One of these days...

...my house will stay clean from sunup to sundown. Today was not that day.

 

Clearly, it will need to be a day in which I forego showering.

From the mouths of babes...

Me: Oh, where did we get our cute little Anners? She must have come straight from...
Cole: China! (Giggles)

I was actually going to say heaven. We are not outsourcing our babies around here.


Cole: Dad, you're a big, fat beaver.
Floyd: Cole, don't call me fat, that's rude.
Cole: Why?
Floyd: It's rude to call people fat. Nobody wants to be fat, they want to be skinny, like mom.
Cole: Mom's not skinny, she's fat too.
Floyd: No she's not, mom's very skinny.
Cole: Well, I think she's a little bit fat.
Floyd: No she's not.
Cole: You think what you want and I'll think what I want.


Mom: Can you say mommy?
Annie: Mama
Mom: Can you say daddy?
Annie: Daddy
Mom: Can you say Cole?
Annie: Co
Mom: Can you say Grandma?
Annie: Mamaw
Mom: Can you say Kar?
Annie: Tar
Mom: Can you say Jake?
Annie: (Placing her pointer finger over my lips) Shhh, mommy.

You can see who gets that last word in around here!

Missed Ya Aunt Kar!

This is a note from Cole and Annie to our Aunt Karlee. We're glad you are home from your trip. We sure missed you. Since we know you missed us too, here are a few pictures to remind you how cute we are. Love ya!

Gallery Walk

Cole's preschool class had an art show at our library last night. Cole chose to paint The Starry Night - can't you tell? It was a lot of fun. Grandma and Grandpa were able to come with us and we all went out for ice cream after. Cole spent the rest of the evening making pictures with the paint set he was given to celebrate. He totally soaked up the attention.

 

 

 

And fyi, Cole's haircut was not meant to be so short. We had a little learning experience in our house on Monday - Mommy does not have the talent of cutting hair. Good thing this lesson was learned on Cole and not Annie. She would look much worse with a buzz.

hibernating

The other day, my kids had extra energy, but outside it looked like this:

I wasn't feeling too warm, so instead of bundling up and heading out, we stayed inside and held the Olympic Dive Bombing event. It went something like this:









Cole, of course, won the gold medal. His competition is still mastering jumping, so she wasn't too hard to beat. She did laugh like crazy the entire time, and somehow managed to lose her pants in the fun. My couches are slightly worse for the wear, but we decided looooong ago not to care much about that.

PS - One of Annie's new things is to say, "cheese" whenever she sees the camera and then to give me a big cheesy smile. Just in case you wondered what was up with her smile in a couple of those pics. It looks like we'll be starting the cheesy smile stage a bit early with her.

Christmas!

Christmas was, of course, fabulous. We stayed home on Christmas Eve and had a fancy dinner by ourselves. It was pretty fun and everyone humored mom by dressing up in their nice clothes. Cole was sooooo excited for Christmas that as soon as dinner was over, he started asking to go to bed. I wish that would happen a little more often. He woke up at 6:30 the next morning and after making him wait a bit for sis, we headed down and had a great time. Cole's favorite presents are a jungle set from his grandparents, the teepee Floyd and I made him, and the Cowboys and Indians he got to go with it. Annie loves her new kitchen set and the chapstick in her stocking, which we smuggled into church today as Fast Sunday chapstick. I'm sneaky like that.

 

I was spoiled by my husband, parents, and in-laws. I can't believe I'm almost thirty and still getting spoiled like this! I'm not complaining...just incredulous. My favorite present from Floyd is a shirt he bought me at Anthropologie. While he was in Virginia for work, I mentioned to him how I wish I could afford clothes from there, so he got out his GPS and paid $11 in tolls to get to the nearest one. I guess I failed to tell him that there is an Anthropologie in SLC (where he works every day). He's sweet. I really love, love, love Christmas and I'm so grateful we get the opportunity to celebrate it each year.