Baby It's Cold Outside

I would go on with the song but I don't know any more of the words. Incase you were wondering what we Idaho folk do for fun in the middle of December.... We FREEZE!
I don't have any snow pants for them so we had to put some fleece bottoms on under their jeans and hike up their socks. Cole usually HATES being cold but since he was bundled he didn't want the fun to end..... but after an hour and a half my toes were passed the point of cold and hit the point of PAIN so we went in and made us some delicious hot cocoa with the good ol cocco motion! My Gma loved their rosie cheecks (notice Daws has a mirror in hand...he must of loved them too!)

Hmmmm

Deep thoughts by Dawson........

I wonder if he is bored? I wonder if he is cold? I wonder if he wishes he had some other fish friends? I wonder what my mom would do if I put in some plastic sharks and some marvel figures (spiderman to be exact) in there for him?
Don't think he didn't do just that, I was the one that had to fish them out!!

The 2 wisemen

Ok well since it is Monday night and I haven't updated in quite sometime I thought it only fitting to post about our Family Home Evening...... I am sad I didn't take any pictures of them bringing their gifts to baby Jesus. They thought it was great fun and I think that Daws now kinda gets the whole meaning of Christmas now. (until someone asks him what he wants for Christmas and he pulls out his LONG list of WANTS and NEEDS) But it was a fun night and nice to take a moment out of the commercialism that Christmas has become..... I am a victim of it myself, dangit! It is kinda hard not to get all caught up into when ya have kids (and you love shopping!) Well, here is to trying to bring back the "true" spirit of Christmas!

Updates on the home front....

Lane took the boys over to the lot for his daily walk through.... The brick man put up the tarp so he could turn on his heater and stay WARM in this FREEZING cold! Here are a few pics of the outside and the inside of the upstairs. The pic of the birds has a story. Now that the windows and doors are in there has been these 2 birds (that obviously forgot to fly south) making our home theirs..... so when Lane, Daws, and Coley were trying to shew them back outside the one TOTALLY crashed into the window and fell lifeless! Sorta sad but kinda funny. After finding a big pole of sorts they managed to get them out and all is well. (i really wouldn't mind them staying there if they were willing to pay just a little rent!) PS..... does anyone want to buy our house in Utah? We use to joke that it was our summer home but from the looks of it.... it might be! YIKES

It is the Japanese blood......

So Lane taught this little song to Dawson about a year and a half ago and he will RARELY sing it for others so I was amazed that I got it (mostly) on camera! I never learned it in grade school so when he get stuck and wants to know what is next and dad is at work..... we pretty much go back to singing twinkle twinkle! As you can tell he is trying to win the speed award.....

So I realized after I listened to this he did forget one....... can you guess which one it is?? Also, he has chewing gum in his mouth so for those of you that know him are probably wondering when he picked up that lisp...... just the gum, well except sometimes his L's are yu's. Like in Primary when they had them tell the teacher their family names to put on the Family tree and when he showed it to us after church it read.... brother=Cole, mom=Audrey, dad=Yang! Lane was like ("they think I am Chinese?!")

Naughty spot.... (with an english accent)

So I put Cole on time out today cuz he hit his brother (something I am trying to stop before he actually makes him cry cuz it hurts and not crying just to get him in trouble if ya know what I mean!) Anyways, I sent him to sit on this stool that we use for these situations and he wasn't there... so I looked a little longer and this is what I found.......
Must have saw it sitting there hopped in and zipper er up!

OK ok OK

I would like to apologize for taking a bit of a break from posting.... To be completely honest the main reason (aside from laziness and the holidays) is because there seems to be something wrong with our camera. It takes blotchy blurry pictures lately. Lane told me it could have something to do with I have been toting it around with us in my purse that could pass as a 72 hour emergency kit. He is pertaining to the goldfish and pretzel crumbs floating at the bottom. I did find a week old string cheese in there the other day, so maybe he isn't exaggerating. I finally dumped it and dejunked (which I try to do at least 2 times a month but haven't gotten around to it lately) when my sister Bobbi told me I need to vacuum out my purse....sick but true!
So Thanksgiving was great for us! We spent it with Lane's family in Utah. It was kinda strange not to have his parents there but it was still nice to all get together. Poor Kitty was sick with kidney infection and so they didn't have turkey that day. (I am not sure if they eat turkey on Thanksgiving in Japan... probably not since it is an American holiday?) Hope you feel better soon Kitty!
Let's see... oh I saw 2 movies this last weekend and LOOOVED Enchanted! Seriously, I know I am 30 years old..... but I secretly wanted to be her! The scene where they are all singing and dancing in New York City...LOVED! It is a good show for all to see I think. (It makes Mc Dreamy even MORE dreamy!) Dawson really liked it too. It is one I wanna buy when it hits Target shelves. (hope i didn't hype it so much that when you see it you are disappointed!) We also watched Chuck and Larry. Ok, I am going to deny saying this if you see this movie and think it is horrible but I thought it was hilarious!! Maybe it was late and the people we saw it with but I couldn't stop laughing! (don't watch this movie mom....you will HATE it!)
Well, that is enough hodge podge for now.... I will update about the boys when I am not so tired....
(Becca, i am back in action........ rad huh!)

Fam of 4!

So..... Kelly McCaleb, the girl that took these pics is amazing! She has a good eye and has great style! My only wish is that it wasn't the first day of the year to FREEZE and SNOW in October when we took these pics!!! That would explain bad hair (for me) and grumpy baby (for cole).
Other than that....here are a few of my faves....

uho.... terrible TWO's???

notice who is in charge in this pic.....
ok hopefully he can open this one with out any help.....from big D!
this was actually a really cute spider, then daws thought it should have more legs and whiskers....
hmmm fire......WOW... fire
i had to take a pic of him eating his cake cuz this kid NEVER eats cake!! (or cookies, or brownies, or donuts, or candy! he oddly enough prefers green peppers, lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, and mac and cheese!)

So Mr. Coley Monster turned 2 on Sunday the 11th. It kinda makes me sad he is growing up so fast! At the same time I love to see them grow, learn new things, have so much emotion, become themselves, say funny things, and ya just love them more everyday! We didn't get very many pics cuz the camera card is FULL. He had a fun day.... Gma and Gpa Simmons along with Geri and Jason came over to Gma Fern's for birthday dinner, cake, and pie. (i knew if i wanted my dad to come i had better make a pumpkin pie!) Then Toby, Becky, Zoey, and Jayce came over and gave him more gifts. Then Bobbi, Jared, Carter, and Rook came over with more! He thought he had died and gone to heaven with all these visitors and gifts JUST FOR HIM!

A few more....

pics to add to the last post........ after I wrote that I had a few of those days where I wasn't so grateful but luckily yesterday and today I don't want to pull out my hair (or theirs!) Things are good.... Daws has a bit of a cough and Cole has boogs but we can deal with that for sure!