Horses, CTR ring, gym, and Crazy Mom

This is a daily routine at our house. They take turns (quite nicely too) on the rocking horse. Who ever is sitting out must clap and sing as Austin says, "da dun dalunt" or the theme song from Bonanza. Today they felt inspired to wear the hats while they ride. You will notice (sorry mom) that the horse, Batman-Diego, has stickers on his bum. These are not just stickers. When Austin hits them the horse magically changes speed, for example extremely crazy mode. It even has a slow motion button. That is my favorite to watch my kids pretend to be in slow motion. Where do they get these ideas?

This is Austin showing off his new CTR ring his primary teacher gave to him. He was quite excited about it.

This is the cool gym that we went to last week. It was so much fun. I don't know who had more fun the kids or the mom? I did take a turn on the rope swing ha! This is a barrel like a clown uses and Luke liked being rolled around in it.

This is the foam pit that you can jump in. It was a hoot. You can also have foam fights which I did several times... sometimes not even with my own kids ha. They may at some point ask us not to return but until then we will be frequent visitors to get out all of this bottled energy!

Some of you may be wondering why I picked the first song on my playlist. Well because I really like it. Doesn't it just make you dance? You may be thinking this doesn't sound like Megan. Explanation: I grew up in Nyssa. I just can't get the bee-bop out of my system. I have a total thing for watching 'So you think you can dance' and waiting for the hip hop. It is fantastic and well I love it!

Here is Luke with the hat "I'm a Spudman." Funny thing is he doesn't really like potatoes. How can he be my son and not like potatoes. Well I keep trying him like every meal haha.

Here is playing with play-dough. The kids have a great time with it. Plus if you wait like 1/2 hour after they are done playing with it, the dough sweeps right up. Not bad.

Pure bliss...my mom is letting me make a mess!

We thought we would try the Uncle Landon hairstyle for fun. Doesn't it just make you smile!

On Sunday night we had friends over for doughnuts. The night ran a bit late and I was worried about Austin being too tired. No worries he made his own bed and fell asleep. He is in a Rocket Tent he and Luke got for christmas. They are playing with the tent none stop. For some reason the pillows from the couch looked more comfortable than a regular pillow. Did I mention that he set this up on the tents side in the middle of the hall way.What a silly bean!

Funny boy! Austin has this amazing imagination. Last night I was tucking him in bed (a 1/2 hour process yikes) He then got a few stuffed animals down. He discovered his dog Lucky who does commands. He was pretty cute saying "Lucky Speak" and then the dog barks. So Austin goes to sleep. Later I went to check on him and this is what I found! (see next two pictures)

Significance of the whisk: The other day Austin got the whisk out of the drawer. Then he explained that it has powers. Okay ha. Then he starts to zap Tad and I. So I freeze. He liked that so he had a whisk with powers to make a person freeze. It was slow getting the dishes done when you had to freeze every 30 seconds.

Significance of the head band: This is a bandana from a little monkey Tad got in Brazil. Might I emphasize "little" monkey.

What a funny boy that Austin is. This my friends is why I totally enjoy my children and staying home with them. Free, very enjoyable entertainment all day long!

Someday I will learn how to upload these in chronological order, but for now please think backwards! We had a crazy long, amazing christmas vacation. We are back and ready to share the tell with you!

It snowed like crazy on the day we drove back from Klamath Falls. 8 1/2 hours in the van when it usually takes us 5 1/2 is stinkin long. Bless books on tape and little DVD players. The kids were truly amazing! The next day at my mom's house the kids took advantage of the amazing snow.

Do all moms think their kids are this cute?

For my craft I was supposed to bring my sister in laws wanted to learn to do fondant cakes. Well I learned a lot of how I can improve my demonstration skills. Making cakes takes forever and is a huge mess. I thought my ever clean sister in laws would go crazy, but they just had fun (I hope!). Now they understand my mess making hehe sorry Tadio! Below is a cute oldest niece. I felt inspired that we try zebra for this up coming teenager!

I felt bad because I lead this cute sister in law astray and had her over work her fondant too much. Fondant is horrible to roll out if you over work it. It still turned out really cute.

This cute sister in law just whipped her darling cake right out. It was way fun to try my new imprint mat I got from Tad for christmas (located on the draping). It is way cool!

