Christmas Morning

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Grandma and Grandpa B came from AZ to spend Christmas with us and the boys really enjoyed that. We went out on Christmas Eve and drove around at looked at all of the lights. We even found a house that had all of it's lights set to music. You tuned your radio to a specific station and the music played in you car while you watched the lights. It was really cool. Then we went home and had hot chocolate and then it was time for the boys to go to bed so Santa could come. They were very excited this year and could hardly sleep. Dylan came to see us about 3 am and I told him to go back to bed until 6. He was back again about 5:45. They were ready to go right at 6 am. After presents we spent the day playing with all of our new gifts. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

The boys waiting to see what Santa brought.
Yea!! We got what we wanted.
Dylan with an AZ cardinal shirt w/ his name on the back

Jaxon got a new bike with handle brakes.

Thanks G and G Green for the game!
Ally got some tights from G and G B
By far Jaxon's favorite gift... Bakugon
Thanks G and G Green for the radio.

To cold to go to school?

This post is for our family and friends back in AZ. After having a snow day last week for what seemed like no apparent reason I thought for sure the kids would have at least a two hour delay this morning. It snowed all morning yesterday and then in the afternoon the sun came out just enough to melt the snow so it could freeze again overnight. When I went to bed at midnight I thought we would have a nice lazy morning and I could sleep in today. No such luck. Not only did we have to get up on time it was FREEZING outside. When the boys left for school it was -3 degrees. The news said it was -18 with the windchill although it didn't seem to windy to me. I bundeld the kids up before they left and they didn't seem to mind the cold. It has warmed up a little, as of now it is 2 degrees. As I am sure you have guessed my day will be spent cuddling with Ally on the couch!!! Lucky for me I have the Survivor finale on tivo! Anybody who hasn't seen it come on over!!

The boys on the way to school.

Ally's Photo Session

Lucky for me I have an awesome friend who happens to be really good at taking pictures. Not only that but she loves to take pictures of Ally. So instead of going out to get Ally's pictures taken we had a photo shoot at our house.Ally is three months old now. She is still a happy baby and has just discovered her tongue. She loves to stick it out and the boys think it is hilarious. She definitely has all of us wrapped around her little fingers! Thanks to Rachael for all of the great pictures!!!! I also have to say thanks to Rachael for the header on my blog. She happened to take all three of those pictures and put the header together for me!! What would I do without her?? The photo's below speak for themselves.

This last one was not taken by Rachael but I thought it was cute.

Catching Up

Well it's been a while since my last blog so here's what's been happening with us. Brandon took a day off of work a few weeks ago and the boy's had a day out with dad. They each got to pick one thing they wanted to do. Dylan choice was to go to build a bear workshop and Jaxon wanted to go hiking. It was a little chilly so we tried to talk him out of that but had no luck. The weather turned out to be O.K. and they had a great time. They left after breakfast and by 5 p.m. Ally and I were feeling kind of lonely and were looking forward to them coming home. We had spent the day at home keeping warm and reading a book. Well I was reading and Ally was sleeping!! Here are some pictures of the boys fun day.

Jax with his bear, Tom Brady and

Dylan with his bear Dilly

They boys hiking at Garden of the Gods. Dylan climbing up the rocks.

Jax striking a pose.

After Garden of the Gods the guys drove about an hour away and went hiking in the woods. They came across this tepee and the boys thought it was really cool.

We haven't had much snow this year so the boy's have been waiting patiently to go sledding. We finally had a pretty good snow storm and Brandon took the boys to the school to sled down the hill. They have been asking for a snowboard but I think we will stick with the sleds for at least one more year. Once again Ally and I stayed nice and warm at home. She's still a little young to be out on the hills. Maybe next year!

Even though Ally wasn't able to go sledding I had to get a picture of her with the boys in the snow.

Although we haven't had much snow we have had some cold days. One day this week when the boys left for school it was only 10 degrees outside. The boys didn't seem to mind at all. Of course I decided the errands I had to run could wait another day!! I case you haven't noticed a theme, when it is REALLY cold outside or snowing I stay nice and warm inside. I guess that's what happens when you grow up in AZ!