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How to fold a fitted sheet!!!

Fold a Fitted Sheet
1.With the sheet inside out, place one hand in each of two adjacent corners (the smallest side).

2.Bring your right hand to your left, and fold the corner on your right hand over the one in your left, so the corner on top is right side out. Next, reach down and pick up the corner that is adjacent to the one that was in your right hand (it will be hanging in front), and fold it over the other two corners; this third corner will be inside out.

3.Bring the last corner up, and fold it over the others so it is right side out

4.Once all the corners are together in your left hand, switch it to your right hand and straighten out the bottom with your left hand. If all the corners are together the right way the rest of it should be easy to shake out and flatten.

5.Fold the strip of fabric into a rectangle. Continue folding until the rectangle is the size you want.

THANK YOU MARTHA STEWART- this changed my life!!!

Christmas Festivities!!

Decorating the tree...

Follow the Star...

Candy Cane Lane....

Gardner Family Christmas Party...

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Christmas...

nana and papa had been up since 5am apparently

it was a little early for mommy and daddy

Chloes 2nd BIRTHDAY!!!

We had a birthday party at our house for Chloe's birthday!!!!! We had a Shamu bounce house and I made Chili and hot dogs (I asked Chloe what she wanted at her party and she said "food" I asked her what kind and she said "hot gogs", I came up with the chili for the adults) Chloe loves Shamu and we went to Seaworld a few days before, she was thrilled with the Shamu whales at the top of her bounce house!

Chloe got embarassed while everyone was singing to her and she started smushing her face all around!

One of Abe friends said " Are you guys really going to serve a bunch of kids chili and then put them in a bounce house? Are you crazy?" hahaha...I didn't think about it like that!

Noelle and Chloe like to dress up and this is how they came out the other day! SO CUTE!

Merry Christmas!!! ho ho ho

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Number 3 is on its way!

I am pregnant! Mommy, Daddy, Noelle, Chloe plus baby makes 5!!!!! We are all really excited and looking forward to July 30, 2010 when this baby will join our no longer little family!!! We will not be finding out what this baby is ahead of time so it will be a surprize whether the girls will get a baby brother or sister!  I knew I was pregnant really early this time so it might even be twins! oh my! I will keep you posted!

extended versionROAD TRIP!!!

Abe always looks at my blog and tells me to write more...so I am adding some stories in this color.

This was the most awesome trip! The California Coast is so beautiful. We took six days and drove up to San Francisco. The driving was one of the best part, once all our electronic devices ran out of batteries! Abe and I got to listen to our girls talk in their sleep!!!!! Noelle said "Lizards, and Mommy has frogs all over"  and Chloe fell asleep while meowing like a cat, she would randomly let out a very drowsy slurred string of meows!! I tried to get it on video but to no avail. We did a lot of driving but these are the adventures we had along the way:

SAND DUNES!

Abe and I wore ourselves out trying to get pictures of each other flying through the air. Abe's jumps were very impressive. Me on the other hand, I would run full force to the edge, skid to a stop, flail my arms in the air and scream dramatically to disquise the fact that I only got 2 inches off the ground ( you try running off the edge of a cliff) ...the pictures are pretty amusing-hence why they are NOT shown here! The girls were sliding all over the place and left the dunes looking like sugar donuts.

MORRO BAY!!

ELEPHANT SEALS!!

it was sooooo cold, Noelle cried the whole time but when we got home I asked her what her favorite thing was and she said the elephant seals!

BEAUTIFUL PLACES!!!

REDWOODS!!!!

Noelle and Chloe spent the whole hike looking for elves.  Noelle only let us all whisper the entire time( 45minutes) because she did not want to scare them away.  We found where they ate, and slept, their little hats and even heard some giggles~

FAIRYLAND!!!

This place is about 60 years old and it looks it!! all the paint was coming off all the rides and the story boxes voices where waining~ The girls did not notice a bit, it was a great place to let your imagination run wild!

NOELLES FIRST HAIRCUT..AND WE STRAITENED CHLOES HAIR!!!

FUN WITH AVERY!!!!

and that concludes my longest post ever....it was a busy week!