Snow Time

I am Not a Big Fan of the Snow. Getting all bundled up and looking like a big snowman yourself and then to top it off your get to FREEZE your butt off. It's just not my Cup of Tea. SO . . . my kids have not had the chance to play in it . . . yet. That is until Today. We ALL got bundled up and headed for our big backyard. We built a snowman and had a Chillin time :) Teigan could not wait to build it, and then try and knock it down. Skylee didn't want anything to do with the snow. She just wanted to swing in her swing and play in the sandbox. Definetly a Summer Girl!

Wishin and Hopein, Thinkin and Prayin

Nate is wishing he was doing this right now. His buddies left early this morning and he thought he had to work. Instead he's home with me. Thinking about Snowmobiling. :)

Dressed Up

This morning . . . Skylee showed me that she is a BIG GIRL! Getting dressed all be herself!

First her pants.

Then TT's pants

Getting dressed is hard work :)

Then her Hat and her favorite pink bra! I thought this was the funniest picture, I had to post it.

New Years Party!

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year. We certainly did!

Teigan and Skylee helped me "MAKE" brownies before our little New Year Party.
They are definetly Good HELPERS! They get the job done :)
We also made Nate's favorite SUGAR COOKIES, my favorite chicken salad, a veggie tray and Carmel FONDUE! Plus the other food, which we won't even mention because we had so much.
Skylee loves Jim. She wanted to sit right next to him, we had to put her chair up on the couch so she could be right next to him. That girl cracks me up some times.

Here's Don and Nate chilin out on the KIDS CHAIRS, playing the playstation. I do have to say, after this nice little picture . . . the guys had a nice detour down to Kendal's. Kendal came up here and through a fire cracker on our front lawn. So they decided to go over to his house and show him a Real FIRE CRACKER show in his backyard! Needless to say, they weren't here when the New Year started. I told Nate, I made out with myself . . . and it was pretty good! He thought that was pretty funny.

11pm rolled around and the kids were still kickin! They probably had more fun the we did!

Thanks to the Food Fun and Friendship we had a great time! I hope this New Year brings Greatnest to everyone. Happy New Year :)

Trying to be a Snow Bunny!

Nate recently got a new toy. Can you guess what it is?! Well yep its a Snowmobile. SO . . . before I said he could buy it, I told him there would be some terms and conditions. Here are the terms:

1. Every other time that he goes, I get to go.
2. For the same amount of time. (some exceptions.)
3. One time this winter we will go skiing.
4. Three times this summer we will go camping. ( REAL Camping!)

So the day after Christmas, we went night skiiing up at Bogus. First of all we both rented snowboards from Idaho Watersports, BIG Mistake! (Keep in mind that the only time I have been on a ski hill was about 10 years ago and only once.) How was I suppose to know wether I wanted skiis or a snowboard? Since all my sisters and brother all snowboard, and I wakeboard, I thought it wouldn't be bad, and I wanted to try to something different. ( I always gotta try something different) SO we get there and the first thing that I totally forgot about was the chair lift. I am terrifed of heights. Especially the chair lift! Its moving and your not strapped in and your clear up in the air! K well I got over that. But the first run was terrible! It probably took 2 hours to get down the hill 3 times. I couldn't stear, or stop or control the board. And I kept crashing because I would get going so fast that I thought I would fly off the mountain so I would crash instead. It definetly was not what I remembered the first time. After those 3 runs, I had had enough and I rented some skiis. Usually I don't quit that easy, but WOW! After CRASHING so many times, and with freezing weather, I was done. I do have to say. I was a good little ski bunny for only this being the second time. I didn't fall or crash once, once I got some skiis. We even went up the bigger hill on the bigger chair lift. And it was FUN! Until Nate ate it really bad and THOUGHT he BROKE his collar bone. It swelled up pretty bad, but he's ok. He just bruised his Clavical really bad. Thanks honey for following through on one of the terms, And for a wonderful evening. He even said we could go again! Yah! I also forgot my camera, so sorry no pictures this time.

A Merry Christmas

Skylee and her new pajamas.

Terrible picture, but the only one with Teigan and his new pajamas.

Skylee decided to play dress up with Grandpa's shoes and hats.

Our new addition

Skylee's new Baby!

This christmas we did a little something different. Instead of staying at our house, we stayed at Nate's mom and dad's.

Starting christmas eve we had our traditional Lasagna dinner. Then we watched the Nativity movie. And then, all the kids get to open their first present, which is, their christmas pajamas. After everyone left, me and Teigan made special cookies for Santa and put them out on his special plate. He was so excited.

Christmas Day- I think Nate was more excited than anyone. He woke up at 5am and 6am and kept tossing and turning and then I woke up a couple times before Teigan finally got up 730am. We opened our stockings first. And then we waited for Tyson and Mollee. They were keeping our present safe :) Thanks guys. So when they arrived we took the present and put it in a box for the kids to open. If you have guessed, Yep it was a dog. A miniture schnauzer.

