James and Shannon's Wedding

Aaron got back from Turkey and a couple days later we headed out to CA for my brother's wedding. Here is Grandpa with all the grandkids.

While we were waiting for James and Shannon to come out of the temple, the boys ran around. Dylan loves Seth and Seth loves Dylan. My boys sure miss their cousins.

Here they are.

Happy couple.

With the niece and nephews.

Our family..after way too many pictures for the kids.

James with his nephews...minus Dylan, who was asleep. Dylan was the party animal...poor kid was stuck on Texas time.

We think Shannon is awesome and excited for her to be apart of the family.

What a difference a week makes

This was taken on 12/2...last Monday. Notice the temperature...81.9 degrees.


This was taken on 12/9...a week later from that 80 degree weather. Blake was super excited to find such a huge icicle, although he kept calling it a popsicle. So hopefully next Monday we can be back to normal temperatures. School was cancelled Friday, Monday and part of Tuesday (starting 2 hours later). Are Texans wimpy? Maybe, but there is serious ice on the roads still. Ice is so much more lame then snow. What fun is ice...other then super huge icicles? It is currently 19 degrees, so nothing like other places I know, but still cold and not warm enough to melt this ice. Last night, Blake discovered a dead bird on our front yard...it didn't survive the cold. The boys did think it was super cool though.

Ice, snow and more ice

We have been hit by a lovely winter storm. Wednesday it was 77 degrees and the next day the fun started.

So, we need to get some real gloves for Dylan and some warmer clothes because he was too cold. Friday when we went out to play, he didn't like it at all, but on Saturday, he had a blast....until he was too cold, then he went inside.

Blake helped me clear off the tramp.

Yep...this is some ice that was on a tree in the backyard. Pretty thick!

I think this is Dylan's first time seeing snow.

A picture from Dylan's room. Not a ton, but caused some damage. They said 270,000 people were (some still are) without electricity, a couple deaths, way too many flights cancelled, community activities cancelled, church cancelled, etc. The ice is a killer. The high yesterday was 25, so nothing is melting.

This was Thursday when it first started to ice/snow. Luckily we had some friends over Thursday morning to play because we haven't left our house since. We are going a little crazy.

Aaron, the one who is much more familiar with cold weather, is of course, in Turkey. Oh well, we took care of business. We had a lot of things planned to help keep us busy while Aaron was gone, but most of those things didn't happen because of the weather.

Christmas in the Square

Last night our city had a kick off to Christmas with a tree lighting ceremony, so we bundled up and went to check it out.


There were other activities to do on the square as well. The kids were pretty excited to see reindeer.



Can you look at this picture without laughing?


And there is the tree.



You could also go tubing. My midgets were both too short though.

It was cold, but warmer then it has been. Thanksgiving morning Aaron was able to play in the Turkey Bowl in chilly 24 degree weather.

Saturday

On Saturday, after the library, we headed to our favorite park. The boys were in heaven because there are plenty of leaves to play in.

He is such a little tease...won't let me take a picture of him sometimes. Before we went to the library, we went to the museum, which I will post soon.

Reading and Friends

Last weekend, we went to the library again because the boys were ready for more books. We brought them home and they immediately started "reading" them.


Monday morning, we were about ready to leave for school, when I get a text from a friend saying her house flooded the night before and asked me if I could watch her daughter. She got to go with us on our errands, which also included visiting teaching...but then we also got to play at our house. She is the easiest kid to watch...for a 3 year old (she is being potty trained, but did great at our house) and Dylan sure liked having a friend over.

Car Dealership

My car needed to be serviced, so I took it to our local dealership while Blake was in school. I love when Blake is in school because it is a lot easier to do things with only one kid. Anyway, they had a fun kids room.

It was fantastic. It made me happy because Dylan was happy.

After we got the car serviced, we picked up our turkey, then went to Blake's school to see his Thanksgiving Program. Dylan was not a happy kid, so I wasn't able to get a good picture of Blake, but here is the proof that we went.

Fun Day

On Tuesday, Blake comes in my room at 6...right after I finished my workout and he tells me that Dylan woke him up and Dylan is crying. I can't hear Dylan, so I finish getting ready and then I go check on him. He wasn't in his crib, but asleep in his curtains. Dylan can get out of his crib, but not in it, so apparently he got out of his crib, but was still tired and couldn't get back in his crib, so he fell asleep in his curtains. Who knew curtains were so comfortable?

Later that day, my friends met up with us at McDonald's to celebrate my birthday and well, to give me some adult conversation since Aaron is still in Turkey. Our kids played while we talked. They also gave me a yummy cake.

I might have had some help eating it.

Reading

We have 2 libraries in our city and we love both of them. One night I was cleaning up dinner and Blake was "reading" the new library books to Dylan. I wasn't sneaky enough with the camera.

Reason to like Preschool

 

Dylan is awesome at playing by himself, so he really likes it when Blake is at preschool so he can play by himself and not have anyone take toys away from him, etc.


And since midget isn't taking naps anymore, I like that he can play by himself so I can get stuff done that I normally would do during nap time. Who is excited for next year when Blake goes to Kindergarten? It would be so great if the kids could play well together for more then 5 minutes.