I am a failure....

So, I am positive that I am a failure at blogging.  I always think that I will do better, but I never do.  However, I had a goal of getting this thing updated by the end of the year....let's see if I can get it done!

In order to get caught up, we are traveling back in time to spring!

In April, we went to a train museum with some friends.  It was such a fun day (and super cheap), unfortunately Daxton was "tired", so we had to leave.  When we were 10 minutes from home he threw up in the van.  Glad we left earlier, so we didn't have to deal with that in the car the whole way home!

"T" Week at Preschool.  All of the kids got their faces painted like Tigers.  He had tons of fun being a tiger all day long!

With the help of my dear friend Bonnie, I made matching Easter clothes for the kids.  I love how they turned out!

Here they are sporting their new Easter clothes.

 

The boys playing in the blossoms that dropped off of our tree.  It is such a beautiful tree...but man it makes a mess!

 

This spring we decided to sign Kambry and Daxton up for soccer.  This is how well it went....

 

Needless to say, when soccer was over, we were all relieved!  Perhaps we'll try something different next year.

Kambry at her school choir concert in May!

Ricky had a CME conference in Cancun also in May.  We went with our friends, the Smith's and had such an awesome time.  We tried to eat all authentic food the whole time we were there....sometimes it was a little scary trying to get to the small restaurants at night, but we survived!
We did hit the Walmart there and can I tell you, they had THE best guacamole and mangoes that I have ever tasted in my life.  Oh how I wish I could have brought some home with me!

 

This is our hotel at night.....it was such a nice place!

 

This is the view out our hotel window!  Isn't it amazing?

We took a trip down to Chichen Itza.  On the way we stopped and swam.  I thought I would be fine without a life jacket, but I started hyperventilating and had to get out.  Ricky enjoyed jumping off the cliffs off the side.  It was so pretty.  It also made me realize that I need to take swimming lessons to really learn to swim.

Chichen Itza and the Mayan Ruins

Seeing all these made me want to read up on the Mayan's and compare it to the Book of Mormon.  

It was all so fascinating, however, the temperatures of 113 degrees didn't make me want to live there!

 

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It was such an amazing trip.  So glad that Ricky had his conference there, so we could travel a bit.  The rest of the time was spent lounging by the pool, which may or may not have included a few naps and some good book reading.

A big thanks to Ricky's mom who came to stay with the kids, so we could have such a great time!

picture overload

In an attempt to catch up on my blogging....here are a bunch of pictures from the year so far.  I hope to get all caught up and stay caught up.  Let's see if I can really do it!

So, January my little man turned 2.  I can't believe how big he is getting.  He is crazy climber and I am afraid will continue to scare me even until he is an adult with his climbing.  We have tried everything we can to keep him safe...we'll see if we can succeed.

He is still allergic to milk, so this frosting was made special for him with soy milk.  yummm!

Ricky took Kambry to a Daddy/Daughter Dance.  It is put on by the city each year.  Kambry was in Heaven as Ricky came home with flowers for her, took her to dinner, and danced the night away at the "Tangled" themed dance.  They had so much fun just spending the night together.  I think they are both looking forward to doing this more often!

We got so much snow this winter.  If you look closely, you can see Ricky's car somewhere beyond that mound of snow!

Kambry came home from school with this paper that cracked me up.  I love that she has no concept of money!!

Silly lunches to keep us sane through the long and torturous winters!

 

 Here's Gus enjoying a cold yet sunny day.  It doesn't happen often that the sun comes out, so we all have to enjoy them!

Kambry had a project for school to make a robot made of recyclables.  It was so fun collecting items that we had used.  She had enough that she had a lot to choose from.  Here are her "Robot Plans" below.

Here is Kambry's robot. Before the paint job.

We even had enough saved up that Daxton could make a robot too.

Here is Kambry's robot after being painted.  For some reason I never got a picture of the finished project.  She ended up using buttons for the eyes and on the middle.  She also added a bracelet from a carton of milk.

And for some reason I never got a picture of Daxton's either.  He was so excited to take his to preschool for "R week" and show his off!

We ended up ripping out the carpet in our living room and getting new carpet.  It was so nice to get rid of that old nasty stuff.  It was so stained from the people before us, and it didn't help that Scout loved to pee on it too.  I love our new carpet!  

Here is an AWESOME picture of Ricky during Mustache March at work.

So thankful he shaved it off!

Just messing around with the camera, because that is what we do when we are bored and it is still freezing cold outside!

Finally Kambry's artistic masterpiece.  It is the Tree of Life.

More to come shortly.

Grandpa and Grandma come for a visit

I don't know about anyone else, but I feel like this winter has lasted forever! We have had so much sickness throughout this winter, I will be so happy to see Spring! Anyway, aside for all the illnesses that have taken over our house, we have had some fun times!
I know all of these are long overdue, but that's how I roll...so, here you go!

My parents came out for Christmas this year. They were able to come for a week and the kids had SO much fun seeing Grandma and Grandpa. Jace really had a great time getting to know them. I wish we were closer, so the kids could see them more often.

One of the first things that had to happen when they got here, was building a snow man! He was huge!Grandpa and Ricky took the kids sledding on an awesome hill that we just found. It is right in our neighborhood and there is NEVER anyone there! It will hopefully remain a secret!

The boys loved going down backwards!We also had a Gingerbread House building contest...both teams did a great job!

Christmas Eve was full of lots of good food and drink as we sat around the table singing Christmas songs.
Here are the kids lining up Christmas morning...waiting to see what Santa brought!

This year Santa brought us one main present, a piano. We were all really excited!
The plan is for me and Kambry to take lessons this year.

Another huge hit was Daxton's Spiderman costume...who knew that it would be so loved by both young and old? Sorry Grandma...older.

We were lucky enough to have Grandma here on her birthday! It was fun to spend the day with her. We celebrated that night by going to Sesame Street Live. Fun right? We had planned to go see Wicked, but the tickets we could actually afford were all sold out. Well, it wasn't Wicked, but the kids sure loved it! (Even though Kambry pretended she was too old for it and said that she should have brought a book to read...we still saw her laughing!)


We were sad to see Grandpa and Grandma go, but we sure loved spending time with them. There are a lot more pictures to come, from the LONG winter!