Skiing Fun

Here we are at Winter Park, CO where the kids got to take one day of ski lessons. They both ended up having a great day and wanted to go again. Marc got a couple of days snowboarding and Erin skied after a 7 year break! Troy, Dana, and Charlie got to come too, it was a great couple of days. Excited to get to ski school!

Getting all the equipment.

Ready to ski!!

Little Merideth and her pizza slice so she can stop.

There she goes!

Merideth and her teacher, she did great and had fun!

Samuel and his pizza slice.

All smiles after a long day at ski school.

We got to stay at the bottom of the ski lifts in a nice condo. Here we are roaming around the resort.

Going for a ride around the resort.

Playing at a small playground outside of our hotel.

Making snow angels.

Merideth taking care of her "iceberg". She wanted to take it back to OK but decided not to after it melted in the condo.

Playing outside our hotel.

Sitting and watching some kids do some freestyle skiing and snowboarding, amazing.

Thanks for the great time Wells!!!

Celebrating Grandma Paula!

We got to go down to Dallas and celebrate Grandma Paula on her......birthday. Grandma and her favorite Einstein Bros bagel, mmmmm.

Covering Grandma with lots of balloons.

Loving on Grandma.

Look at those mongoose at the Dallas Zoo!!!

So many of the animals there resemble some little people we know!!

Fun with the Wells!

Troy, Dana, and Charlie came to visit us, thank you guys!!! The kids were excited to have company and it was a fun few days showing them what our lives are like here in OK! Silly Merideth at a Thunder game.

Charlie enjoying the game and especially Rumble.

Happy Birthday Grandpa Taylor!

We hope you have a wonderful day Grandpa Taylor and know we are thinking of you today and thanking God for you!

(Please forgive us for not having a video to go along with this message! I, Erin, can give you plenty of excuses but I won't bore you.)

Happy Birthday Grandma Paula!

We are so excited to celebrate you on your special day and cherish our time with you! Happy Happy Birthday, we love you!

Merideth's First Day of Preschool

Merideth started preschool this week without any issues. Samuel does it, so why should she have a problem with it!? It added a little over an hour to her day that she had in a program called Mother's Day Out so we thought there would be a little bit of a transition but she was so excited to go and had many "stories" to tell when she got home. We feel very blessed to have her and Samuel in the school they are in, the light of Jesus is very bright there.

Some special tid bits and quotes about and from Merideth:

-When asked what her favorite thing about school was, "To see Samuel."

-Merideth loves to have tea parties after setting them up all by herself, she is a great hostess

-Merideth loves to give hugs and they are really good when you are having a bad day

-In response to Erin not being so patient with her, "Mommy, I hope you get good sleep tonight."

-Merideth really wants a real pet of her own and asks us VERY often if she can have one. We have yet to come up with a great response, which is probably why she keeps asking.

-She often talks about having another baby in our family, which would of course be a girl and we would name her Carly. Carly is the name she gives to all her dolls and stuffed animals.

-Merideth enjoys sweets and asks for dessert every time she might think of it

-Merideth likes to be home, she enjoys being out and about as well, but if she is home and we ask her what she would like to do, it is usually stay home and play with her toys.

-Making up her own songs is very entertaining to Merideth and please don't interrupt...

We are very blessed by Merideth, thank you God for her.

Silly Little Mouse

Okay, just a funny story for your entertainment:

Shortly after we moved into our home here in OK I spotted some small blackish brownish stuff that I was convinced was the dropping of a certain little critter. Marc was convinced that there was no way we could have a critter in our brand new home. One night, many nights after the initial discussion of the possibility of a critter, Marc came home from work right after I had mopped the kitchen floor. We stood in the kitchen talking and I happened to look down at the floor and notice a few small blackish brownish things and proceeded to try and convince Marc of the critter roaming our home. As I rambled on about the fact that we should not have a critter I noticed the slippers I was wearing was loosing their tread...small blackish brownish stuff.

Now it is just before Christmas and there is evidence of a critter in the house, yes small blackish brownish stuff lurking in the pantry. Then I spot the stinker darting from the pantry to the garage one night. We go to NM for Christmas and come home the remnants of a party in our pantry...Marc put two traps in the garage without much action for a couple of days. Marc went away for an overnight trip on Saturday morning and I noticed the trap right outside the garage door was no longer there. I thought, "how nice, he didn't want me to have to deal with the little fella so he put it away until he gets back." Tonight, Sunday night, Marc asks me where the trap is. I state that I have not touched them and he is pretty adamant that with ALL the moving I did in the garage while cleaning I moved the trap. Marc walks into the garage with me close behind. As I get ready to step into the garage I see the trap with the mouse on the other side of the door and in an EVER so calm voice say, "THERE IT IS, THERE IT IS, THERE IT IS!"

I am sure we will have many more of these fun little critter stories in the future and the traps remain just in case we have a gang of mice having parties but this is our first of a silly little mouse, may he rest in peace.