Problems with movies

Sleepless in Seattle-
Why can Jonah get a hold of Dr. Fieldstone whenever he calls her? Is she not busy?

Monsters Inc.-
Why can Boo draw these "great" pictures (for a kid) but can't talk at all?

I'm pretty sure that is not normal. These are just things I noticed today.

Watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-0QXnK-tp4

Its like Happy Feet in real life.

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Christmas at our house

We had a wonderful Christmas. On Friday night we went over to my brother's house and acted out the Nativity. Collin was an angel, and did a great job.
Saturday morning started about 6:00, which was a little surprising. I went and got my mom and she came down and did Christmas morning with us. Landon got one present and Collin got like 6. It was a good morning.

Chase's mom made Collin a busy book, and he loves it. These are a few of his favorite pages.

This is Landon's one big present he got from Santa.

Collin with his new train track and some train books he got from my mom. He loves all of them

We went to Riverwoods on Christmas Eve and took Collin to see Santa. There was no body there and the Santa was awesome. It was the best Santa I have ever seen.

Here are some funny things Collin has said this week-

On Sunday morning I was puttin his white shirt on he said "I'm an angel!" so I asked him what an angel said and he replied "oh God"

Sunday night Tyler let Collin play with his Buzz Light year and Collin looked at me and said "He's beautiful and big!" Chase said we need to teach him more words like awesome.

Collin put his train track together and said "I can do anything!"

Snow pictures

So we got a TON of snow today. I wasn't real excited about it since the weather men keep saying that by Christmas it will all be melted...
Anyway, Kim, Bryan, and Jacob came over today so we went outside and took some pictures. Landon and Jacob tend to play with each other by attacking each other. It was pretty funny. They have matching coats.

This is the only picture of Collin smiling, and I only got it by asking him to show me his teeth.

Kim is such a good aunt. She and Collin made a snow train and a snowman. After Kim finished Collin came up and said Its wonderful!

I put Landon out there by himself. He was ok until he put his hand in the snow and then got a little upset.

Anyway, we're super excited for Christmas. I finally was able to teach Collin to be excited about Santa by telling him that Santa might bring him a train. So now when I asked about Santa then he gets super excited by yelling Christmas train!! We are trying to talk a lot about Christ and his birth and what Christmas really means. Last year with Collin being so sick this is going to be the first Christmas where he is excited and is aware of what is going on.

I'm number 4 I guess

Conversation Collin and I had today-
"I love you Collin!"
"I love you mommy!"
"Your the best Collin!"
"Your the best mommy!"
"Your number 1 Collin!"
"Your number 4 mommy. Thomas the Train is number 1."


We went to the doctor for Landon's check up (22.31 lbs, 29 inches, and his head is in the 91%. The chart shows his head size got huge between his 6 month check up and this one. Sometimes we call him big head...) and the nurse asked Collin "Who is coming to your house next week and is bringing you lots of presents?" Collin thought about it for a second and said, "Ummm, Grandma."

Landon

Since I named the last post Collin I thought I'd give a shout out to Landon. He turns 9 months in 5 days. This morning he decided that he could stand by himself and climb the stairs. He had been playing at the bottom of the stairs for a few days and so this morning when he was standing there I wasn't too worried. I looked away for a minute and when I turned back around he was gone. I ran over there and he was up 2 of the stairs, trying for the 3rd. Great...
Also, he was watching Thomas with Collin this morning and apparently didn't even realize that he had let go of the couch. It was really funny to watch him- he would almost lose his balance and so he would put his hand out and then gain his balance back before he would touch the couch. He stood there for probably 30 seconds, then fell over, got back up and did it again.
We're trying to find things for him to eat- he's not a huge fan of his bottle anymore so we just try to keep enough food in the house for him. :) He's pretty tall and is already getting to be too big for 12 month clothes. He slept though the night last night- almost. He woke up twice but went back to sleep on his own.

I lost our tv remote. I am so annoyed. I'm pretty sure someone (Collin) put it somewhere but has now forgotten where he put it...

Collin

So lately we have been getting the biggest kick out of stuff that Collin says.
A few days ago he climbed up on a stool and said, "I can see everything from here!".
He threw a lid into the cabinet this morning and said, "Whoa, that was a big, loud sound!"
He came up to Landon and was playing with him for a second and then said, "You're just a fat baby. You're just a fat baby"
I wish so much I could get these things on camera cause so often its not really what he says, but how he says it. He's so funny.

We got these pictures taken of the boys last month. It was a TON of work to get some pictures of Collin not freaking out at Landon for touching the guitar, or for them both to be looking at the camera, or to get Landon to keep the sunglasses on. But I'm happy with how they turned out and probably won't try that again anytime soon.

This one with the sunglasses is by far my favorite.

Snowflake fire station

On our trip for Thanksgiving we stopped in Snowflake before heading to Phoenix. While we were there we called Chase's sister to find out if Collin could go to the fire station while we were there. Our brother-in-law works with them so we had an in :). I was wondering how Collin was going to handle it- he loves fire engines but new things kind of scare him. He seemed to really like it although he didn't love getting into the fire engine by himself. But he really liked going down the pole with Chase and getting a fire hat. We were really glad we went, it was lots of fun.

