February

klp woke up early one morning and I wasn't quite ready to get out of bed.  But he did want to take pictures.  He chose the poses.  haha.  

If you follow me on instagram you already saw this picture, but I call it "Quinn was here"  The boy loves his guns.  

This really happened.  Feels like -46.  Yep.  I did my best to stay out of it. I do think I went outside to see if my spit would freeze but it didn't. My nose hairs did, but not my spit.  Days like that I'm glad I'm the wife at home and not the husband out in that cold weather feeding cows or whatever else they do. 

jjp crashed in the car. 

The boys were playing with a fishing toy and Q caught one and wanted his picture taken. I guess he knows thats what you do when you catch a fish in real life.  

My linen closet=bunk beds for the boys.  

This is me going outside just to file papers in our storage shed.  I had on like 97 layers to FILE PAPERS.  haha! But I've learned quickly that its better to just take the time (and annoying feeling of being bundled) and put the clothes on so you're not miserable the entire time you're outside.  Even if that is to file papers for 5 minutes. 

So our master bedroom has a real door.  This house we are renting used to be a nunnery so it has some funny little quirks.  klp took a nap in my room one afternoon and when he woke up he tried to open the door and couldn't. So he did what any reasonable person would do and turned the DEADBOLT.  I didn't even know the door had a deadbolt.  We don't have a key to that door.  So I spent forever trying to tell him how to turn the deadbolt again. He would try but it was kind of stuck.  Then he said, "Oh Mom! I have a GREAT idea....You go get the key!!!"  I didn't have the heart to tell him I didn't have a key.  I eventually got him to turn the deadbolt and he got out.  Sheesh.  

Jaylie is OBSESSED with horses right now.  And wearing her brothers' vests.  

This is a set of pictures of the record board at the high school gym.  Kory still holds the season records for rebounding and points scored.  Woooohoooo! 

One of Kory's best friends growing up is a missionary in Peru and she was home for a visit.  We got to see Kami and meet her baby Kyla. It was a fun day.  She married a guy we knew and is on a mission team with people we knew.  Its a crazy small world! 

klp still loves to draw and spends a lot of time talking and playing and drawing (all at the same time).  His pictures literally come to life.  Its hard to tell what things are because he gets so carried away playing and stuff.  Then when you ask him he usually makes something else up all together.  He can't quite describe what he's doing.  But one day I saw him drawing this and I said, "OH COOL!" and he said "Its a rocket with a window and another window".  Haha. I think it was inspired by a Little Einstein they saw on the iPad.  I was so happy and love his little rocket with windows and people sitting in their chairs.  

June watching the basketball game. 

Since we moved here, the boys have decided they like sleeping together.  Its pretty cute. 

Kanyon has started water therapy.  He LOVES it and we are really glad to have a facility like this in our town.  I think its going to be really good for him! 

Quinn learned to write his name.  Here is his handy-work and also the progression of me trying to get a picture with his eyes OPEN and SMILING.  

I love that sweet handwriting.

Snow Days

We bundled up one afternoon to enjoy the snowy front yard.  As you'll see in the pictures, Jaylie was VERY confused.  She seemed concerned, worried, and out of sorts.  I think the full body down suit caught her off guard.  She couldn't find her hands tucked in there and it was causing her some concern. The boys have no trouble playing in the snow.  They love it! 

When klp gets tired of taking pictures, he just lays down.  Great. 

Snow angels! 

The confused little snow bunny

As you can see, the sun was going down in most of these pictures. 

Smiling frozen faced Kan Man. 

Tromping through the snow. Kan just trudges right through like its no big deal. Quinn leaves foot prints, Kanyon leaves scoot trails. 

And this little Pink Thing just sat there the whole time. 

Snow angel! 

klp chunking a snow ball at me! 

Coming from Texas, if the temp was even close to cold we would hunker down and stay inside. I was kind of worried about my mindset moving here. I knew it wasn't realistic to hunker down every time it got below 40.  My happiness and good moods are directly related to how much time we spend outside so I told myself I couldn't let the snow stop us! We bundle up and play as long as its reasonable. (which is a different "reasonable" than in Texas).  But so far we've all stayed warm and gotten to enjoy time outside even in the winter. 

One Saturday afternoon we all went out to Tye's (he lives at the ranch now) to do some sledding.  For the most part it was a successful trip. We had a couple of crashes that caused some tears, some snow sprayed in the face that caused tears, and some wet glasses that caused some tears. But overall, it was really fun for everyone.  

Here's Uncle Tye (and jjp) giving Q a lesson in snowmobile do's and don'ts. 

Guess who was dying to go first???? Kanyon! So he and Kory took the first sled down (followed by Murphy and Bea the dogs). Kan loved it! You could hear him squealing and yelling the whole time.  the faster the better.  We did realize pretty quickly that we should've had goggles or something to cover their faces. The snow would spray up into their faces.  

Tye, Kory, and kids.  (and a bunch of cows....) 

Phillips Phamily 

If you look closely you see someone gone on the sled and klp trying to scoot/slide down after them! 

Uncle Tye and June went for a short little sled ride. 

It was nice having the snowmobile to drive us back up the hill! 

I liked the cows at the top of the hill watching us

Another view from the bottom of the hill 

Here comes KLP and klp

Dad's hands=face mask snow protector

Uncle Tye and Q 

More cows. I like taking pictures of them.  And the view was so pretty on the clear sunny day! 

In the middle right of this picture you can see some old buildings.  Thats the house Kory's grandpa was born in and there are also some other buildings, barns, etc. used back then.  Pretty cool.  

Can you spy the snowmobile? 

We found goggles once we got home, so KLP and klp took a snowmobile ride! 

I know I've already posted it, but how can I NOT post this again! 

*I'm having a hard time making any of my pictures bigger. When I change the size of the picture they are blurry and grainy. Even on the good quality pictures taken with my good camera they're grainy and yucky when i make them bigger.  Anyone have any ideas??????????*