My Baby

 

I think the hardest thing about being a Mom is seeing your children hurt.  It doesn't matter how old they are, when they hurt physically, mentally or emotionally, you feel as though your heart is being torn out.  I HATE it when my children hurt!  But....the second hardest thing about being a Mom for me, is letting them grow up and do things on their own!  A prime example is my Tylee!  I was at a meeting in February.  When I got home, she very PROUDLY showed me the box she made for her class Valentine's Day party.  They were all suppossed to decorate a box and bring it to school so the kids could deliver the valentine's in them.  I have made all sorts of boxes throughout the years with my kids and we have been pretty creative.  I know we are living in a rental house and most of my craft supplies are boxed up, but I do have out the necessities!  I certainly could have supplied Tylee with something fun and cute.  But NO!!!  She decides to do it all on her own!  This was the result.....

Tylee was so proud of her box and I just had to bite my tongue and send her to school with it!  Honestly, it was one of the hardest things I've done, but I am proud of her that she designed it ALL BY HERSELF!  She is quite the girl!

The girls love to do fun things with their hair for the holidays.  This is what we did for Valentine's Day!  They loved it so much, that they even wore it to school the next day!

Tylee was a cheerleader again this year for Treyson's Basketball team.  She LOVED it and did really well.  It was fun to watch her cheer and cheer on those boys!  The first picture is last years.  The second picture is a little blurry and it is this year.  She is so proud of that trophy!  We love our Tylee! 

Trying to catch up....

I can't believe that it's been so long since I've posted anything.  I swear the days are just flying by so fast, that it's hard to keep up with life, let alone posting something on the blog.  Over the next several days, I will try to catch up.  We've had two birthdays, band concerts, basketball and baseball games, cheerleading, track meets, another temple trip to DC and of course just hanging out with each other!

We only had FIVE snow days this year.  That is alot compared to Idaho, but last year we had about 17, so 5 doesn't seem like too many!  They also have 2 hour delays which we have come to LOVE!  They delay school two hours to give the snow plows time to get out and plow the roads.  We don't get nearly the snow here in Morgantown that we got in Idaho, but we do have the skinny, narrow roads and the hills.  You are either driving up a hill or down a hill.  There are not too many places that are flat!  We LOVED snow days this year because we live in a neighborhood.  All the neighborhood kids would get together at our house and go sledding down our hill.  They all get a long so well, and they had a lot of fun!  However....people DIE out here when we tell them that they don't cancel school in Idaho until it's 20 below!  They don't let our kids out for recess if it's 33 degrees!  Things are sure different back here, but we have loved the opportunities and friends we have made in the last two years.  We sure do miss our family and friends though....it's been too long since we've seen you!

All the kids making a train on the sleds!  Of course, our snow has been long gone, but this was some fun times in February!  Tylee is at the bottom in the blue coat.  She wasn't too excited about waiting for everyone...imagine that!

At the bottom of hill!  We live at the end of a road that is a dead end, so there is very little traffic.  The road in front of our house is actually flat, so the kids can ride bikes, play ball and of course.....go sledding!  If they get enough speed, they go down our hill, across the road and into the neighbor's yard.  We usually ended the day with hot chocolate and video games for all! 

This is TJ skiing down our hill.  He finally made it to the bottom, where it's flat.  It's crazy to me that you can actually ski in your back yard here!  However, he didn't like climbing back up the hill with his skiis!  He was really missing the ski lift!