Today...

Today a sweet friend kept our kiddos so Jared and I could get mucho business taken care of!

We signed this guy up for school next year. A two day a week private school that we are very excited to be sending him to. We will still be homeschooling on the other three days.





I was wishing I was laying by the pool under this beautiful tree but I wasn't.



I was sitting in one appointment after another with my love. Actually, I really enjoyed being with him all alone for those few hours. We even snuck in a quick bite at Chick-Fil-A.

Right now I am sitting on the couch with my boy who is supposed to be in Karate at the moment but has a major headache. :( So we are watching a movie together instead.

I have so many great things to be blogging about. Such as..

Adelyn turning 2 last month.



Our trip to Georgia last week to watch our nephew, Kyle, graduate from the Army.



And.. Jared, Andon and I all getting baptized together 2 weeks ago. It was amazing!!



And I plan to but not tonight.

Gotta get off the computer and hang with my boy. :)

Christmas in March

Merry Christmas friends! ;) Christmas was so amazing this year and not for any reason in particular. We stayed home (which we always do now.) Jared and I used to always go to my parents for Christmas morning but since Andon was small we started to stay home and then go visit our families Christmas afternoon.

I don't exactly know what it is but every year I tell Jared 'this was my favorite Christmas.'

And really, 2011 really was.

All the Christmas traditions seemed so exciting and special this year. More so than ever.

Going to pick out our tree and decorating it...



Making a gingerbread house.. Andon loves to do these. Neither Jared or I help make it. (I help hold the walls together at first so it doesn't fall apart but that's it.) We let the kids go crazy with the decorating so we usually have some pretty awesome gingey houses!! :))



Going to see Santa!



We added a new tradition this year. Our sweet little elf on the shelf "Pix"!

He did all kinds of fun things like hang candy canes all over the tree and climb to the top for the kids to find him in the morning. One night he cut out lots and lots and lots of snowflakes and hung them all over the ceiling outside of Andon's room. That was his best trick! :) He wrote his name in cereal and Santa in legos and hid in many places all over the house.



Baking and eating lots of chocolate chip cookies.. I'm sure I baked cookies a half dozen times during the month of December! Growing up my Mom always made them around Christmas so whenever I make them I think of it. Love that.



Going to watch Andon in his Christmas program at church. Such a sweet thing but sometimes these tend to be more funny to me. All the different little personality's up there. So cute!



And opening gifts on Christmas morning. This was the first year that we had a child come into our room at an absurd time of the morning or I should say night. We put Andon to bed around 8:30, his usual bed time. Then Jared and I got to work putting together a gifts and things. We had got into bed around 11:30 and sometime right after that Andon came walking in asking if it was time to get up! No way child.. Jared took him back to bed only to have him show up again around 2:30 am. Poor guy just couldn't rest with all the excitement! I took him to bed this time and he didn't wake up until around 6:30 or so. I can handle that! :)



I'm sure it sounds crazy to be posting about Christmas in March but this is my blog and it's what I do. Not really, just this year. ;) Blogging has not come easy for me in the last few months. I love love love to document these things for my littles and myself to look back on so that's why i'm posting about Christmas now. Boo! But better late than never! It's only March right! Wow though, can you believe it's March!? We were just all hopped up on New Year's Resolution's and now it's halfway through March. Time is a flyin'.

Today

1. I have one coming out of sickness...



2. And another coming into it.



3. I have gone to the grocery store twice before 11 am. (needed lentils for a soup i'm making for dinner and forgot the 1st time).

4. I have sang Twinkle Twinkle little star approx. 100 times. :) My littlest loves it.

5. Adelyn got new socks at Target this morning.



6. I have posted at least 5 pics on Instagram. A little trigger happy. :)

7. I plan on cleaning my house. I should be doing that now because Adelyn's asleep and Andon is resting. hmmm

8. I don't have to run. It's a rest day on my 12 week half marathon training schedule. yay!

9. I actually remembered to put my wedding rings on before I left to run errands this am. I usually forget.

10. I plan to get lots of snuggles with my boy. I really hate it when my kids are sick. Something feels unsettled in me until they are better.

Happy Wednesday!

