Occasionally I'll let the boys watch a cartoon on the Laptop that resides in the kitchen/dining room. They just pull couch cushions over and chill. It makes for good snuggle time.
The boys sure got a kick out of it.
And can I just say home much I love this stinking bib. My awesome friend Melanie made it for me. Thanks Mel!
Jason was on call on a Wednesday night, so I had to bring the kids with me to Young Women's. Madison carried Benton around pretty much all night. She would go to put him down and he would cling to her. I seriously get asked about 20 times each week if they can go over to Madison's house. I'm sure this won't be the last girl they fight over.
And as usual the boys were spoiled rotten by grandma. They each got a HUGE stuffed animal. Benton got "Brown Bear" and Tab got Harry the Duck. He is carried absolutely everywhere. Here is Benton when he was protesting naptime at the base of the door.
I had to push him over with the door to get in the room. What a silly kid.
The next day we took the kids sledding.
Shortly after this picture was taken, Tab and I were bucked off of the tube. We learned that the best route was to go down the side of the hill, not the middle where it was like moguls.
Tab and Alex really enjoyed goofing off together.
Sarah and Bekah
Again. I just love this picture.
Matt and Alex
It isn't playing in the snow unless you make snow angels.
Benton just being Benton.
Poor kid doesn't have snow boots so he just had his rain boots on with an extra pair of socks. When we got back to the car and removed his boots, his feet were soaked and freezing. So we put daddy's gloves on them to try to warm them up.
Holy brrrrr, it was cold.
Paisley miraculously doesn't remember any of it because she somehow managed to fall asleep!
I finally got around to making a cover for the changing table pad. It was in pretty bad shape. You can see how cracked and torn the plastic was. There were several spots that were cracked.
I took it apart and trimmed the cracked plastic. Then I sewed some plastic that I had leftover from a different craft over top of the holes. I also added an additional layer of batting as the mat was getting kind of flat. Then I sewed it back together.
Then I sewed a cover out of some yummy brown corduroy that I had sitting around. The best part is that it matches both the girl and boy crib bedding that we have, so we're set either way if we have another kid. 
I also made these with my fellow Young Women leaders for the girls to take home from New Beginnings. Again, I found the idea from some random blog but don't remember where. But we changed it a little by adding the wires to the top with the ribbons so that they could hang them if they want to. They have this year's theme on them, "Be strong and of a good courage..."
Um, did I mention that we made 50 of them!
I have a few other done that I just don't have pictures of yet and others that have yet to be finished. I'm sure that I'll post them soon.
The game started out with the mascots driving out on the ice. That got the boys attention.
They did really good. They enjoyed watching for a bit. Mostly Tab thought it was awesome when the fights would break out.
The boys really had fun. We enjoyed spending the time together.
They loved it so much that when Jason's parents were in town recently, they took us to another game.
Much better seats this time.
The boys loved their light sabers.
Benton spent some time riding it like a horse.
They enjoyed the mascot too.
I thought I got a picture of the little kids that came out and scrimmaged between periods. Alas. I think that this may have been Tab's favorite part. He was like, "why do those kids get to play?" He has told me several times that he wants skates and to play ice hockey. Perhaps we'll enroll him in floor hockey at the Y and see what he thinks.
Being a goon.
Once again, a total goon. Don't worry those are shorts under there.
Here he is when we were dating. We had gone four wheeling and he was wearing my coat and his grandpa's boots and hat. He was strutting his stuff for me. Somehow it worked.
I have many more embarrassing photos, but I'm just too lazy to scan them in. However what I do have is a slew of pictures that Jason has taken that further prove his quirky odd self to be a goof. You see Jason has this problem. I'm not quite sure what to call it. Let's call it an impulse problem. When he gets a hold of the camera, he can't seem to help himself. Whenever I go to download pictures I find several pictures that I was unaware that he had taken of me. Hmm... can't figure out how I missed him taking these.
And of course there are quite a few of these.
Nanner, nanner, nanner, the camera strap got in the way.
He got caught trying to catch this one.
Fortunately for him I used to delete all of these pictures when I could download the camera card, yet somehow these are just a small portion of the pictures. I supposed I didn't want to completely embarrass myself either by posting pictures that he took that contain a bit more skin. I think that there may be more pictures of me like this than there are pictures of my face. Are you embarrassed yet sweetheart? Probably not, he is proud to be the goofball that he is and that is why I love him so much. Truthfully, I wouldn't have it any other way.
