More SNOW!

According to people that have lived here in Georgia longer than us...this is the most snow they have seen in years. It only snowed lightly once last year in March when I was in Arizona visiting. It just snowed a good amount a few weeks ago in January and then we got even more snow this weekend (Valentines weekend) We were planning on taking a trip to the Temple this weekend, but because of all the snow and ice it wasn't safe to drive to South Carolina to go to the temple (the Temple here in Atlanta is closed for reconstruction) we had to stay home and have fun playing in the snow! It was REALLY fun!

I didn't realize there would be so much snow so fast. I took a picture when it started snowing because it was coming down fast and looked so pretty but it didn't look like it was sticking to the ground.


And then 10min later, I looked out side and the snow was actually staying on the ground...





Then 15 min later I looked outside and there was alot more snow on the ground! It was so cool! Look at these trees with all of that snow. It's beautiful!...

Tim's truck...


The neighborhood...

Neighbors snowman...

Snow on our Baskeball net...


The kids were outside as soon as they could see snow on the ground on Friday (they didn't have school) and stayed outside until they were frozen and had to come in for dinner. Then they were outside again the next morning on Saturday playing in the snow all day! And then Sunday morning while we were getting ready for church, I realized I hadn't seen Katrina in a while. I hunted everywhere in the house for Katrina and couldn't find her. Then I looked out the window and there she was in her pj's and snow boots.. no hat, no gloves, no jacket, just pj's and snow boots, playing in the snow! It was cute... I wish I took a picture, we were in a hurry so I didn't think about it.




Tyler, Kenna and Katrina sledding down the hill all together. Weeeee!

Tim sled skiing....

Tim and Katrina sledding...

Our house...

Katie and the kids...

Tim, Tyler and Katrina making snow angels. Kenna had given up by this time and gone inside she was soooo cold!

KATIE

She's a pro...

She is sitting up like a pro...

She holds her bottle on her own like a pro...Yay! That free's up so much more time... :o)

Kenna loves making a soft bed for Kate. She is her little baby doll. Tyler loves playing with her too. Katie was getting fussy and so they made her a bed to sleep on. :o)

Stylin' with a cute pair of Minnie Mouse sun glasses...

Daddy Daughter Dance

Every year the Elementary School's in our area have a Daddy Daughter Dance. Kenna was so excited about this! She LOVES going on dates with her daddy! She is totally a daddy's girl. They got all dressed up, Tim got a boutonniere and got Kenna a wrist corsage. They went out to dinner and then to the dance. It was so cute! I can't wait for the Mother Son bowling night. I love that the schools do this. I remember the ward I grew up in doing a daddy daughter date once every few years but not nearly often enough.

Tim and Kenna




Sweet!

Cutie!

Dancing...

Kenna dancing her little heart out! She was trying to win a prize.

Kenna is right there in the middle ^^^ of the crowd

Pinewood Derby

It's that time of year again! Tim and Tyler working on the pinewood derby car. They had lots of fun with it this year and mom helped a little too using her creative tools. She even suggested putting the weights through the center of the car so that they didn't take away from the look of the 'Lary Mobile' it worked out really well! She even found the perfect weight shaped like a bullet which is what we needed for the front of the car to look like a bullet. It was lots of fun!

A few Christmas vacation days spent working on the car....




Racing day...we had to do some modifications to get it to weigh 5.0 oz. It was .5 oz over but we got it down to 5.0 and it worked out well....

Tyler racing his bestfriend Zack...


We didn't win but Tyler received the 'most original award' for his car the Lary Mobile. For those of you who don't know... it is from the cartoon Veggie Tales. :o)

I love my Elephant...

Kenna's Bendaroo headband and earings. So creative!

Daddy made Kate's first ponytail...{Cindy-loo Whoo} And she is sitting up on her own so well

Stylin'

Let it snow

It snowed last week. The kids LOVED playing in it. They were outside until dinner time the first day and the next day was a snow day and they didn't have to go to shool so they played outside ALL day. It's not that we had so much snow that they couldn't go to school but they were expecting ice on the roads and so they cancelled school. I had my first expirience driving on ice. It was a little scary for me. I was trying to slow down without pushing on my breaks but I had to a little because i was coming up to a stop light and there was a car infront of me. I couldn't hardly stop and I was sliding on the ice. Aaaahhh! I tried to stay calm and not panic. Luckily I was able to stop intime and the car behind me stoped in time. YAY! I was so releived! There are still small patches of snow around because it has been so cold it hasn't melted all the way yet. But for the most part, it is gone.

