Winter Fun

We came home from Thanksgiving in Dillon to TONS of snow...

So we dug out our snow gear and played!

and played some more.

Frosty is in front and Pengy is in the back.

Off to the side, where you can't see it, is a tiny snowman for Ike named Snoopy.

This is the first time in 2 years that we've had enough of the right kind of snow to make a snowman, so the kids had tons of fun!

War Heads

We gave the kids their first war heads the other day.

I'll let the pictures do the talking...

(They are in the correct sequence)

The Pumpkin Patch

We took Coen's pre-school class to the pumpkin patch.

Reagan and Ike got to come too. It was FREEZING!!!

Unfortunately we waited too long and almost all the pumpkins were gone. No, he isn't going to the bathroom, this was just the closest thing to a smile I could get while he was pretending to pick a pumpkin.

Here's most of the group. There weren't any pumpkins, but the kids still got to feed the animals. They had goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, horses, pigs, rabbits, and sheep. The kids got some candy and a spider ring which as you'll see in the next picture was very important.

This is where you can tell we were having a good time! No, Reagan had just lost her candy and spider ring and couldn't find it (if you look really close you can see the huge frozen tears on her cheeks) and Ike was just done with the whole thing. They really did have fun!

Here are our pumpkins this year. Reagan is sitting behind hers and she won a prize at the church party for scariest pumpkin carved by a kid. I forgot to take my camera so a friend took pictures for me. If I ever get those I post them with a kind of funny story about Coen. Well, it's typical Coen anyway...

Sibling Summer Fun

Going to check the mail

They asked if they could run through the sprinklers. I looked out to find them hiding behind the "underella" fairly close to the sprinklers. By the time I got the camera they had retreated to this spot and were watching the sprinklers instead.

One of his favorite toys!

Reagan was reading them stories on her bed.

Brothers bonding over the joys of the movie Cars.

I LOVE how they play together and try so hard to be helpful. Our summer has been a little crazy trying to get the house ready so sell, so we haven't had the time to do all the fun stuff we wanted to, but they have made the best of it and had fun together anyway. I've got great kids. And even though I make fun of them all the time, I love them like crazy.

A Haircut and a boy...

So, I finally admitted that there was a problem and got out the clippers. I've given him hair cuts in the past, but just with my scissors while he's watching a movie. But we were way beyond that. He started out okay with the clippers, but rapidly progressed to severely not okay.

So we still have a few spots to fix, but here he is about a pound lighter and looking so grown up...

Now, you may not have noticed, because he's so quiet subtle and quiet, but Coen is quite the crier. (You can stop here and laugh hysterically if you need to.)

He seriously bursts into crocodile tears about 400 times a day because he hurt himself (usually he ran into something with his large noggin) or someone was mean to him (they made a funny face at him), or I asked him to do something completely outrageous like put on his shoes.

Here he is when I asked him if I could take his picture.

Lately he wants me to help him do everything. Somethings I can understand and some requests are pretty ridiculous. The latest one was pretty funny though. He asked me to help him eat his sammich. I asked him what he wanted me to do and he said... I'll open my mouth, you pick up my sammich, put it in my mouth, close it and che... He kind of realized he was asking me to chew his food for him and tried to stop mid word. Then he quietly picked up and ate his sammich by himself.

My next post will be some pictures of him being happier, I promise. And hopefully it will be with in the year... Just kidding mom, it will be sooner than that.

Happy Mothers Day

HERE'S TO YOU MOM!

The Easter Bunny gave Coen Stuart Little in his basket. So the kids are big fans now.

Kickin' it with Stuart...

One gorgeous day...

Dear Nanie & Oma,

You are the most wonderful, amazing, fantastic, fabulous, incredible, lovely women we know. We are ecstatic that we get to call you mom (and of course Nanie & Oma)! You have made and continue to make our lives wonderful. We'll be thinking of you today, as we do everyday, feeling blessed indeed to have you in our lives.

Love & Hugs & Kisses,

Nick, Ashley, Reagan, Coen & Ike

Reagan Turns 5

Reagan's Birthday!!!

She woke up to a Beta Fish in her room. She's blue and named Lily. Then, as soon as Nick and I left the room, they dumped a TON of food in the bowl, so I got to spend the morning cleaning out the bowl. It was a pre school day, so we took rainbow cupcakes for snacks. We got to stay and watch them play "animal action" and "freeze dance." Ike loved it! Coen did too! Reagan wanted Coen to stay so Mrs. Cindy said he could. It was really cute to hear them talk about it afterwords. Also, that let me get home and make her cake without too many interruptions. It was a three layer cake with pink, purple and white layers. Then we had one of Reagan's favorite people, Lauren, come over for dinner.

We put trick candles on the cake. She was laughing pretty hard. She never did get them all the way out. We had her best friend Allison and her family over for cake and ice cream. Her dad is the E Q pres. and was in meetings, but he and his councilors decided to stop by when they found out there was cake, so now I don't have to eat half a cake by myself. YAY! (I mean, I would have done it, but it's nice not to have too:)

And she got loaded up on Princess gear! Becky & Jenny Connolly sent her a princess backpack and a princess card. I was pretty sure she was going to pee her pants when she opened the card. It was fantastic! Thanks guys! Coen got her a princess cash register and Ike got her a princess alarm clock, so she can stop waking him up so early in the morning.

Our sweet next door neighbors brought over the perfect present. She came to breakfast this morning wearing the tiara and zebra slippers. Then she changed into the outfit Grandma Cardon sent. She and Coen have been trying to make muffins all morning. (Also, a present from Grandma Cardon.) I made her a canopy for her bed & Nick got her a barbie bike with no training wheels.

Coen kept asking all day if he could help Reagan open her prizes. I was very proud of him for not opening them all himself. I don't have pictures of Nanie and Poppy's present (which was a FANTASTIC barbie house) or Oma & Opa's presents (furniture for the barbie house) because my camera died. SORRY! We love them though. She kept bringing people in to show them her Barbie house. She had a wonderful birthday! Thank you everyone!