Snippets

I have decided that I would like to continue with my blog, if only for myself to remember the fun times we have had together as a family.  Pictures will be a mix of both instagram and my camera.

Palmer has such a sweet love of babies and toddlers.  I love to see how cute he is when he is around babies.  This is my sister's little boy and Palmer loves to make him laugh.

I brought McKay with me to volunteer in Lincoln's class and Lincoln was so cute and kept his arm around him when they were playing games.

This winter (this is the winter of 2012-13) was the snowiest that I have experienced in a long time!  It just kept coming down.  I actually really love snow (until about the end of March and then I am done...), so I loved how many beautiful snow storms we got.  The boys loved all of the skiing and sledding they got to do.

Randomly however, it just happened that Josh always seemed to be out of town when we would get a bit snow storm so I ended up being the main snow shoveler of the family.  I talked to Josh about getting a snow blower but he said "that is why we have boys."  As nice of a thought as that is, they usually ended up playing more than working and I ended up getting some good arm muscles!

We skiied and snow shoed so much this winter.  We spent a lot of time up the North Ogden Divide and it was so breath taking.

I really cherish the time I have reading with my boys.  I look forward to it every day.  First we read from the Book of Mormon, and then we read a book together.  The boys really loved reading The Hobbit.

McKay and I are good buddies.  He is such a good sport and goes running all over town with me, so he usually ends up with a treat.  Most of the time it is chocolate milk, but every once in a while we will splurge on a cupcake from The Sweet Tooth Fairy!

McKay and I do a bit of coloring now and again, and thanks to Lincoln I have my own "girlie" coloring book.  Linc got it for me for Christmas.

Hunter's first chapter book.  He was so proud of himself for reading it all of the way through.

One day Palmer wanted to earn some money for scraping the ice off the driveway.  It was pretty bad so I didn't expect him to last long.  Well, he not only did the whole thing, but did such a great job!  He is a good worker (when he wants to be ;)

One night when Josh was out of town, he sent us a "Pizza Party" from Papa Johns.  It was a fun little surprise.

I am a puzzle lover (fun puzzles anyway), and worked very hard on this one.  McKay walked by after I had worked for a few hours on it and swept it off the table...oh well.

For "Fairy Tale Friday", I read Pinocchio to Hunter's class and we made bird branch noses.  The kids looked pretty cute in them :)

Krispy Kreme doughnuts gives free doughnuts for good grades.  The boys look forward to this every term!

I got this fun tea set from my Mother in Law for my birthday.  I actually love having tea (herbal) and my boys have had a couple a tea parties with me.

Chick-Fil-A school fundraiser.  My favorite one ever (my weakness).

Josh and I got to go to a Jazz game in a suite.  It was so much fun!