Well it has been awhile since I have written for Slice of Life. I took a family vacation for a month and fell of the weekly writing experience. So I am back!
Growing up I remember playing red-rover, London Bridges, sorry, Life, Risk, Monopoly,Candy Land, extra....
I remember getting a computer in our home when they first came out for home ownership. I remember playing Organ Trail, and a few other games. Then when I was 11 my family moved and my dad needed to take our home computer to his office and use there, so since it was Christmas time, we got the original Nintendo with Donky Kong, Mario Brother, Duck Hunt and later we got Tetris. I remember spending hours playing Tetris.
We never upgraded our system, and I don't know what happened to it. I just remember I got busy as a High school student and stopped playing.
Many years later, I meet my husband who had a PS2 and loved to play video games, but didn't have much that I enjoyed. Then we got Lego Star Wars and I started playing. Then the new systems's came out and they quit making games for the PS2 so a few month's ago (just before they dropped in price) we bought a Wii. Even though we would have loved a PS3 we felt that with the ages of our kids the Wii had more games for them to enjoy too. We have collected all of the Lego Games wither it is PS2 or Wii (we have kept our PS2 as it still works). Our recent additions have been Harry Potter Years 1-4 and Parites of the Carribine. I have even put down a hold for Harry Potter Years 5-7 which will be out in time for Christmas and will be our family Christmas gift this year. Dillon is mastering all of these games, and I am slowly putting in time playing them as they are fun for me too. We did just finally buy a 2nd controller so now we can have more fun! :)
See you next week on Slice of Life!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
It has been awhile!
Well it has been a while since I posted, so now I am back on the bandwagon! We had a great trip to Washington State during the month of July. Thanks for all who made the trip wonderful! Here is just a couple of pictures!
Kids playing with the kitchen!
Dillon and Jennilyn riding!
Our Family picture at Dan's brother's wedding!
Ruth and Irene Riding
Emily and I in Ocean Park, WA
We had fun on the beach!
We had a great time flying kites on the beach!
Dan's Mom's maiden name!
Dillon swimming with the help of a noodle!
Jennilyn swimming with the help of a noodle, they became little fishes!
Irene having fun with chalk!
Van all ready to head home!
Our picnic with cousins in Dillon, MT
Dillon in front of a Dillon sign
We are on our way home!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Slice of Life # 58~ Chocolate
Chocolate Candy I made for Valentines 2011
But I HATE Chocolate Cake!
And of course at my wedding the large cake they made chocolate and the cake we feed each other was chocolate! I wasn't the happiest about that! But I will eat chocolate cake if it is the only thing served.
Our wedding cake
Pretending to cut the cake!
Feeding each other chocolate sheet cake since the wedding reception had not started when we did the pictures.
For me if I had my way my stress reliever food would be Swedish fishes or Cinnamon Bears!
I am glad I like chocolate and will give anything with it a try, but I don't make chocolate cake unless it is my husband's birthday and then I make him Devil's Food Cake ~ which is one of his favorite cakes!
Until next time....
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Our New Toy
Dillon, Jennilyn, Ruth & Irene
One of our neighbor's was selling this wagon which is in great shape! The kids have loved it! Right now it is full with all the horses and ponies and barbies!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Camping with Papa Jack and Nana!
We went camping this Father's Day weekend. We didn't get a lot of pictures, but here are a few that I took. We had a good time even if Dan and I are sun burnt and we forgot to put sunscreen on when we went swimming!
Kids playing in the dirt!
Our Tent with our double stroller and my sister's double stroller. With all the walking we had to do they were a life saver!
More time in the dirt! Irene was being stubborn and didn't want to wear her jacket!
Papa and Nana's cabin
Uncle Nick's cabin
Beautiful up here!
Dan and the girls playing in the rocks!
Jennilyn playing with her cousin's toys
Irene giving Ruth a ride
Ruth giving Irene a ride!
Dillon has taken to the water this year!
Waiting to go in!
Irene
Ruth
Dan getting ready to go in the pool!
Netty and three of the kids!
Netty and all of the kids, this is were she wishes she had the sunscreen on!
This picture was taken on our way home. It is a bad picture but off in the distance is a plane that crashed while we were there. My mom saw the life flight fly away as she was headed back up to camp on Saturday.
We had a lot of fun with Nana and Papa Jack! Thanks for having us up! We hope to do it again sometime soon!
