Traumatic

So jaden had to get a tooth pulled yesterday. On Monday all the sudden his tooth hurt again and his cheek swelled up. Come to find out it was an absess and so Tyson took him to the dentist and they had to pull his tooth. I am so glad Tyson took him because he freaked out and was still screaming when they had left the dentist. Now, he has to get the same tooth on the other side pulled and then three fillings. We will be going to a pediatric sedation dentist now for the next ones and I am not looking forward to the bill. The dentist said in little kids most the time absess teath come from them drinking to much juice and pop. But we really don't have that much sugar in our house and the dentist was surprised. He also said that kids his age are constantly eating and that keeps the acid level up in their mouth. So maybe he is eating constantly. I try to only let him eat three times a day with a little snack after school but he mus be sneaking food or something.
The other thing that happened was that our Joanns in Idaho Falls is moving locations on March 11th. It will be a whole new store and beacause of that they are liquidating EVERYTHING. So everything is 15% off right now so that means my 50% off coupon doesn't work, my teacher discount doesn't work and they have nothing left right now. I went to go get flannel to maky a baby blanket for someone in our ward and they had nothing left. I mean NOTHING. All they have left is the expensive fabrics and I don't want those because our ward is on a budget. So what do I do now? I don't really know yet. So frustrating and it's going to be another month and a half till I have a new store to go to. It will be a really cool store when it's open though and it's going to be huge with everything in it. Finally.
I got asked to organize the relief society birthday dinner and make the birthday cake for it. I am so excited and can't wait to make a cool cake for them to eat. I am thinking that maybe I will do miniature individual cakes but I haven't decided because that would be so many people. I really want to make one of the cakes in the book my mom got me but the wilton stand that it needs to finish the effect is $60 bucks. I could get it online with my coupon for $30 but I don't have 30 dollars to spend. Sad day. I will be saving up for it and then when I have another coupon I will be purchasing it for sure. I also want to get one of those really nice, tall cupcake stands.

Help

I need some help. Last year I bought the little kitchen that goes with this refrigeratory. Now, for Natalias birthday I would love to get the refrigerator but I can't find it any more. I found the set but it's $150 and I don't need the kitchen nor do I want ot pay that much. It's the "Badger Basket tea party motif play refrigerator" If you find one let me know because I really would like them to match. I found another reasonably priced wooden refrigerator from sears but it's pastel purple and wouldn't match. I guess I could have my mom paint it to match :) I know she really doesn't want that so if you could help me out that would be great.

Having Some Fun

Natalia loves her brush and her rain boots that Grandma Arnold got her. They are so cute and the nice thing is she can put them on herself the only problem is they are a little big.

It was extremely cold but we haven't gotten to go sledding yet but we whent for about a half hour and then Natalias little hands got cold with all her mittens on. I am going to be looking for some really nice gloves for her to wear on pay day. She had so much fun thoug, we all did.

Diamond loves when we take her sleding. She chases the sleds up and down the hill.

We had to celebrate our ducks. I actually saw quite a few people in duck stuff. Maybe because they all love Brandon Bair. They actually did a story on him in the paper here and it was amazing. They interviewed some of the players and they talked about how everyone looks up to him and his morals and how that's what gets Eugenes attention. Maybe because that's rare there.

These were my famous cupcakes. I put yellow and green food coloring in the cupcake batter. I made yellow cupcakes and then filled them with green cake batter with a piping bag. So, when you bite into the cupcake you were suprised because it was green in the middle. Then I used my crikut and cute out the stars and "O"s to put ontop. Oh, I topped it off with green and yellow striped frosting. There's more pictures on my cake blog. elisescakeshop.blogspot.com

Christmas 2010

was an adventure this year. It was an amazingly good adventure. We got to go back to Springfield and be with my family for Christmas. It was so good to be home in normal winter temperatures where it rained everyday and one day actually snowed. Perfect. This is mosty pictures but I will try and narrarate some of them. I did get a new camera for Christmas from Tyson. I have such an amazing husband. It's a Nikon coolpix 15x optical zoom. It even has a setting for taking pictures of food which is perfect for all my desserts and cakes that I have been making lately. If you want to see pictures of that go to elisescakeshop.blogspot.com I put my moms birthday cake up on that website and it didn't turn out exactly how I wanted but it still looked and tasted amazing. To add to all the amazement I got a ton of cake decorating materials from my mom. I can't wait to take some classes and start trying some of it out.

