Boy, boys, boys!!

Boys, boys, boys!!!  I don't know what I'm going to do! lol.  Someone and I won't say who, discovered his dad's ties and decided to try them all on.  Who needs to go out when you have live in entertainment!!  First: tape, then: ties, hmmmmm......what next?

Christmas Cookies

We had our annual Christmas cookie baking, which Jason and Mia really like.  Jason got to do more this year with rolling out the dough, while Mia just enjoyed being able to snitch little pieces and get flour all over her face. :)  I just got to have fun taking pictures, since Dad is the official Christmas cookie expert.  Unfortunately, the cookies are all gone already, before I even get to tell you we made some!!!  But there have been many requests for more cookies, so we might have to make some more!

My Little photographer

Jason loves to steal my camera and take pictures with it.  Most of the time I don't know he has until I am going through the pictures on the camera and find all sorts of pictures of his feet, his face really close to the camera, Mia, and sometimes me.  I think, "Wait, I didn't take this!"  It is so cool to see what he looks at.  A lot of them tend to be a tad blurry, but some of them are really good.  This one is being added to my favs file which includes one from when Jason and Mia were riding in the bike trailer during the summer.  

Fun Factory

For fun one Saturday, Josh and I took Jason and Mia to the Fun Factory in Pella, Iowa.  It was this huge room with a gigantic climbing play thing. :)  Jason was so pumped.  It had a really fast slide, some obstacle courses, climbing, and swinging!  Mia was a little scared because the floor was woven so her little feet could get stuck and she stuck pretty close to Mom or Dad.  But she loved being there and so did Jason.  What a great thing to be able to do on a cold day!  Of course, I loved playing on it too!

Sledding! 12.4.08

We have officially begun winter! Josh found this little snow tube that was just Jason's size!  So with the first snowfall, out we went!  Everyday Jason was asking to go sledding.  He just loved it!  Mia on the other hand wasn't as thrilled to be outside, even though she loved riding down the hill.  And Jason enjoyed giving her a little extra push. :)

Horsin Around

For Thanksgiving Josh, Jason, Mia, and I took a trip to Missouri.  One of the activities for Thanksgiving was riding the uncle's horse.  Zack loved riding.  Jason was looking forward to it, but as he was getting on the horse, the horse moved suddenly and he felt like he was going to fall off.  So that was the end of that.  He decided he wanted to come down and not get back on again.  Mia was so excited to see the horses and to ride.  She didn't want to get off.   I don't know about her, we might end up doing riding lessons instead of dance.  Maybe. :)

Timber Hills Farm

One Friday morning in November Jason, Mia, and I made our way to Leighton, Iowa, to visit Timber Hills Farm.  Timber Hills Farm offers horse-riding lessons and trains English saddle seat horses (I don't remember exactly what breed of horse they have).  But Jason and Mia got to ride a pony and in a cart behind one of the horses while it was being worked.  They also got to pet some kitties, see sheep, and one of Jason's fav things - helping to drive a tractor dumping manure. :)  Even though it was a cold day, we had so much fun!  Mia instantly became a horse enthusiast and hopped right on.  Jason took a little more coaxing to get him on the horse, but once he got the hang of it he didn't want to stop.

Cherry Pie!

I have been feeling like I should do more baking. So one day I was feeling ambitious and Jason, Mia, and I made a cherry pie which we got to share with some friends at a Friday night game night.  Since I had some leftover stuff I decided to see if I couldn't make some home-made cherry turnovers, but I don't think their as good as Pillsbury.  I'll have to keep perfecting my recipe!

Oranges!

Oranges are so much fun!!!

Boys and Tape

One Saturday Josh and I were working on organizing downstairs.  Jason came into the room, 

"Hey, mom look at me!"

I turned around and here he was wrapped in tape!  I laughed and said you should show dad and then laughed some more as he tried to hop into the room where Josh was.  After mentioning this to a friend with all boys, I was reassured that wrapping yourself in tape is a normal "boy" thing to do and it gets better when they get older because they graduate up to duct tape. :) 

The Mysteries of Life

Yesterday at work I went of two interviews, so I was dressed nice, skirt, black hose, etc. When I got home Jason was just so confused as he looked at my legs.  "Those are supposed to be white" he said.  And he just could not figure out how my legs that were supposed to be white were now black.  I thought, I guess he's never really seen me wear tights before.  Ah, the mysteries of life. :)