Happy New Year!

Can you believe it's here already?! It definately seems like the years go by faster the older you get. I guess that has something to do with how busy we are. We had some neighbors over and chatted and played games. We got several new games for Christmas, but got stuck on Pictionary Man. Quite a fun game... we did boys vs. girls... the girls won :) Skyler made it till 11:30. Savannah woke back up about 11:40 so she got to see the new year. Dylan wanted to watch a movie after the neighbors left (he's such a night owl!) I didn't let him... he didn't need to sleep all day today. Jerr went into work today because we'll be gone this weekend. We're spending a weekend in Branson (for our anniversary) with no kiddos... yeah. I just hope the weather is nice. By nice I mean no ice/snow/rain and temps above 32... that's not asking too much, is it?

We hope everyone has a great 2009 and may all your resolutions come true!

Happy Anniversary to us

I just wanted to tell my hubby Happy Anniversary today!
It seems so much has happened in these 6 years. We've had three kids, moved like 5 times, experienced so much together (good and bad). I love him more everyday and there is no one else I'd want to spend eternity with. I just wanted to share a couple pictures for those of you that've never seen a little Dilly or Jerr with hair!

Update....

So I fixed the quilt and it's finished! It's Skylers "Bug Jar" quilt... since he's most definately my bug boy. He scares me sometimes at the things he picks up. I'm afraid he's going to get stung or bitten (and he has a few times). I actually started this quilt for Dylan when he was a baby and then it got lost for some years. It actually was a good thing I guess because Dylan doesn't like bugs anyway!

Close up of the spider (he's my favorite)


Today we went to see Santa at the mall and to my suprise you don't get the pictures then... I have to go back Monday and pick it up (which is better than the one here... they were all smiling).


And... best news is Jerr gets back tonight. He's only been gone a week, but we can't stand it when he's gone. The house just doesn't feel right without him.

Girl... what am going to do with you?!

Okay... so it's probably clear to everyone by now that Savannah likes to get into things.. make messes... try my patience whenever possible. So the other night I was making pizza and I opened the mushrooms and the olives. While I was cutting the olives Dylan walks in the kitchen and says "missing anything mom?" while holding an empty mushroom can. I didn't even see her take them and she ate the whole thing! The next day I was on the computer (my only outlet to the outside world) and I heard silence (a bad thing) so I went to check it out and this is what I found...

...500 legos all over the floor.

So then tonight she strikes again. I was upstairs getting supper started and she had gone downstairs with the boys to play video games. I finally realized she probably wasn't playing games and had a bad feeling. I had been downstairs most all day working on a quilt I am making for Skyler for Christmas. It's almost done... I am just finishing quilting the borders and then have to bind it. So in all the horror this is what I found...


I'm trying to figure out just exactly how I"m going to fix this problem. I've asked some quilting friends and am anxiously awaiting their answers. I do love this little princess so much, but she is nothing like my boys! They would never have given me this much grey hair :) I only hope she grows out of some of this!

(Oh, I did catch her trying to cut her hair with some kiddie scissors. She had cut a little bit, but I stopped her before she whacked off the big hunk she ws holding!) And yes... she did use my big super sharp scissors on the quilt.

Miss you....

Jerr is really roughing it in Hawaii right now:) I know I give him a hard time about getting to go to all these places... places I'll probably never see....but, I appreciate the sacrifice he makes for our family and this country. I know it's not easy being away so much and I just wanted him to know we are very proud of him and miss him bunches!
Taking off out of Honolulu and flying over Diamond Head

Happy birthday Savannah!

I can't believe she's already 3...although other days she seems more like 6! She is growing up so fast. She's a big help to me. She knows where everything is, where everything should be, and how to get into something without me seeing. We had a party for our friends on our street Saturday and then a family party that evening. She wore her halloween costume princess dress for her party. The girls made princess wands, ate lunch and then cake and ice cream. She opened presents and had fun playing before her friends left. That evening she got a Princess easy bake oven that cooks with ice. We had to try that out...and it worked! It was a little on the gooey side, but they ate it. We are off to eat at Red Robin tonight (one of our favorites!) If you didn't know...you can go online several places to register for their free birthday things... Red Robin is one of them... you get a free burger! So we're cheap... Jerr and I share and the boys share and then fill up on fries :) We also do Dairy Queen, Baskin Robins... I can't think of the any others. So make sure you get your free stuff!

Savannahs 2nd b-day

Savannah this year!

"Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess..."

Our little "prince"ess

Savannah's balloon...

The whole french fried crew...

Now for some trickin' and treatin'

I made three different postings so scroll on down to see all the Halloween stuff!

Skyler is such a ham! This was afterwards so Savannah and Jett were ready for bed... Sadly I forgot to take the camera with us so I didn't get very many pictures that night.


King and Queen Camper

Trying to pass the time before going out we stuck Jett in the big "playpen"

I made Dylans costume, part of Vannahs, part of Skylers and Jerrs cape. That's all I had time for this year... so now I'm trying to plan ahead for next year and I think we will do Alice in Wonderland. I will be Queen of Hearts (hopeing I can reuse this years), Vannah is Alice, Jett is the white rabbit, Jerr is the Madd Hatter... and I need to figure out Dyl and Sky. Maybe a card?... I need to watch the movie again. Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween and thanks for checking in on us!