memphis

"Michaela, it's time to get up," I heard my dad say. I turned my head towards my alarm clock and glanced at the time. It was around seven in the morning. Once I finally got out of bed I slipped on my Memphis Tigers T-shirt and a pair of jeans. It was the day my dad and I drove to Memphis for our second annual daddy-daughter trip to see a Memphis Tigers basketball game.

About thirty minutes later, I grabbed my coat, gloves, earmuffs, and pillow and hopped into the car. There was no traffic, so the car ride was not that long. Even though it was very cold outside, I was warm with my coat over me like a blanket and my head on my pillow.

Once we finally arrived at Grandpa and Grandma's house in Memphis, Tennessee, I took off my coat and we stayed for a while. The warm house smelled like coffee and her famous pound cake Grandma was baking for us. After a little while it was time to go. My grandpa drove my dad and me to the Fed-Ex Forum and dropped us off. We hopped out of the car and walked up to the ticket line. After buying tickets, we went to find out seats.


As the game began the whole arena turned dark. There were a bunch of blue and white lights flashing around the room. With "The Eye of the Tiger" playing in the background, the announcer named all of Memphis' players. We even got to see the players' pictures on the big screen!

Memphis played a great and exciting game, and they even won!!



After the game Grandpa picked us up and we went sight-seeing and to the Spaghetti Warehouse for lunch. I love the seating there! Some seats are in a bus and one is a telephone booth! We sat next to the bus; the food and service was great!!

After lunch we headed back to Grandpa and Grandma's house and ate some of that delicious pound cake! YUM!!! We spent the rest of the day with them. It was the perfect ending to our daddy-daughter day!

New Years Eve and New Years Day

We had a really fun New Years! First we went to a New Years Eve party at our friend's house! It was a lot of fun!!

But of course, we went there in 2010 style!!

I made a shirt and some 2010 glasses!!

Then Ben went to his friend's house to spend the night. Once we got home it was nearly 11:00p.m. We got ready to celebrate the New Year!!! We all (except for Ben, Sarah, and Jaden) huddled around our TV and watched the ball drop in New York city!!! Once it hit the ground, those stuffed animals flew into the air!!

Us throwing stuffed animals into the air.

The next morning we headed out to Crossville to meet most of my mom's side of the family.

It was a very fun New Years!! Happy 2010 world!!

Sweet Jaden

I was going to blog about the New Years, but that's gonna have to wait! I found the best picture of Jaden in the world!!! Gabe, Luke, Jaden, Mom, and I had gone to Chick-fa-la to get ice cream cones. She must have taken this picture without Jaden knowing! I don't think he could pose this!
This look is priceless! It makes me wonder what could be going through his head. Not even I can recreate this look! It's so precious.