Right Now I Love....

Just a few random things that I love right now...

1- I love that Kaden can sit in a high chair and play with toys while I do the dishes.
2- I love that Abby is finally potty trained. (yahoo!)
3- I love my Primary calling.
4- I love it that dinner got made and it's all cleaned up. (at least for one day)
5- I love it when my kids finally go to sleep and I can watch what I want to watch on TV.
6- I love Kaden's little toes and dimples.
7- I love to play my new electronic piano.
8- I love that Abby fell asleep on the couch so I don't have the dreaded task of getting her to go to bed! She did it all on her own.
9- I loved it when the phone rang at 5:45 this morning informing me that school was closed today so that I could turn off my alarm and sleep in!
10- I love that I have a new book to read. I'm going to snuggle in my covers and start!

Candy Land

I've decided that playing Candy Land with a two year old is much better than playing with a 6 or even an 8 year old. We've been working on colors and shapes so I thought that Candy Land would be a great game. Abby was so excited about picking a card and then telling me what color it was. She was almost to the end when she picked the gingerbread man. Now for those of you who haven't played Candy Land in a while, the gingerbread man is all the way back at the beginning. Now the boys would have thrown a minor fit about the game not being fair, but not Abby. Boy she was so excited about that gingerbread man, she was more than willing to move her piece...it made me chuckle! Ah, isn't nice to play when it doesn't matter who wins?

Oh What Fun

Grampa came to stay the night at our house this last weekend after a business trip brought him to Texas! Oh what fun for the kids to be able to play with Grampa! Abby was delighted that he hopped right up on the trampoline with her.

We were talking about how when we were young, our grandparents looked old and decrepit. Well, not our grampa! He's still young and vibrant and will jump on the tramp with my little Abby! How we love you Dad. Thanks for visiting!

I'm growing

After having to reschedule 3 times at the doctor, Kaden finally made it in for his 4 month check up. He's growing like a weed and is as healthy as can be. He weighs 15 pounds now and is in the 75 percentile for length so he pretty long. Ryan was thrilled. He's hoping that we'll have a basketball player yet. Ethan isn't really interested in sports. Josh is only so-so. Ryan feels that he as failed them as a father :-) But here's to hoping.

Kaden is as cute as can be. He's a really good baby. Full of smiles and giggles and usually only cries if he's rolled onto his tummy...he doesn't like that much, but he does it ALL THE TIME! You'd think that he would figure it out, but he continues to roll! Maybe after a while the excitment of rolling over will die off...but then he'll be sitting up and then crawling. Oh my, does it ever stop? I don't want him to grow up anymore!

Free Fun

There is nothing better than a really big box to play in. Josh, Ethan and Abby had so much fun with this box. First they used it as a slide, then it became a car and then a club house. They spent days coloring it and having me cut out windows. It was great fun but I hated having it just laying around on the living room floor. I finally threw it out...sort of. It's now a really big box taking up space in my garage. One of these days, I'll try to shove it in my recycle can.

Oops....

Who left the cereal down where Abby could get it??? Oh, um, I guess that was me...fidget, fidget. I guess she was hungry!

Late Christmas Pictures

Christmas morning! It really did happen. I'm sure that many of you thought that I was making it up, but here are the pictures to prove that the kids indeed had a visit from Santa because they were good this year!

We had a nice morning. My kids don't get up early in anticipation. (But isn't that what makes Christmas so exciting? I think they are missing something!) Anyway, I think Abby wandered into my room at about 7:45 and we ended up waking Josh up at 8:00. We saw what Santa brought and had a nice big brunch of pancakes, eggs, bacon, and hashbrowns. If it were just up to me, I'd have cinnamon rolls every Christmas morning. That just seems like Christmas to me....

The kids played, and played some more and I think that they were happy with the gifts that they got! Hooray. A big relief!

We topped of the evening with a wonderful turkey dinner with all the fixin's. Oh and don't forget the chocolate pie for dessert. That's the best part (in my opinion.)

Christmas...a tad late

Here are the boys at our ward Christmas dinner. The Primary put on the program and the boys were citizens of Bethlehem. Notice the belts around their heads? I couldn't think of anything else to keep the towels on with. Of course later I thought that old ties would have worked better...but hey, I do what I can!

Okay so I have to re-download my camera software onto my computer to post our other Christmas pictures. Is it worth it? Downloading the software eventually--yes. Posting our Christmas pictures so late that people think that I'm a little crazy...Probably not so much. Sorry Mom and Dad!

Weather Alert

I was just looking at the weather and I noticed that there was a severe weather alert. Curiously, I started to read. Our severe weather was a "fire watch." Apparently things are dry enough with just enough wind to constitute problems for fire.

Now, I'm really liking the no snow thing here in Texas, but a fire watch has almost pushed me over the edge. That just shouldn't happen in January. That's just wrong.....all wrong!

Yippy Skippy!

My computer is fixed! It's been pretty much dead these last two weeks. It would freeze before I even had time to boot up anything. Ryan entered in safe mode, saved my pictures and some files and zapped everything else. We're in the process of re-installing Microsoft Office and other programs but my internet works! Yay. I can finally post some Christmas pictures and share our adventures this last week! Because I know that you've all been dying to know how we spent our Christmas holiday. :-) Well probably not...maybe just Grandma and Grandpa! But pictures will be coming so be on the look out!

Happy New Years!

It's January 1, 2009! It doesn't seem any different except I slept in a little later than usual. We had a nice New Year's Eve bash last night. We played games, watched movies and had lots of treats...as it should be on the last day of the year.

Ethan was curious about New Years Eve.
Me: "We're having a party tonight. We get to eat lots of treats and stay up until midnight."
Ethan: "Well, what do you do at midnight?"
Me: "You get to yell "Happy New Year! because it's the first day of 2009."
Ethan: "That's dumb!"

Yeah, I guess it is kind of dumb, but we enjoy it anyway.

At 9:30 Ethan informed us that he wanted to take a rest! We got his mind off of "resting" by eating some treats. At about 10:00 he was eating slightly frozen cream puffs and told me that the cold was making him sleepy. Finally at 10:55 he gave in to his drifting and zonked out. Abby made it till 9:45 and Kaden finally went to sleep at 9:50.

Josh stayed up till 12 (if we would let him, he would stay up that late every night.) He banged on pots and pans and yelled Happy New Year outside and watched some of the fireworks from the window. I guess he had a good time. I was about ready to zonk myself by 12. Ryan wanted to start another movie at 11:00 and I said heck no! I'd be asleep before we even got through the previews! I'm not a night owl, nor am I a morning person. But I made it and had a nice evening!