The Missing Snowman...

Sorry about that...I forgot that it only let me upload a few of the pictures...here is the "snowman".

Snow Day...

We enjoyed having a little bit of snow...mostly ice. Here are a few pic's of the kids watching the snow from our "Big Blue Chair". They both climbed in and I turned it around so they could sit with their blankets and eat their fruit snacks and watch the snow. They sat there for about an hour watching it snow and just admiring it all. After the snow and ice had all fallen we went out to play in it. We found that since it was mainly ice skating around the backyard was pretty much what we could do with it. I did however make an itty bitty snowman for them. You might notice it in the picture...and kit kat decided to add her own snowman to mine. (She just kinda placed pieces of ice on the table and looked at me and said....look mommy my snowman!) We had fun!

Big Brother

On preschool days Marquis loves to try to stall when going inside Miss Tiff's house. This morning he told me he had something to tell me. Here is what he said.

Marquis- "Mommy, I have something to tell you."

Me- "Yes, Marquis?"

Marquis- "Mommy, will you keep an eye on Kit Kat for me?"

Wow, what a sweet brother. I was so impressed. When I told him that I would he gave me the biggest smile and went on inside. I love my children!!!

Christmas

We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas! All of Mike's siblings were able to come in and we were all together. It made for a busy/hectic/yet amazing Christmas. We were able to get some family pictures taken here are a couple. We hope you all enjoyed a wonderful holiday!

First Day

Kaitlyn had her first day at preschool this past week. She had a lot of fun.

Family Home Evening

Our family has had a rough go with family home evenings in the past. With Mike in school...I've been a little less than motivated to get them going. But, now that he has finished and we can all be together as a family for it I am trying to give it a go. So, tonight we made our Family Home Evening Chart. The kids were really excited to see their names on the chart and loved helping out in FHE. I really hope we can get this into one of our favorite habits.

Preschool

Well, it's another school year and Marquis is attending preschool again. He loves Miss Tiff's preschool! Miss Tiff is a wonderful teacher who lives in our ward. She does an amazing job with Marquis and I'm sure all of the rest of her students too. This year Marquis has really improved. Marquis loved preschool last year but was still really hesitant to go. He would cry before we left and then sometimes when we got there. This year is a complete change...he begs to go and this past Friday when he was too sick to go he cried because he wanted so badly to go to school. He even asked me if I would take him to see Miss Tiff so he could tell her he was sick. Such a sweetheart!

Kaitlyn is also going to be attending a little preschool group. Some friends of ours are getting together to teach preschool to our 2 1/2 year olds. I'm not sure how it will work with our schedule but we're going to try it out for a couple of weeks.

We're all doing well. Still waiting for a job opportunity...and enjoying having daddy home with us. We love you all and miss you too!