Snowman

Okay, on Thursday the weather (finally) warmed up a bit and melted and packed the snow. Therefore, it was a perfect time to build a snowman. Travis and I were taking a nap so there are only finished product pictures here.

Brian said Trevor wanted to immediately crush the snowman after building it so he had to convince him not to by rolling up another big ball of snow and crushing it.

Can you believe we did not see any other snowmen?!?

Happy new year, everyone. May we all be blessed and privileged to get to know our God more intimately in 2009. In the words of Beth Moore, let's make it a Jesus-year!

Hebrews 12:2 (New International Version)
2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God

SNOW!!!!!!!

So, we went to Kansas for Christmas and there was snow on the ground when we got there and it snowed the second night (while we were sleeping). The boys were so very excited and played in it every day they could. The snow melted completely the day after Christmas (and boy was it messy). Here are (a lot) of my fave pictures. Yes, I was behind the camera and I was also off limits for snow balls.

"Now, where did that Trevor run off to?"

The biggest snowball ever!!!

Attack!!!

Much to our surprise, Travis really enjoyed playing in the snow. He usually does not like to be cold, but the wind was not blowing so I guess it did not bother him too much.

Sliding on the ice. Of course big brother got in on the action after this but I didn't get his picture for some reason.

Trevor said they were being snow monsters in this picture (stomp, stomp).

I meant for this to be the last picture, but I still haven't figured out in what order blogger downloads these things!

Watch out!!!

We had a good time and we are so thankful for safe trips to and from Kansas. Look for more posts later this week. Lots of pics to go through from Christmas.

Cookies

Okay, the kids are watching Max & Ruby and Grant is still snoozing. I uploaded these pics earlier this AM (and it took forever). During the week of Thanksgiving my brother and his family and Mom and Bobby (I first typed Booby ha-ha) were here and on Tuesday we made cookies. Lots of fun, but, again, I am so like my mother and too impatient. I'm afraid to pray for patience because I just might get what I prayed for! But I guess I'm getting it anyway with 3 little kids at my house all day! Just a note: Aunt Melissa made the dough Monday so we did not have to suffer through that (Thank you, Aunt Melissa:)!

First, rolling out the dough and cutting out the cookies:

Okay, I promise it wasn't scary and I wasn't getting too impatient at this point. Just liked this pic; Trevor is such a poser.



This is Aunt Melissa with Travis; now she has patience.

Ain't that the sweetest face!?! I think this one deserves a spot on the fridge;)

Grammie and Jonathan; Grammie has much more patience with her grandkids!!

This is Beth; she's 10 and can do her own dough (yeah!).

Second, decorating the cookies:

Oh, boy.

Trevor loved drawing with the icing but did not like to eat it.

Third, the finished product:

Fourth, eating the cookies:

Yum, Yum!

I love this picture of Booby, I mean, Grampie!

Hope you all enjoyed this culinary display of rolling, cutting, decorating and eating sugar cookies. We sure enjoyed making them and I did not get impatient this time. I guess it helps to have good helpers like Aunt Melissa and Grammie around. One more thing, I didn't take a picture but graceful Rachel spilled about 2.5 pounds of Gold Medal all-purpose flour all over the table, rug and a few unbaked, cut-out but not decorated cookies. Maybe that's why I have such little patience for these kinds of things! Oh, well! Thank You, Lord for inventing the vacuum cleaner!

Gingerbread House

Okay, folks! We are here! No time for catch-up today; maybe next week while Daddy's off work. Yesterday, the boys and I finally made our gingerbread house. Now, before you scroll over the pictures, just remember there were 2 young boys and a somewhat impatient mommy working on this house. Hence only the roof and "lawn" are decorated. Boy, was I glad when this was over! I think we'll take Grammie's advice and try those gingerbread trees next year! Don't let me fool you, though; all in all we had much fun.

I was proud of the boys for not eating any of the candy. The icing was another story, though. I guess they just couldn't resist.

The finished product. Not so bad, I guess; and we used all of the candy, too!

The following pictures were taken Sunday before church. The boys looked so handsome in their sweaters and I just couldn't resist since we had not taken any pics by the Christmas tree. These were the best 2 out of about 10. Lately, Travis is not very cooperative in front of the camera. Last weekend we took pictures for the church directory. It was quite an experience. Oh, well. At least Trevor never gives any trouble with pictures. He's always up to cheezin' in front of the camera!

What do ya think? Christmas card material?

I really hope to catch up on the blog next week some. I have lots of pictures and a few stories to tell. It just takes so long and as I was posting this entry I put Trevor in time out 2 times and have had to stop and discipline both boys at least 10 times! So frustrating! Oh well, at least I have 2 healthy, very active, wonderful boys to discipline. We are truly blessed.

Love you all!

The Boy was Hungry

The other day it took a little longer to make supper than what I had planned and Travis was tired of waiting.

After getting caught with the graham crackers and having them taken away, Travis waited until we were once again occupied with supper to go back into the pantry, close the door and partake of the dog food. Again. It is a reoccurring problem with him. Oh, well. At least it's the Lamb and Rice formula with Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Vitamin E for healthy skin and shiny coat. Also, it is 100% complete and balanced nutrition for all breeds. No wonder he has such great skin, huh! What can I say? The boy likes crunchy snacks. Have a great day everyone!

Where have you been?

In election land with a little side trip to bailout island! What happened to us!?! I thought only old people watched the news all the time.

Anyway, I'll try to tear myself from Fox news and post some pics over the next few days.

Here are some from a few weeks ago when the boys decided to play in the mud:

Look at those hands!
What a pose!
A not-so-shiny hiney.

That took some soakin' to get out!

Trevor dodged in the house and cleaned his face before I could get a picture of it covered in mud. I also have a good close-up of Travis' mouth but there's a big booger hanging out of his nose so I couldn't bring myself to put it out there for the whole world to see. Besides, it would drive me bonkers not being able to get it out of there! He had mud all around his mouth from eating it, YUCK!