Ok so this darling niece is hilarious. So I was helping her decorate her cake. I said is this the way you want it. She said, "No, but nobodies perfect." I was cracking up inside. She is so cute!

I had one more sister in law who made a cake, but I didn't get a picture. It turned out cute.

Ok so you know when you just want your kids to be adorable and they usually aren't. Well I must brag that my kids were totally adorable to all sets of grandparents. This is a huge accomplishment because they usually just ignore them. I was so proud! This is pictures with Great-Grandma and Grandpa Baker. Grandpa Baker has pretty severe Alzheimer's, but he was quite smitten with Austin.

I got this cool primary book for my mother-in-law. They are really beautiful books that a great musician like her I hope will enjoy.

I thought this was a cute picture.

These are pictures from the Baker Christmas party. It was fun of fun, games, yummy food, and laughter.

Ok for Christmas Day!

Markie got these jamies for Luke for Christmas. They couldn't resist putting them on him. I have to admit he looks so darn cute! And soft!

The blessed Batman house! Thank you Santa!

Batman underwear yahoo!!

Ok this is just precious. So I made the boys rag quilts for christmas. I told Austin that they were for other people. He helped me make both of them by cutting the thread in between each square. We had fun making them. When I gave it to him on Christmas and told him that the blanket was really for him he hugged me and said, "thank you mom." He is so tender to me. What a boy!

Tad and I have never mentioned leaving cookies and milk for Santa. Austin insisted that we must do it. He was so excited. Santa I'm sure enjoyed them too.

Christmas Eve we got to talk with my brother Landon on Skype. He is on a mission in the Republic of Georgia. It was so fun to see his dimples again. He looks so good!

The next series of pictures are ones Tad took around the house. I was teasing him (or bugging him) that we got this fancy camera and I don't have any pictures of my kids. He came through and took some pretty cute ones!

Ok so I don't know how I did, but I got Courtney to come a visit again. We had a blast! She brought along Troy this time too! We had lots of fun just hanging out. The boys have a great time together too. And aren't they just too cute?!?

Well I'm going to go be more productive. Yesterday I read a book. Yes, I just sat and read. It was just what I needed. The book was the Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. Very good by the way.

I really don't have time for a post but I had to share the cuteness.

We had a fun family home evening. We made these cookie christmas trees. I found that my kids really like skittles because they wanted to eat about one to everyone they wanted to put on the tree.

I find the kids jumping to catch the particles they can see through the window. Pretty cute. Luke does anything his big brother does.

As I was folding whites (yuck) Austin said Mom how do you fold? I shouted for joy!!! Trust me he came to this earth this amazing...not trained by me. He has become a fantastic sock folder (only my least favorite job in the world!)

Just tender these two are!

Ok so I have let my children bring all of their room into the living room. Austin says it is his bedroom. So he gathered his favorite clothes (including church clothes), toys, etc to the living room. Then he made himself a bed out of the chairs. They have been playing for hours in their new room. I think I should really not let them make messes like this and then I think I did the same thing (sorry mom). The lights go out occasionally for 'bed time.' I love their imaginations!

The neighbor came over and was like does Austin want a ride behind the lawn mower. He thought it was fun. I don't know about all of this snow, we better learn to enjoy it.

First try at christmas card picture at the festival of trees. No go, but good to document we were their. Too many people around to really work with the kids. There was some really beautiful trees.

Oh my cute kids! Fun boys!

Well we had a great Thanksgiving and I didn't take one picture! What is with that? Too much fun. My family came and we had a great time. We saw two movies (Old Dogs and Blind Side). Blind Side is fantastic! Loved it! Sandra Bullock is amazing. Glad the family could come. We love them!

So we were driving on Sunday and we pass a house with crazy amount of lights that are blinking. I'm like I bet their is music to this. So we roll down the window. Nothing. Then we see a number for a radio station. We turned to the radio station and it was absolutely the coolest thing I have ever seen. I video it, but it won't upload. So then last night we are driving for ice cream ($1 scoop night at Baskin Robins love it) and we see the neighbors lights are crazy too. We pull up and their is people sitting watching them. We are like no way! Their is two families that do this in our little little tiny town. This is flippin awesome! I have to say I am just in love with it. So go on U-Tube and look up 'music christmas lights in Iona'. Pretty awesome.