Gone Sledding

Oh My Goodness! I had so much fun sledding this afternoon. I've never even enjoyed the thought of snow before, let alone play in it. I'm too much of a desert girl and love my heat. But today was another story, we packed up the truck and headed for the biggest hill in town....Bicentennial park.

When we first pulled up there were about 150 people all ready there enjoying the snow.

By the time we left I would say it nearly doubled.

I'm so happy to finally have a fun day to enjoy with my mom here. We've really haven't done anything fun during her visit cause either were so super busy or it's tooooo Cold outside.

People were using anything and everything to slide down the hill....

but I would definitely say people were jockin' our sleds.

We stayed on the Medium size down slope for the first hour or two, less crowded.

Here is a video of the first run down the hill for Jaydon and Brian:

Video of Kaylee's first go:

Video of my first time down, but before I go Jaydon and Kaylee head down first together:

Here are two videos of me and Jaydon going down together. The 1st video is shot from the top of the hill and the 2nd video I'm holding the camera on the way down...it's awesome!
Jaydon is loving it!

Jaydon quickly realized he didn't need us to drive down the hill with him. Here are some videos of Jaydon going solo. Actually, the 1st video is him asking to go by himself, 2nd video is me freaking out that he's about to go by himself, and the 3rd is him taking on the big hill solo.

After about an hour or maybe two of the Medium size slope,

we ventured over to the big side of the hill.

Oh even BETTER!

I thought Kaylee was going to take these two girls out talking at the bottom of the hill, but she just drives right between with only inches to spare! A guy next to me commented,
"Man she's a great driver!"

If you listen closely you can hear Jaydon cheering me on then telling me to hit the brakes!
He's so cute!

 Kaylee heads down the big hill and is headed right for me! You can hear me ask her to steer that way please...and Brian laugh as she turns at the last moment to miss me.

And finally the only wipe out (on sleds...there were many headed up the hill) goes to....yep. Me!

So many videos I know, but how can you leave anything out? It really was a blast!

Prayer Time

I love this picture taken at Christmas dinner. Jaydon takes his prayer time so seriously.

Hokey Pokey

Cousin time in El Paso this past winter break. I found this video on my mom's camera and got a good laugh seeing Jaydon and Baby Ty trying to keep with Jade and Kaylee doing the Hokey Pokey.

Ice Storm Feb. 2011

So here lays the credit for why I'm actually updating our family blog after one full year of not posting anything (that's so pathetic I know, one full year...just ridiculous, sorry) So much as happened, so many events have past and not one post. I will do my best today to catch you up on 2010 and move forward from here.

This ice storm has been the worst North Texas has seen in the past decade. School has been cancelled for the past two days and probably again tomorrow. We've been stuck indoors with rolling black outs, at times without running water, and our cable and Internet comes and goes. 

I can't even describe into words how much I hate cold weather. Often this winter I've dreamt about moving some place hot and more hot, like Florida or something.

We kept Jaydon indoors all of yesterday, it's just too cold. Then today I started to feel bad seeing all the pictures of my friends children playing in the snow on facebook (can you even call it snow? it's like rock hard!) It doesn't even make foot prints!! So today we let him play outside for about 15 minutes, that was good enough for me... It was so super cold. The wind chill was like -4.

Here are some pictures we took:

And two videos for your viewing pleasure:

Roxy, Jaydon and Kaylee had fun with our 15 minute adventure outside, but I can say that I did not enjoy at all. Well, seeing Roxy slide over all the road and couldn't stop or start was pretty funny and seeing Jaydon not being able to make it up the ditch was funny too.

I would rather be warm indoors than bear the cold wind again. The view from our back windows is actually kinna pretty even though I do not like snow and cold weather one bit.

Lots Going On!!!

Wow! Its been a while since I've posted anything. Life is busy...like always, but I never find ourselves wondering why we do so much. We love being involved with our kids. Kaylee's schedule has gone a bit over board this year. She's playing on two different basketball teams, one for school and one for a private league. Brian happens to be coaching both of them, along with being co-commissioner of one of the leagues. So there's four nights/days taken up. On top of basketball, there's dance and more dance. Competition practice has started and Kaylee is in two Jazz numbers this year.....another three nights/days taken. Of course, Jaydon is Mr. Tag Along...poor guy. We're thinking about starting him in soccer when he turns 3....to get him warmed up for his red shirt year in basketball at age 4. Work has been a bit overwhelming for both Brian and I. Deadlines and constant interruptions keeps Brian stressed out. I just feel like I'm treading water... not really getting everything accomplished the way I would like to, but at least I'm not drowning! I have a new assistant as of last month...yes another new one! I know, I know, I just run them off. I've gone through more assistants than any other teacher I know. Anyhow, she's working out well. I'll do my best not to run her off.


