Abby at the state science fair

She didnt win but she was awesome to get this far! And we had celebration italian ices after :)

Other things

I know, I know it seems like my whole life is consumed with my house and house related things, BUT we actually do a few other things :)

Abby went up to Snowbasin and took some ski lessons.

She had lots of fun and did a great job.

Happy girl ;)

I knitted a cute little hat and mittens for my new nephew Jayden. He looks adorable in it.

I also made a sweater to go with it. It turned out cute but the sweater is little big. Hopefully he grows some more before winter is over so he can wear it :)

And here are the kids holding little Jayden.

They LOVE their new nephew!! He is adorable and we are so glad

to have such a cute little addition to our family.

Kids at supercross.....

or is it motocross, or motogp, or supermotard?? I get so confused!!! Anyway back to the point, here are some pictures of Mark and the kids watching Supercross in SLC. They go every year and the kids love it until it inevitably starts to rain!!!

Happy and sunny looking at the bikes in the pit.

Happy and relatively dry getting ready for the race with Uncle Joe being a awesome uncle and buying them all kinds of goodies daddy wouldn't buy them!! Straight to their hearts Uncle Joe goes!!

Unhappy during the race when it really started raining and getting them wet. Couldn't it have waited just one more hour???

Asleep and tired out!!

Skiing Lessons

Ahhh. The joy of teaching the munchkins how to go down a steep, icy hill,

 on two skinny little pieces of metal....Ironic isn't it?

Jack thought is was great and was really excited to go skiing with Daddy.

He especially loved going up the magic carpet to get to the top of the hill.

Nothing phased him... not even getting twisted into shapes that no reasonable adult could get into without breaking something!! I just love this picture!!!!

Abby was not as excited to go as Jack was but after watching Jack in his videos 

she was willing to give it a shot. 

She loved it once she did it.  That is just how Abby is... drag her kicking and screaming until finally she likes it and is glad you drug her kicking and screaming...I wonder if that will last until she is a teenager???

What a day

I am sick!!! Nothing to do but stare at the computer and try to get motivated to do something. As you can see that is not working very well... today I accomplished zero!!! Abby made breakfast and lunch AND dinner. What a sweetie. Then she also played with Jack all day and took care of him. Really, priceless!!!!  And Jack threw in lots of sweet hugs and pats while saying I am sorry you are sick MOmmy you should take a nap!!! Then while I was deathly ill, Mark (my other child) decided to dress up for snowboarding. He has these tight red spandex ski pants from like the seventies and a tight red body armour and to top it all off a crazy old wig to wear (cause we all know my sweetie doesn't have quite that much on top!!!)

Here he is going up the lift. 

And here is the mud pit my other sweeties played in all day today. 

What a mess. But they had fun and didn't mind their mommy ignoring 

them so that was all that mattered. 

Now if anyone can tell me how to upload a video

 (I know you used to be able to do that, what happened to that link????)

I could show you Mark's complete outfit in all its glory. But alas it is now time for bed. I am tired out after sitting on the couch all day long!!!!!

Getting ready for bed.

So we were getting ready for bed the other day. I told Abby to go brush her hair after her bath. A few minutes later she yelled down, "I can't find my brush Mom!" So I told her to go in my bathroom and use my brush.  I few minutes later I hear hysterical crying and screaming. She had grabbed my round brush and assumed she should twist it to brush her hair. Very logical assumption because the brush IS round but it sure did make a very bad tangle. I was sure I was going to have to cut some of it. But after LOTS of detangler and some patience the brush came out with only minimal damage. Poor Poor child!!!

On a funnier note Jack has these striped footie PJ's that he loves so much. He will wear them, I will wash them, then he will wear them and I will have to wash them the next day so he can wear them again. We call them his thing one and thing two jammies. Well, they held up great despite the wearing so often but they finally bit the dust. He grew so much his feet pushed out the little toes. I mean he barely fit in these things but he would still wear them!!! Such cute toesies! 

Christmas Past

I was looking at all our Christmas decorations as we were putting them up and I started feeling like a real slaker. I have these decorative frames that go on the tree that you put pictures in. I have had them for at least 4 years and still no pictures!! So I finally went through all our old Christmas pictures to pick some to put in the frames and boy was it a trip down memory lane. My kids are just the cutest!!!

Abby's second Christmas. (2002)

 We only had the digital camera at this time that was my dad's.

It took a whopping 100,000 pixels per picture.

 No mega pixels for us.WOW!!!

Abyy's second Christmas. This was Christmas morning.

She was a year and 5 months in these 2 pictures.

Jack's first Christmas. He was 2 1/2 months old here. (2004)

Those little santa boties where actually Mark's when he was little!! What a chunky baby he was.

Jack's second Christmas he was a year and 2 months old.(2005)

 I just love the enjoyment on his face. He had already opened tons of presents at

Grandma Taylors but he looks like this playing with their telephone.

The kids learned to ride motorcycles!!!

Mark took the kids out for memorial day and helped them learn how to ride motorcycles since they can both ride bikes really well now. Jack just took off on his bike riding this year. Abby was pretty nervous at first so Jack went before her. After Abby tried it she was excited and wanted to try it again.

Jack of course just jumped right in. No fear in that one. We had been telling him that when he learned how to ride his bike he could learn how to drive the motorcycle. He goes out and rides his bike for a couple hours a day usually so he definetly was ready.