I was in a pretty bad mood from being tired and waking up to snow, so I found a way to turn things around and enjoy the snow.

Watching Chase trying to make his "funny face" today but bursting out with laughter before he would mold his lips into the right shape provided a lot of laughter in my day.

Chase, "Mom are we in the back yard?"
Me: "Nope, we WERE in the back yard, now we are in the front yard."
Chase:  "No mom, we are in the BELLY yard!"
(Get it back/belly :)
We no longer have a front yard, just a belly yard.

Playing at the playground today
Chase to little girl: "HI!  What's your name?"
Little girl: "Mel-A-nie, what's your name?
Chase: "My name is Chaser.  Do you want to play with me?"
Melanie: "O.K.!  Are we friends now?"
Chase: shrugs his shoulders.
I wish making friends was that easy for me.

A weekend in Moab

 (Several weekends ago....)


We headed out to the sand dunes, and what's a trip to the sand dunes without sleds.

 We tried to get a family action shot-

instead we got a baby with a face full of dirt.

 I had to crop my face out of the above picture because I was laughing so hard at poor Brody, and I want my kids to think I'm a good mom who would NEVER laugh at their pain :)

 If you havn't noticed by now, I attempt at any opportune (or for Daniel inopportune) moment to try and get a family snapshot to look half-way decent and this trip we got two thank to my mom's help.

 It might be better without the bottle covering Brody's face, but it's so much a part of what makes him happy right now that I don't mind it :)


I'm not going to tell you what was going on here, I'm just gonna let you laugh at it like I am.

Ok, ok Aiden is trying, in the most creative way I can think of, the push my mom down the hill.

This is my favorite sandhill sporting event, but these sleds just weren't cut out for the job.

This kid is always as happy as can be when we are in a huge pile of dirt.

Just some new family pictures

We had some family pictures done with Daniels whole family, all 35 of us!  I could resist the urge to ATTEMPT getting some nice individual pictures as well.  I say attempt because I try to do this more often than you might think and finally, came out with some that I love.  I'm still having trouble with my camera's focus, but I'm starting to learn tricks around the issue.

 Chase looking studly

First picture of me and my sweetheart that I love since the wedding.

Cute little Brody.

My handsome little boys.

And a shot of our family (taken by Kay Peterson Photography)

 Grass meet Brody.

Brody; the grass.

I think they're friends.

Valentines day with the boys

I'm behind in blogging again.... big surprise.

I made heart cookies with the boys for valentines day.  Chase really got into it and wanted to do everything on his own. "Chaser do it his-self!"

Making sure the cookie dough was smelling good.

This is Chase rolling his eyes at me when I asked him to look at me and smile.  I thought it was too funny not to post.

AHHhhhh....  All that work was worth it.

I couldn't very well not let Brody have a valentines cookie. (Shhhhhhh... don't tell daddy).  He liked the taste but hated when ever a small piece would break off into his mouth.