Well

Tonight was a sad night. I kept hoping Tom would give us a miracle drive. Also kept wishing Jane had worn her Patriot colors.

Dinosaur Paintings

Colby paints a dinosaur at preschool every day. They are doing a unit on them and he comes home with lots of new facts- like they are "astinked". It is so strange the day your child comes home from somewhere like preschool (for me it was the 2 year olds' Sunday School Nursery at church) and you realize they are learning things out there in the world that you didn't teach them.

Picnic Weather

Colby listed off some things he'd like to do today- "grocery shopping, visit Macy (a friend), and have a picnic at the park ". Well, we can and need to shop. But it's too cold for a picnic. We asked him what he thought the temperature was today. "prolly 50 debrees". Ha ha. Debrees.

Abby's School Party

Abby's school knows how to party. They party all the time. They had a cute Christmas party with a Polar Express theme (involving tickets, pjs, sleigh bells, hot chocolate, and a classroom set up like a train car) . I dropped off some milk for their hot chocolate and I wish I had taken a picture of how the teacher had set up and decorated the room.

When I got to the school the kids were in an all school assembly- singing. Not songs about reindeer and jolly ol' Santa.

Singing on Polar Express Day

Only in Utah. (oh and abby walks by the camera at about 1 min. 19 sec in pink snowflake pjs)

A Little Snow

We haven't had any real snow here in Provo yet. So the kids were excited by the inch or so on the ground this morning. They donned their snowpants, boots and other necessities and went out together. It was the perfect snowball snow and they got their dad to sit up against the inside of the living room window and used his face as a target.

We'd like more snow!

Christmas

Christmas was wonderful here at home. A simple celebration consisting mainly of seasonal traditions is what I love; a real tree, LOTS of music, a trip to see The Nutcracker, the lighting of downtown, gingerbread and sugar cookies, Christmas Eve Chinese take out from PF Changs, new pjs, and all the goodies from Santa.
Thanks to our friends and family for all the goodies we received from you too !!! PS- I LOVE getting holiday cards from you all!

Let's Try This Again

Now that I have an iPhone maybe blogging and posting pictures of the kids for family and friends will be easier. I will try to do better at keeping you up to date on what we up to. The pictures will just be from the camera on the phone so they won't be super fantastic. Sorry.
This year should be a good one. Abby is still liking first grade and learning Chinese. Colby has started in a preschool and no longer screams when I drop him off. Both kids are very social and always want kids over to play- which we usually allow because it keeps them out of our hair. Abby starts I've skating lessons next week and Colby will do a basketball clinic starting feb 1st. Cuyler has a new IBM assignment that will take him to the fancy dancy White Plains NY. From the looks of it on google maps the town is made up of 12 golf courses. Long flight from Provo though. Hopefully 3 of the 4 weeks will be done from his computer here at home. We finally ordered a desk for him from crate and barrel that we both agreed on. So he won't have to work off the dining room table. News from me- hmmm nothing really. Just trying to squelch my daily desire to shop at target and bed bath and beyond. Ha!

Happy 2012!