Christmas pics

Christmas was kind of crazy this year. We were out of power most of the week because of the ice and snow. (Tree's collapsing everywhere.) The first two days we stayed at home, but once we could see our breath in the house, we decided to call our friends Mindy and Adrian and see if we could crash there. If there were no children involved, I am sure Lenny and I would of toughed it out. But I had to think of those precious ones.

Since it appeared there was no end in sight to the no power situation (since the number of people without was going up and not down) Lenny and I went home on Christmas Eve to set up presents while it was still light out. Our plan was to get up Christmas Day and bring the kids to the house for presents then go back to Mindy's. However, thankfully power came back on Wednesday night. Since we really wanted to be at home for Christmas, we just went home and let the children do presents a day early, being as everything was set out and we couldn't hide it all again. Opening the front door for them to walk in was a little different than the vision I had in my mind of them running down the hallway after they woke up, but it'll make a good story, and at least everyone was happy and we got our power!

A couple favorite gifts were bicycles, a tent, a doctor kit, Elmo, and Wubbzy. Here are a few pics. (Some of them are Christmas Day playing with things since Christmas Eve opening was kind of crazy so I didn't get good pics.)

Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! Ours was a little bit crazy, but I'll write about that later. In the mean time, here is a look back at the last few years!

Jazemine's First Christmas ~ 2006


Isaac's First ~ 2007


Growing up too quickly ~ 2008

More Snow Pics!!!

Out sledding in the parking lot...


Daddy and Isaac making a rather silly looking snowman


We have been having freezing rain now for almost two days....this was yesterday evening...

A nice little Arctic Blast

We got a nice little blast of winter this weekend and it is expected to stay until at least Sunday. We took the children outside right when it started getting snowy. I took them out again today, but I didn't allow them to stay out too long since it was so darn cold! They both love it! Isaac is obsessed with snowballs, and he keeps falling over like the child in Christmas Story and can't get back up. Jazmine keeps planting her face in the snow to eat it and thinks making snow angels is the best thing ever!

Quick Update

I know I have been slacking terribly on the blog updates. Sorry. It seems like there is never enough time in a day most days.

The children are amazing me daily. Jazmine is turning into such a perfectionist and there is no middle ground with her when she needs something a certain way. And her new thing when you tell her to do something is "In just a minute mommy, I am doing this." We have also been working on "reading", though I know it's really memorization at this point. But she is up to 15 words she can tell you on sight what they say. Her absolute favorite thing to do is "play with her words". I actually heard about a great home schooling reading program that I am trying to find and buy. She loves books and reading so much!!

Isaac is amazing, too. The words and phrases he says always surprise me. You would never guess he is only 18 months by listening to him talk. His current favorite phrases are "I'm coming" "I got it" and my fav..."Love you more". He has a laugh that he laughs all the way to the tips of his toes. You can not hear him laugh and not have it make you smile and giggle yourself. This last week he has been testing me, though, with a head start of the "Terrible Two's". He started hitting, biting, throwing things, and even flips over the coffee table and knocks over the highchairs when he is in the middle of not getting what he wants. Time out and even spankings have been a part of his daily routine this week, more so than ever before. I sure hope this passes soon!

I promise to do a better job of keeping up to date!! Also, here is my new fav pic of the children...