Preoccupied by eBay

I have been a little preoccupied by eBay. I am in the midst of selling my first eBay items. It is a little nerve racking and my blogging time has been diverted by eBay. I know it isn't fair, first I'm blogging loyal and then just a little eBay temptation takes me away. Somewhere in there I think I was able to squeeze in a little mothering and wifely responsibilities. I posted some eBay related videos for your viewing pleasure. My auction ends Sunday, wish me luck.

A Taste of Winter

We are finally getting our first taste of winter. The boys were so excited to come home from school today so they could play in the snow. Here is a picture of Dylan, truly getting his first "taste" of winter.

Zachary, Austin, Dylan
The boys building their snow fort.Here is a picture of my boys "PRETENDING" to throw a snowball at me. I told them to pick up a snowball and pretend to throw it at me. Funny how the only one that heard the pretend word (Maybe that was the problem, maybe I pretended to say the word pretend) was the five year old. Dylan's snowball is still in his hand. Zach's snowball hit me in the stomach...
And where did Austin's snowball hit, you ask? You see I usually would be able to dodge these bullets, but because I was taking a picture and wasn't expecting them to actually throw the snowballs I was caught off guard. SMACK right in the middle of my eye, my eyelid was open and now I have permanent damage that lasted about 15 minutes. I grabbed my eye and said ouch (very calmly I might add), my boys were laughing so hard that they forgot to inquire just how injured I was. Austin finally came to see me and he asked "Mom, are you alright" my reply was

"I will be... but could you pleeeeeeease quit laughing ".

(I must be a secure woman to post a picture of myself that looks like this.)

As you can see it was my right eye that was hit. It has now been an hour or so. The final report is this...All is well, my eye has stopped watering, maybe just a little scratchy. I hope you enjoyed your afternoon as much as I did.

Can you Dance?

Here is a little taste of the Bringhursts living life. The boys bought this game Dancing with the Stars for me. The game is for the wii. We have a lot of fun with it even Blaine will dance. I thought I would share a few videos that we took. (Ignore the phone, I did)

You have to notice Dylan doing "The Robot"

The results are in ...

The guys get together for Halo, how about us girls get together for a

You + Me = Wii potluck lunch.

Thursday January 17, 2008 11:00am

Leave a comment if you are interested.

Winter at the Bringhurst's home

I love winter time, playing in the snow. Making snowmen or snow-women sometimes. Sledding down icy hills, hitting the jump at the bottom to see how much air one can get. Warming up with a hot cup of cocoa and a dabble of whip cream. Don't forget the smell of pine in the air. I love it!!

Thanks Amy, Nate and Nick for the pic

But lately this is what we have to work with. It is dry and cold. We have only received a trace of snow this winter so far. I do however get to enjoy my neighbors pines that they had planted a couple years ago.

a swing set that is just too cold to let the kids play on.

And many breathing treatments every day, If it's not

Jackson Bruce...

Then it is Dylan

They get anywhere from 4 to 6 treatments each per day when they are in a flare.

Each treatment takes about 10 to 15 minutes
The machine is quite annoying here is a 5 sec sample

to those of you who know me very well, you know that I cannot stand annoying buzzy noises such as the hair dryer, the fan in the car cannot be above 2, and this machine about does me in. (Don't get me wrong I am thankful for this machine, remember, Favorite thing--modern medicine from previous post)

So as much as I enjoy this time of year, I must say I am looking forward to SPRING!!!

So for now I will pretend it is spring, Happy Spring to all of you that would like to pretend with me.

New Years Eve

So Blaine and I decided to have a few people over for New Years Eve, We had a great time and hope our guests did as well. At one point or another in the evening we had ten Families/Couples over.

Yes, We are the wild and crazy hosts.

Here are a few of our guests

The Carrs

The Broadbents

The Maxwells
Amy and her sister Amanda

The L'Heureuxs

The Johnsons

The Orrs

The gals remaining at 12:01

We played a few games and had a few prizes, our first winner was Daegan.

Good job "D"

Winner #2, Nate Johnson (is that seriously a bingo card, but wait is that an eagles jersey in the background, you'll have to wait to see who wins that)

Winner #3, Greg Carr, He was loving that gift card inside.

A couple pals tooting their horns

Here are some snap shots of the evening, thanks for the pose A.O.

Trust me she is sober!

Kevin, you are the best bingo caller I have ever seen! Kevin, Greg, and Emily F.

Connie and Emily M

"The Teenagers" Casey and Nick
Connie, Emily, Austen, and Val

And the winner is. . . . . . . . .

Amy Orr gets the Eagles Jersey for being our first Karaoke participant, I gave the guys first dibs.

Here are both my Laundry Girls, Look at those socks, I think they even share laundry now.

Thanks to all our wonderful friends who spent their New Years Eve with Us, We hope you enjoyed yourselves.