Our week

So this week was full of fun! Besides the normal chasing kids around we had two christmas parties to go to. First the ward party, with delicious bbq. My kind of christmas party. Then saturday night we had the fabulous Julia babysit while we went to an ugly sweater christmas party. We went to the KCM like the good will, and couldnt find ANY ugly christmas sweaters. I was so surprised. So we had christmasify them ourselves. I added rudolph to Joshs sweater, and lots of bells to mine. Its funny because in the picture Joshs sweater looks worse, and mine actually looks better. Josh was so afraid that we were gonna show up and no one else would be wearing ugly sweaters, but when the had the contest and he won, he felt much better about.



And this is what he won. A SNUGGIE!! I love snuggies, but would never pay $20 for one. The problem is Ashlyn and I now fight over it. =). It also came with the coolest book reading light. So here are our commercial pics for them!I'm reading a book my Dad wrote on the things that are threating public education. It is an amazing book, full of a lot of great insights! So when its ready for the world, Ill let you know. Its so worth the read.



Pajama day at school, this is my kids and the neighbors twins.

I cant believe how old he is looking. All this hair and his face is slimming down. He even said a sentence the other day. He said good morning, and say hi to daddy. (Talking about talking to daddy on the phone).

Other Pictures

Here are some random pictures. I just got a new camera on black friday, one that will be able to take better pictures inside then my iphone does. And I just did my blog book for 2008 and so now Im motivated again to make sure I blog all the pictures Ill want in the book.
Dakota has two huge growths on her neck, and they are growing very fast. She hasnt been feeling well for a few months now, and drools, and wont eat sometimes, and looks sad. She has lost a lot of weight, and the vets cant find anything wrong with her. But Ty just loves her, and will try to feed her, and sometimes thats the only time she will eat. This time in the picture though was more of a disaster, I think Im still picking it up, it was ALL OVER the floor. But Ty will follow Dakota around and gives her hugs all the time. It will be so sad when we have to figure out what to do next. As long as she has Motrin she does much better, she'll play, and eat and bark, but when she has no motrin she hides all day and wont move. Makes me think shes in more pain than just her throat. Maybe her legs, or maybe she just gets so tired from not eating? I dont know but we sure do love her.
Rylan and Ty both like it when I bring out the camera, Rylan now wants his picture taken everytime and even will smile for the camera, where was this attitude weeks ago when I was taking family pictures? I dont know but I love it when they hit this age, knowing me because I bring out the camera A LOT.

Decorations

Here they are putting up the tree. We then had to rearrange everything so Ty couldnt reach the balls. He would take them off two or three at a time and throw the "ball"s as he calls them. Most of them were shatter proof, so it wasnt so bad, it was just annoying to have the ornaments all over the house, but he did find a couple glass ones. Rylan also loves hanging the ornaments.




The above picture doent quite do it justice, but we loved being able to put up lighted garland, that has been my dream forever. I love it.
The below picture was in the morning obviously, I was walking upstairs to do something and then got talking and just sat down to talk about plans for the day, and as I was talking Ty came just to sit by me. Then Ash and then Rylan. So funny. Not a good picture of me, but a cute one all in all.

SNOW!

A rare occurance in Texas, it snowed, and it snowed hard, and it snowed for a long time, and it stuck, and it was still around the next day! It started snowing on the way to school, and then during school it got going even more. So much so that they called an emergency weather early release day. The kids came home and played in the snow. Rylan played a little but didnt like it much. He hated it when the cold snow hit his face. Josh was at the station and made a snow fireman.
One of my favorite things in Minnesota was to look at the blue blue sky with white snow on the ground, often in Texas Ive looked at the blue sky and imagined that there was snow on the ground, even dreamt of it, but Saturday it was a reality. I couldnt believe that it was still cold eough, that even with the sun shining, there was still snow on the ground and on the roofs. Dakota, even though she hasnt been feeling well loved eating the snow.
This may be the only time I can see what my house looks like covered in snow. Now its already in the 60s again, and may be this warm for christmas, but it was fun to go see santa and go christmas shopping while it was cold and snowy!!