Wyatt on Trampoline!

CRAZY!

Things have been really crazy around here lately and so I haven't been able to post for a long time! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! We hope that you all have a romantic, loving, cuddling, kissing, hugging day! I will post pictures soon! I have too! Porter keeps asking when his picture will be on here of him on the trampoline! I am such a slacker! Hope everyone is well! We are in the 70's! I LOVE IT! XOXOXOXO

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Just wanted to make a quick post and tell everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope that everyone had a great Christmas also. We sure did! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Liechty for the trampoline, and Grammy and Pops for the Disneyworld trip! I can't seem to keep the boys off the trampoline! It's a good thing it has been in the 70's so they can stay out there all day! They told me I have to take their picture so we can put it on here with them jumping, so I will get that done soon. Wyatt was in the doctors office on Christmas Eve with a really bad case of that nasty croup. The doctor told me he had to drink steriods before we could go home, if he didn't drink them, we were in the hospital to force them into him. It took some convincing, but he finally drank them. Then on Monday we were back at the doctor. Now he has a really bad ear infection! Poor kid hasn't really had a vacation! Everyone else is well and kickin! We are trying to plan a trip to Utah this summer if all goes as planned! We will keep you informed so that we can all get together! We love and miss you all tons!

All of you are CRAZY!!

Ok, so I set up this blog thing to keep everyone informed on our life here in the BIG state of Texas. And I can't keep up with the thing! How do you people have the time to blog so much? All of you are CRAZY!! Things in Texas are great. We finally got cold weather and had to actually wear a coat today! BBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Everyone is well, well kinda. I didn't have to drive the bus the whole week of Thanksgiving and spent the whole time in my bed, knocked out day and night with sleepy medicine because I was so sick and of course no doctors open! But, I did get up that morning and cook the fancy lunch for everyone! But after that, back to the bed I went. All is well now. I still have the lingering, annoying cough, but other than that, good to go. Nick is now the one sick and in bed! So, by Christmas we should all be over this crap and be on with our lives! Boys are doing great. Porter is wanting to read so bad it hurts and his teacher said they are not at that point yet. Well, forget that! We have been working on it at home and he seems to be doing great. He wants to know how to spell every word you say. So I have to be careful how much I talk, because it ends up being a VERY long conversation after having to spell it all too! But I love that he is so eager and willing to learn. I feel as though there are times that I am not able to keep up with him! He wants to know so much and often asks me questions I don't know the answer to. And that frustrates him very much. He said I should know everything because I am a mom! If he only knew! So I spend a lot of nights on the computer researching all that he wants to know. From now on, Mindy, will be getting a lot of phone calls from Porter. Most of the questions he has are about the body and how it works. I know the basics, but when he wants to know what the inside of a brain looks like and wants to see the process of food from the time it goes in, to the time it goes out, I'm out. I don't know a lot about that kind of stuff. It grosses me out! Wyatt is, well, Wyatt. Always willing to do whatever and always with a smile. He is the funny one, that is for sure. I never know if he is telling a joke or serious. He likes to switch names now. On the bus today he said, Daddy, I really love you. I said, oh, Wyatt that is so nice. You can tell him when we get home. He said, ok, Dad, but my name is Porter. He is funny. He is often mad at me on the bus because he wants to play with all the kids, but has to still be in a carseat. So, he tries to share his toys with the others, by throwing them over his head and yelling, "CATCH" only after it has been thrown. Makes it so pleasant to hear crying children from being hit in the head from Wyatt's toys. :) He is very active and is always wanting to move. Porter sometimes says, Wyatt, you are driving me crazy! Hold still just for 5 seconds and I will count. Wyatt's response is always the same, But I just can't! That explains it all. Nick is still working CRAZY hours at Chase, but the lawn care business is done for the season so that helps out a lot. Plus he has decided not to do much high school wrestling this year. That leaves just one job and school. So maybe we will see each other this month! We love and miss you all tons. We hope to be able to see everyone soon.

Happy Halloween!!!

We had a GREAT halloween! We received about a years worth of candy for all of us! In our neighborhood everyone starts to trick or treat around 6:00 pm. We were outside at 6:30 starting to hand out candy, (there are so many people that we all sit in our driveways to hand out candy so you aren't running to the door every 10 seconds), we had 18 bags of candy and we were out at 8:00 pm! CRAZY!! Every year I run out so the following year I always buy more. I guess it is just going to come down to, when it's gone, it's gone. I'm not going to try to keep up next year. The boys had a great time. I took them trick or treating and I even dressed up! Wyatt was scared of EVERY house we went to, no matter what. All is well in Texas still. We are in the 80's still and in shorts and t-shirts! We are ready for some fall weather. The race at Texas Motor Speedway was this weekend and I actually ventured out this time! And I will NEVER do that again! It drives me crazy! They shut down the WHOLE freeway going both ways, which is the only way to my house! Needless to say, I am NOT a NASCAR fan! All, we love and miss you all!!