Five Men and a Lady

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Happy 2010!

We put together a last minute New Year's Eve gig and had a great time.

The kids loved our mock celebration (at 10:00 PM)

Wesley was SOOO cute with his little blow horn. He just kept going.

Kids just make everything more exciting!

This was our attempt at a group picture--the top of the TV "tripod" was a little crooked.

A pretty lame tradition, but we do it every year.

Happy 2010!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Christmas Adventures

We had a great holiday! We were able to go Idaho (via SLC) and visit with both of our families. Some of the highlights:

Of course the fun always starts with Richelle!!

Christmas Eve at my house

My mom nailed it with the jammies and slippers!!!

Wesley loved his slippers and couldn't quit looking at them and barking.

We ran to the Chandlers' for the famous pajama parade

Cousins at the parade

Christmas morning at my parents' place

Reading Grandma and Grandpa's new book from their children

Silly Siblings

Merry Christmas Darling

Hobbs Fam (minus Wes)

Awesome Aunt Brittany

The two train lovers

The boys LOVED playing the piano and singing fun songs with Grandma Hobbs. The favorite was "Following the Leader." Wesley couldn't get enough.

It was a wonderful vacation and we loved every minute with family and friends. Can't wait to see them all again--we just live too far away!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Our windows have ice on the inside of our house! It was a phenomenon I had never experienced until about a year ago, but I guess once you hit negative 12 outside the ice forms. Feel free to look at last January's pics! Happy New Year! Stay tuned for holiday posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

I did it!

I finished Dillon's stocking---and not any too soon. His was much more detailed than Wesley's. I'm just really proud of doing anything this crafty. I guess I'll have to work on mine for next year.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

It starts with a B...

(I just accidentally deleted this whole post, so this will be much more condensed than the original!) Dillon loves playing the guessing game where you slowly give letters to help guess a word. So a couple days before Thanksgiving I asked, "Do you know where we are going for Thanksgiving? It starts with a B" ...thinking..."B, b, b, b" "And then a U" "Bu, bu, bu..." "And then an F" "Buf, buf, buf...." He stopped and his eyes got really big. "I know where we are going...to Megan's house!!!" "Yep, we're going to Buffalo, New York to visit Megan." Our first day there we were able to visit some church history sites. The first stop was the Hill Cumorah visitors center.

We went from there to the Palmyra temple---so beautiful!

Then we headed to the Sacred Grove.

It was so neat to walk from Joseph Smith's home toward the woods and think of him taking that same walk so many years ago. The Spirit was so strong in that whole area. There is no doubt that amazing things happened there. I'm so glad we made the stop.

We went from there to an awesome Children's Museum in Rochester.

Of course, Dillon's favorite part was the trains

Dillon and Megan are such cute friends!

Thanksgiving Day we stuck around the house cooking and getting ready for the big meal.

The kids were pretty impatient and kept sitting down at their table asking for food...

...so we did a little dancing to keep them occupied for a minute.

The meal turned out so good. The turkey was beautiful.

Wesley has got a pretty good "cheese" smile.

Here he is with baby Laura---we were so glad we finally got to meet her.

The trip wouldn't have been complete without a round of "Settlers", so we pulled it out Thanksgiving night as we worked on second and third helpings of dinner! As always, Erika won.

Before leaving on Friday we stopped at Niagara Falls. It was freezing cold and the mist was so thick we could hardly see Horseshoe Falls. But we had a little better view of American Falls.