Cabelas

Last night Cody had to work late. So we brought him some dinner. Then on the way home Londyn saw Cabelas and was "dying to go." So I said, why not. Cody wasn't going to be home and we've only been there 3 times in the year and a half we've lived here.

1st stop- look at the fish.

Next- world's biggest camping chair!!

Then, they tested out this camo golf cart thing.

Finally we went upstairs to test out all of the tents and camping chairs. And we got Icee's from the cafe.
Who knew Cabelas could be so fun?

Farm Country

Last week when we had such nice spring-like weather, the kids and I went to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point.

We went on a "hay ride" pulled by 2 horses. Both kids loved it, but Jackson refused to sit down. So he kept falling!

Jackson loves playing in the "jail."

While we walk around Londyn collects dead leaves, pieces of hay or whatever else she can find so she can feed it to the horses and ponies.

Isn't this peacock pretty? It was all white. Hopefully we will have more nice days to go the Farm!

Latest House Project

So 1 thing we didn't like about our house was that there wasn't a living room that opened up to the kitchen. We have a front formal living room but you can't see our kitchen from it, then we have a bedroon right off the kitchen that we've always had as an informal living room or family room. So just before Christmas Cody decided to start a new project- tearing out part of the wall from the family room to open it up to our kitchen.

This past Saturday we finally got one of the hard parts over with. We had to put a beam in the wall, up near the ceiling because the wall is a load bearing wall. A good friend of ours from our old neighborhood came over to help us.

And now it looks like this. We think we want to put french doors on so we still have the option of closing to room off if we want.

Fri. Feb. 11th

Yesterday Londyn had a Valentine's Party at school. This is her all ready to go!

Of course Jackson had to get in on the action!

He's not too happy I made him get off the arm of the couch and sit next to his sister.

Later that night he went pee pee on the potty for the 1st time! I was pretty impressed given that he's only 18 months and 1 week old.
This picture is a reinactment of the actual event! He was in the bathroom. He pointed to his diaper and said, "wet." "Elmo." We have a potty seat that has Elmo on it. So I asked him if he wanted to go potty and he raninto the bathroom and found Londyn's old potty. So I sat him on it and sat next to him on the floor for about a minute. Then he started to get wiggly and wanted to stand up, so I thought, "oh well, we gave it a good try." But when he got up I looked in the potty and there was PEE! Yay! Crazy what we get excited about, but I was so afraid he'd be hard to potty train. I'm not sure I'm ready to really potty train him, but atleast we're off to a good start!

Kitchen

So last summer Cody and I painted our kitchen cabinets, added molding and added hardware. I never got around to posting a picture of here so here it is!

For fun

On Monday Londyn got herself dressed and wanted me to take a picture of her.

Love my girlie! She is so much fun!

King Cake

While we were in Louisiana I really wanted a King Cake. I didn't know if they would have them yet, but they did! Mmmm!
I wish I could have brought one home with me!

The kids liked it too!

Family pics

The night before we flew back we decided to take a last minute family picture. We had everyone except my brother's wife Michelle, she lives in Houston and had to work. = ( Not too bad for a very impromptu photo shoot!

Hodge's Gardens

One day while we were down there my dad Cody, my brother Caleb and his wife Nikki went to these gardens in central Louisiana.

Not many flowers this time of year, but still pretty.

Park

On our 2nd day in Louisiana we took advantage of the warmer weather and went to the park.

Park cont.

Jackson loved being outside. It was a nice break from the snow.

I love how his hair got a little curl to it from the humidity.

Christmas Morning

SaNta CaMe!!

Jackson FAVORITE toy is his toy Dyson. He Loooves vacuums.

He also got some tools that he thinks are preety cool.

Londyn got a new baby doll and a crib and high chair for her. She also loves her new Rapunzel doll and her new books.