Milk and Cookies

Jarae telling Travis what to write for Santa she didn't want to write it herself.



Jarae writting her name. So intent on writting it perfectly.. Love the tongue hanging out. :)



And Austin's name...



Pouring the milk for Santa.



The finished product. Jarae picked out 5 cookies for Santa I thought it was because she is turning 5 a week from today but when I asked her she advised me it was because Santa is fat.

Christmas Morning

Austin telling Jarae no his turn to cheez. :) ah siblings.



Austin sneaking out and opening one of his presents.... Is he a boy or what?



The kids discovering that Santa had eaten the cookies, drank the milk and the bag of carrots is gone!!!! Jarae's face just cracks me up!



Going outside to see if the carrots had been eaten. If you can't tell the curlers in Jarae's hair didn't last. Both my kids changed jammies.. I guess they were just too excited or something.




The kids looking at the tracks from Santa's sleigh, the mess from the reindeer eating in such a hurry.

Aunt Morgan made Jarae a super cute apron for Jarae which is right up her alley and her wanting to help us cook!



Okay I knew Morgan was making mom one and slid in there that I wanted one too.... Hoping I would get one for my birthday or something.. well she surprised me with one for Christmas. I love it... Love it... Love it!!!



The kids riding their new bikes



Austin got a cars bike.



Jarae got a purple schwin bike.


Merry Christmas everyone!

Sleepy Boy

Well Austin decided he didn't want to take a nap today so around 5 o'clock he was a bit tired don't ya think? It was extremely funny to us to watch him twitch... He is such a cutie we just love ya Austin!

More Sleepy Boy

Guitar Hero

Well I bought a 2nd guitar for our PS3 Guitar Hero. The kids were playing one morning making some of the funniest faces I could only get one photo before they started smiling for the camera but I thought it was funny. :) Enjoy

Turkey Day

We went to Trav's Uncle Kens house for Thanksgiving before coming home and having my family over. Well while at Uncle Kens the kids were tree climbing jumping fools. If this is any indication as to the things Austin will do as he gets older he will be jumping from the roof of the house soon. ha. He is sucha a boy last night he peeled a scab off his foot and it started to bleed a little and comes up to me and says mommy wanna see.. Crawls up on the couch and says gross huh mommy.. :) Jarae was like yeah Austin that's gross you are not supposed to do that. This Thanksgiving I am thankful for my family all of them and our health.

Beatle Mania

Beatle Mania



One of my bff's Mandi, I am lucky that I work with her she is the best!


Dr. A and I, he invited everyone from work to Beatle Mania 6 of us went it was a blast thanks Dr A for inviting us!



Some of the gals I work with Norma, Elisa, and Annette


I was sceptical of going to Beatle Mania. I didn't think it would be super fun.. But it was a super blast. I would recommend it to anyone. I had a great time.

Fishing with Dad

Everytime Austin would reel in a fish he would say, "Come on baby, come on." I guess my nephew Kasen says this phrase so Austin picked it up.. Quite commical that's for sure.





Today Travis left work early and took Jarae and Austin out on the boat for some daddy time and fishing. Brave man he is as Austin is 2 and has no fear of the water or anything. As you can see both the kids caught a fish they had a blast and came home tuckered out. Travis is an amazing dad and so wonderful with the kids. He takes time out of his busy day and life to do special things with the kids they just love it and are so lucky to have such an awesome dad. Love you babe!!

Locks of Love

BEFORE



AFTER




Well today I decided to chop my long maine I have been growing since Jarae was a baby and donate it to Locks of Love. Thank you to my awesome friend Cassie for the gorgeous cut!!! I love it. It feels very weird to not have hair on my neck but it's only hair and it is going to a wonderful cause. Please excuse the after pic it was taken with my phone and I have no make-up on.. :) I will post a better pic once I get one.

Happy Halloween

Batman and snow white. Jarae's dress was too big poor girl so skinny and I bought it at Target in the dress up clothes.. ha so one size fits most... :) We went over to Mandi and Jakes to trick or treat. Both the kids buckets filled quickly and they had a blast trick or treating with their friends. When Mandi post some pics on her blog I will have to steal a few and add them. It was a lot of fun.

Robyn Hood and the Pimp!

This weekend we went to Jake and Mandi's Halloween Party. It was a lot of fun. Travis actually dressed up! I went as the sexy female version of Robyn Hood. I won best costume for females and Mandi's husband won for the men. He came as a gladiator.





Here's a pic of Jake and Mandi.. Awhh..

I Can Read!!!

In the last few weeks Jarae has been increasing words she can read. She is reading most 2 & 3 letter words and some 4 letter words. I have been trying to figure out how to shrink my video's to put on blogger so this video is a little old but here it is anyway. We are so proud of her and the accomplishments she has made in her reading. We owe hug thank you's to Mrs. Spier (her preshool teacher) who has engaged Jarae leaps and bounds in education. Mrs. Spier is an awesome teacher Austin can't wait to go next year. Grandma Fish for working with Jarae on the days she does not have preschool and Grandma Sue without her Preschool would not be possible. Jarae is so proud of herself for being able to read and is encouraged often by Mrs. Spier to read for her classmates. Jarae loves being able to read to her fellow classmates so it encourages her to read even more.

Camping pics of the kids

We went camping over the past weekend it rained on us and was too cold so we left early but here a couple of personal photo's I took of the kids. We went camping with the Ramsey's they stayed and weathered the rain and cold weather. Trav's heater wasn't working in the 6500 ft altitude it kept shutting off so our tent kept getting cold and just before we left Austin kept wanting me to hold him and said he was cold and then would tell me. 'go hom mommy' I felt so bad I told Travis we should go.

My kids, My life....

Another perk to working for the ortho office is I have every Friday off. I am very thankful for this because I get to spend more time with my kids. I don't get home early during the week so it makes it nice to wake up and be with them one whole extra day. They are a handful sometimes and fight as good as the next brother-sister but they all in all worry so much about each other and love each other so much I am blessed to have such wonderful kids.