Grayden Turns 2!

I can't believe my baby is two!!!  How fast the time flies!  Right now Graydens favorite thing is Handy Manny so as you can see that is the kind of party we had.   How lucky for him his dad even dressed up as Manny.  I am not sure he actually even noticed, but it was entertaining for the rest of the family.  We had a great time.  

Happy Holiday's!

We had a wonderful Christmas.  We spent Christmas Eve night at our house with my family.  We had the annual Christmas story puppet show.  We had a nice dinner and it was very low key and casual.  It was wonderful.  Then Christmas morning Chris' parents came to see the kids open their presents.  The kids didn't wake up until almost 8.  We stayed home all morning and enjoyed the snow.  We had lunch with Chris' family at his mom and dads and then went over to my grandparents later that evening.  It was the first Christmas since we have been married that we have spent any time at our own house.  We are usually out of the house for breakfast and we don't come home until late in the evening. 

We had a nice new years too.  Carter and Jordyn slept over at Grandma Joanne and Grandpa Rogers for New years eve and then on New years day we hung out with Chris' family.  We had tons of food, played lots of games, and watched some football.  It was nice to spend time together.  We are excited to start a new year!  Hopefully it will be a good one!

Still Alive

So we are still alive, I have just been horrible with keeping up on the blogging world.  I like to check out everyone elses blogs, I just don't like to update my own.  Not to mention the fact that we are horrible parents when it comes to documenting our children's lives through photos.  We did have a family picture taken a week ago which actually turned out pretty good minus the bandaid that so beautifully covered the large gash in Graydens head.  Lucky for us, for a small fee the bandaid can be erased and a new eyebrow created.  Unfortunately the very large fee for the actually disc was a bit steep so who knows if you will ever be able to actually see the picture.  This is why we never have pictures taken in a studio.  

Really we have been up to nothing exciting.  Chris started a new job, Carter turned 7 last week, Grayden has broken the same kitchen chair 3 times in the last month (thus the gash on his head), Jordyn has been very much enjoying the fact that Steven had a new baby last week so Chuck, his dog spent a few nights at our house and this week Robs is visiting her in-laws, so Otis is vacationing here.  The kids are currently off track and have been home for the last two weeks and we still have two weeks to go.  I think I might go crazy before they go back to school!  I am just glad that they aren't off the whole month of December.  

Well there really is no more to tell. 

Nothing New

So I have not posted anything for a long time.  I think the biggest reason is I have not had anything to take a picture of and posts with no pictures are not nearly as fun.  Really we have been up to nothing.  With the economy in the state it is, we have really been staying home most of the time and trying to make the money stretch.  Grayden has been keeping me very busy.  He never ever gets tried and while he is awake he is constantly in motion.  I am very happy because he is quite happy, but seems to always be making a mess or getting into trouble.  The other day I was in the process of doing some laundry and the doorbell rang.   Jordyn ran to answer it and I hear a mans voice say "is this yours?"  I heard her say "yes"  and he asked if he could talk to her mom or dad.  I came around the corner right at that moment and he is standing in the doorway holding Grayden.  Of course he is mine.  I am thinking why do you have him? He says, "He was in the middle of the road and I almost ran over him."  I about had a heart attack right then and there.  I thanked the nice man and had a nervous breakdown as I was closing the door.  So I took Grayden to the garage door and asked him to open it.  To my amazement he opened it right up.  So he had just quietly let himself out the garage door and decided to explore the world.  Needless to say we will be installing a lock high on the door and Grayden will be spending more time in his play pen.  What gets me the most is his is starting speech therapy next week because he doesn't say a darn word, but he can open door all on his own!!!!  I am pretty sure I have been nominated for the mother of the year award!!!!!!

Disneyland

Grandma JJ's 80th Birthday Party

This last Saturday my Grandma Beardshall (aka JJ) turned 80.  She wanted to celebrate her birthday with her family so she decided to have a little party at This is the Place Park.  We were able to hang out at the park for a while and then have a nice private lunch in one of the pioneer houses.  It was fun to celebrate her big birthday with her.  The kids enjoyed the activities, animals, and activities.  

ORDINARY

It has been a while since I have posted anything, but the reason for that is because there is absolutely nothing going on.  Unfortunately for me the kids aren't even in school right now.  We are on year round school here and on C track. So that means they started the end of July, went Three weeks and then went off track for three weeks.  I am not such a fan, but turns out no one really asked me what would work best for me.  If they had I surely would have said year round is great, but they never need to go off track.  So as you can see we are just trying to survive the next two weeks and then we will be in good shape for a little while.  At least we have stayed away from the hospital and surgery!!!  Well hopefully we will do something fun in the next two weeks and we won't appear to be as boring as we really are!