Helping with the shed

Here's Ashley helping dad with the shed. He built us a shed in the backyard. I know, the picture has a date on it. He actually worked on the shed on Christmas day--the man's a workaholic. Not really, he just wanted to get the roof done before it was supposed to rain.

Ashley's really the crazy one in the family. She can climb up the ladder all by herself--her legs can barely reach the next step. We always have to watch her because she's running around finding stuff to climb on or get into...like a normal little kid, I guess. I just have never had one, the other two are always so careful, or at least they know that they might get hurt.

IT'S CHRISTMAS!!

Of course, we do like the kids to know what Christmas is really about, and not get so caught up in the presents. But I also like seeing their faces light up--so I'm sharing a couple of pictures of Christmas morning...

Tyler's favorite present was "Final Countdown", which is really a Nintendo Wii Olympic Games videogame. He calls it Final Countdown because that's the song they play on the commercial. Yes, we have a Wii. I know--I'm not much of a videogame person, and I think it can get out of hand for those kids that play all day long. But after I played one...it was so much fun! A couple weeks later I bid on one on ebay. (I REALLY didn't think I would get it, but I did) So now we have a Wii...And it's a lot of fun.

Hailey's favorite present was a tea set. Hooray for Wal-mart, I mean Santa Claus. And what little girl doesn't need a tea set? Actually, I think all her presents were favorites, but she was smiling in this picture :)

Ashley's favorites were all of Hailey's. She just thinks Hailey is cool, I guess, so she played with all of Hailey's. She had a few presents of her own she liked, too.

So much fun to enjoy Christmas through your kids eyes!

Gingerbread Fun

The kids made gingerbread cookies one day (actually it was after Christmas, but we got a kit FOR Christmas) They had a LOT of fun throwing candy at each other. They decorated a little bit too. And of course, when mom hears them throwing candy all the fun stops and they have to pick it up. :)

Christmas Lights

We went to see some Christmas lights in Chickasha with the Woods, the Waites, and the Asmus's . The kids had a lot of fun running around and switching places in the stroller all night. Afterward we met at the cars and had some hot chocolate and treats. I love the Christmas season and all the things to do with family and friends!


Oh yeah, and for the previous post--I realized some people may not know the story of our house :) We bought a reposessed house that was TRASHED--but only cosmetically. So, Trevor and I figured we could buy a bigger house inexpensively and then do some remodeling. It's a good thing Trevor thinks it's fun to do all this stuff, and he's so handy! :)

These are some pictures of our house. Each view will have a "before" picture followed with an "after"--there are still several "in progrss" projects.

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It takes me awhile to get my posts caught up--Here are a few pictures of Thanksgiving (we went to my sister's house in Texas) and Hailey's birthday (Nov. 30) She sure does love her birthday--the presents, the attention...