THE TERRIBLE TWOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I am not sure but I think that Tagg is headed
for his terrible twos..... Shhhhh don't tell his
mother. He used to be the quiet little angelic
one of the bunch but now if he is out or your sight
for even a second this is the kind of destruction you
might find......
He decided that he needed to get the chips off the
cabinet and then dumped them onto the floor.

They were easier to eat that way.....

CHEESE...........................

TIA didn't seem to mind.

Then while we were cleaning the kitchen mess up

he headed to the living room where he

proceeded to tip over my antique rocking chair

that came across the plains with my dad's grandmother. (hey wait that would be my great-grandmother, right?) anyway he thought that was a great place to hide and that we probably could not see him.....

So I decided to try to slow them down with some fresh baked cookies and milk at the bar right where I could keep an eye on them.....

GOTTA LOVE THEM GRAND BOYS (and I do alot)

2010 Basketball in Action

The new year of Basketball has begun.
This was Rylee's 2nd game. They have a fun team this year and they are learning alot.

I sure wish that I could learn how to take good action shots.

This is really Rylee if you can focus your eyes better than the camera.
These are Rylee's arms that are up and in position the way that his dad and I are yelling at him to do....He really did have a great game. They ended up loosing by 2 but they worked very hard. Thanks to the coaches for their hard work and help for these boys.

New Years Eve

This was our NEW YEARS EVE celebration this year....

We had plenty of Diet coke to drink and played a few rounds of UNO attack.
We had all of the healthy snacks at our fingertips. Little smokies, cubed up cheese and olives. What more could you want..

Rylee was trying to act cool with his color coordinated tooth pick in his mouth.



We even had supervision from "Tia" to make sure that the score card was recorded right and that no one cheated.

The only problem with the whole night was we finally crawled into bed about 11:30 pm to watch the ball drop in New York and I don't think that one of us was able to stay awake for it. Oh well I guess there is always next year.

News Eve Memorial for DAD and MOM

This year it was even more special to take the candles to the cemetary and light them as it was in honor of both my DAD and my MOM. Mom passed away in May of 2009. I took the traditional little christmas tree (the one that mother always put on the grave for dad) and also a couple of candles. Pauline and Randy brought up the beautiful wreath. It is pretty cool to ride up there at night and see the candles burning and all lit up. We love Mom and Dad.

17 YEARS

It has been 17 years ago on
12 31 09 that my dad passed away.

We have always tried to take a candle
up and light it on New Years Eve in rememberance
of his passing. Jim is seen here trudging thru the snow and
lighting that candle. There was about three times more
snow the year that he passed away. I miss you Dad and
love you very much.

NEW TRADITION "CHEX"

This is something new that I tried this year. There are a ton of different Chex Mix recipies.
I made the traditional one first. You know the one with the garlic, worchestershire sauce, and nuts and things.
Turned out pretty yummy!
Then I tried this special K cereal thing that really did not look good, but it sure got eaten up pretty quickly.

Then I tried a new fruity type of chex. It consited of craisins, corn chex, yogurt covered raisins, dried apples and had a sweet kind of sticky stuff over it. It was actually pretty good. I really liked eating it and running into a dried, fruity, crunchy apple.

Thanks Chex for the awesome recipies.....go online to find more.....

CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATING

Contrary to some people's belief, I did put up a Christmas Tree this year.

Treyson and Rylee did the decorating. We used all of the ornaments that Jims aunt has given us over the year.

Aunt Marion gives each family an ornament each year and I have saved them all and put them on this year. It was a beautiful tree. Thanks for the tradition Aunt Marion.

Rylee is pretty proud. He really likes to decorate the tree.

Treyson also strikes a pose.

Just as a side note. See the pumpkin sticking up above the picture in the back?

Treyson was more than a little concerned that Grandma Shirlee still had some

Halloween stuff up. Oh well Halloween will be back next year, right?