A Snowy Christmas Eve

I can't remember the last time we had true White Christmas!!  It was so beautiful!  Grant you, some people  that we saw stuck in the ditches on the way home Christmas Eve, probably didn't think so!  We celebrated Christmas with Nelson's family Christmas Eve and when we set off to head home at 8:30pm we didn't get home till about 9:15pm!!  There was a car having severe issues right on Main Street by WalMart, Nelson parked us and got out to help them push, but finally the police got there and got the truck off the road so we could pass!  It was crazy!

Anyway, we finally made it home and Will was just soooo excited about playing in the snow, we were like, sure, it doesn't happen very often, so have at!

He made snow angels, threw snow balls, and just had a blast!  Grant you, it took me longer to bundle him up than he played in it, but he had a GREAT time!!  He looked up at me with his red little cheeks and nose and said, "Okay Mommy, I am ready to go in now!"

Ajay on the other hand did not like it at all!!  He was ok just standing in it, but then he decided to pick up some with his hands, and then the screams came!!  He was not sure what that white stuff was or why it was soooo cold on his hands!!  He got to come inside for a nice hot bath right after!!

It really was pretty though!!  So nice to finally have a good old fashioned White Christmas!!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

First I would like to say a Very Merry Christmas to Everyone!  I hope you and your families had a great time together this year! I know ours did!!  We had to do things a little differently this year for Christmas since it was Nelson's turn to work Christmas Day at the hospital.  Unfortunately, the hospital does not close, even for Christmas!  But, we made the best of it and since we both had Wednesday off together, we decided that day would be the day Santa would have to visit us this year! 

We finally got the boys to bed and then Nelson and I started to get everything out and ready. . or I guess we were left to help Santa put everything out this year!!  It seems like it just took forever!!  I forgot how much I hate those little plastic twist ties that are on EVERYTHING!!  But, we finally got everything out and set up and got to tuck ourselves in bed about 1:00am! 

Will had left Santa some snacks:  two oreos, a piece of fudge, a sugar cookie, a glass of milk and then carrotts for the reindeer.  Santa must have really liked all that food cause he sure was happy to leave our boys tons of goodies this year!!

Will was a little shocked when he first woke up "Christmas Morning" and he said, "Man, I think all these things are a little kookie. . . .Man, look at that cool bike!"  I think he woke up fast!!

Will had asked Santa for several things this year: a big boy bike, a helmet (thank goodness), a Super K carwash and gas station (don't even, I worked sooo hard on this!), a cement mixer, and legos.  I guess he had been a good boy all year long, cause that's what Santa got him!  Santa also snuck in some other things: a Huge big bug set, beach towel, and doctor kit (he is all about giving people shots to make them better?).

Here is the car wash!  We had to do some homemade additions, but it turned out well I think!!

Ajay must have been a very good boy this year too!  Santa got him a basket ball goal (he LOVES to play ball!), a lawn mower like his bubba, a farm set, and his size legos.  Ajay couldn't decide what to play with first!!  I think the basket ball goal was his favorite though!!  He loved all of bubba's toys too!

He pushed this little mower all over the house!!  I think he really had a fun Christmas!!  It was a great time!!

I think our two little boys were just super good this year, so did Santa!!

I hope every had a GREAT Christmas!!

A Vikings Christmas!

Well, Nelson got to pick out our Christmas card pictures this year! His team, as you can probably guess, is the Minnesota Vikings.  So here we are wearing our purple and gold! Go Vikings!

I love this one!  The boys are just too cute!

Halloween!

This year my darling little dudes were members of the law!  Will is just totally into policemen these days and just is in awe of them!  He is constantly keeping an eye on our neighbors (who are police officers) and making sure they are arresting all the bad people and taking them to jail!  They are definately his heroes right now!  Anyway, we knew of course that Will wanted to be a police officer for Halloween since about May, so I found him a little costume and had his name put on it and he just thought that was way cool! 

He was all about the hand cuffs and wanted to arrest everyone he saw!

Including himself??

He had his own little whistle, cuffs, baton, cell phone, and badge!

I was just glad we got him out of it at the end of the night!  He has had this on like 12 times since it came in!   It was, "Mommy, can I please put on my police officer costume? Just for a little bit?"

Will decided that he wanted Ajay to be a state trooper.  And boy was that fitting!! With his little bald head and the belly hanging over he was just he CUTEST thing ever!!!  It fit him to a T!

Although I told them both that they were not allowed to be real police officer because it would make their Mommy not be able to sleep at night!

I think Ajay was a little afraid of getting arrested himself here!

In case you haven't noticed, all of Ajay's shots are action shots!! He is ALWAYS on the go these days!  He NEVER slows down or stops!!  He definately keeps me on my toes!

This was the only picture I actually got of them standing in the same frame together!  If you can tell, I bribed them to stay still with candy!  I know, I know, not the smartest thing to do, but at least I got my one picture of my two little police dudes together!! 

And of course, it would not be Halloween if I didn't humiliate Daisy, so here she is in her "Bad Dog" Criminal outfit!  She looks kind of happy here, but believe me, she was not impressed with her costume!! 

It was a GREAT Halloween!! We had tons of fun!  We drove the kids around to the grandparents houses and then were going to do a little neighborhood trick or treating, but both boys passed smooth out in the car on the way home, so we just headed to bed!  It was still a great night!

Pumpkins!

We finally got around to actually carving some of our Halloween pumpkins Halloween afternoon!  Will helped me draw on the faces and Nelson did the dirty work! I think he turned out pretty cute!

Then at night, we lit him up!  Pretty spooky!

This is Will's pumpkin that he got to draw a face on all by himself!  I think he did just an awesome job!

And of course, Ajay had to investigate and see what all the commotion was about!

And our family pic!

I am not sure why it is hard to get everyone to look the same direction these days, but. . .still a great time and good memories carving this years pumpkin!

March of Dimes

We had a team again this year for Durant's March of Dimes March for Babies Walk!  This is a cause that is very near and dear to us and we love to get our friends and family together with us and walk for this cause!

This year our little team raised over $600 to turn in for the March of Dimes!  We had a GREAT bake sale, sold t-shirts, and got a few donations too!  I think we did super!  I think though, our goal will be a solid $1000 next year!  Thank you to everyone who helped with the bake sale (Devin and her wonderful cakes!, Megan, and all the people who bought them!)  The total for Durant was $45,000!!!  We did a SUPER job this year and just totally blessed by having such a great family and friend support system in this community!

And thank you to our WONDERFUL Walkers!!  We can't thank you enough for coming out and walking with us!

This is just a few of our team, I don't know where the others had escaped too!

Will showing off his March of Dimes T-shirt and stretching before the walk!

Ajay and Grams getting ready to go!

And here is Will standing by his March of Dime sign!  It was just way too cool to see him standing right there by that sign!  Such a little miracle he is!  The March of Dimes does do great things!!

Will's First Dental Appointment

Well, we had Will's very FIRST dental appointment this week up in Oklahoma City.  We have always had other bigger things going on that we kind of forgot about something simple like that!  We had tried to take him to three dentists here in town and all of them were like, "Umm, he really needs a pediatric specialist, we really don't want to touch him." So anyway, we went off looking for a Pediatric Specialist.  And I am sooooo glad we did!!  We found Dr Molloy in Oklahoma City and absolutely LOVED it!!  It was the greatest little dental experience we could have hoped for!

They have the office decorated like outer space and even have a HUGE rocket in the waiting room.  There are video games, a parent work room, and the staff was just awesome!  In the words of Will, "This place is soooo cool!" They even have TV's in the ceiling for them to watch while they do the work! I would HIGHLY reccommend this to everyone with kids!  It was just super easy!!

After the cleaning and flossing, Dr Molloy came in and checked him out and got a very thorough history from us and then just sat down and talked with us for 30 minutes!!  He was very concerned about Will's jaw and palate and really wanted us to check into a Dr Kevin Smith there in OKC, he said, "Don't go to anyone but him,if I had to have anything done to one of my children, it would be done by him."  That always means a lot when another doctor highly reccomends another one!  Anyway, we will be checking in with that Dr sometime soon.  But on a more positive note. . . .

NO CAVITIES!!

Will showing off his new clean teeth!  He was very proud of them and kept asking, "Mommy are my teeth still super clean and shiny?"  He was just too cute!

Dr Molloy even said, aside from his discoloration, Will had very good teeth, they were strong and solid, but wanted to make sure and keep them that way!  He also has high hopes that Will's permanent teeth will NOT be discolored since his jaundice and TPN use was over when they would have been forming!!  So we will keep our fingers crossed for that!!

We were so afraid it was going to be horrible news that we just about jumped up and down when we heard that!  It is definately still nice to have that wonderful surprise of a good report sometimes!!  We are super proud of you Will!