Here are some pics from our snow day...
Day 1


They played until dinner time...


Day 2
Friday morning...

10 years!

Happy Anniversary to the Love of my life and the greatest guy I have ever known. What I did to deserve you I do not know, but I feel like the luckiest girl in the World!

I know I had this picture on here last year but it's the only one I have on my computer. So you get to see it again. ;o)

October 2009

Happy Birthday to my first born...

Today is Tyler's 9th birthday. We are so blessed to have him in our family. He is such a sweet boy and a hard worker. He has always been such an angel. Yes, he is a boy who LOVES to tease his sisters. But he also looks out for them. He is always there for Mom when needed. He does things to surprise me that make me so happy. We had a New Years eve party at our house and the night before, while I was getting ready for bed, Tyler cleaned up the toy room to perfection. He didn't want to use the vacuum and wake up Katie so he crawled around on the floor picking up every little speck. The next night after everybody left our New Years Eve party at 2:15AM, I began to clean again all by myself so I could have a chance to enjoy the clean house in the morning. (My sweet hubby Tim, and Kenna, Katrina were asleep on the couch). I was sweeping floors and wiping counters. I dreaded cleaning the toy room and was saving that for last. That is where the kids spent most of the night and I was not looking forward to picking it all up. It was almost 3AM, I walked into the room and it was clean to perfection! Tyler had cleaned it. I was so excited! He did all of this with out being asked. I could go on and on. Happy Birthday to my our baby boy. We love you!

I was sooo young... Me 9 months pregnant with Tyler...

Tyler's blessing day...

Tyler 6 months old... Tyler was always our over achiever. He started crawling at 5 months and walking at 7months. Katie is just over 5 months and she doesn't even roll all the way over. I can't imagine Katie crawling right now.

7 months...

2 years old...

8 years old...

Charlie the Elf

This year we had an Elf from the North Pole stay with us. He arrived after Thanksgiving. Kenna named him Charlie Katrina called him Elfie and Tyler went with whatever (and Katie doesn't know the difference). They were so excited to have this Elf in our home. They did better at keeping up on their chores and tried to be on their best behavior. They were always excited to wake up in the morning to see what the Elf had done that night while they were sleeping. The girls adored Elf and took turns holding him tight at night while falling asleep. It was hard for the elf to escape their arms each night but he managed to get away too play. One night Kenna left her Lego's out and he had fun building with them. One morning he left a trail of ornaments on the ground and was found at the top of the Christmas tree. We even discovered that he is quite the ladies man. He was found having tea with Minnie Mouse, Tinker Bell, Ariel and Jenny (Kenna's doll). He also got all tied up in moms garland that was decorating the hand rail going up the stairs. It looked like he was swinging from it - like a vine. Silly Elf. On Christmas eve he had to return to the North Pole but left a letter with his report of what he observed in our home and told them that he thought they deserved to be on the nice list and left each of the kids a present to open. It was lot's of fun having Charlie the Elf or Elfie in our home. We look forward to seeing him next year.

Oh Christmas Tree...

Day after Thanksgiving we went and picked out a Christmas tree. We didn't cut down our own tree this year like we did last year. We just did a quick and easy trip to Home Depot. That way we could spend more time at home together having hot chocolate, decorating the tree and house, and watching a Christmas movie. We watched Elf. The kids love that movie. We also enjoyed a few games of Rock Band. It was a fun day. Here are a few pics...

KATE

Decorating the tree

Rock Band

Katie found her thumb

Thanksgiving

Although we are away from our families we are so blessed to have good friends here that feel like family. Like last year, this year we got together with our group of friends from Arizona that moved here for work. We all got together at the Peterson's and had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. There was soooo much food! We got STUFFED!!! It was a great day. What more can I say? Here are some photos I stole from a friends blog...