What do you REALLY think...

It seems that politics are such a heated topic, and I am usually at the center of a heated politic conversation. This year, I decided to sit back and LISTEN to what people had to say before spewing my thoughts. I have learned a TON!!!! The biggest thing I have learned is that both sides conservative or liberal, want basically the same thing, but that have different ways of accomplishing that goal. I know that people will never agree on everything, but I think that if people would just listen, and not jump to conclusions we could find some middle ground. God created humans to have passion, and we should use it, but we should do it in love. I think it is safe to say that MOST people want peace, most people want this country to stay out of debt, most people want to end abortion, most people want the poor to thrive, but everyone has their own way of going about that. If we LISTENED to peopl and stop trying to PROVE our own points, maybe we could resolve some things.

Not in to it!

I could care less about the super bowl. I thought there were nine innings in a football game for goodness sakes. Obviously I am not in to football.

the haps

I don't want to complain too much about the snow, but seriously! I don't ever remember it snowing this much! I have not seen my driveway since the 1st of december. The good side of that is that there has been a nice thick layer of snow covering up my messy yard thanks to Salmon. The bad side of That, is the brown and yellow pacthes of snow really stand out, thanks to Salmon.

LAst night we switched out Owens crib into a toddler bed. It was hard for me to do it, but it was time. He LOVED it! I overheard Scarlett tell him, "Owen, now you can get out of your bed at night and sneak into mom and dad's bed!". What a lovely child! He did fall out once last night, but he went right back to sleep when we put him back in his bed.

We have also attempted to break him of his love for a binky. It seems to be much harder for him than Scarlett. When we did this with Scarlett we told her to throw them away because she was big enough to not need them anymore, and she did it! I mean, we would find her hiding in corners, or under beds "sneaking a suck". That is what we called it. We would say, "Scarlett, what are you doing"? She would say in a whiney voice, "Awww, I just wanted a taste". HILARIOUS! Owen knows he can only have his "binks" if he is in bed, so now he wants to go to bed all of the time! It is woking out great.

Someone has been practicing her ABC's!

As you can see in the pictures below, the practicing was not done on paper. It was done on her bed. I must say that I am impressed, because I found pretty much the entire alphabet. However, I am sad that my rule about only being allowed to draw on paper or themselves, is not going to save my furniture. I think making her scrub it off, and go to bed early the next night did the trick, let's hope. Oh and if you look closely you can see that it is all over the side of the wood and along the edges!

FINALLY! Christmas pictures!

Super "s"


Super "O"


Owen got a police car for christams, and I got a little tatood girl.


Reading books with Mommo


Owen was trying to shoot things out of the white tube, not the part where the bubbles come out.




I love having lots of music around my kids




Look at the look scarlett is giving me...classic!


This is great, but when I saw it it freaked me out a little


Mike made a swing out of a bucket for the kids, and they loved it!




I had to include a tongue picture!

just some pictures

Owen's new favorite thing to do.







Christmas eve pictures with matching jammies!

Joys of motherhood...

Usually I have a snot smear across my shirt, but today it was this cough drop, on the front of my shirt, with hairs stuck all over it!And I did not discover it was there until 1:30!