Oh What do you do in the winter time?

Winter is full of long, cold days that keep us in the house. These are some of the things we have been doing to pass the time. Spiderman and Ironman had a full out wrestling match/battle of the superheroes. I think Spiderman is winning at this point.

You pose for the camera.

You are forced (by your sisters) to listen to "We Will Rock You" with your own headphones so the rest of us don't have to listen to it for the millionth time.

You make a tractor/train while mom mops the floor.
You play Mrs. Puddleduck in your preschool play.
"Quack quack white rabbit, get those dreadful red wings out of my mouth."
You wake up excited Valentines morning to some large chocolate lips and one chocolate fish.
You become a picasso in your own right, wearing old t-shirts of moms. You also get more paint on your face than the t-shirt.
You get caught drinking your bath water. Ewww.
You ride your bikes in the garage, because frankly, we are just sick of the snow and cold and couldn't wait any longer.
You have a picnic in the garage as well, willing better weather to come.
Here's to getting through a cold March!

In-laws

I have to say, I have the best in-laws. I hear lots of complaints from friends about their in-laws and I feel so lucky because I really have the greatest in-laws. This is the most recent picture of everyone is Josh's family, minus the two babies that will be born this year, (none coming from me).

We always have a good time when we get together which seems to be quite often. There is always much laughter and good memories made. Whether its playing cards or making up our own games with a scattergories dice it is always a blast. I am very thankful for a great mother and father in-law that have always treated me just like one of their own. And his siblings for being some of my best friends.

I don't know how many of them read this blog, but this is me, telling them how much I love them and appreciate them. Here's to at least 100 more years of good times.

Play Dead

We did go to temple square during Christmas. The girls saw some older college age girls taking a picture and decided to copy them. They thought they were so cute and so did I.

January was long and cold. But these first few days of February have been even colder. Luckily, the groundhog did not see his shadow. So according to Presley spring is here. She was so excited yesterday and doesn't understand that an early spring in Wyoming means that June might be warm. Oh well, we will take that.

Not much has been going on. Josh only has two more tournaments for wrestling that he has to go to, regionals and nationals. College wrestling has a very long season. The kids and I have been going to basketball games wherever we can find them, college or high school. Teag loves it and has now adopted "We will rock you" as his "game song." His words, not mine. He also has a "game shirt" (basketball jersey/ tank top with numbers on it, whichever is clean) that he wears everyday and night. Its awesome, let me tell you.

In January we did make a quick trip to Gunnison CO, Kenady's birthplace, as it was dubbed by the kids. Josh had a wrestling tournament there so we decided to make it a weekend for all of us. It was fun to see some of our old friends and eat at some of our favorite restaurants. The kids didn't have as much fun as Josh and I but, hey, its not always about them right?

This video is of Teag playing dead. He is quite good at it and will drag it on for a while. He had a little bit of flatulence in the middle of this video, but just ignore that. He is such a funny little boy. We love every minute of it.

Here's to a warmer February.

Christmas rocks!

Christmas was fabulous this year. We loved every minute of it. As the kids get older it is even more fun for Josh and I during Christmastime. They love all the traditions and look forward to them now. For the last 4 years we have got together with our good friends for Christmas eve dinner and festivities. This is a picture of all the kids. It was the best one we got so we went with it.

This was a family picture taken that night. As you can see, Josh was not cooperating, so as punishment I posted this picture. I can't believe he is 32 and still cannot take a serious picture. Maybe by the time he is 40, doubt it though.
These are our good friends and party animals. This year we had clam chowder, salad, garlic cheese rolls and mud pie for dinner. It was delicious.
Kenady took her turn with the camera that night.
This was after the kids opened up their PJs on Christmas eve. Teag also got a pillow pet to match the girls' that they've had a couple years. He was super pumped. In fact, the kids were so excited at this point I wasn't sure how they would handle it in the morning.
Again with their pillow pets.
Next morning, they woke us up at 7:20. Not too bad compared to how early I used to get up when I was growing up (5:00am). But this is the first year that we haven't had to wake them up . This is Kenady showing off her paper jamz.
Presley with her nutcracker. Weird that she wanted one, right?

After most of the presents were opened.
Christmas was great. We got to participate in a few Christmas concerts, see temple square and the visitors centers which the kids loved, make tons of Christmas treats and candies, receive tons of Christmas treats and candies, and even got to remember the reason for the season. I know this blog seems a little late since it is the 6th of January (gasp) but this is just how I roll with blogging. Hope all your Christmas's were wonderful and are having a great New Year so far.

Teag's Birthday, a little late.

Teag's birthday was October 29th but Josh and I put on a big event that day so we didn't actually celebrate it until November 9th or something like that. Here is Teag with his Thomas the Train cake that I made him. He loved it, (well at least as much as a 2-year old can appreciate the 6 hours his mother put in to making this cake, which isn't very much.)

I thought it turned out ok. It was red velvet with cream cheese frosting and the cake actually tasted fabulous, especially the next day straight from the fridge, Delicious. I love cold cake!
This random picture is Teag "helping" me with a wedding cake I did recently. He definetly made more of a mess than I did and that is saying a lot when I 'm doing a big cake.
This is Teag checking out his present. We actually got him a Thomas the Train track set. It is huge and very cool but I'm sure what I was thinking getting it for a 2 year old. We set it all up for him and he was like Godzilla. He would just walk through the roads and tracks and ruin everything. He mostly just plays with the train seperately. So I got him this cheap truck to open for his birthday party.
Awesomely enough, this truck has noisy buttons, and it dances to "Life is a Highway." Literally the truck dances, it moves forward and backward to the beat. So we got to hear that for at least the next week straight.
This is a bonus picture of the kids in our tub. Teag "accidently" dumped half the bottle of his shampoo in my tub, so I turned on the jets just to see what would happen, and wa-laa! Bubble mania.

The kids had a blast for the better part of an hour. There was actually only about 5 inches of water in the tub and the rest was completely filled with bubbles.

Hope your holidays are going great!

More Halloween

Its been a great month full of candy, pumpkins and parties. This is my cute little Thomas.

Carving pumpkins with friends for FHE.
My brother and his wife and daughter. We were getting ready to head to our annual Halloween party.
Presley all dressed up at her school Halloween party.
All of the girls her her class dressed up like a princess. It looked like very coordinated even though it wasn't.
Taking a break after trick or treating around the room.
Night of Trunk or treating. Posing for the camera, Mya, Dax, Teag, Presley and Kenady.

Cute Girl!

Ready for Candy
Our friends kept the decorations up from the adult party we had the weekend before and we all brought out kids back to have a little party. There was dancing, pinatas and doughnut games. Our kids had a blast. There were little dancing machines.
Teag found a gun at their house and was shooting everyone. Whenever he would shoot me though, he would say, I'm sorry mommy" and give me a kiss. What a sweet boy.
Cheeser Presley.
The Loot
More Loot
Good Halloween. Glad that week is over. Halloween was the easiest thing we did but still a very busy week. Bring on Thanksgiving!

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