Pies

This year for Thanksgiving we went out to Phoenix to be with Chase's family. It was super fun and WAY colder then I thought. My uncle Ray made fun of me because I showed up at his house in a short sleeve shirt and he was wearing his winter coat. I had no idea it was going to be that cold! I didn't bring jackets for anyone so we had to buy some while we were there.

We also went to see my aunt and uncle because we had some car trouble and since they lived close by we took it to their mechanic. It worked out well and we got home without any more problems. I don't think we've ever gone to see Chase's family without having car troubles. :) Chase and I just laugh though.

Here are some pictures of my pies. I made a pumpkin, apple, and some small pecan bits. They all turned out really good, even though I made them before I left so they had to survive the whole trip there. I forgot my camera so I didn't get any pictures of the kids doing much. Our brother in law and Chase's dad made a ramp for hot wheel cars and did a bunch of races. Collin was in heaven. Landon loved being able to just crawl around and find things to eat and chew on.

Things have been going good around here. We've been keeping busy. We put up the tree on Monday and tried to put a few decorations up as well, but there isn't a lot of room. I got some more pictures of the boys taken so I'll try to put those up soon.

If I get hacked one more time....

I don't know what I'll do. A few days ago my gmail account was hacked into, and then yesterday I tried to sign onto my facebook account. I was told my account had been disabled, and when I sent an e-mail to the service people they told me "you can not have a fake name, your account has been deleted and our decision is final" So I went to make a new account after I complained to Chase for a while, and they let me sign back into my own account. What's up with that? Did facebook get hacked? Or did I? And why did they let me sign back onto my account? These are all questions that will never be answered because facebook doesn't like talking to people. So now I'm trying to put new passwords on stuff, which means I forget my passwords now and sign in until I get locked out of my bank account or credit card and then I have to re-set them again.... On a good note I had lots of coupons to get 4 free photo books from Shutterfly. So we made one for Collin, one for Landon, and one for our family. They look great. :)

Keep him in mind

I know- two posts within like 30 minutes?

All you parents who have a girl that could marry Collin in about 19 years or so keep him in mind.
While I was vacuuming a big spider ran across the floor. I ran over to it since I already had the vacuum out and everything. Collin didn't see the spider, just saw me running and ran to me, stepping on the spider in the process. It just slowed it down, so he ran back and accidental stepped on it again. So all I had to do was vacuum up the poor squished spider.

He's a keeper. He squishes spiders for me and can dance and sing like nobodies business.

New pictures

His shirt says Dad's rock star

He had a red guitar on his shirt

Got some pictures done at Sears today cause I had a great coupon. I really liked the idea and I think I'm going to dress them up the same and go to Kiddie Kandids tomorrow cause I have another great coupon and see if I can't get better pictures. The lady just couldn't get Landon to smile. Anyway, Collin is awesome. I love watching him play his "tetar" (guitar). The color is really off cause I scanned them, but the prints aren't that great either.

Also-

Landon is CRAWLING. This is 4 months earlier then Collin. He gets hurt a lot since he just kind of throws himself forward right now which leads to a lot of face plants. But he does pretty good. He got his first tooth as well. He sticks his tongue out all the time feeling his tooth. Its really funny and cute.

Leaves and digging

I am really really trying to take more pictures of Landon. I got two free Shutterfly photo books and so I put Collin's together and then went to do Landons and felt so bad. Granted I had 2 years worth of pictures for Collin and only 7 months for Landon, but I only had like 10 that I felt like I could put in a picture book, where with Collin I was fitting 6 or 7 to a page just to fit them all in. So sad. So I took him outside in the freezing cold and took some pictures of him.

He is so fat. Gosh.

This afternoon Collin asked if he could go outside. I gave him a shovel and his dump truck and he stayed busy for like 45 minutes. It was amazing. That never happens. It was freezing cold outside, but he just stuck to it and filled his dump truck like 5 times.

We tried to get their pictures taken today, but got to the studio late and they gave our spot away. So we'll try again on Friday.

The house next door to my mom's is for sale. We are so sad that we can't even try for it. It is a cute little house with a fantastic back yard.

Other then that we're just excited for Thanksgiving and to see Chase's family and our two cute new nephews! Can't wait!!

Forget about it

My kid is the best dancer ever. Wait until about 40 seconds in. Then he really gets into it. And I love the chicken strips he's holding.

He just goes crazy in this one.

Their room is DONE!

Its DONE!! There are things that I would still like to add but I am refraining myself. Don't want it to be too busy.

Collin was supposed to be in bed. The blanket hanging is a panel we bought at the store.
I made this with my Cricut. I have to admit I was really excited.

Here's our little sitting monkey.

The tree. We just finished this tonight. I cut out the giraffe a long time ago. We just thought of adding the tree a little bit ago.

This was Chase's monkey

I cut this elephant out at the same time of the giraffe. I am actually really proud of my animals as I am not very crafty. But they came out really well.

These are just random covered canvas's that are above their closet door

We bought some animals to add to the room- an elephant, tiger, and lion that stand up. We also have a rocking elephant and a kangaroo.

So even though I don't know that Collin really gets it and will probably want to re-decorate his room soon enough (which I have to admit that I really enjoyed this so I wouldn't mind it) but it was so fun doing this.