Go Cardinals Go!!!

Well, the Cardinals Rock this season and tomorrow is the NFC Championship game- Chad is so excited (as any life long Cardinal's fan would be) and he has given us all football fever- he's got Keston going around the house saying "Cardinal's Rule- Eagles suck"- he even has me looking forward to the game- (though I'm not sure whether I am excited about the game as much as I am excited about eating delicious snack foods! :) ) Anyway- for whatever reason we are all really pumped for the game tomorrow!

In other news- Calon loves trying to race to the kitchen before we can stop him from playing with Tank's food and water- this time he made a beeline for Tank's Kennel and got stuck, so here are a couple pics of that and just a few other pics from the last week...

Ode to Chad's Vacation

Well, Chad's vacation is officially over- at noon he goes back to work :( But we had a great time while he was off! We had company, Christmas, New Years, my B-Day, we had time to relax and do nothing, time to play games, time to go out to eat, time to go to Hoot's, time to watch movies, time to get haircuts, we had a super time enjoying Chad's time home!! Here are just a few pics from while he was home......

Fun time at Hoot's (the indoor playland):















Shooting some hoops















No one wanted to stop playing to get a picture















Going up....




















....coming down.




















The big slide is super fun!!















Making Tank smile.














Static Balloon fun













Loves his funny Daddy













Chad makes Keston be Quazi Moto- ball style













The new hair cuts- Kes had to be just like Chad.

December Visitors

Since we weren't able to make it down for Christmas this year friends and family stopped by to see us.

Uncle Mike came to play from the 26th-30th.
Kes and Mike are having fun putting together a cart, but Kes had the most fun when they were wrestling and he "kicked Uncle Mike's ass."- out of the mouths of babes:)













Here Chad and Mike are riding the carts from Grammy.













Rue Rue came by the 29th to visit and unload her storage unit. She brought delicious homemade poppy seed bread and pomegranate jelly.













Chad's brother, Maurice, came with Rue- Kes really liked racing down the hill on the new carts with him.













Papa came by the 30th- he was staying at his cabin in Show Low, AZ and did a one day turn around- crazy if you ask me, but we were really glad to have him, even if it wasn't a very long visit.

Christmas 2008!

Christmas was so fun this year! We were not able to make it down to Arizona because Cal is having a really rough time, but it was nice to just be at home. Keston was so excited to open presents and Calon was so excited to play with all the wrapping paper. It was a happy day! Here is a slideshow of the morning....

Getting ready for Christmas

So, gingerbread houses are a lot more fun to make in theory, or maybe this kit was just too planned out. Plus it wasn't a very tasty kit.... maybe we'll make one from scratch next year. It turned out pretty cute though.













Keston's letter to Santa:
Dear Santa,
Do you have a Wii?
I want a velociraptor and Doc.
Love, Keston



















Keston's picture to Santa:
Santa with a steering wheel for Wii and a green path leading to a racecar inside a giant green chair. Top right in red is milk and cookies and bottom right is presents.

It's beginning to look a LOT like Christmas!

Here is a slideshow of our snowy adventures, as well as some inside fun! Click on it to make it bigger.

Let it Snow!

We have SNOW!!! It is now officially Christmas!



























Chad pegging the neighbor boy!













Comfortable inside the garage