Snow Day

Few weeks ago we actually got snow in the valley. This year that has been a rare occasion, so we decided to take advantage of the situation and ran the boys out with the sled. As you can see they had a great time. 


The first run Kyle jumped on the sled and started his run. Immediately he veered for a big jump in the middle of the hill. In the back of my head I heard Kyle crying already and the end of our sled riding. He went flying off the side of the jump the sled completely away from his body then landed on his back. "Here it comes..." I thought. He turned around and started laughing "That was awesome..." After that Noah wanted to go off the jump too (I declined).   


After a few runs we ran around making snow angels and pelting one another with snow balls. Snow days rock.


Mommy and Megan were at home (little too cold for Megsie).


{Post by Adam}

December

<3... Going to see Christmas lights and hearing Noah exclaim "It's so beautiful!" Noah loves the word beautiful and I find that beautiful.

<3... Watching Music and the Spoken Word and Megan getting excited to see pictures of baby Jesus and recognizing him.  When I showed her a picture Santa she didn't know who he was.  Yes, Adam and I gave ourselves a few humble pats on the back.  We had accomplished  one of our goals for the Christmas season.

<3... The first thing Kyle said Christmas morning, "I will remember Jesus first even before all my presents." What a kid.

<3... Gingerbread houses with the kids and Megan eating all the candy off the floor.

<3...Santa accidentally left one of the boys gifts in his sleigh Christmas Eve so it turned up on our door step a couple days after Christmas. I totally wanted to put off getting a Wii but I guess Santa felt it was about time. Kyle was very pleased but Noah on the other hand was pretty indifferent. He just really isn't in to electronics.
Both the kids did say it was the best Christmas ever though. :)

<3...We had a new elf come and visit us this season. What a pest he was! One day he even hung the boys underwear on our chandelier. I promptly forgot about this so when my visiting teachers come by that day I didn't even notice it was all still there until about 20 minutes into our visit. They had a pretty good laugh. I had a pretty good cry. ;) So why is "Elvis" (Kyle chose the name. Get it? As in Elf?) under the things I love? Well because my boys delight comes even before my embarrassment, I guess...sometimes. Elvis did do some cute things too like paint the boys noses red while they were sleeping.

<3...Nerf gun wars.

<3...Noah's preschool Christmas concert. They sang at the assisted living place where Grandma Hind lives. She was able to come down and watch Noah sing which made it more special.

Noah and his friend, James.

<3...New baby!!

This was my in laws Christmas present and also how we announced the new baby.

The fourth frame says, 

Shiflett

Part IV

Coming to a frame near you

August 25, 2012

 <3...We also went to the Candlelight Christmas up at This Is The Place park. It was a really fun Christmas activity. Kyle was convinced that this Santa is the real one (vs. the Valley Fair Mall Santa) because his reinderr were there along with his sled.

One day we're playing in the LEAVES...

...and the very next day, we're playing in the SNOW.

Sledding

It was a perfect day for sledding. We headed up to Donut Falls, the sun shining, no clouds or wind and with all of our gear including Tommy...big mistake. Before we even got a chance to breath in the sweet mountain air a cop was there giving us a warning for bringing our sweet, pooping and peeing dog up the mountain. Yeah, NO PETS ALLOWED. We were in a "water shed" area where they don't want animals using the lakes and rivers as toilets. *sigh* Who knew?! So while I stayed, Adam took Tommy ALL THE WAY down to his parents house in MURRAY! Well, we weren't going to let this ruin the most perfect sledding day of the year. It was seriously gorgeous and Kyle, who got a sled for Christmas that still hadn't been used, was anxious.

Speaking of Kyle, this kid is CRAZY. As you can see, we have no pics of the kids actually going down the hill on the sled. This is because Kyle insisted on going down on the tube by himself at warp speeds. During this time I am doing my best to keep up with the human bullet by running next to him while Adam waits for impending doom at the bottom. This kid was catching major air and giving his mother a heart attack. He did biff it pretty good once but it never stopped him. Poor Noah was a casualty of the Kyle's craziness. *BAM!* The kid was flat on his face before we even realized what that blur was.

All in all, we had a great time and look forward to another outing.

"Mission Accomplished"...

..says Adam.

Ever since Adam and I started dating he's been trying to get me to go ice skating. He wanted to take me one evening before we were married but I just wasn't feeling up to it having worked all day. So I called and simply asked if we could cancel the skating and just watch a movie or something. Well, the guy has never let me live it down! Since then his #1 goal in life has been to get me out on the ice but whenever the opportunity to go ice skating comes up we can never go for one reason or another. One time we went with my family but I was big pregnant and just didn't think it would be a good idea with my center of gravity being so...round... Needless to say, Adam skated...alone. Poor baby!

So recently some friends of ours had the BRILLIANT (pfffft...) idea to go and of course Adam thought it was the best idea ever concieved...to claim his victory! Sure enough he finally got me out on the ice. And, I guess, we had a great time too. :)

Here a few pictures of the momentous occasion.