Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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!