Isaac and Amy

Isaac and Amy came to visit us and gave us a personalized tour of Davis. It was a lot of fun! Amy showed us all the cool things on the UC Davis campus. We chased ducks, rolled down hills, saw a tree from China, looked at egg head sculptures, saw where Isaac proposed to her, visited her old apartment and house, and had a really good time!!
The highlight was seeing Amy's abandoned bike from 5 YEARS AGO! Apparently UC Davis is a bike graveyard! Davis is totally a bike city and Amy's was not the only one that was obviously sitting there for a while (the rust all over, competely flat and falling apart tires, and old style give them away). It was funny to find her bike still there. I'll let you guess which bike is hers...

My cute brother and sister!! (in law... yes, I know... whatever)

Christmas Part 2 Fox

Matt's mom was able to come home from her skilled care facility to be with the family for Christmas. It was very nice to see her. She was very pleased to see Dylan. He thought she was great. I got some great photos of Dylan with Grandpa. They really liked each other too!
The boys (Grandpa, Uncle Sam, and Levi) hard at work with the race cars! Cool!

Above: Matt and Sheri

Below: Sam and Amber (The newly weds)

It was a nice visit with them. We don't get to see our families nearly enough... (distance will do that to ya) It was an enjoyable visit. Levi thought watching Uncle Sam and Matt play with remote control helicopters and planes was "so cool!" Budd and Sheri~ It was so nice seeing you!

Christmas Part 1

This is missing the pictures from visiting with Matt's parents. Those pictures are on another memory card. Stay tuned. I hope you all had a marvelous Christmas. We did. We went and saw our parents. It's nice that they both live in the same city. If you think Matt doesn't know how to make his clothes match (see above photo), he did match prior to having Dylan bleed all over his shirt... he had to change.

Dylan and Grandpa.

The very cool tower that Matt built. It had such detail!

Uncle Isaac and Aunt Amy playing. We were making a cage for Levi. Dylan was originally in it, but he wanted to bust it down and get out. Levi saw it as an adventure!

Levi, Dylan and Grandma playing Memory.

Definitely the highlight for Levi... a 4 lane raceway for his Hotwheel Cars. Cool!!

Aah! I love my husband! He got me personalized license plates. When they come I'll show you them!

My mom, sideways. The program keeps freezing up and quitting when I try to turn her the right way.

Isaac and Amy

The darling boys with their toys. Those were the unwrapped presents under the tree. They were very excited. Christmas is better with kids!

Visit my parent's blog for more pictures! We got to visit with Grandma Meservy and have traditional scones on Christmas morning! YUM~ Dee and Eddie also joined us and we saw them later on for dinner, too! We also saw Uncle Bubba and Grandma Wanlass (who looked fantastic!)

More to come of Matt's family!

Huh.

I have a car alarm... apparently it doesn't work when someone smashes in the window. I suppose that even if the alarm had gone off the person would have left by the time we went outside. So now our car got a $300 window for Christmas. That really wasn't how I was planning on spending that money....

Update on Life

Let's see... what's new with us?
Matt has put in 2 lights on our posts outside. These are cool lights that light the pathway and alternate between blue, red, green and white. The look nice. The boys (all 3 of them) find the lights captivating! It cracks me up. Dylan will migrate towards any sort of light at all. Matt also put additional shelves in a cupboard for me, much to my delight. Now I just have to organize the pantry.

Levi climbed into our bed this morning and said, "Move over Mom, I need more room." (?!?$?) I complied and moved closer to Matt (lucky me!) Levi can write all of his ABCs. He only gets a couple backwards. It's pretty impressive. He loves to sing songs, especially "Called to Serve", "Jingle Bells", and "I love to see the Temple".

Dylan has had diarrhea for a while and I do a load of laundry everyday. If you have suggestions, I am open to ideas. Yes, I should call the doctor... maybe I'll do that tonight. Dylan loves to be held but is also content to play by himself. He's super cute.

I am seriously looking forward to a 2 week break and the chance to be with my children and celebrate Christmas. I need a break.
That's our lives. Sorry no pictures. I keep meaning to ask Matt to fix the card reader, but I forget. Hope all is well with you guys!

REJOICE!!

It is 7:05pm and both kids are in bed asleep... Oh. my. goodness. !!!!!!!!!
Now I need to go spend quality time with Matthew or do something for myself. Can't wait!
I was just so excited to share with everyone... Bye!

Christmas Quiz Tag

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper
2. Real tree or artificial? Usually a real one, but this year we have a cool fake one since Dylan would eat a real one. The fake one is on a table.
3. When do you put up the tree?It was our family home evening activity last Monday.
4. When do you take the tree down? Usually January 1st while watching that parade.
5. Do you like eggnog? I don't. Matt does.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Oh... that is hard! I'd have to say the caboodle full of make up from Aunt Dee, or the purple huffy bike, or my Beauty and the Beast chest.
7. Hardest person to buy for? My parents and Matt. Their needs are met and they have no wants. !!?%#^*W)#*?? (How do people have no wants?)
8. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, we do.
9. Mail or email Christmas cards? Really?? People email Christmas cards?? (If you do, I don't mean to offend you). I definitely mail them out.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I'm thinking... Oh.. i got coal in my stocking one year. I'm sure I deserved it. I think I was 17.
11. Favorite Christmas Movie? Eloise at Christmas.
12. When do you start shopping for Christmas? All year long
13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Heck ya. Don't you? Admit it....
14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Where do I start???? It's the best time of year! I always overdose on the Cornflake Wreath cookies though. Seriously. I make one batch to give out and one batch all for me. Yum!
15. Lights on the tree? Of course. My children would protest otherwise.
16. Favorite Christmas song? Do you hear what I hear? and Oh Holy Night.
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home for the holidays.
18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? dasher, dancer, comet , cupid,prancer, vixen and rudolph, donner and blitzen.
19. Angel on the tree top or a star? A star.
20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas day? Pjs on Christmas Eve. Gifts on Christmas day.
21. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? having to work.
22. Favorite ornament theme or color? I'm fond of silver
23. Favorite for Christmas dinner? ham
24. What do you want for Christmas this year? An eye mask.

Childproofing ...

Well... little guy is quite mobile. He is also rather determined. See the blue lunch pail and box in the bottom, left hand corner? He tried to climb up that to get to the food.

I meant to post these last week.

This is the turkey Levi made at Preschool. I absolutely love the "character". He looks so worried, as if he knows his fate. My favorite part is that his mouth is supposed to be that chin thing. I think it looks better this way.

Levi's new skill. He can actually write the entire alphabet and he only does N and Z backwards. I was so impressed by the above photo (writing A-I) until the next day when he took me completely by surprise and wrote all of his ABCs. Amazing. The kid is almost 3 and a half.

Family Photo

Showing the family photo here kind of ruins the surprise of seeing one in the mail in your Christmas card.