Neighborhood Love

This is what we found today. Our neighbor and good friend Jim, went out today and shoveled a few houses. (It was a Blizzard today!) It sure was thoughtful of him to come over and shovel our driveway while my husband was taking a nap. Especially since its a such a steep driveway. Obviously he thought it would be pretty funny to put it all in Nate's pickup. So this it what we found.

Toes, Polish, n Decals

I have to admit that I have this BIG fetish about my TOES,POLISH, and DECALS. I don't remember the last time that my toes were not polished. (Other than changing the color.) I don't know why but I always have to have polish on my toenails. Not on my fingernails, just my toes for some odd reason. And Decals, I Love. They make my Happy! and they're so fun! Even Skylee is loving polish. Well just wanted to share that with you and I'll have to find some more pictures of my beautiful short and stubby toes. (or as Ashley would call them, "Box feet" haha)

Surprise Party!!

Thank goodness for my Wonderful Husband! He helped me all afternoon to get Grandma's Invitations done and sent out.
Grandma and Grandpa with the Grandkids.

Selena and Samiah Surprised my mom on her birthday!

All the Girls

Grandma Angies Birthday Cake. Skylee couldn't wait to get her hands in it!

Last weekend we went back home to Surprise my mom for her Birthday. She had know idea that Nate and I and the kids were coming down, let alone Selena and Samiah. We hadn't seen Selena since August, so I think it was a real treat for my mom to see them. We surprised her Friday night . . .by knocking on her door. That wasn't the whole surprise either. Saturday night we got all her good friends and family together and had a Surprise Party for her. My dad took her to dinner and then brought her to the hotel were everyone was hiding out. She was so Surprised! Alana made a wonderful slideshow for everyone to watch too. The party turned out Great! Happy Birthday Mom :)

McCall Trip

A couple weekends ago we made our annual trip up to McCall wthe Solosabals, and Koyle's. It was so much Fun! We stayed in the Presidential Suite at the Wyndham Resort, we even had a private hot tub out on the deck. We had so much Food and Snacks to last us 10days! Especially since we ate out all day Saturday. I do have to say . . . that my food was much better than last year, when we ate out. Last year we went to "The Pancake House" which is really good I just ordered something not so good. And then for dinner, I ordered Ribs. And they weren't your ordinary ribs! They were Beef Ribs that we HUGEMUNGOUS! You would have thought I was some kind of CAVE WOMAN or something. They were expensive and terrible! This year we went to the Shore Lodge, which was Fabulous! We also went Ice Skating, which was the guys idea! I had so much fun, I didn't want to leave. We had such a good trip, Thanks everyone.

Up at the Ranch

In the 6 years that we have been married, this was my first visit to the cabin. It was so much fun to see were my husband grew up having fun. I told him we should come camping up here, since he Doesn't Camp! He doesn't have to sleep in the dirt, but we could still have a camp fire. Its a compromise that we both could be happy.

Head Trauma

Day 1-Accident day

Day 2 - Big, Black, and Blue

Day 3 - Hoping the bruising won't go down into her eye.

This was another day in Rexburg and Nate was gone hunting for the week. It started out like a normal typical day and we were going to the Gourmet Cupcake place. I was going to let the kids pick out a specialty cupcake just for them. Well our plans definently changed when Skylee fell out of the car. Luckly we were parked. Corbin unbuckled Skylee from her carseat and then got out. I don't know if Skylee opened the door or if Corbin didn't shut it tight, but the door opened and she fell out, right on her head on the curb. This has been one of the worst accidents out of both my kids. Her Forehead was Sticking out an Inch! We rushed her to the urgent care and thank goodness she had no concussion, nothing serious. It just Looked Serious. So much for the Gourmet Cupcake!

Living in Rexburg for a while

So the last couple of months have been really busy and crazy. Going back and forth to Rexburg quite a bit in the last couple of months. Because of Nates work and then the holidays. It definetly has been CRAZY, but also nice seeing my family alot more. Thanks mom, for letting us move in for a while :) One of the trips back we painted pumpkins and went to the Annual Halloween Carnival. We had so much fun.

A Special Gift

I think this is my favorite gift that I have ever given! Probably because of all the work I put into it. It took so much time and effort to put it together, but it definelty was worth it! I made this for my sister, Selena for her Birthday. Since she lives so far away I thought this was perfect to give to her. The ending results . . . I Loved it! I hope she loves it as much as I do. Happy Birthday sis.

Teigan's Birthday

Transformer Dude!
The Transforming Cake

Got a Mouthful!

Present Time!

Happy Birthday Teigan!