Luke's Art

Luke's Preschool displays art at the local gallery every year. Here he is with some of his famous art that will be displayed throughout the month at Crossroads. I love his preschool. They do so many neat things and he learns so much more than his ABC's and 123's. They pick a different artist every month to study and to copy a picture from. I have such a neat collection from last year and look forward to what we will receive this year!

Big Girl Bed

Be bought Brynley a toddler bed last week, deciding it was finally time for her to be out of her crib. She has actually done pretty well! The first night though she did drag her cute little wooden chair over to the door so she could open and escape. But overall she has taken it like a champ and we only occasionally catch her on the floor cuddled by the door! (see photo!) She loves her big girl bed and is so proud of it! She even kisses it occasionally!

Little Lady

Brynley has turned into quite the little lady ! She has her purse that she fills up with random stuff and carries everywhere. She always has to have a little lotion and some chapstick or lipgloss which she calls "pips." (her word for lips!) She usually has at least one little baby bottle and something to write with. Once she realized I was going to take her picture she dragged a chair over to "pose" in for me! Here she is with some of her "pretties" (necklace and bracelet).

Sledding in a Blizzard

Daredevil Michael

The two boys

Look at those HUGE flakes!

Daddy & Brynley

Steven had the bright idea to go sledding up at the golf course hill on saturday - but by the time we all got ready to go it was snowing huge flakes and they were coming down fast! It was so cold... but the kids weren't about to stay home! Brynley absolutely loved it and was very upset when it was time to go home! She kept crying "GO... GO.. and pointing to the bottom of the hill! Maybe if the weather is nicer we'll rent the boys some ski's and let them practice before we attempt a real mountain! It makes it a little hard to take photos when it's snowing this hard - not only because it was soaking my camera, but the flakes were in the way! Maybe next weekend will be better!

Holiday Craziness

Christmas this year was so fun. As you can see by the photos above there were WAY too many presents... but this photo is at my parents house, where there were presents for everyone (My family and kids, my sister's family, my two brothers, parents and great grand-parents!) Pretty overwhelming! I think next year we'll do something a little different - not too much room left for people after all those presents! The kids had a blast and for the first year in a long time, all of my kids were healthy! YAY! No fevers or throwing up this year! YAHOO! To try and keep the two girls quiet until everyone else woke up Christmas morning, we threw them in the tub together and they had a blast. (the other girl is my niece Makayla. She is 4 months older than Brynley) Too bad they don't live closer so they could play more often!

Tomato Soup

So this is what I get for leaving out a mostly empty pot of soup! When she got caught, she said "YUMMY... SOUP!!" She didn't care that she had on a white shirt! (luckily I got the stains out!)

Lost tooth #2

BEFORE






10 days ago, this was BY FAR the most dramatic pulled tooth yet! Michael knocked it even looser during basketball, then again while brushing teeth. He came to me because it was literally just hanging there.. but attached enough that it wouldn't just fall out. Rather than having him choke on it in the middle of the night, I gave him 5 minutes to pull it on his own, then I went in after it. (Dad is definately not into teeth pulling!)Once he realized there was blood, and the little twinge of pain from the tooth being messed with, he got pretty upset! I hope they get easier for him! He's got 2 more loose already!



AFTER

Look mom - I touched the snow!

FINALLY! Brynley actually likes the snow now! Today we went out for about an hour and a half and Brynley actually the snow and even threw some snowballs at me (with the prompt from Luke of course!)

Where Oh Where have all the binky's gone?

Since she only gets her binky while sleeping I guess she feels the need to stash some away in case of emergency! little stinker!

Bathing Beauty

Brynley just loves her bath - and it's so easy to get pics of her because she's confined to a small area! No running off! These are two of my favorites out of the bunch I took on Dec. 4th.

Snow Fun

With our first REAL snow the kids were SO excited to try out all their snow gear... well except for Brynley. She was terrified of the snow and wouldn't even stand next to it! It was hard enough to get her to stand on the sidewalk and watch her brothers play in it! I think Michael has made snow angels EVERY day at school since it snowed!

YMCA Basketball

November was filled with YMCA basketball! This was Michael's first Basketball season and Steven decided to coach. The lighting in the gym is horrible, so we really could get many good shots. Brynley was a great "cheerleader" with a uniform to match the part. She would clap her hands and yell "GO MICHAEL!" Luke wasn't too into the whole spectator thing, but he did like the couple of times he got to help keep score! Like the other sports that Michael has been involved in, he is so energetic and full of excitement for anyone that makes a basket - even the other team! This is definately his sport because it keeps him moving the entire time!

HALLOWEEN!

Halloween was so much fun this year! The boys loved getting TONS Of candy and Brynley even figured out that if she held out her bucket, she'd get some candy! All she had to do was stand there and look cute! (And boy was she cute!) We dressed her up as Minnie Mouse and the boys were both Skeletens (Luke told me he wanted to be a "Bone Man" after seeing a skeleten costume in the Pottery Barn Kids catalog) We ended up purchasing Gymboree's Gymmies for $10 each! Can't beat that price for a costume that doubles as jammies!

October Happenings

October was a busy month filled with leaves and pumpkins! We were able to visit a pumpkin patch in La Grande and spent many afternoons raking (and jumping) in the leaves! of course this poses a great photo op, so I took advantage and took photos of the kids in the leaves!

I just love these photos!

When we got around to actually carving the pumpkins, the kids weren't too sure about touching the pumpkin "guts" but they eventually got into it! They were pretty bummed when the time came to toss them out! But it had to be done, they were getting pretty gross!

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Catching up on 2007

I thought I would post a little slide show to help me "catch" up for the past 6 months. Here's what we've been up to between June and September! Enjoy! (There will be more to come as I have a few minutes!) I figured since I announced in the Christmas Card that there is a blog, I better hurry and get it updated!!