Sledding on Mt. Lemmon

Today we went to Mt. Lemmon to play in the snow! There were 44 inches of snow so it made for a fun day of sledding. The kids had a GREAT time and were so excited to play, sled, and EAT the snow. At one point, Caroline face planted herself in the snow and just started eating.

Winter wonderland

For those of you that can't see it this year here are some pics. There are 14 Christmas trees this year!

Tricycle riding

Caroline was riding her bike to the park.

2 Year Old World

So this evening, I was test driving a Chevy truck and I took Caroline with me. Sounded like a simple enough task, but turns out that taking a 2 year old on a test drive adds a whole new level of fun. So first, it begins with moving the car seat...I hate moving the car seat...it's such a pain and of course any 2 year old doesn't think that it is fun to stand still while you are moving it. Then enters the car salesman...he's a different one than I had earlier....so far I want the other one back. He seems a bit annoyed with well life...this could be interesting with my 2 year old. Finally I get the car seat unhooked, the salesman carries it over for me (1 point for him), and I manage to get my 2 year old to stop dancing in the lot and climb in. Off we go...it starts out with Caroline screaming for a snack...new truck....messy 2 year old...nope not going to happen. Then as we keep driving she gives up on snack and moves to wanting the teddy bear that she dropped. Finally, car salesman throws me a bone and gets the bear for her (0 points since he only did it because I think he was afraid of me wrecking the truck if he didn't). Now a satisfied Caroline with her bear. Then she moves into something only a 2 year old would understand. She begins rocking back in forth in her seat banging her body against the back of the carseat giggling in delight the whole time. At this point I'm wondering if car salesman thinks that my child is crazy. The highlight of the trip though was when she took the banging to the next level and started singing I....want....a....snack. Even car salesman got a laugh out of this one. At the end 2 year old proclaims...I want to keep this truck FOREVER. All of this happening within 5 minutes tops...she definitely knows how to make a short trip a memorable event.

Tessie and Tucker Turkey

Here are Deacon and Caroline's Thanksgiving shirts.

Halloween

Here are some pics of the kids at all of the fall festival/Halloween festivities

Bluebonnets

We walked down the road from Mimi's and found a nice little patch of blubonnets. We had to make sure that we participated in the TX tradition our last blubonnet season while we still lived in TX....and our course we had to make it extra Texasish with the Aggie shirts too!

Ergie and Fergie

This is Ergie. He was Deacon's Valentine's Day Monster. If you look really close, you can see that he took a bite out of his heart since, like most boys, he thinks love is icky, girly stuff.

This is Fergie...Caroline's V-day Monster. She loves, love and wouldn't dream of taking a bite out of her heart. Here are the two cuties with their monsters on.

So I know this is a bit behind, but after spending so much time making these little monsters they had to go up....even if they were late.

Deacon's 4 year old Pics

If you are thinking that this is a little early, you would be right. Deacon won't really be 4 until March 30, but with us moving this week and such a great location here in Houston we went ahead and took the pics a week early.

" Are we done yet?"

Strong Man!

Such a sweet little guy.

I'm 4! (that's how Daddy showed him to show the 4)

Caroline 18 months

Here are Caroline's 18 month pictures. My baby is getting too big too fast. :)