The final product

We have been working hard to get Liam's train table ready to be glued together ever since Liam's birthday. We didn't plan on gluing it together, but after having pieces of the track scattered throughout our house after his birthday party, we decided we didn't have a choice. I found the final accessory yesterday at Target, and David made the final changes last night.

Liam absolutely loves it! The crane he is playing with here is his favorite.
And this pic is just for fun. Liam loves to be upside down!

Have a great week!!!

Sledding fun

In my last post I mentioned the view from our living room window. This is what I was talking about. If you look closely, you'll see the birds in the tree across the street. Beautiful, right?

When Liam woke up from his nap we decided to take him sledding. We started small with the hill in our front yard. They didn't make it far before they were stuck in a snow drift.
At the suggestion of our neighbor, we decided to give the hills in the park a try. Liam was nervous about sitting on the sled on the way to the park, so I sat with him. David was a champ and pulled us both the entire way.
Liam and I went down the hill the first time. When we got to the bottom, Liam was excited! He kept saying, "Again! Again!" We took turns going down the hill with him and then he wanted to pull his Daddy around.
After a few more trips down the hill, Liam took off. I guess we were boring him.
I chased him down and since he clearly wanted to go to the lake, we decided to plop him down on the sled and walk to the lake. The lake was almost completely frozen over except for a small area in the middle where the ducks and geese were hanging out.

On our way back to the house Liam wanted to sled down the hill one more time. (Why is this underlining!?!?)

As soon as they got down the hill, Liam came running back to me as fast as he could yelling, "Again! Again!" Haha! This boy could play all day in the snow!
We decided he had been outside long enough and brought him back into the house. After we warmed up, we finally left the house. I've never been so excited to walk through Wal Mart's door in all my life! Then we went to Blockbuster and rented some movies. Hopefully we get out again tomorrow before the next batch of snow arrives on Sunday!

Family pics

So, we're on snow day #4 and it's snowing again. I just turned to look out the window and it's beautiful outside. The snow flakes are huge. The ground is a blanket of white. There are birds fluttering around in the tree across the street. Beautiful. And what's that I hear? Is that silence? Yes! Liam is finally napping! Life is pretty good right now!

As I was making my new header I realized that I never shared our family pictures that were taken in November. I didn't want to share before our Christmas cards were out and then I forgot to make a post with these pics! Here are some of our favorites....

My eyes are so squinty in all of the pictures from this day because my smile was so big! Liam was being funny and was making us all laugh so hard! I couldn't help but to smile HUGE!


I love these little shoes!

I think this is my favorite from the day........



Thank you, Chris and Tif, for taking such amazing pictures of my family!!!

Snow Day #2

I'm officially going stir crazy! And I need a Dr. Pepper. Real. Bad. I'm hoping that some of this snow will melt so we can get out for a little bit tomorrow. (Although, I hope it's not enough that we have school Friday! Ha!!!)

We suited up and headed outside for about 10 minutes this afternoon. It was so cold. Ross only lasted outside with us for about 2 minutes before sinking into the yard, so I put him back inside the house.

I had to show Liam how to make a snow angel, but he would NOT get down in the snow to make one.
We walked down to the corner of our street to see how the roads in our neighborhood look. There aren't any snow drifts left in the middle of the street, but they're still completely covered with snow and a layer of ice under the snow.
Liam wanted to give the "balance beam" a try!
There is a huge snow drift on the side of our house, so the boys decided to go play in it.
I asked them to sit on top of the drift. Liam wasn't having it!
When we came back in, it was time to read. We have read so many books the last two days! I'm thankful that Liam loves books!
David decided to baby proof the cabinets in our bathroom. Liam was so excited when he saw Daddy's tools come out! He ran straight into the living room to get his very own screw driver and drill. He loves to do everything Daddy does!
He's taking his job pretty seriously, don't ya think?
As I type this, we're watching American Idol. (Off topic, but I love Steven Tyler!) Liam is dancing and "singing" with all of the contestants. He's seriously cracking us up!!!

Oklahoma Blizzard 2011

Have I mentioned lately that I love snow days? In case I haven't, I LOVE SNOW DAYS! I'm definitely not one of those teachers that hopes for the roads to be clear so we can have school and not have to make up days at the end of the year. I'm all about right now! Snow days are even better since David started his new job today. He now works in academia, so he gets snow days off too!!! You read that right....David's first day on the job was a snow day. How lucky is that?!?!

Liam wanted to go outside from the moment he saw the snow on the ground. We finally gave in around 2:00. We all got bundled up and headed outback.

