Finally...

For the past couple of years Colby has pleaded and begged for Molly to sit on his lap. However, she has always chosen to sit on Chris or my lap instead much to Colby's protest. The other day I walked into the family room and this is what I encountered:



At first it didn't even phase him but then I pointed it out and he was beyond excited!

I Want To Be Like Daddy!

The other night while Chris was playing the Wii Fit he yelled to me to come look at Cameron. I went into the other room and this is what I saw:

He cracks me up with some of the things he comes up with! Too cute for words sometimes.

Boredom and Boxes

What do two little boys do when they are bored and find boxes lying around the house? They, of course, make rocket ships out of them. I've got to admit I love the creativity and I didn't help them at all other than helping them tape the drawings on the side.

eBaying Our Way to Mexico

Chris' brother found a great deal on a seven day cruise to Mexico and convinced us to go too. Once we decided to go Chris made it his goal to sell enough of our "junk" on eBay to pay for the cruise so we didn't have to use all our vacation funds or dip into our savings to go. So for the last month we have been selling things on eBay and our grand total in sales is now $1012.44! That pays for the entire cost of our trip plus some extra spending money. It's been fun to watch our auctions to see what others are willing to spend on things we haven't used in years. It has also become somewhat addicting for us both. We keep going through our basement looking for things we think we don't need anymore. I think the biggest surge is over unless we unearth some box in the basement we forgot about. I have to admit Chris did most of the work (I don't think he trusted me to do any of it) and I appreciate his effort. Now we can relax and enjoy our cruise. The countdown has begun and we will be relaxing on a beach soon enough.

Back in Business

After taking an almost six month hiatus from my blog I decided it was time to get back in the swing of things. I've posted several entries from the last two months so make sure to take a look at them below. I'm going to try to be better about updating but I'm not going to guarantee anything.

Colby the Reader

Since starting Kindergarten Colby has done an incredible job of advancing in his reading. He has moved up four reading levels and can now read books to Cameron. It's so nice to be able to sit back and let him do the reading! Cameron loves for Colby to read to him and it's pretty darn cute to watch too!

Snow Tubing and Snowmobile Riding

Back in January our friends and their three kids came out to stay with us for nine days. While they were here one of our activities was taking the kids snow tubing. This was Colby's very first time on the big hills. In all our other trips he has been too little and always had to stay at the bottom. At first he was a little hesitant but once he started we couldn't get him to stop.





Here is Cameron taking a ride in his tube. Since he wasn't old enough to tube yet I got the pleasure of pulling him around and sliding him down little hills to pass the time. He had a ton of fun!



After tubing we headed over to the snowmobiles so the big kids could try out their mad skills. I was a little nervous for Colby to ride these as the closet thing he's ever driven was a bumper car and on bumper cars it doesn't matter what you run into but he surprised me by doing an awesome job. He stayed on the course the entire time, yay!





After all our outdoor fun we headed inside to warm up with some hot chocolate!

My Little Rock Star in the Making!

Valentine's Party

On Friday I had the pleasure of helping in Colby's Kindergarten class with his Valentine's Party. It was definitely a party to remember! They decorated their Valentine's card holder hearts, passed out Valentine's, decorated sugar cookies and last but not least played some Valentine's Bingo. He had a great time and also got a lot of fun Valentine's cards from his classmates and friends.

Oh yeah, he also surprised me while decorating his card holder heart by putting the word Mom on it. He can be so darn cute sometimes!