Cooking, Smiles, and Hair Cuts!

HEY, it's Nina, Mary's oldest kid, and my mom is letting me hijack the family blog! So she told me how to post stuff and voila!

Here is a cute picture of Jefferson smiling... Sigh! All ready he is three months old! He is growing SOOOO fast!!! Just this past few weeks he has started to laugh! We all adore every moment we see him smile or laugh!

Scott and Sammy with their new cuts! My mom, Mary, actually saw a boy with this hair cut at the dentist, she thought she could try it. (It was funny cause it reminded her of a Jar Head! HAHA!!!)

Here's a side view!

Here's when mom was just starting!

Before!

This is Charlotte's first attempt at cooking! She is growing up so fast! Good job Charlotte!

Life With Six Kids :)

Awesome! The baby (Jefferson 2 1/2 mo.) happened to be smiling as his big brother Scott read to him! Too cute!
Sam's first attempt at making eggs solo! He did a great job! We did aerobics for 3 days straight and then the kids said that they hated it! Now that we haven't done it for 3 days they want to start it up again!
Fickle kids.Nina wanted to hold the baby while doing aerobics for a bit so I decided to snap some photos since my hands were free!Assume the Saturday position!

Too Cute!

Just for kicks here is the latest easy peasy craft at my blog http://craftersguru.blogspot.com

Hair Cuts+Treadmills

Jack wanted his hair cut and it was long over due too! But the baby won't let me put him down. Even when he sleeps, if I put him down he wakes right up and cries. I hate it when they cry so I cut Jack's hair with the baby asleep in the sling over my shoulder. Jack was so good while I cut his hair. He was watching the new Ice Age movie. He loves the movie soooo much that he thanked Heavenly Father for the Ice Age movie in our family prayer this morning.

Day 2 of having each of the kids walk/run/whatever for 30 minutes on the treadmill. Now if only I could squeeze time in.Sammy working up a sweat :)When baby woke up it was his turn to loose the long thin "Old Man" hair ring around his head.All done and no tears:)

Jefferson's Baby Blessing

I didn't have a lot of time between getting the lunch buffet ready, house picked up, relatives in town and staying at the house, and kids to be ready + early for church to take photos. So this is what I got :)Great Uncle Paul Gordon holding Jefferson Gordon.Rick, Uncle Jeff, Great Uncle Paul +Jefferson
The awesome Uncles and great examples of priesthood holders that he was named after (besides their awesome Dad, but his name was already used along with my father +father in law)

Papa Tom was hugging Nina during the short time I had the camera and so I got this lucky shot:)

It's Time for the Holidays!

We made gingerbread cookies and even fulfilled a dream of mine..making them as ornaments for the Christmas Tree :) It only took 3 days to complete. Slow and steady like a snail, but we did it! The baby is all about eating and being held 24/7. So even now as I blog this I am nursing this little angel. If you want to know the recipe and some easy tricks of the trade visit www.craftersguru.blogspot.com for details.
Rick hold the baby while decorating his own cookies so that I can take pics:)

My sister and family came over for dinner, games and cookie decorating on the fly. We had a blast!
Our very adorable Pixie Shoo-Shoo!Scott loves to decorate cookies too!Sam made his own gingerbread sandwich!

Cousins Wyatt and Lando give it a shot:)
Nina :)

It's a family affair!

Aaah! Cha-ching! It finally happened! Gingerbread cookies as ornaments on a tree!

Hair Cuts, Glass Ice,I Luv U and Baby

The boys needed a hair cut..Badly!!!So I thought why not blog about how to cut a cute boys hair cut for the clipper paranoid child. It will be posting step-by-step asap on my craftersguru blogNina is now my official photographer. If I or my hands are in the picture, it was most likely taken by her! She's getting better all the time:) In fact she took every picture on this post minus the baby pics!!!
Jack was soooo cute! He was eating stick pretzels and called out to Nina,"I love you Nina!" with the pretzels in his fingers! It's an Olsen thing to sign I love you all the time. Nina does it with Jack and now (sniffle, sniffle. tear drop) he thinks of saying it to her (cheesy to get emotional but it was sooo sweet!!!). He's been doing it for the passed year and a half. At 18 months we taught him to flip it around to be Spiderman when that was all the rage for him.
It was so cold last week that the water in our little turtle pool froze over with a thin sheet of ice. Sam and Charlotte thought it was so cool and it reminded them of our trip this summer at Glacier National Forest.

I felt Charlotte was old enough to hold the baby while standing. She is very careful and loves to hold our little Jefferson:)

Peek-a-boo Jefferson!