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Pirates and Pumpkins

Last weekend, my sister and her family came to visit. She has three kids, Cody, Kylie and Cayden and she also brought along my other sister's kids, Jordan and Briana. We packed as much as we could into 2 and 1/2 days and had so much fun doing it!

Kylie getting ready to carve a pumpkin.



Andon checking out the face that Daddy drew before he starts to carve.



Here are two of the finished products.



We also made caramel apples, rode bikes, scooters and tricycles all day. Went for wagon rides around the neighborhood, played at the playground, played football, basketball, wii and hide and go seek.



Another fun thing we did was photo sessions for both of my sister's kids. I wouldn't call myself a photographer but some of the pictures came out great. I'll do another post this week with some of the finished products.

And last night was Halloween. We had so much fun taking the kids trick-or-treating in a near by neighborhood. Lucky for Andon, Jared is all about Halloween. They really get into the costumes and what Andon is going to be each year. This year he was a Skeleton Pirate.



Jared was an Army Ranger.



And Adelyn was just a precious girl wearing Halloween colors! Haha! Maybe next year i'll get her a costume.







Here she is trick or treating for her first time. It was so cute hearing her say it! At least we all thought it was, the guy handing out the candy was a little, i don't know. Just funny. He didn't see the big deal in our sweet little one saying "trick or treat" for the first time. :) But we certainly ate it up!





Today is November 1st, looking forward to spending the month focusing on Thankfulness. And also, celebrating my boy turning 8!!

Pumpkin Patch 2010 - 2011

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It's amazing how much they change in a year!

Froggy Books and Cowboy Boots

We're still trying to get into a rhythm of what our school day should look like around here! Adelyn is switching from two naps at 10 o'clock and two o'clock to now one nap at 12:30. I like to start school at nine but this year haven't been able to start until she goes down for her nap and it's messing up my stilo!!

I had a few days where i'd gotten all flustered about not being on a good schedule. But this week I decided to just go with the flow and see where that takes me. We were still able to get all of our schoolwork done and have lots of fun in the mean time.

So for now our mornings are full of play time, art projects and crafts, book reading, dress up, walks to the park and dancing. (My kids are major music lovers!)

These Froggy books are some of Andon's favorite "fun" books to read. He has all these and more that I couldn't find when I took the pic.





And little miss is a serious lover of shoes!! I got her these cowboy boots when she was a lot smaller. We've tried them on a few times and now they finally fit!



As soon as she wakes up in the morning she starts saying "shoes".



We're enjoying the weekend with Papa over. Taking it easy and not worrying about a schedule! And come Monday i'll continue to work on getting in the groove of this new school year!

Skeletons in the Closet

No, this is not the post where I start telling of a bunch of crazy secrets i've been hiding!

It's about my 2 skeletons playing in the toy closet today. Andon had these jammies from last year and today we were walking through the store and saw this pink pair. He insisted that Sis have them too.



I've got to admit. When I was pregnant with Adelyn, I wondered how well a 7 year old and a 1 year old would play together. Up until now they haven't really played together at all. Just recently he's been sitting on the floor with her and getting a bunch of toys out. Mostly her's because he doesn't really want her touching his. But he has always been so sweet and gentle with her. Watching them play today was great. They were taking x-rays of the bear and taking turns treating the bears medical needs. :)



Adelyn adores her big bro. Her new thing is giving kisses and we all LOVE it. Here she is laying one on Andon. After this she immediately came to give me one. Then Daddy heard they were being handed out and came out of his office to get one too. We've got to make sure nobody is being left out!





Not too soon after all the happy brother and sister play, Adelyn spotted a ring pop sitting on the kitchen table all by it's lonesome. So, like any smart woman she took matters into her own hands and climbed up there and got it.



But it wasn't long before Andon spotted her licking all over his ring pop and took it back. Sorry girl, one day you'll get your very own ring pop!

Her Preference

If I let her, she'd stay this way all day.



Little girl will not keep a diaper on! Andon was the same way at this age. Only difference is that he didn't have any older siblings around so it felt totally appropriate.

So poor Addie doesn't get to run around in all her sweet glory that often. :)





Yes, she is holding two blocks of play-doh in the last pic and wearing her favorite blue beaded necklace. She keeps me on my toes!