Hmmm....Not much going on

I keep checking everyone else's blogs and it seems everyone has something exciting to write about everyday. Over here....Not so much! We have been busy with the usual things that keep us busy, church, school,work, karate, cleaning..... Nothing out of the ordinary to report. I am thankful that our life is not too over whelming right now though.
We are so ready for the spring. We have been able to go out a few times this past week. I took Dylan for a bike ride the other day while we waited for Joshua to get off the bus. Dylan stopped at the corner to collect some rocks. He was very proud of his collection and wanted me to see. I am happy to report he collected 8 big rocks and 3 big pieces of dog poop and had it all ready to take home! Boys are the best!
I still want to put pictures of the new house up but I am waiting until we do some more decorating. We are getting there. We still feel so blessed to be in our new home and are anxiously waiting for our neighbors across the street to move in. It will be nice to have some good friends right across from us. Only 6 more weeks until their house is done!

Spring Fever

Now that Christmas has come and gone I am SO ready for the Spring. We love to be outside and let the kids run wild. The weather has been so awful the past few weeks. It has been raining a lot and the days it is not raining it has been so cold. Today it was warm enough that we were able to squeeze in about an hour outside. Maw Maw gave the boys some silly string awhile ago and they have been dying to play with it. I kept telling them the next nice day we have they can use it. It only took Joshua 2 seconds to remember that once I mentioned going outside. They had fun chasing me, Tim, the dog, and each other around the yard. Glad that is out of their system! After that we took a walk around the neighborhood and met some more of our new neighbors. It was nice to get some fresh air!

Pictures

The boys had these precious pictures made back in the fall. I didn't want to share them until after Christmas since they were gifts for some of the family. My friend Shannon took them. She did a great job. She is getting her photography business started so if you need any pictures done, let me know and I can give you her contact info. It was a very cold and windy day the day we did pictures and Dylan was sick. The kids were great sports and put up with Shannon and I for 2 hours! Thanks so much Shannon for these awesome memories of my boys!

Gross!!!!

I was tucking Dylan into bed the other night and saw something all over his wall next to his bed. When I asked him about it he proudly announced that it was "Booger nose" He had been picking his nose and making a nice collection on my newly painted walls! Boys are so icky!!!!

Everybody was Kung Fu fighting.....

Well, not really, but how often do you get to say that?! Joshua had his first night of karate Tuesday night. He is taking it at The Little Gym. We took him for a trial night and he loved it. So I guess we will be going every Tuesday night. I am glad he decided to do it. It is more like a karate/gymnastics class (don't tell Tim). It helps the kids with their coordination and balance. The class is for 4-6 year olds. Joshua is the oldest in the class and towers everyone. That does not seem to bother him though. Next semester he can join the older class. The only problem with the class is that is nearly killed Dylan that he could not participate. He wanted to be out there so badly. They have a class for Dylan's age after Joshua's class but we would have to stay up there for another hour and it is during dinner time. I am going to try and take Dylan to swim classes and let Tim take Joshua to karate. Gram said Dylan can come to her house on the other nights so he can do something fun too!

Our First Lunch

We had our first "real meal" at our new house yesterday. We had my parents over for a New Year's Day lunch.

Merry Christmas

We celebrated Christmas morning at our "old" house despite the boxes and mess everywhere. Since everything with the new house happened so quickly, we wanted to have one last Christmas at that house. We had already taken down all of the decorations except the tree. We had a fun morning. Joshua got us up about 6:45am. We went in Dylan's room to wake him up, but I think he would have rather slept a while longer before opening presents. We had decided to have a "smaller" Christmas this year to teach the kids a lesson in giving rather than receiving. We got a 5 year old boy's name off the angel tree earlier in the month and shopped for him so he would have a good Christmas. Joshua had a great time picking out stuff for him. We explained that only Santa would bring gifts this year since we used Mommy and Daddy's money to buy for someone else. Well, that did not happen. I think the kids ended up with about the same if not more than usual. That is the only problem with starting your Christmas shopping early, you forget what you have already bought and it doesn't seem so bad spread out over a few months. Oh well! At least we still did something good for someone in need. We are truly thankful that we have resources to be able to do that. Joshua was excited that Santa left him a "Ben Ten alien force maker" and Dylan was excited with his new "lightning McQueen" bike. Tim got a GPS and I got diamond earrings. After we celebrated at our house it was time to go to Gram's. The kids got lots of good stuff over there as well!(Tim and I too)I would say the big hit with the kids was the automatic Nerf guns that Uncle Jason bought. The guns are so big Dylan can hardly hold his up! Thanks a lot Jason! (no sarcasm at all!!!) We stayed the entire day and checked out everyone's gifts and ate a big lunch. That is always one of my favorite days of the year. I thank God so much that I am blessed with a great family. Happy Birthday Jesus!

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve at Tim's parent's house as we usually do. There is normally a house full at Maw Maw's house as our family and Tim's sisters' family all get together and have lunch and open presents. We had finger foods for lunch (always good!) and sat around and talked and watched the kids play. Maw Maw and Paw Paw have 10 grandchildren so there was a lot going on! We exchange names on that side of the family since there are so many of us. Tim got a sweater from his sister, I got a shirt and necklace from our nephew Brandon (of course I might have had something to do with the selection!) Joshua got transformers from our nephew Drew and Dylan got a new Diego toy from our nephew Brian. Maw Maw and Paw Paw gave the boys Incredible Hulk boxing gloves. I did give the okay on them, however I have been beat up more than I cared to. :)

Christmas Time = lots of company

I love when Christmas time rolls around! It means 2 weeks of company and good food! My Grandmother usually makes her trip form Virginia a week before Christmas. We usually spend that time finishing up shopping and eating lots of good food prepared by my mom. This year was no exception even with the craziness of packing up our house and getting ready to move. My older brother was able to make it this year as well so my mom had a house full! For almost 2 weeks we had 11-15 people at my parent's house. It was someone new everyday! My Uncle came down from Nashville and my dad even had a friend from work stop in for dinner one night on his way to Florida with his son. Joshua and Dylan just love all the company since that is just more people to give them attention.

WHOA....

What a crazy 2 weeks it has been! We have been so busy with the holidays and the big move! Things are finally starting to get back to normal and I am glad for that. God has blessed us so much with an awesome family that has been at our side for 2 weeks helping us get everything in order. THANK YOU! I have lots of stuff to post so hopefully I will get to it in the next few days! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!