A Cold and Rainy Day at Home

So it's freezing outside and raining today and aside from me running a couple of errands, the boys have been home all day. Matt (thinking ahead) picked up some boxes at the UHAUL store and made this fantastic and very huge maze for the boys to play in (It took up the entire room). He cut out holes in random places and put electric tea lights in for lighting up the inside. All three of them have had a blast in it! I've been able to be pretty productive with this new playhouse for them. They've been coloring inside the boxes and decorating the walls, poking their own holes in it around and sticking the dozens of flashlights that we have for them around. And when we're done, we'll collapse the boxes and save them for another rainy day. Good Show, Matt- Kudos to you for being a good daddy!

It Finally Fell Out

Yay! Corbin finally lost that tooth that just hung there for forever. He took it out at school of all places. Classic Corbin quote, "I hope the tooth fairy gives me a DS game." Not likely, hope he liked his half-dollar instead... :) Oh, and Corbin's other 3 top teeth are loose too. I don't know why I'm feeling so emotional about this. He's lost all 4 of his bottom front teeth already, but those didn't get me as much as him losing the top tooth yesterday. He's growing up. He'll be baptized soon... then one day he'll be passing the sacrament, then going to his first youth dance, then getting his license, and going on his first date, then graduating highschool, and then the mission... am I being a little melodramatic?? I wonder where Corbin gets it?! lol!

My Grandpa Died

Last week, my Grandpa died very suddenly. My heart is broken because he has been a part of my life since I was a baby. I have so many wonderful memories of him and my Grandma. My Grandma passed away about 6 years ago and I still miss her everyday. My only solace is that I know that they are together and I will see them again one day. These last few years were hard without Grandma, but Grandpa was always happiest with the great-grand kids. I'm glad that they were able to have time with him and know him.


Claude Lee Fedrick
February 23, 1927 - January 13, 2010

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from all of us! and peace on Earth (from Corbin)




Sorry for being M.I.A peeps- everyone's been sick and I've just been pushing this to the bottom of the bazillion things I have to do. I will catch up though!

Halloween Time

So we always have a pretty fun Halloween. We just all get together and let the kids go door to door in our neighborhood. Leah, Jake, Anna, and Hayden usually come with us, but went trick or treating with the rich kids of wildewood, but according to Leah it wasn't as hip happening as Farming Creek. We were waiting in lines at times because there were lots 'o kids about. Matt and I have decided that if we ever have a girl, when she turns a certain age, she will not be allowed to dress up anymore... ha ha ha. I think the teens around here like to have contests to see what kind of costume they can get with the least amount of fabric. It fascinates me that a parent would let their daughter out of the house that way... anyways, pictures. yes, pictures. I have a few to show. Posts are no fun to look at unless there are pictures to be seen!



Our first family picture since I was pregnant with Hunter. I know, right?!! It was so hot last night- we didn't even dress Dane up in his costume. He would have had a heat stroke, so he just went as the cutest little guy around. :) And it's in b&w to take the sweaty shine off my no make up wearing face. I'm so shallow....


Nana with Corbin and Hunter


Corbin is a storm trooper (he's majorly into star wars these days) and Hunter is of course, Batman. A little story behind this costume. Hunter was flipping through a halloween costume catalog several months back and came across the batman muscle suit (what he calls it). He ripped it out and carried this paper for weeks... seriously. It's very worn and taped several times over and quite ragged. I couldn't throw it away. I'm keeping it for a keepsake. As for Corbin, this is the only picture that I got of Corbin where he didn't have his mask on (he was sweating profusely by the way in case you couldn't figure that out)


Corbin LOVES star wars! And I love Corbin!

Dane's First Trip to the Zoo...

So thanks to Christi and her free passes, I finally got my lazy mom butt up and took Dane to the zoo for the first time... He had a great time. He was pooped when all was said and done. But I think this was the funnest zoo trip for me. I've never really gotten to enjoy stuff because the kids are everywhere, but I was able to see the giraffes up close, I got to ride the carousel, looked at farm animals, I got to watch and listen to an elephant drink water, and I even saw the Gorilla's get fed! That was amazing-a really neat thing to watch! So posts aren't really fun without pictures unless you're Mikelene and can write creative, fun things, so here's some pictures to look at!


This was the only one with Dane looking at the camera... too bad I'm making a silly face... it would have been a nice picture. oh well.


I took this picture while Dane was walking ahead of me. He was so happy to be out of a stroller... but then came the leash (which got me some dirty looks from a few other seemingly perfect moms. Big, Fat "W")


Posing with the lion- took about 3 shots to get this one, but Dane had a blast studying the statues and playing around on them.


Yes, he is picking the dear monkey's nose. Atleast it's not his own, right?


Tram ride back to van- possessed or tired? maybe a little bit of both? (couldn't delete this blurry one, I thought it was sooo funny)


I'm thinking tired and he was asleep before we got out of the parking lot.

Guard Frogs

So I've been wanting to show everyone our new pets. They live somewhere on our front porch... a whole family of them. They loved to eat all the bugs around our front door on those hot, steamy summer nights. One night I count 7 frogs around the ceiling of our porch and I found this cute little guy the other night on the floor of the porch.