Last night was Kaylee's School Christmas Musical. It was another amazing show! So cute and creative. The name of the production was Camel Lot....it was a spin on Car Sales. The 5th graders performed the acting parts, while preK and 4th grades were the choir. Kaylee had a solo part, as well as some speaking lines. She was very nervous to sing and it shows in the video. She did a great job!!! But claims she's never doing that again. So enjoy the footage of her 1st and last singing solo.

Here is some Highlights of that evening of fun:

Decorating Our House for Halloween

All this rain we've been getting has delayed us decorating for Halloween. Finally, this weekend was rain free! We were able to get all of our decorations up and it looks good!

Check out our photos.

Let start out with our monster Bride and Groom taking their vows underneath our spooky arch.

Our Inflatable spider was supposed to be so much more than it is. We had planned to post a "just married" sign on the back of it and hang bones from it, but we didn't get around to it. Being Halloween is almost here, we'll probably just save that idea for next year.

Our graveyard is my favorite! We made all the tombstones ourselves. Jaydon and I set up lights around them to lite it up at night. The sayings are just so cute and clever. I wish I could take credit for coming up with them, but it was all from searching the Internet. Here are a closer look at the tombstones. Which one is your favorite?

That's it! That's our house all decorated for Halloween. We hope you like it.

A Day in My Gym

Work has been so crazy this year. As you could probably tell since I haven't been posting anything new lately. I have so much to do and it seems like there's not ever enough time to get it done. I'm sure everyone knows that feeling.

So I decide to go up this weekend and try to get some work done. Kaylee brought her best bud with her and Jaydon had to bring Roxy (our dog). The kids played as I worked. They managed to pull just about every piece of equipment out to play with, made up new games, and even put on a talent show staring Jaydon and his sunshine.

Here are a few, ok a lot of pictures and videos of our day at my gym. Oh, and surprise surprise I didn't get all the work done I needed to. Thinking about heading up there again tomorrow...Rrrr.

The Following are videos of the kids messing around with the sound system that is set up for our music program coming up. They decided to put on a talent show complete with judges. The videos are all too cute, I couldn't decide which ones not to post, so here they ALL are :)

Every Boy Needs His Own Tractor!

Every boy needs his own tractor, right? Well, Jaydon's tractor lives at the Toy store and we visit it almost every Sunday after church. Maybe one winter's day Papa will buy it for him ;)

See the video below to see how Jaydon works his Papa.

Our weekly trip to Toys R Us usually starts with Jaydon running to the Train aisle and playing with the Thomas the Trains for a LONG while with me standing there trying to rush him. Cause I know once we get to the Power Wheels it's another 30 minutes pretending to ride around. Kaylee and Brian head off to the Lego and Star Wars areas and see what they can con me into allowing them to purchase next.

This is their latest con... The stupid thing is over 2 1/2 feet long in diameter!

This is how the conversation went...

Brian: "Oh honey, (I'm thinking oh here we go...) They have a Millennium Falcon on sale 50% off for the Star Wars Action figures."

Me: "Don't you already have a Millennium Falcon for the action figures?"

Brian: "Yes, for the small action figures, but this is the MF for the bigger action figures Kaylee has on her shelves."

Me: "Kaylee doesn't play with those action figures, why does she need a MF for them?"

Brian: "Not for Kaylee, but for Jaydon when he gets older and wants to play with them." (yeah right, he means for himself play with)

Me: "Well, how much is it?"

Brian: "It's on sale for 50% off."

Me: "50% off of what?"

Brian: "I've never seen it this cheap.... Well, I don't care what you say I'm buying it! (pause) ... For Jaydon."

He purchased that thing and had the biggest goofiest smile on his face for the rest of the day. The man is living his childhood dreams through our children. Kaylee jokes that she's going to start her own Star Wars Museum and charge admission into her room. The funny thing is she really could with the amount of stuff she has. That should be my future post.

LEGO Train Set

What's with this family and Legos? It's really crazy the amount of Lego sets the kids have and I completely blame Brian for it! The newest and probably the most coolest in my opinion is Jaydon's new Lego Train set. Brian bought it for Jaydon when we were away in El Paso. He set it up in his room as a surprise for when we got home. Jaydon was so EXCITED when he saw it: "Whoa, look mommy, look. It's trains. Oh thank you mommy." I love how he gave me the credit for it :) "Play with me trains, mommy."

I told him that he needed to thank Daddy for it when he got home. About two hours later Brian finally came home, Jaydon came running out of his room, "Thank you Daddy. Thank you my trains. Come play, play Daddy." I was surprised he remembered I told him to say Thank you to his daddy and that he did it all on his own as soon as Brian came home.

I'm sure we'll be posting more about Legos in the future...stay tuned.