Howdy Y'all

If you chance to see Logan or Annie this summer, odds are this is pretty much what they'll be looking like. We've adopted a cowboy-ness. It's a good look for these kids and their daddy, since cowboy runs in their veins (me, not so much. My mom had horses growing up, but it was more of a "my father is a doctor" kind of situation than "gotta get them cows milked" kind of thing.)

Welcome Spring!

This is how Colorado does it! Yesterday, we were playing outside enjoying the sunshine. Today, we are enjoying the sunshine in our snow garb. The madness started last night with blinding ferocity, and in a matter of hours Denver was pretty much closed for business. At least we have daddy home today, so he can lend his genius to our snowman-making skills (the face was all Ryan--complete with rope mouth and pill bottle nose.)

Happy Spring everyone!

This is what we signed up for

This morning, I got to spend some wonderful time at the spa! It was a fabulous gift from my loving husband, and I have been looking forward to getting pampered before a date night out with friends. Ryan has been working weekends for aWHiLE, so I was pretty excited to get some face time with him. Logan, however, had other plans. We'd noticed our toilet was acting funky, and while I was helping Logan in the bathroom, he said, "Mommy, my pink-wen in the potty". Say what now? To make a long story short:

You can see the "pink-wen" perpetrator on the floor. In mob-like fashion, Ryan broke both of his arms off as punishment...

I was bummed I had to call the babysitter and tell her that instead of going on a date, we were going to Home Depot. Oh, well. We are parents and we are homeowners, and this is our life now :)

Not Here, then Back Again

I've said before that not having pictures makes me feel mute when it comes to the blog, and I'm sayin' it again! I went to my stash of photos from the past month, and found a lotta this:


This is how most of Christmas was documented. I'm just so glad I wasn't paying for film to be developed! But, at least I now have an extensive collection of Logan's little fingers--which I guess is kind of the modern take on the old porcelain handprint wall-hanging!

Sum-up and Preschool

In the long abscence, I've had tons of fun stuff going on. My mom and sister, Allison, came out to Colorado to visit me for my birthday in November! I was so excited to have them, and to have a place to put them. It was a blast for me, and I loved that Allison could stay a full week to make the drive with me and the kids back to Utah for Thanksgiving.
We were very fortunate to have the entire family (on my side) together for Thanksgiving, since Christmas will be a no-go. We had fun doing girly crafts (the girls did), eating, movies, talking, and even pulled an all-nighter for Black Friday--something likely not to be repeated again...
After getting back home, it was back to life! We are loving Colorado, especially the great people we are meeting in our ward. It's nice to fit right into the main demographic: 26-34 years old, 2.4 children, etc.

This week, I got to step-up to the preschool teacher plate and have our co-op preschool over. I really think that if I hadn't become a nurse, that my second choice would have been a teacher. I really love getting all ready and thinking of fun little things to do with the kids. My topic for this week was Christmas, so of course we had to do a nativity with the kids. I also made little baby Jesus decorations for each of the kids, so that they would have something special, just for them, to remind them of what Christmas is truly about.

our little Nativity players--a handful of shepherds, Joseph, Mary, a sheep and a donkey

--Logan kind of played the lone wiseman, but lost interest once he gave his gift to Jesus.

Happy Halloween!!!

Love, love, love Halloween! We were sad that Ryan was out of town for all the festivities, but we still had a great time.

I love any excuse to dress up, and any excuse to bust out the glue gun and make some costumes. This year, we were featuring Thomas the Train, and a Witch (Annie couldn't decide between nice and mean, that's why she is kind of a smattering of both.)

Annie's favorite part of the costume was her orange hair. It was also Logan's favorite part, so he got a little spray of orange on his head too. He also insisted on having some make-up on his face, that's why he's a grubby little engineer.

We went to the ward Trunk-or-Treat, then back home to hit a few homes on our street. I made the mistake of leaving our bowl of candy on the porch, since nobody was home to pass it out. Sure enough, it was completely empty when we got back (even though we only hit a few homes and never even left our street.) Little hoodlums...

I ended up stealing candy from Annie and Logan's buckets to tide over the next few trick-or-treaters--although it hardly put a dent in the stash, and I didn't give away anything really good.

At the end of the night, the kids chose Toy Story 2 as the perfect end to a spooky Halloween.

Now to raid the treats for Reese's and Almond Joys...

Eggs.

Eggs have been on sale everywhere! Plus, I've had really good Safeway coupons and eggs are available for 88 cents for 18. I stocked up last week, only to have Ryan make a grocery run and end up buying more. We were laughing about the prospect of surviving on eggs for the next couple of weeks to make sure they didn't go bad. I guess Logan must have sensed this was a real source of frustration for us, so he offered his own solution:

Problem solved.

update: oh, and p.s.

while I was posting this, he got a bottle of maple syrup and painted that bench and floor. Didn't take a picture. Too mad. Just take this same photo and replace the eggs with syrup. Grrrrr......