pneumonia and chicas

My sweet boy has pneumonia. He has been the sickest here than he ever was at home. He is on the mend, but I am missing these sweet little faces.

As for this one...She is keeping me busy! She loves chips as much as her mommy and refers to them as "chicas". Not sure where that came from, but she says it often!
Did I mention busy and causing heart attacks? I was in the other room for one minute and came in to find her here.I slowly walked up and didn't want to startle her - in the process of my slow walk up - I told Fernando to bring the camera- he snapped just in time as I pulled the "mountain goat" off the mountain! This very moment confirmed our limit of 2 children!

Rookie Sledding

We have been waiting for the perfect sledding weekend. So, today was the day. From the view of the hill, you can see I needed Fernando to assist me, so it had to be on a weekend. We suited up and headed out the back door!

We took more video than pictures, I will attempt to upload those later. I couldn't quit laughing. I felt like a kid. It was so fun.

This lovely red "saucer" was a piece. It just spun you around in circles....or maybe we don't know what we are doing. It ended up being Presley's frisbee and she just ran around with it.
Presley chased whoever was sledding down the hill. Fernando said she was nipping his arm while he was in route. Strange dog...
The ride down is fun, but the walk back up... not so much. Especially if you are carrying a toddler. Sadie had fun. She kept crying if we grayson went down. She wanted to go too.

Grayson started going down all by himself. I see winter olympics in his future??
Next up, we will attempt to hit the slopes. Should be interesting with two kids in tow.

k

The Pittsburgh Zoo

The weather has been unusually warm for Pitt, so we thought we'd take advantage and take the kids to the zoo.

I asked Grayson his favorite part of the zoo and he said "eating ice cream" - GO figure!

k

missing Texas

I am starting to miss the little things that Texas offers. Here are just a few:

- ahhh - the tex mex (escalantes, pappasitos, morales). I think I've dropped a few because our family doesn't frequent these places 2 times a week. (I love chips)

- 60 degrees in January wearing flip flops and a light sweater

- buckling your kids in the car sans heavy coat

- donuts (grocery store ones just don't do it for me)

- drive thru donut places ( so many in Lufkin)

- a short drive to see the peeps and in laws

- some very dear friends and their sweet new babies

On the flip side - some firsts

It was a first with 11 degree weather the other morning. Having all the right gear makes a difference. I hardly even noticed.

I enjoyed watching the snow pour down all day and see Grayson's excited face as he watched.

I introduced my friends to some Pat Green (they had never heard of him.)

I had sauerkraut and pork for the new year.

I'm sure there are many more to come!!

K

Ringing in the New Year

Our neighbors invited our fam (including presley) to their lake house to ring in the new year. The family loaded up and made the 2 hour journey - we went through West Virginia and then into Maryland - 2 states in 2 hours.

The house is on Deep Creek Lake in Maryland. It is a beautiful place!

The kids loved skipping rocks and being outside.
We went to the local brewery. They had a one man band and Sadie spent most of her time just standing in front of him while he played. Whatever works right? We stayed 2 hours - I couldn't believe we lasted that long.

We had adult dinner each night after we put the kids bed. It was nice to sit and talk without interruptions from the kiddos! We also had 2 visitors at our feet during our dinner.

The girls!

As we sat at adult dinner - the snow poured. We woke up to a wonderful snowy sight! Sadie in her gear.

The kids and dads had a snowball war.
You can see Pres in the action. She thought snowballs were balls and she was going crazy trying to fetch them. Presley swam in the icy lake this day. She LOVED the weekend. It wore her out.
When we got home - Presley assumed position in Grayson's bed about 5pm. She skipped dinner and slept in his bed all night. Here are these sweet babies so exhausted!
We had a wonderful time ringing in the new year with new friends! We never thought a year ago - we would be where we are now. I wonder what 2012 will bring The Grandas....

Happy New Year!!!