One of the many reasons...

I love my husband is because he says things like "Gad Zooks." Who says that? Brian. That's who. He just said it.

Christmas 2007

We headed for Rexburg on Saturday, the 22nd. It was my birthday, and the best present of all is that Eric and Andrew travelled really well. Eric hardly cried.....compared to our July trip home when he cried (screamed) 85% of the time, it was amazing. And on Christmas Eve it snowed all day. I love a white Christmas.

Christmas morning was a lot of fun -- Andrew danced to his "Bob the Builder" tool belt that plays the theme song and he loved his new "Dump Bunk." Eric was also all smiles....loved the green bow on his present.

Brian also pulled through -- having hardly done any shopping in Salt Lake, he managed to find some great presents for me at Walmart in Rexburg. (:

Oh, and Andrew loved playing with Daisy, my brother's dog. This is great since he has not been around dogs much. Eric thought Daisy was very funny too. He thinks everyone is funny these days. (:

Like Father, Like Son

One of my favorite things is watching Andrew copy his dad. This morning he was out shoveling with Brian...and during the summer he mows the lawn with him.




You will notice he has one mitten on in these pictures. Brian would wear work gloves when he worked outside, so Andrew would run in for his gloves too. I'm not sure why he only has one on here....maybe we couldn't find the other one.

Going Public

So I've been keeping this blog for a few weeks, but have yet to tell anyone about it. I guess I'm just intimidated by all the really good bloggers out there. But now that I at least have some cute pictures of my kids up, I guess I'm going to "go public" by inviting a few friends who will like me regardless.

Happy Viewing.

Merry Christmas

Each year for Christmas I make a calendar for my parents with all the grandkids. So today I tried to get a couple of pictures of my kids holding "Merry Christmas" signs to go on the front cover. I took about 20 pictures. I cannot get them to hold still...as you can see:

The Holidays

I just got back from Target and TJ Maxx. I used to be a great shopper -- always finding some good deals. Now it seems like I go to the store and whether I spend 15 minutes or 1 hour, I end up not finding what I wanted, yet feeling like I spent too much anyway. I read an article by Mary Ellen Edmunds today -- I think it was a portion of her book "You can never get enough of what you don't need." Perhaps this is what my problem is. But I must admit, the Christmas advertising gets to me. It just all looks like so much fun, but then it's not. When will I learn?

Andrew and Eric have colds -- mostly coughing. No congestion yet, so that's nice. I really don't like cleaning out other people's noses, no matter how little they are.

We bought a new camera online. So soon we will be posting some pictures for all to see. I feel like Eric's changing a lot right now, so we need to get some pics of him.