blair and maisy

December 25, 2011

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas...not

We hope you all have a great Christmas!
This was at the Maritime Museum here in Gulfport. We saw dolphins and then Santa.

We have Blair's parents in town, so that has been a lot of fun. We had nice weather yesterday with a stroll down the beach on Christmas Eve, and went to our favorite doughnut shop. It's a little different Christmas than the Utah Christmases we've been used to! The boys couldn't get enough skiing in Utah over our Thanksgiving break, but that will have to last them for awhile, because there won't be snow here :)

Can you believe this was Christmas Eve?

Our favorite doughnut shop in Ocean Springs.

In Utah over Thanksgiving:

Xander is pretty amazing on those skiis! He went twice this season and is pretty much faster than I am now!

Claire all ready to face the Utah cold in her moon boots.

Christmas celebration in Utah, over Thanksgiving. You can never have enough Christmases!

Here we were last month at the disc golf course on base in Mississippi. Lookin like fall. Wrong season!

Much love to all of our friends and family!

November 18, 2011

1st Place

...and 1st place goes to Alexander Curtis for his reading fair poster, out of all the 2nd grade! Woot woot. I think I know how it might feel to have your child win Sterling Scholar or the Olympics or something, because boy am I proud of him.

October 31, 2011

oN HaLlOwEeN (& Baton Rouge zoo)

May the force be with you.

At the ward trunk or treat, Xander found Darth Maul from Star Wars

We have been having a great time celebrating Halloween this year!

We went to Boo at the Zoo up in Baton Rouge with some of our friends. All the kids have 2 costumes this year, due to the fact that we found screaming deals, & Xander really wanted to be a ninja.

Claire was not so happy for that pic.

Claire as Tinkerbell... a little more girly than Yoda.

Here some friends were over playing.

We made lots of Halloween treats to enjoy with some neighbors.

Hope you have a great Halloween!

The funnies

Will 12/14 " Mom can you please pour the milk for me because it’s almost full, and there’s a 65% chance that I’ll spill it."

11/14 Me: Why did you dump out all the toys?

Claire: Because I was trying to find something to play with

Me: What did you find?

Claire: The glow in the dark dinosaur

Me: Then why didn’t you put the other toys back?

Claire: Because I had to use the bathroom, so I just runned.

Claire 11/14 "Mom I can’t find any of my jammies, so should I bring you the sew kit so you can sew me some?"

Claire 11/14 "What do these constructions say?"

11/14 Claire: Mom Can I have this?

Me: Sure

Claire: Yes!!! Mom, thanks for asking me!

Claire 11/14 "Oh my Geez"

Claire 11/14 "I had a great dream last night. I got to see Dixie, and eat shrimp!"

Claire 11/14 "Our scarecrow fell over, but we’ll still be able to find our house because you know the numbers!"

Will 11/14 "The only good thing that happened to me today, was that Kord gave me a penny. But then I lost it."

Claire 9/13 "I love polka-dot butterflies."

Claire 9/13 " This pencil needs to get sharpt. Can I sharpt this pencil in myself?"

Claire 9/13 after pulling a piece of tape off of something successfully, "I am a great job."

Claire 8/13 "One time a dog pooped on the grass."

Me, "Why are you telling me that?"

Claire, "Because it was weally gross, PU!"

Claire 8/13 I walked in and exclaimed what a mess it was. "I didn't got that out," said Claire pointing at one little thing.

Claire 10/12 "Ehhhhh he he, ehhh he he."

Gaurd at the Airforce gate, "That sounds like a fake cry."

Me, "Yep."

Claire, "Ehhh he he, ehhh he he. It NOT a fake cwy."

Will 10/12 "Mom, could I miss school on Wednesday, because they're going to learn something really hard like minus?"

Me, "Well what would you do the next day when they were still learning more about that?"

Will, "No mom, we don't have to make up the homework when we miss."

Claire 10/12 "You not funny Will."

Claire 10/12 (almost in tears with the saddest little voice because she wanted all of the toys) "Mommy, brothers not sharing a me."

Claire 10/12 chasing her brothers around slowly with her arms outstretched says, "Bwains, bwains, bwains!" just like a real zombie.

Will 10/12 "Xander is white, and I'm white, and mom's white and Claire is white and dad's a little white."

Will 3/12 "Dad and I are getting gooder at disc golf."

Xander 3/12 seeing frozen peas in his drink that had spilled into the icebox, "Mom, there are green cotton balls in my drink."

Will 12/11 "I know something that's not a word: spit-buggar."

Claire 12/11 "Ha ha, fuh-ee (funny)"

Will 12/11 after he broke a plastic fork, "I would like to put it in recycling because that saves the world."

Will 11/11 as he rubs the carpet, "I like this house because it's hairier than the other one."

Will 9/11 "Mom, could you call my nickname 'shark' please?"

Will 9/11 in a prayer while Blair was away for a month, "Bless that we would ever see dad again, and if we drive there it wouldn't be too long."

Will 3/11 after I asked him how primary was, he said, "I was the 1st kid in class. I thought I was going to have to taught myself."

Will 3/11 "Mom, is today fast Sunday."

Me "What is fast Sunday Will?"

Will, "When we eat really fast."

Will 3/11 "Xander is saying mean things, like that I'm not the leader."

Blair told Will to go to the bathroom with him while we were out somewhere and he was doing the potty dance 3/11, "Hey I had to go to the bathroom too!"