Slice of Life # 57~ Moving
Growing up we moved a total of 10 times from the time I was born until I left for college. Some of those moves were just brief stays with Grandma and Grandpa Dillon. When I was 17 we moved to our house in Pleasant Grove which my parents stayed for 12 years until they sold it in 2006.
Dan and I were talking a few weeks ago about all the places we have lived and how many times we have moved. When we were about to get married we started looking for a place in the Salt Lake Valley for us to live when we got married. Dan already worked in Sandy and I was currently unemployed, but had been offered a job at Discover Card in collections that would start the Monday after we got married. We found a place in South Salt Lake City right on the border of Salt Lake City, West Valley City and Taylorsville. We later found out that one of my cousin's and his wife had lived in the same complex when they were first married. Our apartment number was 911 and we had people ask us all the time if that was correct. Dan moved in the last week of Oct just days before we were married. I moved most of my stuff in but I didn't stay there until after we were married.
We stayed there for the 11 months and then Dan got a job in Minnesota. I was 32 weeks pregnant and the Dr told me if I was going to go before the baby was born I had to go then or wait until the baby was born and go. So I quit my job and went with Dan and he came back a few weeks later and got our stuff just as our lease on our apartment was up. We stayed with his brother while we found a place. My sister in law was great to go with me and tell me her opinion. Dan didn't see the place in New Richmond, WI until after we signed the lease. We lived in New Richmond, WI for 21 months and then we moved to North Hudson, WI. I was 8 months pregnant with our 2nd child. Partway into our lease there Dan was laid off from his job. As our lease was ending and unemployment was ending we decided we should take his parents up on their offer and move in with them. Just before we were to leave for Spokane, WA we found out we were pregnant and it looked like twins. So we moved to Spokane and finally got a Dr and found out for sure that it was twins. We stayed with my in-laws for 11 months. By then Dan had a job and we were back on our feet and found a place not far from my in-laws.
We only lived in our apartment in Spokane for 4 months when Dan got a more steady job in Midvale, UT. So once again we moved. We have been here for 20 months.
So in the almost 7 years we have been married we have moved 7 times. Crazy! We are hoping to finally put down some roots this next year and stay in one place for awhile!
Dan and I were talking a few weeks ago about all the places we have lived and how many times we have moved. When we were about to get married we started looking for a place in the Salt Lake Valley for us to live when we got married. Dan already worked in Sandy and I was currently unemployed, but had been offered a job at Discover Card in collections that would start the Monday after we got married. We found a place in South Salt Lake City right on the border of Salt Lake City, West Valley City and Taylorsville. We later found out that one of my cousin's and his wife had lived in the same complex when they were first married. Our apartment number was 911 and we had people ask us all the time if that was correct. Dan moved in the last week of Oct just days before we were married. I moved most of my stuff in but I didn't stay there until after we were married.
We stayed there for the 11 months and then Dan got a job in Minnesota. I was 32 weeks pregnant and the Dr told me if I was going to go before the baby was born I had to go then or wait until the baby was born and go. So I quit my job and went with Dan and he came back a few weeks later and got our stuff just as our lease on our apartment was up. We stayed with his brother while we found a place. My sister in law was great to go with me and tell me her opinion. Dan didn't see the place in New Richmond, WI until after we signed the lease. We lived in New Richmond, WI for 21 months and then we moved to North Hudson, WI. I was 8 months pregnant with our 2nd child. Partway into our lease there Dan was laid off from his job. As our lease was ending and unemployment was ending we decided we should take his parents up on their offer and move in with them. Just before we were to leave for Spokane, WA we found out we were pregnant and it looked like twins. So we moved to Spokane and finally got a Dr and found out for sure that it was twins. We stayed with my in-laws for 11 months. By then Dan had a job and we were back on our feet and found a place not far from my in-laws.
We only lived in our apartment in Spokane for 4 months when Dan got a more steady job in Midvale, UT. So once again we moved. We have been here for 20 months.
So in the almost 7 years we have been married we have moved 7 times. Crazy! We are hoping to finally put down some roots this next year and stay in one place for awhile!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Time to Ride
Ruth
Dillon
Jennilyn
Irene
After our Hair Cuts!
With Mommy after our Haircuts!
Today I took the kids to Cookie Cutter's Kids Hair Salon! All Jennilyn could talk about for the last few days was how she was going to go ride in her "Fancy Car" and get her hair cut! We had a good day and the kids were really good! No crying other then Irene not liking the hair dryer!
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