These Are A Few of My Favorite Things...

Christmas morning...
We had hot chocolate and monkey bread for breakfast along with candy from stockings. Everyone needs massive amounts of sugar to start off their Christmas morning, right? Insulin anyone?

Jessie is an awesome babysitter...don't you wish she lived closer? (;

Jessie made $60 dollars this month babysitting. Good thing because she wears us out with her social activities that always seem to require money. She loves to shop and is already counting down the days until she gets her driver's permit in April. Yikes!

Favorites:
Music: a mess of everything....except for country.
Loves to take pictures and hang out with her friends.... & her computer.(;
Sports: cross country, soccer, track, skiing
TV: The Hills, Fringe, Wizards of Waverly Place, America's Next Top Model
Books: Twilight Series, The Thief Lord, Ella Enchanted, Anne Frank
Loves her new bedroom and can't wait to decorate it.
Games: Mad Gab, Pictionary, Scatergories, The Sims

Brady is practicing for his career as a professional gamer.

Brady asked for a Wii last Christmas, but we were unable to find one, so this year he finally got his wish.

Favorites:

Music: Sherwood, alternative
Shooting his paint ball gun --once in the dining room which didn't make his mother very happy.
Book: Calvin and Hobbes
Games: Risk (ugh, anyone want to play? Not me.), Monopoly, Playstation, Wii, PSP, DS, anything you've got.
Sports: cross country, wrestling, track, street football
Playing around on the piano at church and with his guitar - we need to get him some lessons!


Rylee is headed for
Cosmetology School

This is Rylee's third doll head. She creates all kinds of hairstyles and haircuts until she's cut their hair up to the scalp and needs another one.

Favorites:
Music: Jason Mraz, Taylor Swift, High School Musical
TV shows: John and Kate plus eight, Suite Life of Zach and Cody
Loves to talk on the phone with her friends for hours.
Loves her primary teacher
Games: Webkins
Sports: basketball
Plays the trumpet in the 6th grade band and is in the middle school choir

My world has been opened...

Who knew I could keep in touch with everyone through blogging...obviously everyone but me. :) Why didn't anyone tell me you guys had such wonderful blogs to enjoy?? I also had a friend introduce me to Facebook this week. I am in heaven...hearing about so many of my friends and family's lives. It makes me so happy and sad to get a glimpse into what you've been up to....I am so far away from you all.

I'm sitting in Jessie's new room enjoying the Twilight soundtrack we got her for Christmas. She has been bitten by the Twilight bug and is on the 3rd book. I have yet to read any of them or see the movie, but I'm sure I'll have to be content with the movie because I am hopeless when it comes to getting through a book. I love getting caught up in them but I just don't seem to have much time for them right now.

This past year Rylee decided to move out of the room she and Jessie have shared since we moved here and took her pillow and blanket and moved into the laundry room. I didn't think it would last, especially since she was using the lazy boy chair as her bed, but when she started moving her things little by little into the small nook of a room, we decided it was time to take her seriously. So this year Santa brought the girls new bedroom furniture or as Randy calls it "big gurl furniture" (pronounced with a speech impediment like a little kid). I found a new favorite place....IKEA! Hooray. I love how they can furnish a whole house and make it look like somewhere you want to hang out even though it's hardly big enough to move around in. It came in handy furnishing Rylee's small room.

This is the room and bunkbed Jessie and Rylee used to share - before they got their new furniture.
My roomless child making her "chairbed". ha ha ha(: I have to give it to her...she is creative and persistent. (No calls to family services please.)

Our First Blog!(:

Thanks to Awesome Aunt Jill, who introduced us to the blogging world!(:
It might be a while before we get up to speed on this whole system, but then we'll be sure to keep everyone up to date on our recent activities.(: