Fun Pics

The kid had fun "dancing" on the new concrete floor. Man, they love to dance. It's hilarious. I'll have to figure out how to get video on her for you guys to see it. It's so funny!
My princess posing for the camera. She's so photogenic.
We got a "New Years" card this week! Sophie spends a lot of time making cards and drawing pictures. She's a fantastic artist. Very abstract, but fantastic! We love her pictures! I'm planning on scanning some of her work and posting it very soon! I just can't choose what I want to scan!
This is me mixing concrete. Travis wanted me to post this because he didn't think anyone would believe that I helped. WHATEVER!!!! I guess that in the last 8 years I have managed to deceive my husband into thinking that I couldn't do physical work! (He has never seen me at my job!)

Silly Bangs and Funny Faces

I promised pics of Sophie's hair cut, and here it is! She didn't know that her "Silly Bangs" were showing when I took this picture. She is pretty self-conscious about her bangs and won't let me put her hair up because her "silly bangs" will show. How's that for natural consequences! The haircut happened about a month ago, so they are a little longer than when it first happened!
Aiden's new thing is wrinkling up his nose. He does it all the time and thinks it is funny. It's pretty cute when he's looking at you, because with his nose wrinkled up, you can see the big gap between his teeth!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Valentine's Day (early)! We have already celebrated this special occasion because the gifts were bought early and no one in my family can keep a secret or wait!!! We opened valentines gifts on Saturday. Sophie and Aiden picked out a new necklace and earings for me (with the help of Daddy.) I love them. I had pretty much figured out that I was getting jewelry, because when Aiden told me that he got me a present, Sophie said, "Yeah, we got it at Macy's and you're gonna wear it every day!" I had been shopping with Travis a couple of weeks earlier and eyed some of the stuff... so, yeah, I knew!!! I got Travis a Nelson Bubble Lamp, which he has told me more than once was one of the two things that he wanted to own before he died. The other thing is way too expensive. I'll have to save for years.
Sophie got a strawberry notepad, some hair clips and some days of the week socks. She thinks the Socks are fun, and I can tell that the "Artist" in her is fighting with the "Rule Follower" in her because sometimes she wants to wear the socks on the wrong day and has trouble with this concept! She's trying to choose between the color she wants, but can't let go of the fact that they have the days written on them. I told her that they make days of the week panties and asked her if she wanted some and she adamantly yelled "NO!" She is so both her father and I!
Aiden got a Very Hungry Caterpillar game and we had fun playing it together!
We got Valentines in the mail today. Thanks gramma and pappa for the dress up clothes, stickers, candy, puzzle and jammies! The kids love them! Thanks Natalie and "Uncle G" (as Aiden refers to you) for the candy.
Sophie and Aiden both got cards from Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Dana. When Sophie opened hers, one dollar fell out. She was pretty excited. Aiden opened his and pulled out 5 -1 dollar bills. He started yelling, "I got THREE!" Sophie was totally upset that he got more than her AND that he was counting wrong! Then Travis had to tell Sophie to open her card and she found the rest of her dollars. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma! This was very funny!
I'll be posting some pics soon. We have a Valentine's party tomorrow at one of Sophie's friends houses and then a party at school on Friday.

Check out my new blog

I just wanted to let you all know that I have created a new blog that will cover our remodeling projects. I didn't really want to mix any of that with my stories about the kids in case you don't care about our remodeling endeavors and just want to see the kids! You can find the blog at http://myhandyhubby.blogspot.com

Fun in the Snow

We finally got to go out and play in the snow today. I was just glad that the snow lasted this long. It was killing the kids not to be able to stay home and play in it, and then of course, a miraculous thing happened...Aiden threw up at school yesterday and couldn't go back today. So I'm home with them and unable to sleep now before work tonight...no biggie. Sleep is overrated. I don't think Aiden's sick. He probably just ate too much for snack! So out into the snow we went. Sophie didn't have any snowboots, so she got plastic grocery bags taped to her legs. It was a fun time. They had fun making snow angels and throwing snowballs. Sophie threw on and it hit Aiden in the face, and of course that was a disaster. Snow went down his shirt and he was ready to go in shortly after that.

Puzzles

Both the kids got new puzzles for Christmas. Sophie got a 100 piece "Belle" puzzle and Aiden got a "Very Hungry Caterpillar" puzzle. They both had a lot of fun putting them together. Saturday evening, we didn't really know what to do with our time, so we decided to go to Target and get some new puzzles. Sophie got a "100 piece funny froggy" puzzle and Aiden picked out a 24 piece Cars puzzle. Sophie and Daddy put hers together with a little help from Aiden. She is proud of her 100 pieces! Aiden put his Cars puzzle together ALL BY HIMSELF! He has been putting that puzzle together and taking it apart since he got it. I couldn't really believe that he could do it, but here's the evidence! He even does well helping Sissy do hers. They spent over and hour this morning doing their puzzles. I'm sure we'll have more trips to Target to get more puzzles!

A January Afternoon at the Park

We were blessed with nice weather today, so I decided to load up the kids (and my camera) and head to the park. The kids had a great time playing and just running around. Sophie likes the swings the most and Aiden is all about the slides. Aiden hated the swing and I'm glad that I got a good picture out of it because he only let me push him once and then begged me to get him off of it! They had a great time getting some much needed fresh air and sunshine! Overall, I took about 150 photos and managed only about 20 good ones. You gotta love digital photography!