of all the places we could live, why here?

Our little reindeer from Grandma is buried in the snow.

Jared survived another morning of shoveling. Thankfully he borrowed a snow blower from his sister, or he would have been at it for days!

spiders...

Does this send a chill up anyone else's spine? As I was rocking and feeding Gavin, I looked up and on his wall were two spiders. I was a little shocked, (a) in the middle of winter, and (b) why are they both in his room? So, I finished with Gavin, all the while keeping a close eye on the spiders, (Gavin looked like he was watching them too, can babies see that far?) Anyhow, after a few minutes I got the flyswatter, and mustered up the courage to try and kill them. This is usually a job I leave to Jared, but since I was the only one home, and they were in the baby's room, I had to do it myself. After a few screams, and a racing heart, they were both on their way to the ocean via our toilet. I felt proud of myself, and went on to tell Gavin how I hate spiders, and that our house must not be insulated very well. I'm sure my 4 month old agreed.

Merry Christmas!

Kate is slightly grouchy, I guess we woke her up too early.

Gavin was pretty happy though. All in all we had an enjoyable Christmas. Wishing you and yours peace this holiday season. We're hoping the colds will go away, so we can have a little peace at our house.

marathon post

I haven't posted for a while, actually I've been trying to upload pictures for a post for the last week, and just gave up trying. My kids and I borrowed a leaf blower to clean up the leaves in our back yard, and the pictures of them trying to blow each other over were hilarious, but I can't seem to convince this computer to post them, so we'll move on and update you all on the rest of our lives. Here goes...

So, our little Gavin has figured out rolling over. Here are some strange pictures, but just had to update grandmas and grandpas, and of course Uncle Reid on mister Gavin's progress.

Almost there, he still gets a little stuck on that arm.

In Gavin's words, "Mom, why is this so interesting?"

I tried to get a good picture of Kate and Gavin in their Christmas Sunday attire, but it wasn't happening, maybe this Sunday.

We have snow and yes, COLD, here in ID.

Maddie is lovin' dance, and is quite good, and cute I might add.

And lastly, this is our neighbor's frog that we're babysitting. Everytime I walk past him into the kitchen he totally swims a mile around his bowl. I'm getting a little worried, does he not like me, or is it that I'm wearing green today and he thinks I'm a ginormous frog? I'm pulling for the latter, I do feel a little like Kermie the Frog today.

All I want for Christmas...

Is this...

Just kidding, I already have it, I just want it to work! I have to dry loads two and sometimes three times! It's driving me crazy! I clean out the lint trap, and it still takes at least 80 minutes on high to dry a load. No wonder our power bill has skyrocketed! This weekend Jared and I are pulling it out to replace the dryer hose, and if it still doesn't work we might just have to head to Lowe's. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Twilight

So, I finally got to see Twilight. It was a fun girl's night out! It would have been hard to watch with Jared, a little too cheesy for him I think. I really liked the book, and now I am moving on to New Moon. Hopefully with the many millions they made on Twilight, they'll put a little more time and money into the second movie. The special effects were a little lacking, and hair and makeup could use a complete overhaul. But other than that, I enjoyed my night out, and now have some faces to put with names as I read the other books. Thanks ladies!