Stuck in the Snow

Brody had a brilliant idea.
Ahhhhh!
Crash.
You were watching me the whole time?
Stupid tricycle.
Come on Teagan, let's go do something else.
That's better. Snow shovel rides.

New Years in Spokane

We spent New Years with Papa Nick and Lola in Spokane. The boys had a blast and we all braved the weather and had a great time!
Papa Nick got the boys lightsabers...which were a huge hit! And they made knight helmets out of milk jugs. Too fun!

This is the best pic I got of Papa Nick (leather jacket) and Lola (red sweater). Sorry! I kinda slacked with the whole picture taking during our WA trip....don't know why! Regretting it now!

Happy #3 Birthday Brody!

Our sweet little Brody Bug turned 3 the end of December, and since we were in WA, we had a combined birthday party with my nephew, Cooper. And cheesecake for the birthday cake! Yum! Although, Brody wanted a dinosaur cake....but his other G'parents are coming up this weekend, so we might have a little belated party for him with a dinosaur cake.
Woohoo! Star Wars movies!
Happy to finally be 3!

It's a BOY!

In case some of you haven't heard....we are expecting baby #4 in May. We tried to keep it at least confined to our Utah family and friends for the first 20 weeks, so we could surprise our Washington family in person over Christmas. We are excited and planning on being complete after this little boy is born!

Gingerbread House

This is Teagan's gingerbread house that he made all by himself in Kindergarten one day last week. He was very proud of it...and plans to eat it on Christmas. (yuck)

The Makings of a Snowman

This is the view from our living room window. Happy children at play.
Kamryn and I enjoyed watching the boys out the window, but enjoying the warm house together.
Teagan nibbling on a piece of Frosty.
It didn't take long to convince Daddy to join the fun.
Team work.
The finished project. 'Frosty.'

Beginnings of Winter

This was our first good snow. And the boys really went to town.
There was no prompting from mom in their ideas of snow play. They knew exactly what to do.
Kamryn sitting on our ornament box really interested in our Christmas tree. She sat there for a good hour....looking at the lights, trying to touch the ornaments and beads, and enjoying it to pieces.

Thanksgiving

We were able to travel south for Thanksgiving to see Gma and Papa at the ranch. This is one place that the children truly love! They were able to climb on the big stack of hay....
feed cows....
Teagan searching for more cows, including a new mama with her baby (which we didn't find)......
Kamryn excited about everything going on.....
feed the horses....
and riding Sultan. Teagan knew that he didn't need someone holding him on...he just had a nice grip on Sultan's mane and was off.
Brody has an interesting look in this pic...but seriously loved every second of his ride as well.
And Kamryn could not get enough of the horse ride. She even rocked her body back and forth to get the horse to move. Too cute.

And this was all the first day of our trip. We were also able to see great gma, aunt leathra, and other uncles, aunts, and cousins. It was a very successful trip!

Fall Fun

So we kind of put off raking the leaves until it was really snowing! And , of course, the boys thought they needed to help. I'm not sure how much help they really are when they jump in the piles that John creates, but still.
Lounging on the bags of leaves.

Halloween

Jack-O-Lantern posing - take 1.
Take 2.
Obi-Wan Kenobi aka Teagan.
Qui-Gon Jinn aka Brody....although, Brody was just getting over his spell with H1N1...so he didn't get to go out trick-or-treating. :o( We may hit a few friends' houses later this week. He didn't even cry....what a good sport.

Happy #1 Birthday Kamryn!

Happy Birthday to ME!!!
She loved her presents.
She loved unwrapping them.
Teagan thought the whole cake thing was hilarious.
Kamryn loved her cake. So basically....she loved her birthday! Both boys ended up crying or really not enjoying their first cake, but Kamryn dug right in and enjoyed every bite.

Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Cow Train

The boys also loved this.
Brody was very excited to do it all by himself.