Christmas Morning

This is for my parents, who I know wish that they could have been here this morning. It's pretty long so the MN friends will probably get bored with it. Don't worry, I won't know if you don't watch the whole thing. :) BTW, the beginning is dark. I turned on the lights after I started it. So give it a few moments before you get frustrated with it. Merry Christmas!

Christmas Morning

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Merry Christmas Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. The boys were super excited, especially Tyler. On Christmas Eve, he told me: "Mom, you NEED to put us to bed!" He was so worried that Santa would skip our house if he wasn't in bed. He then kept going "Do you hear that? I think I heard his sleigh." It was so much fun! Even Deke picked up on the excitement and at one point thought Santa was outside and was trying to open the door so he could come in. And while I was reading to Deacon, he kept saying: "Santa's coming tonight." Christmas was great and I can't wait for next year.

Snowboard!

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Yes, I know I'm just asking for a trip to the ER. BUT, he loves this gift and it is far and away is favorite present this year. He couldn't wait to get outside and try it out. We are only allowing him on the baby hills of snow that gets plowed from our driveway. He actually does pretty well and has managed to stay balanced on the way down...sometimes. He falls a lot too, but fortunately the snow is so thick out there that it is a soft cold landing and he also wears a helmet.

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Merry Christmas

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Last Friday, we had the teens over for a Christmas party. We played rockband for a little while and Ty and Deke couldn't resist joining in on the fun. Deke played drums and Ty sang. Ty really did sing, but for Deke we just let him pretend to play.
This is the season for lots of cheap toys and tons of candy. Tyler got a pop ring the other day and really wanted to eat it. So I attempted to open it up for him. I got one part of it open, but I couldn't pull the ring out. I kept trying to widen the opening, but it wouldn't budge, so Ty asks me if he can try.
My response: "If I can't get it, what makes you think you can."
Ty: "My hands are smaller."
Darn him if he wasn't right.

December 20, 2010 5:45 PM

Oh, Deacon. You are your own person. Definitely not a sheep :)

December 20, 2010 5:42 PM

Just had to share this. Deacon certainly wasn't shy this year! I have another one where he's in front of everyone else just doing his own thing.

Ty & Deke

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These two cuties had their preschool program. As soon as I can, I'm going to upload the video I took. They were so cute. We're getting more snow today. Supposed to hae 4-7 inches by tomorrow morning. Yeah!

Let it Snow, let it snow, let it snow

First big snow of the season. I think we got over 2' of snow and in some places it is easily 3'. The boys had a blast playing in it, but I don't think they'll be playing in it much longer this week. It is supposed to get bitterly cold. Hope to post more pictures later, but am having some difficulty with the post today. Maybe tomorrow.

San Antonio Trip

While in Texas, Joel and I took a little trip to San Antonio. This is one of my favorite cities (as long as you stay along the riverwalk.) This is the city Joel took me to when he proposed and we also went here to ring in the New Year 2000. What a wild time that was. We have so many memories here and it was great to go back. It was also super nice for it to be just Joel and I. This was the first time that we were away from the boys for two nights. They did awesome and everytime I called, I could hear them in the background sounding like they were having the time of their life. I hope we get to go back soon. We didn't do much, just relaxed and did a lot of walking along the riverwalk.

We got snow on Friday here and it gorgeous outside. The boys could not wait to go out in it yesterday morning. We had a super nice neighborhood boy that came and plowed our small driveway saving us a ton of hard work. He was nice enough to plow it up in a mound for Ty and Deke to have a very small snow hill in our yard. I love our neighborhood. Everybody here is so quick to help out everybody else. We did pay him, but he wasn't expecting it and that is really nice to see in a 15 year old.

Kinect Adventures

Joel and I bought the Kinect Friday night and have had a blast with it. For those who don't know, Kinect is a video game (yes, shocking!), but it is one that reads your movements, so there is no laying around on the couch just giving your thumbs a workout. You have to use your whole body to control the game and let me tell you it is quite the workout. My legs are sore today from all the jumping and lunging I did yesterday. The other cool feature is that it takes photos of you during the game that you can access later. These are some of the photos that it took. Tyler can actually play the games pretty well too. He gets a little excited in his jumping, (don't know where he gets that from :).

Last week, we had parent teacher conferences with the boys' teachers. Pleased to say that they both had excellent reports. Ty's teacher told us that he is a really good friend. She can pair him with anyone and know that it will go well because he has such a talent for being friends. All the other kids in his class enjoy him and want to play with him whereas with some of the other kids there are fights or hurt feelings. Joel and I have also noticed this with Ty. He makes friends so easily. Deke's teacher told us that he has such a sense of humor. Some of the things he says or the way he'll look at you. He is quite the cut-up. Both kids are awesome and it's always nice to hear another person see some of the same things that we've seen in our kids.

Reading and playing at Poppy and Grammy's

Ty likes to give Deke pony rides. :)

Ty was super excited to get to see the grandparents. We left at 3 in the morning on Saturday and he was so excited that neither Deke nor him went back to sleep until around 5:30. When we were driving through Dallas, he kept questioning on us on whether we were going in the right direction. It took us a longer than we anticipated because both boys got sick in Kansas. Can't say I blame them. :) We hit every rest stop on the Kansas turnpike because Deke had to go to the bathroom several times. Not a fun experience. I ended up in the backseat between the two of them, rubbing Ty's belly because it was hurting and rubbing Deke's belly as well. Not sure if he was hurting, but with the way he was going to the bathroom, my guess would be yes. Both Joel and I were thinking about calling it a day around there because we were making such slow progress and with both boys not feeling well, we were thinking that it might be best. Fortunately they both fell asleep and when they woke up three hours later, they both felt much better. When we arrived at my parents, Ty had them reading to him until very late in the night. They both had so much fun with both sets of grandparents.

Fishing with Papa

Ty loves to go fishing and his Papa has taken him the last two trips we've been down. This time it was just to the pond in the backyard, but Ty could not have been more excited. Deacon did catch a mud cat the first evening and Papa took Ty the next day and Tyler also caught a mud cat. They threw back as neither was that big.

Had a date day with Joel yesterday. We went to see the new Harry Potter and it was awesome, then we went to Rochester for some shopping. I do have to say I have the most awesome husband. He walked with me from store to store and then sat around the dressing rooms while I tried on dress after dress. He must have been so bored, but he never showed it. We then met up with Heather and some other friends at Zaza's. What a great date night. The boys seemed to have a blast with Ashley, their babysitter. Ty's been talking about her all morning and seemed very impressed that she knew how to play to the mousetrap game.

Still partying

We all had a blast at the reception!

Party Time!

Ty and Deke are party animals. They love to dance! The flower girls and my two boys were tearing it up on the dance floor. We stayed and partied until 9:30 which is when Deacon started to get grumpy, but Tyler did not want to leave. That boy danced from the time the reception started at 4:30 until we left at 9:30. It was super cute and he had so much fun. I don't think either one of them can wait until we go to Aunt Melly's wedding!