Well I love her.....but I love to fish.....

A day of family fun....Jay was on a big time fishing kick.  One Saturday I convinced him that maybe we'd ALL like to go fishing!  So we headed to the lake at the Riperian Preserve in Gilbert.

 Hayden caught a big one...wait..wait...nope.  Must have been hooked on the rocks.

 This little man wasn't feeling too great so he stayed bundled up and cuddled with me.

 After a while the boys got bored and decided to stat playing tag in the rocks.

 Which left the dad to feed the fish all by himself.

Valentines Day

My husband, in all his thoughtfulness, decided to go fishing with his dad on Valentine's day.  That meant it was just me and the boys.  We ordered pizza and they got to play Wii (on a school night!)

Then we went out for ice cream.

 

Guess I kept them up too late because the next day they both passed out on the way home from school. 

Happy Valentine's Day to two of the handsome men in my life.

January Randomness

Melissa came in to town a few days after Christmas for her friends wedding.  She had some shopping to do so the cousins got to hang out.  This was some serious train business.

One day Keaton asked if he could have some chips.  I said it was close to dinner so maybe he could have some with dinner.  (I think we were having chicken and rice for dinner) While I was in the other room, he set the table and kindly gave each of us some chips.  He then told me the plate on one side of the table was for Jay because it had the most chips....the medium one was for me and he got only a little bit of chips because he's smaller.  It cracked me up and so I had to take a picture, which turned into us being goofy together. Love that kid.

 Just a prechurch picture with two of our handsome boys. In their outfits from our wedding w/o the ties.

And last but not least, we got a kitten.  We named her Simba...she's pretty stinkin cute, but most things are when they are babies.

A Whole Bunch Of Christmas Pics

Chrismas Eve day in Tucson with Nana and Papa

 

 

 Christmas Eve Night at Grandma Verry's (Jay's Grandma) 

 

 

 The result of Christmas in Tucson. I think we should have called it good at this point and saved the rest for birthdays.

Our little Christmas morning BEFORE

and Christmas morning AFTER!!

 And some of the in between....and I don't know about this no shirt phase these boys were going through, good thing they both got a new outfit for Christmas so they didn't spend the day like this.

 Christmas morning at Grandpa Verry's (Jay's Dad)

 

 

  And last but not least Christmas morning with Grandma and Grandpa Anderson

 

 

 

Can we say SPOILED.  We are very blessed to have such loving and giving families.  And that despite the craziness we got to spend a little time with them all for Christmas.



Holiday Cheer

The big question about baking....does the enjoyment of the end result outweigh the tedious process and the mess left behind?

I always think I want to make sugar cookies....the first few minutes are fun, the first dozen you cut and decorate are enjoyable...and then no one wants to help and your left with another two hours of work.  I don't remember if I ever frosted the rest of the cookies or if we just let the kids eat them plain.

Tis the Season

A family outing to see the Christmas lights.  I am always the one taking the pictures and hardly ever in them so I included this, even though its blurry, it may be some of the only proof that I actually exist.

What a handsome group of of boys.  Hayden (6), Keaton (4), Conner (1)

Our First Bi-weekly Date Night

Dating when you already have kids gets a little complicated.  I always have Keaton and Jay has Conner and Hayden for a week at a time, Friday to Friday.  So having three boys at home under 6 can get a bit hectic, three different schools/daycare drops and pickups daily.  We are all gone from 7 to 6 almost every day, then dinner, homework, bath and bed....its the exciting life.  After we got married we decided it was important to have some "us" time.  So every other friday when Jay's boys go to their moms, my parents are wonderful enought to watch Keaton and Jay and I go out. 

I think this was actually the stat of our date nights....we went to Fiddlesticks (oh the high school memories).  This place was super slow and a bit run down but not a bad deal for the cost.  We did a special for 3 attractions it was like 15 bucks each. 

 We rode the go-carts, each got 3 tokens to the batting cages (my specialty) and each got a small bucket of balls (I can not hit a golf ball to save my life so that was humorous).  We are always up for a little competition so it was a good time for us. 

 Bonus...since we're usually out late my parents keep Keaton overnight.  He loves having his time at grandma and grandpa's and we get to sleep in.