Natalia wearing Tysons Boise State hat that he got from my Dad

 

Natalia was good at helping people unwrap presents and testing out all the presents that weren't hers. That would be Jadens woody doll

 

More of Natalia unwrapping

 

I love this picture but I don't know why it won't stay flipped the right way.

Natalia loves brushing her hair. Good thing her aunt can teach her some tricks with hair.

 

Grandpa got her cute earings.

Jaden got a crayon maker. It's kind of a gift for me to so that when they brake all the crayons we can melt them and reuse them instead having to buy new ones.

Natalia was quite the entertainer but she got tired after having to help everyone open presants.

 

 Jaden has been wearing PJ's since we got done with Christmas. I would almost say that it was his favorite gift. We alternate with How to Train you Dragon, Toy Story and frog pajamas. He wears normal clothes to school but as soon as he gets home he is in PJ's

Natalia got a princess phone and she loves it. Mom, I think it got left at your house though because I haven't seen it.

My mom actually smiled for the camera (it was our second try)

Nathan and Stefanie

Another picture that wouldn't flip right. So annoying. Anyway we have pictures of us all sitting in this rocking chair. Love this little girl.



We decided to make gingerbread houses. It wasn't supposed to be a competition but you know the Drake family. We are competitive in everything. This was before......

This is after.

We are really good at making messes to.

So we had a slight problem. Jessica and I both started using Neccos for our roof and She stoll all of them. So, my sweet dad went to the store to find me an alternative. He came home with wafer cookies and they worked perfectly. And I wasn't the only one who benefited. This is the front of my house

This is the side and back. You can see the roof better and then I did a wrap around porch. If you look at the front veiw you can see little stairs on the left hand side.

Stefan had a little fun with the frosting.

This would be Jaden and Nathans. It's the candy cane lodge in the candy cane forest. On top ofthe sign is a shotgun.

This is jessica and chads front of the house. They all had names and I can't remember the name of thiers. Nathan called mine the japanese house or something like that.

This is Stefan and Shannons. This one is the Griswaulds house beacause of all the "lights" on the roof.

                                               The back of Stefan and Shannons

The back of Jessica and Chads. As you can see there's a balcony with a hot tub and the bottom one has a barbecue.

and finally Nathans house back. There's a giant door for Nathan to get through and a deer with an arrow through it and a bow and arrow on the other side of the door. Don't you love his chimney. It's a slide feature so that santa can have a little fun while he comed down the filthy chimney. It was so entertaining to watch him work with Jaden and result there are some random gum drops on the roof on the right hand side.

                                   

Stefan with Bandit and Peanut. My parents now have two dogs. Stefan loves them and my mom tolerates them which is a huge change to when I was at home. :)

 

Santa left Jaden a military lego set. It will build a tons of differant things like a tank, helicopter, jet, plane, jeep, semi and more and you can build them all at once. You don't have to take one apart to build the other. Natalia got a bouncing and babbles baby alive. Everytime we go to walmart she would pull them off the shelf and carry them around so that's what she got.

 

My cute baby girl in her pj's that my mom made her. My mom calls it "hippy fabric" since I'm the Hippy in the family which isn't really a hippy. But I do love alot of hippy paterns and other things.

 

Jaden going crazy can you see all the presents and wrapping paper surrounding him?

We had a great christmas and really enjoyed being in Oregon again. We are hoping to someday move back. Tyson was looking at some community colleges to teach at in the area once he gets his masters. I hope so much it happens becuase I love it there. I got my fill of dutch bros. to last me till next time hopefully. That's the only downside for tyson he said becuase I would spend so much money going there every day. Which is probably true. I love that place. They actually have some in Boise area and I have got Janie (Tysons mom) hooked on them. Every time I'm in Boise it's our little thing to go and get a smoothie. I think it's a great tradition.

Hope everyone had a good christmas like us and a happy new year.