Magnetic Balls part 2

Ok here are some cool shapes that I have made with the fun and addicting Magnetic Balls. I know you are all very impressed.

The square took me forever to figure out then we went to Youtube and they showed us how. I was close on my own. But I am not sure how long it would have taken me to one day figure out.

I hope you all get a chance to play with them. Come and visit and I will let you try mine. Or just come and visit anyways.

Peace Out!

Magnetic Balls

Ok this is my new time waster. For Christmas we all got some magnetic balls. The Kids got Gary a set for a surprise and Gary got all of us some as a surprise also. Kind of funny!

Well we all have them now. And they are really fun to play with. Andrew and I have gone on line and found video's of how to make cool shapes. Some are really tricky. They take a while to get used to playing with them.

It looks like they have been out for a while. But we are slow and behind the times. We are just catching on to them now. Gary's set is called Buckey Balls. It seems like a few different companies make them.

So if you have a desk job or some free time on your hands I would recommend picking a set up. They are great for those Oh So Fun Conference calls.

Here are some shapes I made. :-) Ok I will post my pictures after this video post. I can not seem to add photos to this post. Ugh....

New Year's: Look Not behind Thee

Great video on how to start your year off right!

Happy New Year! - Julie

Karen Snow's Wedding Reception

Mr & Mrs Andrew Bound

Karen and Andrew got married last summer in England. As you can see the wedding was fabulous. I loved seeing all the great photos from the wedding. Very much a Regal event. 

No we were not there. But I borrowed a few pictures from their Facebook pages. Shhh :-) 

I did not get a great photo of the happy couple at our event. I wanted to show how cute they are. 

Growing up the Snow family was in our stake. Our families would often do things together. The kids ages were similar to our family (not as many kids as us). But over the years I had lost track of them. So it was nice to see them again and catch up on their lives. 

 I loved this picture of the girls. 

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 Ok Back to reality- well at least back to Seattle. Karen and Andrew came home and had a very nice reception at the Edgewater hotel. I at first thought I would not know anyone. It was fun to see I was wrong. There was lots of people that I knew. And Gary was a good sport for going. 

Bobby - Cary- Gary

 Bobby and his new fiance!  They are very cute. 

 A table full of lots of people our family loves!

Platzke's- Wrights- Conover's- Pingrees- Hicox

 Suzane-Cary-Lori

Thank you Karen for inviting us to such a fun event.

I hope you and Andrew are very happy! 

Funny side note: Andrew grew up in the same small town that Gary went to boarding school at. Ha...I told Gary that they might have something in common. 

It is a very small world these days! 

Dinner at Carmens!

If you ever get invited to go to dinner at Carmen and Ovidiu's house....Go!

About 15 years ago we met the Elene's in our neighborhood. They moved in about 2 houses away. Vincent and Casandra were about the same age and became fast friends. They would play all the time at each others house. 

Carmen also took care of my Grandma Westra when she got older in her home as a care taker. She did a great job and we felt so lucky to have her so close to our house. 

They have since moved on and built a better house for taking care of people in. We still like to keep in touch and when we are lucky we get to go over to their house for dinner. 

Carmen can cook up a storm. We always enjoy meeting some of their Romanian friends. We are very happy that our friendship has lasted. We love seeing Cassandra grow up and become such a great young lady. 

 Gary with the fisheye effect! 

 Julie- Carmen- Cassandra

 Enough good food to feed an Army! The Primerib was awesome! 

Hopefully this is a video of the dinner party. 

Christmas Day 2010

Christmas morning came at around 8am. Not too bad. The boys got up at 5 am or so and started in on their stockings. That kept them busy for quite a while for us to sleep in till 8am. 

Now the party begins!

 Gary scored with a new Machine Nerf gun and a whole bunch of Amo! 

 The boys are really racking up the presents. So nice to see happy faces! 

Mommy got some cool new Ughs! Just in time for the cold weather. 

 Just when they think they are done, 

Gary has a scavenger hunt ready for the boys. 

 Gary had clues everywhere. 

 Oh Man my fridge looks a mess. I better clean that up soon...ha ha.

 Andrew is pretty happy as his old DSI was just about dead. 

 Oh man, here comes the last scavenger hunt for the boys to become really really spoiled. 

Opps I should have closed my closet...

 The very cool new XBox Kinect

 I liked the sunset on the bottom of the long board. Too bad it is raining outside to try it. 

 Hello- Merry Christmas! 

Lots of fun calls to family in England. 

 Look at that mound of garbage. 

Yikes...good thing it is mostly recyclable. 

 This was a total surprise to me. 

Very nice...but now I have to learn a system. I don't like change. I hope I can learn quickly.

Thank you SANTA!!! 

Andrew is growing up so fast. 

This is the first year he has but together a huge Lego kit all by himself. 

I love Christmas! 

Christmas Eve 2010

 Christmas Eve

Yes, I did not get the memo about wearing yellow. Funny how it ended up this way. But Yellow is not really my color and so I stayed in black. 

We were doing pretty good. No major last minute rushing around for presents. Gary and I made a quick trip to Bell SQ and ToysRus. But I felt under control. Yes, our kids were going to be very spoiled indeed. But what else is new?

Before bed we watched a great video online about the birth of Christ. Very sweet. Then we talked about the true meaning of Christmas. How very lucky we are to have such a great Savior to help us return to our Heavenly Home. 

Andrew wanted to sleep downstairs so that he could stay up late with Vincent. 

Vincent and his Routson cousins had a date online at 11pm for Black Opps? An XBox game. 

I think they ended up playing till 3am. Ugh...

Gary and I got everything wrapped and ready to go by 10:30pm. We stayed up till 1am the night before. I think that is the fasted we have ever had things ready. It was so nice to be relaxed and enjoy the quiet time before all the excitement started in the morning. 

 The stocking were hung by the chimney with care.....

 A mug of milk and some cookies for Santa were out and ready for him. Per Andrew's request :-) 

 Santa had everything organized and ready by the tree. 

 The tree was decorated with all kinds of shinny things. 

I love my new star for the top of the tree. 

 All the Swarovski ornaments were shinning so bright.  I have been collecting a new one every year for a while. I just love them. Thank you Santa! 

 Our Nativity area was all set up.

 Hand made puppets by me and cute new finger puppets by Andrew. A small wooden nativity set is fun for the boys to play with. 

 A very cute count down to Christmas blocks made by Cindy.  Thanks Cindy- I love it! Andrew was sure to change to numbers everyday!

 Gary resting and enjoying the quiet. 

 The outside of the house looked very festive this year. 

 We got new lights for the house that are LED of course, and they change colors by remote control. Awesome stars on the chimney are a favorite for me. 

I love all the blues and the deep hue's of the led lights. So much deeper in color. 

Off to bed we went with sugar plums dancing in our heads ?

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.