Valentine's Day

I'm sorry my posts are few and far between lately. Our life is exceedingly boring. One event is that Nate will be going back to one full-time daytime job, and I will be getting a part time job in the evenings. It will be nice to have Nate home more, and nice for me to "get out of the house" and talk with grownups. :)

Sawyer gave me the best Valentine's present ever. He finally decided he'd be okay with saying...

luv you! (the v is silent)

and has even said it numerous times over the last week.
The things my boys have learned that I love the most are always hugs, kisses and saying "I love you"
A mom can never get enough of those!

Our Holiday

The holidays came and went so quickly, I hardly know what to think. Christmas eve we had dinner at Nate's parents and did our new 'good' white elephant gift game. We each buy a quality 15.00 white elephant gift to exchange. It was fun times. We were the proud recipients of a Snuggie. Yes, that's right, we now own a Snuggie. I'll admit, I had a good laugh when the gift was opened, but Landon commented when it was my turn that he wanted the Snuggie, and when Nate ended up with it, he was rather excited and has used it quite frequently.

We started a new tradition of getting new pajamas on Christmas eve. We had told Landon that we'd all be opening one gift that night and then I made sure to tell him it wasn't a toy so he didn't get his hopes up. I expected a dejected sigh when he opened them, but he was actually excited about them. Yeah!

Christmas morning was lots of fun with Sawyer being a little older and of course Landon being super excited. The boys got some sweet gifts this year, Nate went a little crazy shopping. Landon finally got the one thing he's wanted for the last few years, a remote control helicopter. Sawyer has been loving Elmo lately, so I thought I got him the one thing he wanted most...but it didn't start out that way. :) Sawyer seemed most excited about the little box of goldfish he got in his stocking. He enjoyed them thoroughly. Nate and I spent the better part of an hour putting together a Knect roller coaster from Santa. The boys thought it was 'awesome.' Probably my favorite part of the morning was when Landon did a sweet "I love Christmas" dance. After enjoying our Christmas gifts and goldfish for a while, we ate brunch at the Harris'. The rest of the day was spent playing monopoly with the family, and snoozing.
Here's a clip of the highlights:

Advent Idea

Yeah, I know it's a little late for it this year (unless you do a 7 days before Christmas count down), but I saw this cute idea on TV and thought I'd share with those interested!


Materials:

Clear plastic ornaments (I've seen them at JoAnn's all year)
Gold tinsel
Assorted small toys or candies
Circle reinforcement stickers
White vinyl numbers, 1-2” in height
Gold ribbon

Getting Started

1. Place tinsel and gift inside ornament (hiding the gift as much as possible).
2. Attach gold sticker to the bottom of the ornament to ensure it remains closed.
3. Attach vinyl number to the front of the ornament.
4. Cut a piece of gold ribbon and thread through hole on top of ornament to hang.

Found here: http://www.katiebrown.com/kbep1.cfm?cat=NEST&episodeid=26&seasonID=4

Thankful . . .

I'm thankful . . .

for silly boys

for tulips

for big puffy clouds

for beautiful sunsets

for handsome boys

for an awesome grandma

for sleeping babies

for friends who craft with me, hang out with me, listen to me complain, and are just my friends

The list could really go on and on . . .

Little Lena

We tried another indoor photo session and did blessing pictures of Lena and a three generation shot, and then of course some with the cute mama Charli. :)