Build a Bear

Last week we took the kids to Build a Bear. They each got to pick out a stuffed animal and experience making it by themselves.

Durant chose a brown bear and was a little confused by the entire process.


Ana was a little nervous and wanted to use her hand instead of her feet to add the stuffing.


Carter is totally a pro and chose a koala bear.


Here they all are giving their new friends a bath. All three of them thought this part was the best. They combed and washed for awhile.




It was a really fun memory to make as a family! They looked so cute walking around Mall of America with their big build a bear boxes.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Quiet Time!

One of the many joys of being a parent is getting to see special moments like these. The other night when I went into Carter's bedroom to say good night, I found him and Ana sitting and reading their Bibles!! It was a very precious moment!

Some fun pictures!

Here are some cute pictures from the last couple of weeks.


Matching jammies!!




Ana in her super cute outfit looking 16!


Here are our cute boys in their matching shirts!!


Durant was super excited to match Carter!

Go Longhorns!!

Matt and I are huge Texas Longhorn fans so of course we had to have a party and watch their big game in the Fiesta bowl tonight!!!

The kids and I made signs and hung them up around the house for when Matt got home from work.

Here we are preparing for the coin toss (yes, we are both wearing our Texas Orange)


We won the toss!



Here are some pictures of each of the kids doing the Hook 'em horns sign!




Ana has a little trouble with it so she invented her own


It was a lot of fun!! Best of all, the Longhorns won with an awesome touchdown by Quan Cosby. He's one of my favorite Longhorns (Colt McCoy is my most favorite). If you want to know why, ask me sometime!! I'd love to tell you all about it!

Cause I needed something else to do!

I meant to post this a few weeks ago, but didn't......

For an early Christmas present, Matt gave me a Webkinz!!!! Carter loves playing Webkinz and now I can join with him. We have so much fun playing at the same time. Me on my computer and Carter on Matt's!!

I have to admit it really is fun and I can easily spent way too much time on there!!!

Meet Sammy the Love Frog, Root Bear the Bear, and Cammy the Frog!

Christmas!!!

We had a lot of fun celebrating Christmas this year!!! It is always so much fun watching our children open their presents. Here is the tree before they all woke up!




Opening stockings!!!


Carter was super excited about his presents!! He especially liked the surprise XBOX his dad and he got from me!!! It was so much fun watching him open it. His first words were, "No way, there's an XBOX in there?!"



Durant was a lot of fun to watch. He took his time with each present and seriously took like 15 minutes to go through his stocking. He kept showing us each thing he got and saying thanks!! He loves all his lighting presents he got this year!



Ana was super excited about the presents. She spent most of Christmas Eve night jumping up and down. She opens presents the opposite of Durant, with lighting speed!! She was very excited about the babies she got, but her most favorite present was the pack of basketball cards in her stocking. She didn't put them down once she got them!



Cute Christmas picture of the boys!!



Grandma Connie got each of the kids cameras! They've been having fun with those.





Playing with Uncle Brian

A Christmas hug between Grandma Darla and Carter