Here are a few videos from sledding. One of them is Matt's sister and the other is, of course, Jackson.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Sledding
Cool stuff
Christmas
It's always fun to watch the kids opening presents. They always want to play with whatever one they open - they don't even care about the rest. It was a good, quiet Christmas at home. It was nice to not be traveling through any mountain passes or busy airports. It was sad to not be with more family though. I look forward to the upcoming family reunions so we can travel when the weather is better.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Let it snow!
We have gotten quite a bit of snow over the past few days - about 8 inches I think. The kids are lovin' it. Even Hailey gets out in it but I'm not sure I would say she is lovin' it. She tolerates it - for a little while. She like her little sled as long as it is moving.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Holiday lights
This one says - Reindeer Flight School - as you can see he hasn't quite gotten the hang of it.
The kids love to look around and see if they can figure out the different groupings - which generally means 4-5 trips around the loop (much to Matt's dismay). They also had a couple of real reindeer that we got out to see but I didn't take any pictures of those. I should take a picture of the lights on our house..... although they are pretty sparse.
Mouse House
I was cleaning up the other day and the mouse ears from the dress-up box happened to be out so I put them on Hailey. Maggie thought that was great so she wanted to be a mouse too. Maggie also had her "princess" shirt from the dress up box.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Snowman
We finally got some more snow! Jackson headed right out and started on a snowman. He made this one all by himself - from start to finish! It's amazing how capable and independent he is getting! My little boy is growing up :)
Christmas is coming!
Wow, Hailey!
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Rocket motor test fire
We went to another test fire at Matt's work today. We had a nice parking spot so we just opened up the back of the car and had lunch while we watched. It made the car vibrate as it burned. It's really a pretty cool thing to see. I'm sure an actual shuttle launch is much cooler but for now .... this is as good as it gets. The kids enjoyed it. Jackson kept asking when it was going to take off and Maggie kept saying she didn't like the car wiggling.
New Car
Well - here is our new car. It's a 2005 Honda Pilot. It has a 3rd row seat so it can fit 8 people. I have decided that there is just no easy way to use a 3rd row - but it's very nice to have the extra room. Now we just have to figure out a good car seat arrangement....... At first the kids had a hard time adjusting to the idea of a new car - I don't think we warned them very well. Jackson cried for awhile over the idea of losing the blue saturn but now he has decided that we should keep the bigger one. Especially since we are going to start taking one of his friends to preschool with us - a girlfriend apparently - "Mom, Brooklyn just said she's in love with me." I asked "what does that mean?". He said "it just means she likes me". I said "How do you feel about that?" He said "It's ok". Ah, young love.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Trampoline tricks
We have had beautiful fall days recently so I have been trying to get the kids outside a lot. It works fine if I go with them.....
Treehouse
Finally a finished treehouse! Matt finished this a few weeks ago. It's nice to not have to worry about kids climbing up there and falling through rotting boards. What a great husband and Dad. I think he's a keeper!
More Hailey
I know there are a lot of pictures of Hailey - for a few reasons - she can't run away from the camera yet and she is constantly changing. I will keep working on the others.....
Monday, November 17, 2008
Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Maggie gets a haircut
The first picture was that morning before she got it cut. She was so good the entire time. She just sat and watched in the mirror as the lady cut her hair- although I think it helps that our neighbor has a hair salon in her house and works from home (and is also the mom of one of Jackson's friends...) so Maggie knows her fairly well. Still, she is so different from Jackson who wiggles and whines that it tickles his neck..... I expected her to be terrible - she is 2, and acts like it :) most of the time.
It is a lot easier to brush her hair now and it doesn't have to have a clip of some sort in it all the time to keep it out of her face. She wants to get her hair cut again.
Also surprising - we took her to the dentist the other day for a checkup - and she was great. She lay right down on the chair and let them clean and look at her teeth. No complaints at all. Huh. I thought it would be a battle. Shows what I know!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Hailstorm
Monday, November 3, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Mark and Amy visit!
Kiddos
The red mark on her chin is from a sidewalk crash. She has had a number of those lately.
Hailey
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Snow Day
We looked out after the kids had been playing a little while and Jackson had managed to make this huge snowman ball all by himself!!
This is our snowman. Jackson dubbed him 'snowy'.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
One tired kiddo!
Costume parade
Hailey as a giraffe.
Hailey as a ladybug.
Jackson as Jango Fett (Star Wars character)
The kids love costumes and October is always fun as we try to decide what everyone will be for Halloween. They love to try on different things as the month goes by - we have quite a well stocked costume box (thanks, Gram :) ). So who knows what they will actually be when Halloween comes around. Jackson wore the Jango Fett for days on end when he got it but now isn't quite so interested....... and after we made guns from toilet paper rolls and a gun belt from duck tape too!