Finally there is School!!!!

Wow! We weren't expecting to have had to wait this long to start to go back to school. We just received a call last night that there will be school today only it will be on a two hour delay. What? Most of the ice melted on Monday and so now we aren't understanding what all of the delay has been. It's nothing like Utah in the preparedness of the ice and plows but there are so many back roads that everyone can take to get to one place that the city can't get to everything. I guess we can just laugh to ourselves that we've been stuck together for four days and I will have to say that the natives are getting restless and so is chief momma.

Let it Snow!!!

Yay! It snowed this morning!!! Well, It iced. The boys were so excited to see snow! Isaiah proclaimed that it was now Christmas Eve and Santa will be here tomorrow. We let the boys go outside to play and try to make snow angels, but it was pretty icy snow and very freezing. We stayed outside to play for about an hour and that was all we could take. I guess we aren't used to the cold anymore. We also just got word that our church has been canceled tomorrow and we are feeling very sad about this because we both have talks to give. We were also told that if the ice doesn't melt tomorrow there won't be school on Monday either. All is good here. We do have power and so we are just going to have a few lazy days inside.

Happy Birthday Braxton!! The Big 7

It seem as if it were just yesterday that we were struggling to make our family
until finally Braxton came into our lives. We can't believe that was seven years ago. Our Heavenly Father truly blessed us and knew the perfect child for us. He was meant be be in our lives and we are so greatful to his birth parents who had faith in us to raise this little blessing. He is an amazing boy who is so loving and caring of others. He is our little peace maker and wants others to be happy. we can't imagine our lives without him in it. Happy Birthday Big guy.



A Dinosaur nest


Dino birthday cake


Digging Up Dinos


Treasures Found


Learning about Volcanos




Don't wake up Dinosaur!


The Good Stuff


Make a Wish Then Blow

A Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas morning (kind of). Braxton woke up at 11 p.m. to see if Santa had arrived yet. Then both came into our bedroom at 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m. and then finally at 7:15 a.m. we had to wake the boys up. They were so excited to see what Santa had brought them. Braxton asked for night vision binoculars and Isaiah asked for anything Scooby Doo. Both were happy and Santa spoiled us all. Merry Christmas everyone.

Christmas Eve Dinner

We had a fun Christmas Eve dinner with our neighbor and her daughter who's husband is deployed and Brandon cooked the ham.

Building and Constructing!

The weather is getting cooler here so we aren't going outside as often as we were before, and Brandon has reserves this weekend so the boys and I stayed home and built gingerbread houses. They were so quite for about an hour and a half. Yea!!!! They both had a great time. More frosting and chocolate chips made it in the mouth than did on the houses, but all in all they had a blast, and the houses turned out great!

Grandpa and Grandma's Visit

We were so excited about Grandma and Grandpa'd visit. They came out for Thanksgiving and we had a blast! The boys were so excited to have them here. They both were up very early and were asking if they could get out of bed yet. Braxton even had his clothes on before 5:30 a.m. ready to go. We struggled every day with getting a chance to sit at dinner with either one of them because the boys had a seating arrangement all planned out. We feel very blessed this Thanksgiving to be near part of our family and miss everyone who we haven't seen for a while. We took Charlie and Cheryl around town and also out of town to many different places that we have never been to before. We are going to miss them.