Slacking on the updates....Sorry!

Here we go.....

Chapter I

Lets first start with Thanksgiving! We were fortunate to have family travel over again!!! Yipee! Carlys Mom and Step-Dad as well as her Brother Chris, his wife Becca, and their 6 month old son Colton all made the trek eastward!

We had a great time, ate too much, and played a ton of wii! Carly, her Mom, Anna, and Becca did a little black Friday shopping and everyone left on Saturday. The highlight for Jackson and Waylon of course was sleeping in Gramma and Poppas motorhome!

 Colton and Anna having some fun cousin time playing on the floor!

 Poppa and the babies!!

 Anna enjoying the refreshment packaging!

 Wii, and yes, not all games are "interactive". Infact, this is the logger sports game, all you do is push buttons and occasionaly make an inappropriate jerking motion. Seriously.

Anna enjoying black friday shopping. Thanks for the pic Auntie B!

We did get our first accumulating snow storm a few days before Thanksgiving. The boys LOVED it, so much infact they laid down face first and ate like cows. Daddy even made them real Sno-cones, who cares if it was for breakfast!!!

Chapter II

The other day a truck pulls up in front of our neighbors house and the boys of course run to the window to watch. It turns out to be a Sears delivery truck bringing our neighbor Olee a new chest freezer! So being the awesome Mom that I am, run out and ask the guys for the box!! They were more than happy to give oblige and since then its been a major pain in the butt. LOL, just kidding, but its really big and takes up a ton of room in my kitchen. I couldn't fit it through my door without crunching in the sides! Its days are numbered but until then, the boys do enjoy it!

Chapter III

The next little bit of news is kinda a bummer but figured everyone would appreciate the update. We got a call from a specialist in Spokane this week about needing to get Anna in. Results from her last US in late November show her kidney tube issue has worsened. So onward, we will go up to Spokane first part of January and have a Mag 3 renal scan done on her as well as some blood tests. Not too big of a deal, she's probably going to hate it since she has to be strapped down in order to get clear images! After the intial IV she shouldn't have any pain.This test will show us how well her kidneys are functioning and wether or not a blockage is present. I know this is a small hurdle compared to what some people deal with everyday and worst case scenario she will need to have a surgery to do some repair work (which has a 90-95% success rate). I will keep you all posted on how things go! She does not seem to be in any sort of pain or discomfort now, hard to believe something is actually wrong with her!

She is a determined little girl though! She has figured out how to roll across the floor and gets to where she thinks she needs to be! She has also started the process of learning to crawl, rocking back and forth on her hands and knees. She is 5 months old today!

I think I can, I think I can!

About done with the laying down and lounging bit!

 Our three blessings!

I LOVE CHOCOLATE PUDDING!!!!!

Happy Christmas to you all!!!



A few random pictures!

 Grandma Barb and her sleepy little girl

 Grandpa time

 Our little pumpkin with Grandma Judy

 Anna likes the Bumbo seat!

Cutie!

LOL!! This kid might be trouble!! Growing his own devil horns!

Halloween fun?

To start things off, Waylon had is big 2nd birthday on the 24th of October. He is such a ham and he definatly knows how to work it! We had a mini birthday party with my Mom and Step-Dad, Marks Mom and Dad, his Aunt Sue, Cousin Nicole and her family, and our good friends Linda and Randy. It was a nice little party, the first ever that we have had so much family attend, Waylon doesn't know how special he is! Now if we can just figure out a way to get the last remaining grandparents over here, I guess thats what happens when you are born during elk season! Priorities!! ( ;

 Fun microphone from Gramma and Poppa W.

 Presents!

 Hmmm....How does this thing work??

 Birthday treats!

 Nummers!

After the birthday fun everyone went home except for Grandma Judy. She stayed with us until November 1st! It was so nice to have her here for 12 days!! We were all spoiled with love (I didn't have to do dishes!!!) We had a few fun halloween activities including a Mom's night out which was fun for Carly! A Halloween playgroup and the a Halloween party put on by the Genesee Civic Association. Carly made the kids costumes this year, Waylons was semi homemade. Turned a plain dragon costume into an apparently too scary one, Waylon wanted nothing to do with it! Even the lure of candy could  not bring a smile to his face while wearing it...Next year its walmart costumes.

 Isnt she cute?

 The Knight and Dragon!

 Princess Anna

 Grandma Judy lets you do fun things!

This is what happens when you have playdough and a pumpkin! 

Fun is about to be happening.

This weekend marks my little mans second birthday. Oh how time flies! Waylon is such a funny little boy. He makes me laugh multiple times everyday, I really hope he keeps his witt throughout his entire life. It makes everyday mundane things enjoyable. For instance every time he gets dressed, EVERY TIME, I pull a shirt over his head he smiles largely and says "BOO"!!! Everytime we see a horse Waylon says, "Mommy, cow, MOOOO." Jackson and I are always quick to point out no Way, its a horse, neeeeyyyy....Waylon says, "cow, MOOOO." He loves buzz lightyear and Woody...We watch Toy Story and Waylon says, "BUZZZZZ" for the first 5 minutes until he gets used to seeing him. He can melt your heart and crack you up at the same time...

So in honor of this little dude turning two. Two set of Grandparents are making the journey over to celebrate with him! We cannot wait for them to get here! We are all excited to have company and Jackson cant wait to sleep in Gramma and Papa's motorhome! Also Grandma Judy is going to stay with us until November 1st!!! How lucky are we????

Take that Martha Stewart.

So I started off fall with making some super tart (not sure that its really edible without adding sugar) rhubarb cranberry jam. And yes, I put in twice as much sugar as I thought I should in the first place...But, oh well things do get better. Then I made some chocolate zucchini muffins, delish! Thirdly it was zucchini-banana bread made with applesauce! YUM! It was gone quickly. And lastly Halloween sugar cookies...This is why on any given day you stop by my house and its a mess...Im always doing things that I don't need to do so I dont have to do the things I need to do.

 My helpers cleaning the frosting bowl!

 These by the way, are Hooterrific!

The cookies that survived long enough to actually make it to the frosting stage!

Craftiness

I've been wanting to use some of that spray/paint on chalkboard paint for a few years now. Never really had anywhere or a reason to use it. I thought once maybe I would paint the fridge with it so the kids could draw on it, but I didn't really want a black fridge. Last weekend I was digging around in the cellar and I found a cupboard door we had removed from the mud/laundry room to make the current woodbox..And I thought, Heeeyyyy, theres my chalkboard!!!



So we took a trip to Michaels and thanks to www.hip2save.com we scored a 50% of coupon. One can of chalkboard paint and a box of white chalk, five dollars and thirty three cents. As soon as Mark got home from work I went to work on creating my chalkboard.

Like my workspace??? Mark says to me, "You're not going to spray paint it in here are you??" To which I responded, "No dear, but thank you for being concerned. Because, if I was, you would need to tell me that was a bad idea."

Moving on to the garage and the actual painting. Between the spray paint smell and the garbage stank it was not pleasant. And of course I am very impatient so I got the hair dryer out and dried it inbetween the three coats. Then they say to let it dry for 24 hours...I gave it about 14 hours...close enough.

I think I might need to paint the border so it pops a little more...We will see after I live with it for a while.

...Its also a little large...I think I would like it better vertical but I dont have a space for it vertical. I leave you with a half naked cowboy who has rejected his sisters pink cowgirl hat (Thanks Ang, he actually loves wearing it).