Rainbow Loom

This is a new popular fad that is going around.  They are so popular even boys are enjoying them.  I got one for Christmas for Payton.  Well I actually bought the fake one, which basically broke within the first day.  Word from the wise, although the Rainbow loom is expensive, it's worth it to get instead of the cheap ones.  I found a some cheap elastics at the dollarstore, we tried them tonight and they work as well as the regular loom ones.  I found the loom ones are more pliable, they are easier to manipulate.  But the cheap ones work just as well.

Also at the dollarstore today we found a case to put them in.  It is actually a storage case for screws and nails, but works just as well for the elastics.

 Payton loves it and it is so much easier to use then the ziplock containers we did have them in.

Here are some of the bracelets we've made so far.

 So much fun and very addictive.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SoCraftastic?feature=watch 
 Here is a link to the girl she does wonderful tutorials.  She does many other things as well check her out.  I found she's one of the best tutorials and very easy to follow.

Payton has made many things, some of them are a minion, flowers, hearts, turtle and she tried a tuxedo; but had a bit of a hard time with it; she'll try again soon.

Rainbow loom if you're not in on the fad come to the darkside, you'll get a nice bracelet!

Netflix

Well we did it we plunged into the world of Netflix.

Dustin and I went over our cable provider and got rid of a few channels that we don't watch.  It was actually quite a lot really.  Netflix is only about $8.00 a month.  I have watched a few shows that only show up on netflix.  Orange is the new Black is one of my new favorite shows.  I can't believe they ended it like that!  Don't worry I'm not going to spoil it.

I think I'm going to enjoy this.  I like having movies that I can pick and choice to watch.  The "on demand" button doesn't always work, not the payper view one but the on demand one. 

I'll be wasting hours of time catching up on shows I haven't seen yet.

Christmas

 I take pictures of the kids every year.  This year, I talked them in to doing one with the mistletoe.  I think the picture is hilarious. 

 Don't they look so cute in their little hats?

 Nathan age 7

 Faith age 12

 Payton age 9

 Clayton age 9

 

 This year Christmas was nice.  We didn't over do it and we spent lots of time as a family.

 This is us getting ready to read the Night Before Christmas.  I read it to them every year, like my father did for me and my brothers.  This book was bought in 1977, my mom wrote our names in it.  I wrote my kids names in it.  I only bring it out at Christmas time and it looks just like new.  The jammies they are wearing is another family tradition, we opened them Christmas Eve.

I love my little family