Playing Hard

We have had beautiful days here. We are enjoying the sunshine. We have been enjoying biking and picnicing. We love the spring here in Texas!

Taking time out to relax. I was suprised to see them just laying around, but they were up soon, to start to make messes.

We put together a bed for Aunt Jenny. This is the box from the bed.

My boys like to play this little tackle game. It is so funny and so far no tears from it.

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The snow is now melted, so now we are back to having fun in other ways.

We were trying to make it more comfortable for Aunt Jenny so we set up a different bed for her. The old bed we had to use for fun. The boys were crazy running up it and rolling back down. They were also using it as a slide.

Dallin was crazy he could not get enough of it. I thought with all of this the boys should sleep well.

Dallin is teething which is why his cheeks are so red.

We also went sledding last weekend with Dad and friends. We had a great time! We had to travel to find a hill. We don't have too many hills here that are good for sledding, well at least good for my standards. :) Sorry the video is sideways. I didn't mean to do that.

SNOW!!!!

I was so happy to see all this great snow!!! It is the perfect snow, where it builds up in the right places. The mail man stopped by to take a picture for us. He was so nice.

Joshua was making his first snow angel. The snow kept falling in his eyes. As you can see we don't have snow pants anymore. We just had to make do. I really had to beg Joshua to come in everytime. He is loving it! He is my Idahoan!

Dallin didn't get as much hands on but had a good time trudging through the snow. He even helped build the tunnel. We had friends come over to help with the tunnel, which collapsed on us. We are supposed to go back out after nap time to fix it. We just can't get enough of this fun fun snow!

We built a snow man. Joshu and Dallin helped build it. We had a great morning! I love the snow! I have missed it snow! Aunt Jenny wasn't so thrilled, but she doesn't know what life is like without snow yet.

Little of this and a Little of that

My boys sure are cute!

This is Joshua's new Sunday outfit, it wouldn't move down with Dallin's Sunday outfit, so you get to look at it first. He is so handsome! He loves Sunbeams and his wonderful teacher.

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I tell my boys to eat in the kitchen or dining room. They sit in the living room right next to the dining room thinking all is ok. I do love how they sit together and love to spend time together. I just wish that they would move four feet to the left, to eliminate mess on my carpet.

My boys love to use my ladles as golf clubs and they go around hitting the baseball like they are golfing. they have a great time. Kids are so creative. Why buy them golf clubs when they can just make up their own. :) They are using their imagination which I love!

We went to a Primary Activity on Saturday. It was Joshua's first one. He did great. He is growing up so fast.

We watched some of our friend's kids on Saturday. We had a great time. Michael lined them up on the couch to watch a movie. He was so excited to watch the movie himself! The kids watched a little but mainly just played around. They play so well together. We sure do love them.

On Sunday we went to Chruch and then went to a Superbowl Party! We had a great time! We thank our wonderful friends for the food and letting us use their home. Our kids did so great, and had such a great time.

Dad

Dad is the favorite. Every night after work the boys hear the door unlocking and rush to see Dad. Dad has to hold both of them in his lap. My boys love Dad so much, he is so good to them. They look forward to him coming home every night. I usually try to make it easy on Michael since the boys crowd him so much when he is home by having them in their PJs and all ready for bed.

Dallin gets really sad in the mornings when he misses Dad. He will go from room to room looking for Dad. On days that he does wake up in time to see Dad off he grabs his shoes and wants to go too! He will walk around with his shoes, and say "GO" "Shoes". Michael finally just gave in the other day and put on his shoes. He was happy to have his shoes on, but that didn't ease the pain of Dad leaving. He will watch out the window as Dad leaves.

The boys get over it fast when Dad is gone, and get right to stirring up trouble. Yes, we do have blocks for our kids to play with, but for some reason it is not as fun as emptying the spice cupboard. I also had to clean up a huge mess of salt after this. Gotta love these boys!

Wedding

Welcome Jason to the family. I hope they are happy together.

Good times in New York with good friends! I am so blessed!

It was a crazy weekend. It was my first weekend away without the boys! I did miss them, but did have a good time. I went to New York to visit Caroline who then came with me to my sister's wedding in Virginia. We watched Kira get married and dropped my parents off at the aiport. It was so fast. I wish we all could have had more time. Michael did well with the boys. My boys had a good time.

My Boys

I just thought I would show my cute boys in some of their new Christmas outfits and pajamas. They are doing well. Dallin is big in throwing big fits, but when he is happy he is so cute! He is using his words a little more and becoming quite a climber.

Joshua is doing well too. He is a sunbeam now and his teacher said he did great in class. He has been helpful lately with Dallin as in taking off shoes and getting things. Those days are nice.

My boys are always running around. They never seem to stay still although on the wii fit Joshua loves the zen game where you have to sit and watch the flame. I don't know if he loves it because it is simple or if he just loves to see how long he can sit still.

We played Candyland for Family Night. The boys had a good time. Dad won.

My boys in their cute pajamas. I hope the grow up to be great men. I was thinking about who they will turn out to be. I hope that they will always have the self confidence to be themselves. I know I will teach them the values I just hope that they will always be able to feel proud of who they are and where they come from. All too often we feel ashamed for making good choices. I just want my boys not to feel all that peer pressure to do what they know if wrong. I hope they have the strength to make the good choices even when it is most difficult. Only time will tell I guess. All I can do is my best. We each have our agency.

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year. We are working on getting in better shape this year budget and body. :) I guess most people have those goals, I also want to work on food storage. We will see what happens. Jen, my sister just moved in with us. We love having her here. We wish her the best of luck in her new job.

We also just had a our two year anniversary of living in Texas! We are loving it, and love our wonderful friends we have met here.