Christmas 2012

the best perk of Tom being a teacher = so many breaks! It was So nice to have him home for 2 whole weeks!

we spent the first week at home and spent christmas with just our little family> it was actually kind of nice. The boys had their first christmas and Dulany got spoiled! And here i was stressing she wasnt going to have enough (or good enough) gifts this year since money is kinda tight.

Christmas eve we got to "vooboo" (which is like skype but you can do it with multiple people at once!) with Mom and Dad (who were at Bonnies house in NYC) and Bonnie and family and Leslie who was there too... and then Julie, Alex and Paysen and then Kaylee Ayla and Jon. It was so neat to have everyone talking all together instead of skyping with one person and then having to get off to talk to someone else. 

then I made christmas dinner (first time!) and tried a new ham in the crock pot which was nice, but last minute tom had to run to roseburg (a good 25 minute drive there and then 25 back) to get a last minute gift before it closed so the ham was dry.. boo! but i made the BEST mashed potatoes and my famous bacon wrapped teriyaki green beans. Delish! It was a good dinner nonetheless.

Daddy and D in her new PJs she got to open Christmas Eve playing games.

Dulany with her cookies and milk for santa (which i forgot to frost.. whoops) and Carrots for Rudolph

then we got the kiddos to bed and eventually we were able to let Santa come to our house. Here is what he left! (the Trampoline and the boys stockings were courtesy of Gramps and gram pease)

Tom and I's stockings. He got basketball shoes for coaching and he got me some earrings, a necklace and bedsheets! (ive been wanting new sheets for awhile haha)

for the boys. we got them a "baby" since Colton likes to steal Dulanys!

the christmas Tree

what santa brought for Dulany!

Tom had to go wake Dulany up (the boys woke up) so we could all do it together. Tom said "Dulany, Santa came and left presents, lets go see!" she took that as "santa is in your living room" and she was very hesitant to even come into the living room! haha

Overall id say christmas was a success this year!

Snow!

In oregon - snow is a BIG deal. considering it may snow (MAY) once in the winter and that it snows in the morning and is completely gone by midafternoon you have to make the most of it.

tom was hoping that it woudl snow through out the night and he would get a delay or off school. Well yeah that didn't happen. we kept waiting for it and then finally at 10:30 before we fell asleep he looked out the window and we saw the huge snowflakes coming down. I told him i wanted to wake D up to show her and so he went and grabbed her out of bed. She was not excited... she was tired. She didn't care until she woke up the next morning.

anyways - it didnt snow very long and there wasnt much on the ground but when i let D out in the front yard and watched her from the big window while feeding the boys i noticed that it was perfect snow for a snowman!

so i put the boys down for a nap and headed out with her and we built a pretty good snowman. I remember as a kid putting M&Ms as the mouth and eyes and i had some so i wanted to use those - yeah not a good idea! totally didnt work. Now mr. snowman looks like mr. zombie snowman! D had a good idea and got some rocks from the driveway though.

Im so happy she got to play in the snow at least once this year! And she said now that it snowed Christmas can come!

here are some pictures.

the night it was snowing and we woke D up.

the next morning

I then realized how scary this snowman looked. SO i had to add a few extra rocks to make him SMILE!Not so creepy anymore..

I wished this snow would wait till next week. or happen again. I would LOVE to wake up to that snow on christmas morning. I actually miss it! it was so beautiful coming down right on the mountain close to our home with the evergreen trees.

Life Happenings

I realize its been like 2 weeks since I last posted. Ill admit. Im lazy. I dont really take pictures. My days consist of getting these boys enough sleep during their day that consists of catnaps. Not to mention they have been on opposite schedules so once one goes down the other wakes up and vice versa.

So here is one big post of pictures.

Lazy Day - D did not get out of her PJs and we all did a whole lot of nothin!

Before the Christmas Party for church

Making Christmas trees

matching boys.

all my boys (tom included) matched on sunday for church. we got these boys these spiffy 3 piece suits for church (too bad colton was stuffe into his.. its too small!)

but here are my 3 handsome men!