Goodbye 4-runner

Jared finally sold his 1987 4-runner. He tried to get it to pass emissions and 800 dollars later it still wouldn't pass, so we finally gave up on it and sold it on craigslist. I am a little sad for Jared because he loved that truck and had dreams of rebuilding it "someday" but I think we both realized that "someday" was very far away and neither of us wanted to be those people who store old vehicles on their front lawn waiting to rebuild them. SO, we got rid of it.

P.S. I LOVE OUR NEW CAMRY!!!!!

Train Museum and Grandparents visit

I wish we had gotten more pictures with my parents over spring break. I did get a couple of my mom slack lining but most of the rest are of the train museum. We had a really great weekend with my parents though. Brant was in train heaven at the Colorado Train Museum. It was actually pretty cool for a few hours. Brant could have lived there and been happy with his two favorite things (trains and grandparents). My kids are so spoiled with all the attention they get with my parents. My parents play all the tedious games that they beg me and Jared to play with them all year long. Board games, and blocks, and trains, and books,......my parents are tireless. We also had a fun night of bowling and a fun afternoon with the slack line and zip line in the back yard. We love it when they come and hate to see them go. We have been counting down the days till summer break in Idaho.

new table

Jared bought me a beautiful new table. It's huge, mahogany, and my favorite thing is the bench for the kids!

Brant's 2nd Birthday

Brant's 2nd birthday was in January. All he needed to be happy was cake, icecream and LOTS of trains. So that's what he got.

Christmas 2010

(yes I am posting Christmas 4 months late.....laugh if you want)

We had beautiful weather this Christmas; it wasn't winter weather, but it was beautiful. The kids played outside in short sleeves all day on Christmas Eve. We made sugar cookies and drove around to see all the Christmas lights on the houses. The kids had a very fun Christmas morning. Mia got a new bed set for her new queen bed. Mason got lots of nerf guns. Brant got Thomas the Train stuff. But the coolest thing we got was Neo Trax.....definitely the biggest hit this Christmas. They are tracks that kids can put together all by themselves and they can move and build tunnels and do all sorts of stuff. All of the kids played with them all day (They still beg to get them out 4 months later, so I think we have a winner.) We had Christmas lunch/dinner and then headed up to the mountains to try to find some snow so we could use our snow shoes. We had to drive very far and very high up in the mountains to find some, but we finally got enough that we could snow shoe.

Jared made a huge fort in the basement for the kids and they spent several days down there during their break before their mean mom made them take it down.

All in all it was a wonderful Christmas break and a nice first Christmas in our very own home.