Still Alive

We are still here. Sorry it has been so long, a lot of fun and exciting things have happened in the last two months. I am hoping to get on again in the next few days to post again (once I have actually downloaded some pictures). Don't give up on me!

Tyler Really Likes His Grandpa

I told this story to my sister the other day and she told me that I needed to post it on my blog.
About a week ago we were out driving as a family running some errands. When we were done we asked Tyler if he would rather go to the park or the beach to play. He put his pointer finger up to his lips in a thinking pose and after a moment or two he answered "Grandpa's house!" We tried to explain that Grandpa lives a really long way away (about fourteen hours away); to which he replyed (after doing his thinking pose again) "Drive really fast!"

Christmas Morning

My family always had a tradition of our dad taking a picture of our family waiting in the hallway to run out to see what Santa brought. This is a tradition that I want to do with our family; this is the first year we have done this. All of the other pictures turned out too dark, but this one turned out ok. Can't you just see the excitement on our faces!

My boys opening their presents. Tyler opened his firt one and really had no desire to open any more (though he loves all of his new toys).

PJ's

A tradition that David's family always had (and mine as well, at least in my younger years) was to get Christmas pajamas. They always opened them on Christmas eve; we decided to start this tradition as well. Here are the boys in their matching "Cars" pajamas. Tyler was so excited to get to open a present early, and he loved his new pj's, Tray really didn't care, but he loves having pictures taken of him and his brother holding/playing with him, so he was happy too.

Sledding

We went sledding a few days before Christmas, we couldn't find a sled anywhere so we just went to the park and hoped that someone would be nice and let us use one of theirs. We found a nice family that wasn't using one of theirs and they let us use it. Only problem was that it liked to go down backwards because Tyler was on the front. Ever since this trip Tyler has been asking for a "green sled".

We went to playing in the snow after we used the borrowed sled a few times. Tyler and David worked ever so hard on their snowman.

Tyler and Tray sitting on a bench at the park.

Tyler and I made snow angels, notice that Tyler's is headless, he didn't want to put his head in the snow.

Visitors

I guess that our tree looked so nice and comfortable that we even had some little birds come look and check it out. It probably looked a lot warmer then the other trees around here.

Snow Days

We got a lot of snow, it decorated out old christmas tree which we put outside and cancelled school for Tyler of a whole week. Because of this I got to come up with different craft ideas to keep Tyler busy and happy during the week.

Here are some of the things that we did.