Next Time

If it's quiet in the playroom and I think, "Oh, Dallin is being so good in there," I should be thinking, "Oh, Dallin is eating crayons in there."

Snow

The white stuff is here! I spent over 30 minutes bringing out snow pants, boots, hats, gloves and winter coats from storage. I got the kids all bundled up and out we went. After all that effort we were going to make it worth it.
Dallin doesn't remember snow from last winter. So this is really his first experience with it.




He wouldn't let me put his gloves on at first but quickly realized his hands hurt. Then he was happy to have them.

Sledding at the park! So fun. Well, not for Dallin at first:



I love that Dallin is bawling in this one! He quickly realized that it was really fun. He got into it after this and it was all smiles.



Dallin is the luckiest little boy ever, his big brothers love him and enjoy watching him do new things. Both Blake and Kyle were cheering for him and loved having him ride with them.




Look at Blake's face! He was pretty into it too. Though I thoroughly miss summertime and playing in the water, watching the boys have fun in the snow is pretty satisfying too. Maybe we'll have to do a snowman this afternoon.

Early Christmas Present

Our microwave has been making some pretty strange noises. Over the past year, the noises have been getting louder and louder. Then, it tripped the breaker. Twice. If the fear of radioactive food wasn't enough, then maybe worrying about the house burning down did it, because we finally got a new microwave.



I am pretty excited, it's real nice (real nice said like cousin Eddie). I like it a lot! It was a big pain to install this. The over the range fan that we had was hard wired in, which we didn't know until we took it out. That meant that this microwave could not just be plugged in to an outlet. Brian had to wire an outlet in and hide it in the upper cabinet. So thanks Brian for spending your day off working on the house!

This thing has a lot of room inside. I can't really imagine a time when a small microwave won't cut it, but with three boys it is quite possible I get there before I know it. So the exra large space inside is good. It also makes a cute beeping noise, way better than the old loud one. But the best thing about this microwave? Since it is above the stove, I get to reclaim a corner of my kitchen.



I covet space in my little house, and so this is a great perk. Brian says it is just one more corner to fill up with paper and junk, but I am going to try to keep it clean and nice. Anyway, early Christmas here at our house.