Video's

Here are some of the video's from the mountains a few weeks ago.  Enjoy!

Mountains

We enjoyed a few days in the mountains last weekend and got to spend a little time with just our little family.  When we left Thursday, the weather was reporting snow, sleet and rain from here all the way to the mountains.  We were in rain for about 15 minutes and never saw any other form of precipitation the rest of the way!

This was the first glimpse of snow we saw finally

We rented Landry ski’s again this time but he wanted no part of riding the ski lift after he saw it when we took him to the mountain, so we just played around the cabin.

Ansley even got to ski for the first time!

The slopes lit up for night skiing

We celebrated Ansley’s 18 month birthday our last night there, so we got to enjoy some cookies!

Sunday morning as we were getting ready to leave, it started to snow

About 45 minutes after it started snowing, we left the cabin and there was as least 3-4 inches of fresh snow.  It was coming down so hard you could basically see only the back of the vehicle in front of you.

The road through the canyon was slick and at one point I really thought we were going to end up in the river, but luckily Chris didn’t freak out like I was and quickly got everything under control.  There was a huge line of cars in front and behind us, so it took us awhile to get through there.

But by the time we got out of the canyon and made it to Cimarron, this is what we saw!  No snow whatsoever!

We had perfect weather until we got almost home when we got into sleet.  I-40 was horrible.  There had been several wrecks and it was at a complete stand still.  After about 20 minutes of not moving, we went off-roading through the ditch to the access road.  This was the trucks we were behind which were several miles behind the wreck and there were cars and trucks behind us for miles as well.

Needless to say, we made it home safely thank goodness! 

What a great little vacation!

I have several fun video’s to share of the kids skiing, but as usual I hate YouTube.  I’ll try to post them soon.

Hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine’s Day! I know I did!

2011. A Year in Review

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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great *and safe* New Year’s Eve.

I hope everyone is blessed with health and happiness in this new year!

Christmas 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas this year (as we do every year) and consider ourselves so very blessed by everything in our lives.  I have way too many pictures as usual!

First off- here is Chris’ present.  In reality, it was his present to himself since he paid for it with his side job money and I didn’t pay a penny!  The only bad thing for him is that it’s no longer his truck.  Once Landry laid eyes on it, he officially declared his!

Meet Big Daddy’s newest baby.  A 1946 International pick up truck.  It needs some windows, some carburetor work and of course some body work, but it runs and has wheels!

Banna and Kinslee came over on Friday to exchange presents

Landry got a dinosaur! Anybody watch Dinosaur Train?  It’s too cute.

Ansley got a entire nursery set for all her babies!  She LOVED it!  Although, she usually tries to use the set instead of her babies.

Chris had to work on Christmas Eve, so it was just me and the kids.  We headed to mom and dad’s for dinner and presents!

I had to include this pic because their Zia looks a little crazy! hehe.

My stud.  Please excuse the chocolate milk on his shirt.  What can I say? I’m in the running for mother of the year…

Harli got to go as well, which was very exciting for her!  Haegan and Addison were not quite as thrilled.

The kids got tons of awesome presents

Notice Keevan’s face?  The drums were a big hit!  Both the kids love to play them!

Ansley getting her 2011 Christmas Barbie.  It’s customary! :)

Another big hit was Ansley’s new kitchen! 

Santa came to our house sometime after we got home!  He must have been pretty tired after getting all those presents out and in order!

Please excuse the fact that my son still has on the stained shirt from the previous nite and only one sock.  Once again, Mother of the Year….

Then we opened presents from each other

Some of the aftermath.

I meant to take a picture but of course forgot.  Chris got me a beautiful wedding band to go with my ring!  He had it wrapped in a huge box with tons of paper and bricks, only to get down to a tiny ring box!  I took it in today to be sized and have them both polished, so I’ll have to remember to share it later.  I LOVE it!

I finally got the kids rooms and the living room cleaned up yesterday.  It looked like the North Pole had blew up in my house!  Although, by now, the kids have completely destroyed it all again and you can no longer see my living room floor!

We are SO thankful for all that we received.  As much as I enjoy sending thank you notes, I feel as though they sound so insincere.  I can never thank everyone for all they give us with the meaning that it all deserves.  I know that we are extremely lucky to have the ability to give and receive and want everyone to know how much everything means to me and my family.  THANK you so much.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and got to enjoy spending time with family and friends!