April

At the beginning of April, Wyatt got his first hair cut. We didn't do much, just a little off the top. It had gotten to where the top was coming down over his ears, so Travis just trimmed it up a bit. It's funny, though, cause a lady at WalMart the other day was asking how we got his hair to look like his dad's. haha! It does look like he's had it faded on the sides, but that's just that way his hair is! For now anyways....
Here are a few pictures from Easter. We just did a little Easter egg hunt in the front yard.

Travis' dad came to visit us the week after Easter for a few days and we had a nice time. We were able to plant our garden while he was here. We also took him down to Kansas City for dinner one night and had a really good time. Here is a picture of Wyatt with his Papa.

Had to get a bathtub picture of Wyatt....

At the end of the month, we went up to Omaha for a night. We stayed at this hotel that has two slides and a fountain in the swimming pool! The kids loved it! The next morning we went to the Omaha Zoo. It was amazing! They have and indoor jungle, desert, and a really neat aquarium. The girls are still talking about it and ask at least once a day when we are going back! I guess it's going to have to be a regular event for our family!

Waterfall in the jungle.

River in the Jungle.

Rope bridge in the Jungle.

Water tunnel at the Aquarium.

This penguin just stood in one spot and watched all the people walking by. It was pretty funny. He didn't even care that his buddies in the back are getting all of the food!

And after that, we kind of forgot to take anymore pictures.....oops! One more thing that happened at the zoo....we stopped for a snack, Pringles. A peacock wandered our way and just watched us eat, so Kaity threw a chip on the ground for her. We told her that we're not suppose to feed the animals, but by then, the peacock was ready for more and just staring at Kaity's chips. Kaity looked away for just a second, but that was long enough for the peacock to swipe the chip right out of her hand!! Kaity was laughing so hard she was in tears! It really was funny!

Wyatt got his first two teeth this month and has started walking along the furniture. Kaitlyn had her Kindergarten screening and they tell us she is ready for school. We are all very excited for her. Abby can't stop talking about her birthday.....which, by the way, isn't until October. She wants a Tinkerbell cake, Tinkerbell presents, balloons, candles, and goody bags!! Oh yeah, and silly string too! I guess it's a good thing we still have 5 months to plan it!!

Picture update

Getting started on the Christmas presents.

We used this picture for our Christmas card this year.

I really liked this one too, but Wyatt was making a weird face.....and drooling.

Doesn't Grandpa Boxley look excited to see the kids? lol

We had a big snow storm on Christmas Eve. This huge snow drift formed in front of the house. If you look closely, you can see Travis staning by the garage door.

Me next to the snow drift.

These are from an ice storm we had in the middle of January.

As you can tell, Wyatt is too big for his swing!!

The girls being silly.

Travis went to a class in Virginia beach and got this bandana kind of thing. He thought it would be cute to try it on Wyatt......I think he was right.










More from our ice storm. It looks like everything is covered in ice needles.






























Wyatt is so stinkin cute....even with food on his shirt.















Kaity dancing.



















Our new living room furniture. If you look at the top of this post at our Christmas pictures, you'll see we didn't have any furniture in this living room. We've never lived in a house with two living areas before, so we finally went and picked something out about a month ago.














The girls built a snowman with Daddy's help.

Our dog Boomer. Looks the same as always, but he posed so nicely for the camera, I thought I would add it.

All smiles.

Thinking about coming to get me.

On his way.....

There's no stopping him now! He's been crawling for a few weeks now. Doing a pretty good job, too!

Just wanted to touch base here. Things are going well with us. Wyatt has been rolling over for a little more than a month now. He is eating solids now and loves everything we have given him. His favorite is sweet potatoes, but loves anything that has meat in too. We keep thinking he may be getting a tooth in, but have yet to see or feel anything sprouting in there. We have been trying to go to the mall two or three times a week while it's too cold to play outside. We have a nice play area at the mall here and the kids just love going there and meeting new people every time.

We recently went to my parents' place to help them get their house ready to put on the market. It was a crazy week. Travis would get up and try to work on a project in the morning, thinking he could finish before my dad got home and they would end up having to work on it the rest of the day....sometimes till after dinner. While we did get quite a bit accomplished, it didn't feel like it, cause there was so much more we were hoping to do while we were there.

