Adventures, More Popsicles, & Books!

So recently I have learned that kids need to go on their own little adventures! As you can see from the pictures below that on those days that my house gets torn apart and basically destroyed, I need to know that my kids are using their imaginations and that they too have been cooped up all winter and need something to do. ( I just have to make them help me pick it all up when they are finished!) I also am so grateful that my kids love to read books. We went to my friends book party and the kids loved to books that they were able to bring home that they fell asleep with them. I love my kids and I love that they are creative and that they love to learn about new things, I just need to be more open and not so concerned about the mess all the time!

Yes, more popsicles! It makes him and I happy, 

so why not?!?!

I just love this picture of Gavin. I laugh every time that I see it

because when I moved the book I had to peel it off of his cheek!

Tired?

So apparently Gavin had a long day, what do you think? Gavin was extra tired today after school and playing with some friends. Gavin wanted a snack and so he went and found this bag of chip crumbs and then I found him on the couch like this...

It is pretty tough to be a kid somedays! 

Loving the Walker!!!

At eleven months Grady started to stand on his own, but the thought of taking a step was a little scary for him. One day he decided to try out this walker that he was given almost two months ago at Christmas. I was putting the laundry away in his room and when I turned

to see where he had gone he had stood up to the walker and took off! He was so impressed with himself that ever since that moment he has been trying to walk. However he is not good enough yet to turn on his own, whenever he runs into something that stops him he gets a little frustrated that he is no longer able to move forward!

Here is Grady just loving the fact that he is more mobile than his mother would like him to be and that he can get around a little bit faster than before!!!

I am officially in trouble now!

Lost and Then Found!!!

OK so Funny! So after our snowman went MIA, four days later I was driving carpool for Gavin and I go down a street in our ward that I don't go down very often. Well what to my wondering eyes should appear? OUR SNOWMAN!!! Our snowman had found a new home two blocks away at one of my Young Women's house! I was driving down the street and was noticing that someone else had built a snowman and then I noticed that it had the same hat and scarf that ours had on, what a coincidence! Then I was laughing all by myself in the car because I didn't want to tell my kids that I had found our snowman because then they would want me to get it and bring it back to our house! (Eventually I did tell them and all they wanted to do was drive by the house so that they could see Frosty!) Anyway so then that night I had Young Women's and so I thought that I would find out there who was pulling a prank and stole Frosty. Well, I saved myself some embarrassment by asking one of my fellow leaders about the snowman I saw in her front yard earlier that day and she said, " yeah this really cute boy asked my daughter to a dance with that snowman," So I didn't get up in front of everyone, like I had planed, and ask who knew about my snowman going missing! I  started to laugh again because this was just so funny to me, over a snowman! So in the end our Frosty was found and my kids were satisfied to know that he was safe and being taken care of! The best part was that we received our snowman kit back so that next year, (or snow storm) we can make another Frosty!!!

There Must Have Been Some Magic!

So......We all know the tale of Frosty the Snowman right? 

(if not, you have some reading to do!)

Well one Saturday morning as I went into my baby's room

and opened the blinds I noticed this...

If you saw my post a little while ago about our snowman

that we made you will notice that in this picture the snowman is 

well....GONE!

You can see the tracks of footprints in the snow up to

where the snowman was and then around the hole 

where good ol' Frosty stood!

Either that hat really was magic...

Or we have a case on our hands!

Popsicles in the Winter

So I know that it is so stinkin' cold outside and all but when you have a teething baby that is crying all day long and a popsicle will calm him down for about twenty minuets...

You do it!

I love popsicles and apparently so do my kids! 

We have gone through a few boxes in the last week or so just 

for my own sanity reasons.

We all are ready for some warm weather and to get out of the 

house and get some fresh air, but until then...

We will be having popsicles inside!

Yes Another Tradition!

For the past few years we always make a very large snowman named Frosty, with the kids at least once during the winter. Jed's mom gave us a snowman kit a few years ago and we always put the kit onto the snowman once assembled. The kids always ask once the first snow hits when do we get to make a snowman? Well we finally got to it a week after Christmas. I have to say that this snowman looked pretty dang good! It was a large snowman, so large that it took Jed and his brother Devin to lift the middle part of the snowman onto the base of the snowman! Of course by the time that they snowman is complete and we want to take pictures the kids are cold and don't want to cooperate with taking a picture.

 So... here is the best that we were able to get!

Two at a Time!

OK so I knew that this day would come that my sweet baby's cute little gummy smile would go and the teeth would come in... I didn't know that at the same time my five year old would loose two of her teeth! I swear she is not old enough to be loosing teeth. She is still supposed to be my little baby girl. I guess there is a first for literally every little thing!

Sledding

The day after Christmas we went down to Richfield and went sledding! We had such a great time with all of the cousins, aunts and uncles, grandmas and grandpas! Grady stayed back at home with Grandma Kyhl while we went out into the cold. Halie and Gavin are at such a fun age. They are getting more and more daring. I didn't think that they would have as much fun sledding as they did. Halie was a crazy girl! She loved going down the hill with her cousin Jaren all by themselves. They must have gone up and down that hill twenty plus times. I have to say that I must be getting older because I am just not as daring as I used to be. Jed took me high up the hill and wanted to go down together in a train. I hate to admit that I was scared but I was. It was a lot of fun and quite the rush that as a mother you don't get too often! (How pathetic that going down a hill in the snow is a rush that will sustain me for a while?) Anyway we enjoyed our weekend in Richfield will all the family and of course all of the great food!!!

Halie and Jaren after one of 

their runs down the hill!

Grandpa Gordon and Gav!

Halie with her 

Grandpa Gordon!

My little stud! I just 

loved how he posed for

this picture!

Christmas this year was wonderful! We are so blessed! We were able to spend time with both families. We love this time of year that is spent with family and close friends!