We've had a little bit of snow. The kids have been tring to build a snow fort but we havn't had quite that much. One night it snowed I went out to shovel the driveway as Zach was out doing church calling stuff and I was watching some kids. It sure paid to know the builder next door. As he was out plowing with his truck he came by and plowed my drive way! It only took me about 5 min of shoveling and then he showed up and with a couple of swipes with his plow he cleared all three driveways! I called Zach and told him I had finished shoveling and did the WHOLE driveway, then I admited that it had been plowed because I had been outside at just the right time when he came by. My neighbor who had just finished minutes before he showed up came running outside, That's cheating she said with a smile, and then asked where were you an hour ago? Right time Right place : )


Zach got Kendall's hair into one ponytail just before Chirstmas. We've tried a number of times before but it wasn't quite long enough. Doesn't she look so cute!

Kendall in her 50 cent Christmas Dress as our neighbor would call it... I found a great deal at a childrens store and walked out with tons of cloths for Kendall for only $10 also a pair of Jeans for Carter and 2 shirts for Dylan. This dress was included in the sacks that they sold me for $5 each!
Dylan loved to rearange the presents. One morning They each picked a couple to shake and "guess" what was inside. They had a ton of fun doing this...


We made a second gingerbread house. The first one didn't survive even one night and I guess your supposed to use them as decoration. Sugar doesn't last long in our house so we waited for Christmas eve to do our second one. Zach helped them decorate it. It did get destroyed the next day... and was completely gone 3 days later every last bite...Christmas morning the boys got up and opened thier stockings before we even got out of bed so when I heard them I hurried out to the living room. Luckly they only had opened thier stockings and were having a good time with them. They waited for Zach and then they both woke up Kendall and got her to come out and enjoy Christmas! Kendall loves Pooh, and Tiger and this new game from Curt was perfect. I don't know how many times we cleaned it up just to have the pieces show up again, she loved matching the characters and making tracks connecting the pieces all together. Even Dylan got into matching the letters on the other side to make words. He is really getting into reading.
Thanks to Uncle Curt we now have a few more games to play. I rearranged the closet with the games so that the kids games are on the floor so that they can get them out and play with them a little more often. They have had a great time and we have played more games this last week than we have in a long time.


We've played this game of Dylan's too quite a bit. It has a Matter says game and a few others to connect puzzle pieces. It sure makes us laugh.

Kendall even knows some of the answers to the Disney Scene it game 2nd edition, since she loves Monsters Inc, she can practically answer the question before it is asked!

Well that's what we've been up to

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that you will all have a great New Year!