Dirt Won't Hurt

He is proof of it.

Grana Rocks

Today is the boys' Grana's birthday. We celebrated over the weekend and are taking her out to dinner tonight too. She is an awesome grandmother to my kiddos and if they turn out to be spoiled brats, she will get the bulk of the blame!

Happy Birthday, Jana!

Today is also our dog, Luke's 8th birthday. I am such a good dog mom that I totally forgot until Kaye reminded me. I patted him a little extra when I got home this afternoon. Bless his heart, after my boys arrived on the scene he went from being an inside the house, sleeping in the bed, mama's boy to a neglected outside DOG!

No pictures with this post because they won't download for some reason...I'll try to add some later.

Motocross

Our neighbor, Kent, competes nationally in motorcycle racing. My boys love to watch he and his brother practice in their backyard. So when they invited us to go watch them at their training track, we were all over it! Well, Zachary was all over it...he counts Kent as one of his best friends and thinks he is the coolest guy in town.

Trent was a little more reluctant and spent his time at the track like this:

Can you believe this?? He made me so nervous!




Kent was so sweet to my boys and Zachary was in heaven.

It sure didn't take long before...

OMG! I actually let this happen. BUT, not before threatening Kent with his life. I am sure that he thought I was an absolute psycho before the day was over.

The tires never left the ground and they moved at a "snail's pace" (that was part of my threats!) but to Z, he was racing like a pro.

How long do you think it will be before he is asking for a dirt bike and to begin racing???

On the Go

This is how we've spent our days since Santa visited our house:

We've even hit some trails.

Little brother is just thrilled with his hand me down. Check out the tires...we get our money's worth out of our toys!

My little wild men

Check your attic!

Did you know that Santa will sometimes leave gifts in your attic that you may not find until you are putting away your Christmas decorations?! It happened at our house!

This huge dump truck, along with two sacks of stocking stuffers, was hanging out in our attic when we opened it up yesterday.

Didn't bother this cutie one bit!

Silly Santa!

Welcome 2009!

Brandon and I were lucky enough to have grandparents willing to babysit on New Year's Eve so we were able to have a night out with friends. We all met up at our house and then headed to Carson House for dinner. Brandon and I haven't been there since high school and it was just as good as we had remembered!

Here is a group picture at our house before dinner.

Note to Brandon and myself...DO NOT take the post nearest the camera when using self timer. It is NOT a flattering site!

We think that Erin's invitation must have read DYNASTY attire required.:)

Nicole and Corey weren't included in the group picture beforehand because they may not have been told about meeting at our house. I am getting the blame for this, but she's pregnant and I think she just forgot about it all together. See, look at Corey, he knows she's crazy.

She couldn't get over it. She's still fussing...

As always, we had a very entertaining time and loved celebrating the New Year with these friends.

The boys had a great night of popping fireworks at Grana and PawPaw's house. They stayed up until after 11 and had a blast. On New Year's Day they woke up and talked our ears off telling us all about their night. They saved a few fireworks (or PawPaw tired out) to shoot with us that morning.




Happy New Year!

Family Christmas

Just a glimpse of what Christmas was like at our house...

Hope yours was as fun as ours!

**Notice Granny Great in the midst of us all holding her head!