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!