At first he didn't know what to think. The last bit of snow we had was nothing compared to this.
And he definitely wasn't very happy when he fell for the first time.
But, after Daddy threw one snowball in Liam's direction, Liam quickly got over his fear and threw a snowball right back!
David thought it would be fun to walk behind one of the big snow drifts. Liam just had to join him!
They thought it was funny to "hide" from mommy.
Liam did not think it was funny when Daddy put him on top of the snow drift!
Look at that pouty face! He was not happy to be back inside the house!
After we got out of our layers, we decided to make chocolate chip cookies.
Liam snuck away after helping me stir the cookie dough and this is how I found him....
Yep....he's desperately trying to get the door unlocked so he can get out of the house and into the snow!!! Silly boy!!!!

Liam's hat

Nana and Papa picked up this hat for Liam and it is the cutest thing! He absolutely loves to wear it. It's the only hat that he hasn't torn off of his head as soon as I put it on him.

He loves it so much that he tried to put it on himself. Who cares if it's on backwards? It's still cute!!!

A visit with Grandma

Our Saturday started off with breakfast and Liam showing off for his daddy. While David was out of town, Liam learned to put on his mittens. I think he forgot he knew how until he saw his mittens sitting on the table. And there's no better time to put on mittens than during breakfast, right?

After we got around, we headed to Edmond for my cousin's gymnastics meet. He did great (even though I don't have pics to prove it). He even medaled in one event! After the meet my Grandma came to stay the night with us. My grandma is such a sweet lady. She means so much to me! Liam absolutely loved playing with her. He even convinced her to get inside his train tent with him.
I love this next pic. It just melts my heart. Liam loves books so much, so grandma got right down on the floor to read to him. Liam listened to every word she read. (Can you believe she's 79?!?! I hope I'm as agile as her when I get that age!)
We said good-bye to Grandma this morning and spent the rest of the day relaxing around the house. Liam tried an ice cream sandwich for the very fist time and loved it. I have no idea why we decided to give him ice cream after bath, but we did. He ended up making a huge mess all over his jammies.
Look at that sweet face and those rosy cheeks. I could just eat him up....mess and all!
Liam has an appointment with an endocrinologist tomorrow morning, so I took the day off. I'm so excited to get an extra day with my boy this week!

Reunited and it feels so good!

I've been a little MIA lately. At least I have some good excuses this time. First, David went on a trip and took my laptop with him. Sure, I could have blogged from our iMac, but then I would have had to sit in an uncomfortable and cold computer chair. Second, when he finally came home with my laptop, it wouldn't turn on. So, after a little TLC from the Apple Genius Bar, I'm back in business! Oh sweet MacBook, how I've missed you!!!!!

So, what have we been up to lately? A lot! While David was gone we spent a lot of time with Liam's bestie, Owie. Of course I don't have any pictures of these sweet boys playing. And I don't have video of the two-terrific-two-year-olds screaming, "NUTS!" at Mazzio's over and over again while Casey and I tried to devour our salads and pizza so we could get the heck out of there!

We also took Ross to get his hair cut. These two love each other. A lot. (Is it sad that I can get my dog to pose for a picture, but not my son?!?!)

Last weekend, and the weekend David came back, we went to Texas to spend some time with my bestie. After a full week alone with Liam, I needed some serious retail therapy. The relief I felt after spending some time at North Park Mall was incredible. Not to mention the $3 sale at the company where Skye works. What female wouldn't love walking into a warehouse full of boutique-bound clothing where each article of clothing cost $3?!?! Oh the perks of having a bestie in the design industry!

Yesterday we had a snow, or maybe I should say ice day. I was reminded of my childhood as I sat with my iPhone in bed at 4:55 constantly refreshing kfor's closings page....I guess things have changed a bit since my childhood days. No need to listen to the radio or watch for your district's name to scroll across the bottom of the tv screen. Nope, just hit the refresh button on your phone no less than 43 times and your district's name will magically appear! I seriously squealed when I saw Mid-Del added to the page. I tried to go back to sleep, but the excitement got the best of me and sleep was just not possible.

I took Liam outside to play after his nap and most of the snow/ice had melted. He loved the "snow white." (I couldn't get him to say "white snow" for the life of me!)

Have I mentioned on here that Liam started with a new sitter after Christmas Break? There was some serious drama with his old sitter, so we decided it was time to move him to a more structured, curriculum based environment. We absolutely love where he is now! I picked him up during snack time today. He said hi to me and continued eating his snack. After he finished, he hopped up and went to wash his hands. All. By. Himself. He knew exactly what to do. My little boy is growing up right before my eyes!