A Winter's Dump

We got a good 3 or 4 inches last night, and it snowed the whole morning long too. It looks beautiful, and cold.
Good thing we have nowhere to go and nothing to do.

Except sit at home and paint, that is. Unless you're Brynlee;then you just like to go back and forth between the water and the paint, rarely touching the paper unless mom makes you, and then spill it all and make as big of a mess as you can.

We love this art easel.

Tyler's in his pj's still because he is sick. Again. I'm going to spit if he gets the rest of us sick. Stupid winters and everyone being sick. Didn't we just get over it all?

I need a nap.

Funny Sayings

Tyler:
If I need help finding something that's lost he will say, "Don't worry, I have good eyeset"

During FHE the other week we were talking about prayer. Kenny asked Tyler why we close with, "in the name of Jesus Christ"? Tyler thought about it for a moment and said, "because if you don't it would never have an end!"

He heard me on the phone talking to my friend Melissa and I said something along the lines of how Brynlee is my crazy child and usually gives me the most problems. Tyler has since introduced her three times as, "that's Brynlee, she's the crazy one!" Or, "she's my crazy sister!"

Brynlee:
Whenever she gets in trouble or gets hurt, she immediately looks to Tyler for comfort. She cries, "Hug, Tywer" and he runs over and they hug and then she stops crying, it works like magic every single time. When she's really in trouble I have to say "no hugs!" because otherwise she thinks everything's fine and that she's not in trouble anymore.

She loves to sing and her favorite song, that she requests 59 times a day, is "Twinkle Dar" (twinkle twinkle little star)

She's also really into books and has quite a few memorized including Goodnight Moon and The Eye Book. I love hearing her cute little voice read them along with me.

Her new thing is to say "Why Mom?" to everything I tell her haha. I don't even know if she knows what she's saying.

She has also picked up on Tyler's sassy attitude and when she's upset she'll say "I not doing anything!" in a defiant sort of way, even if I haven't asked her to do something! I think we're going to be in trouble.

Something sweet she does is if she hears Madi crying in her bed she'll run in and try to comfort her by dropping in her favorite stuffed animals. They make Bryn happy, so why shouldn't it work for Madi too right? Love it. Or she'll come up to Madison and tell her what she's drinking or reading, etc. It's so cute.

Contributing factors to my happiness

This sweet girl and her chubby cheeks that I get to kiss all day long :). May I just say that she is by far our best baby yet! She takes a pacifier, she's figuring out her nights by staying up all evening and sleeping a 4-5 hour stretch every night!! And, she's smiling at me already and not even 5 weeks old!!


This blow up trampoline thing from grandpa and grandma weston. Combined with the trampoline from Santa, and our couches, our living room turns into quite the jungle gym and keeps my kids happy for a long time! :)



And I haven't shared my christmas present (it's really for me and kenny but I just use it more)...A TREADMILL!! It is super nice too. I've used it every day this week and it makes me feel so good to sweat and be sore again!

cowboy and cowgirl

We love playing dress ups around here. Recently I re-organized a few things and put all our dress ups in a clear bin in their closet so ty and bryn re-discovered some fun ones. But these gems are dress ups that my mom made them for Christmas...they LOVE them! They were totally getting into the character (except for replacing a gun with a sword) and they looked so cute too! So thanks Mom, they are getting good use out of them.

Oh yeah, and guess who gets to play the horse every time...
That's okay, they're totally worth it. :)

Madi's Blessing

On Sunday, January 2nd 2011 Kenny gave our sweet Madi Lynn a name and a blessing at church. He did a beautiful job, which is fitting because she is a beautiful girl with such a strong and sweet spirit. We can't believe how lucky we are to be parents to these precious children. We are so madly in love with each of them. Life doesn't get better than this. (Okay so maybe a few more hours of sleep a night would make things better...). But really, we are so happy. My mom made her dress, and I loved it! My sister Camille crocheted her cute headband and booties. Isn't she talented?!

I love my sweet family

The proud grandpa and grandma Weston with their newest granddaughter (but only for a few more months till the next one comes.)

New Year's Eve

Kenny's parents came on Monday, December 27th and stayed for a week! So they were here on New Year's Eve also. Carolyn, my mother-in-law and I went shopping for a bit at Kohl's. Then we picked up some Chinese food (cuz that's our tradition) and brought it home. After dinner we headed over to the Ryan's house for a fun party. We didn't stay the whole night, because I knew my kids wouldn't last. We came home and put the kids to bed around 10 and later toasted in the new year with sparkling cider.

(This picture was not on new year's eve, but it was that week. She's growing SO fast!!)
All the boys, and Brynlee, watching Toy Story 3

I still can't get over her curls :)

Kenny, Jared Reed, and Joseph Pearson

Me, Lorren Ryan, Kaylene Foust, and Terra Reed. I realize this is a very unflattering picture of me, but when you have a large tire around your middle there really isn't a good angle.

HAPPY 2011!!!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning was so exciting! It was so much fun to watch the kids come out and get so excited about everything. Tyler has been exercising INCREDIBLE patience waiting to open all the presents under the tree. I kept thinking of Pres. Uchtdorf's talk of kids waiting 15 minutes to eat marshmallows. Well Ty has been waiting a month to open these and I am so proud of him for not sneaking into them early! He counted them often and was always re-stacking/sorting them. Needless to say, Christmas morning was very fun for him. They must have been really good kids this year because Santa left them some wonderful toys! My favorites are the art easel and the trampoline to get all their energy out!! Especially during this cold winter.

We talked to my brother on the phone who's still serving in Prague. It was wonderful to hear from him--he's really grown up a lot on his mission. After that we went over to the Reeds for a delicious Christmas dinner. Kenny also had fun playing on their new Wii. It was a beautiful White Christmas and we enjoyed spending it with each other and our friends.