The snow keeps coming. We will get a bunch of it, it melts and it comes right back. I love the snow, but I'm ready for some spring. We finally have a nice place where we can plant a garden and I'm excited to get out and get my hands dirty. We haven't planted a garden since we lived in Oklahoma, and that was four years ago. We have big plans for big projects when it finally warms up around here. Hopefully we can accomplish them all this year.

Also, Travis and I are working on a cookbook/scrapbook. We have all of his mom's recipes and decided we want to organize them in a kind of scrapbook. He keeps saying he misses this and that of his mom's recipes, but have a hard time finding them when we want them, so hopefully this will work for us.

No pictures this time. Just wanted to let everyone know we are still alive.....although I think Coty may be the only one that actually reads this.... Anyway! Till next time!

So, Kaitlyn ended up getting the flu at the end of October. For about a week, she was feeling pretty yucky. One morning, I decided to let the kids watch cartoons in our bed for a little while. I went in to use the restroom and when I came back, Wyatt was watching too! You can tell by the look on the girls' faces that they're not feeling too great.

So, for Halloween this year, Kaity was a witch and Abby was a "Pirate Princess". Well, that's what the name on the costume package was, but really it's just a girl pirate. This first picture, Abby is saying "Aaargh!", lol! The last Halloween picture, I am hiding behind the girls and holding up Wyatt, who is dressed up as Winnie the Pooh. We went into the town where we live and did a little trick or treating. We only went to about a dozen houses, but the girls still managed to get a ton of candy. On top of that, we didn't have a single kid show up at our door, so we are still trying to eat our Halloween candy.

The other day, I gave Kaitlyn some paper and scissors. I left the room for a few minutes to take care of Wyatt and when I came back, I find that Abby has found some scissors of her own and cut Kaity's hair. I really freaked out about it, but it really isn't as bad as I first thought. So, here is a picture for those of you who wanted to see it. In the front are her bangs that we are working on growing out, but the chunk that is missing behind that was there just a few days ago. Oh well, I will just have to do my best to hide it until it's long enough that I feel comfortable cutting it.

On Monday, we woke up to snow on the ground. It was beautiful. I took a few pictures, but they didn't turn out well. So, we loaded up in the car and went to the store to get clothes for the kids to wear out in the snow. By the time we got home, it was time for naps and we told the girls they could play in the snow when they woke up, but it started raining while they were sleeping, so it was kind of slushy. We thought it was suppose to snow again that night, so we put it off again, but when we got up on Tuesday, there wasn't even a hint of snow on the ground. Oops! I guess they'll have to wait!

Today was a beautiful day! We didn't need jackets or anything outside today. So we went out and did a little yard work today. We were probably out there raking leaves for about two hours, filled three huge bags, and we are no where near being finished! I'm learning there are some disadvantages to having a big yard.

And finally, Travis called me yesterday and said that he had seen that there was going to be a ballet in St. Joe on Saturday and he wanted to know if he could take his three girls to go watch it. I'm super excited cause I've never been to a ballet before. So, I have found a babysitter for Wyatt, and the rest of us are going out. The girls are pretty excited too......the ballet is Cinderella. Pictures of the ballet next time.......

Here's to Hoping

Since the last time I posted.......

We were attacked by ladybugs! Appearantly at this time of year, ladybugs go on a mad dash to find a good hiding place to hibernate for the winter. We looked out the window and saw huge swarms of ladybugs flying around. It was crazy! I have never seen so many ladybugs in one place before. We all had to brush off before coming in the house and yet, we are still finding ladybugs all over the house. At least it's not a mean or yucky bug!

Abigail turned three. She is very excited and there seems to have been an actual transformation in her attitude just by leaving the two's behind. Abby wanted to have her cupcakes smashed into her face, just like Kaity had. When we told her to make a wish on her candles, she closed her eyes and I was lucky enough to actually get it in the picture. She opened some presents and then we pulled out some silly string, or spider webs (as the girls call them).

And here are a few of Wyatt over the last two months.

Cheesin'

Sleeping (covering his face, just like mommy does!)

Looking so serious. Probably upset because we are eating and not sharing with him. lol

Looking very handsom

Sleeping on Daddy.

Getting kisses.

Travis ate my candy bar and was trying to frame 16 day old baby! This is how I found him. Notice the smudge of chocolate Travis put on his cheek!

Kaity wanted so badly to help feed the new baby. He was 12 days old in this picture.

Sleeping after a bath.

So, now here's to hoping I can start to do better from here on out!!