Snow in Georgia!!!

YAY!! So for real, the forcast was for possible snow...but I was sceptical it would ever stick. But it did....and it's so so pretty! Friday night was super cold...Jess was off doing his homework and so I lovingly sent the boys out on their own (for real...so cold) for some awesome Georgia snow fun. Someone has to make the hot cocoa right? Right! So the snow flakes were HUGE and great packing snow and it was awesome to watch the boys play and play and play until they were little popcicles.

Then this morning the snow was still here...and the weather was so much warmer. So we all geared up and tried it out. (Jess took some pretty pictures)

It was super powder-ry...so after Jess' good hard efforts at making some sort of snow creature/fort/something, we abandoned that. Next...we don't have sleds so.......we first tried laundry baskets.....then we tried cookie sheets....and then we remembered that Jess and I had our snowboards in the garage! RIGHT! So that worked and it was awesome. YAY for snow in Georgia!!!

Here's Lucas with a lap full of snow after his first run on the cookie sheet...they were really sub-par.

First time together on the snowboard...it was pretty fast!
little snowboarder...it was pretty heavy for him to lug...but he did it!

oh...and a some crazies mentioned I looked small in my other post...it wasn't true--just the wrong angle...here is me in all of my 34 week splender! (I know my face is a little freaky...I can't explain that...it just happened that way. )

Goodbye Scotty!

Don't you just love early morning goodbyes! This was a particularly heart warming one. My youngest bro. Scott is leaving on his mission to New York March 17th so we all went out to Utah to see him before he was off! He looks happy to be awake and hugged huh? Ooooh, I love this kid.We also got to meet our almost newest sister Kara! Oooh, she's just so nice and we love her to bits...here's a pic of her and my bro. B.J. (getting married in May)and me with our prettiest faces!She's going to fit in perfectly!

We got to see most of Jess' family too. We went to the yummiest frozen yogurt place--like cold stone but cheaper and better...My favorite thing about this group picture is how awful it is. Lots of closed eye's and people not looking..ha ha--I love reality pictures

Kaden has so taken after his dad--his face in this picture was on purpose. Oooh, don't you just love that?

Luke and Grandpa George!

We got a big ole Adams family picture, and Luke even stood in front of my giant belly! Good kid that one!

Back at the Adams house there was much snow playing going on! Lucas was so entranced by the mountains and the snow and kept reminding us how cool it was. I LOVED it!

"Fire-power" (you know...from Night at the Museum?? You can't see it but our snowman is doing it too.)

Me and B.J. while he took a break from terrorizing the young'ins. he he

Seriously, rock climbing with scotty was so so fun! Totty's sort of amazing at it. Both boys climbed the wall to the very top! I was so so impressed with their dexterity. Love them!

One of my favorite things about getting together with my family is playing games--ALL THE TIME! And this trip was no exception! It was such a short one that in the beginning I had to force myself to play and not sleep...but it was soooooo worth it. Usually it's card games, but my sister introduced a new game named Quelf which was AWESOME! Here's Scott with a plant on his lap during the game, laughing cause he had to laugh whenever anyone else laughed as part of the rules....it really was the coolest game ever!

Two of the coolest guys ever! Dad and Jess! I like them!

Some of my awesome adorable friends made some quick changes in their plans and we all got together for lunch. So so so fun! Love you ladies

Okay--for real--it was a great trip. I wish it could have been longer..but turns out when you've got a giant belly with a child in it and another child in school, trips need to be short. But thanks mom and dad (and mom and dad Winn--they totally shared their chocolates!!! yay!)

Next big adventure......CHILDBIRTH! YAY!!! 6 more weeks!!! And I'm almost over this cold THING that has had me down for almost 2 weeks! LAMEST 2 WEEKS EVER. Cough, congestion, back aches, headaches, braxton hicks....I've never been sick like this and I'll tell you what, I've always taken for granted breathing out of my nose---NEVER AGAIN! Everyone who's reading this right now...take a deep breath through your nose--and relish it....living and sleeping sucks without it!

Okay--I'm definitely getting better...today was much better then last week. So that's awesome..it's almost done...(I think I can, I think I can, I think I can)

Christmas with the Winns

Were you just thinking...my, oh, my--that is one good looking Santa?

Cause for real, I totally agree! (I love you baby!!!)

This year Jess got to be Santa's helper. Not once....but twice! (Lucky guy!) Once at our ward Christmas party, and again a few days later at his work party. The boys thought it was so great that he and Santa were so tight that Santa would ask their own dad to help him!

He looks great in a suit that Jess!

At the ward party we had gingerbread house decorating contest....we made the classic "Santa's Outhouse". That's a classic everywhere right? Maybe we're just cool like that!

Some of our freaken awesome friends had a White Elephant Party which was AMAZING. I hadn't laughed that hard and that long in a long long time. There were some creative and hilarious gifts...Jess and I made some pretty stellar shirts for the occasion. Here is Jess' that Aaron was lucky enough to get. HA HA HA! So great!

Here are our gingerbread creations for 2009. Kade and Luke made some great houses, Jess-a volcano and I made a diorama of a triathlon (obviously! (the reindeer head is on the bike--see....see--it's so obvious!)

Kade was sick Christmas Eve throwing up and what not...it was sad to see him so tired on the couch, but Jess got him outside with us to get the all important Reindeer Food out on the lawn.

I'm not sure how this turned out to be one of the only pictures I got of this years Christmas morning....I'm not even sure why he looks so ornery...but he is wearing a fancy crown from one of Jess' sister Andrea's awesome poppers from England--so that's fancy.
At any rate, our Christmas was so great. Kade felt lots better Christmas Day. The boys woke up a little before 6:00. I LOVE the excitement I heard in Luke's voice when he came in to wake us up, "GUYS! Santa's been here!!!!" It's so so so great! We didn't get to go to our friends house that night (on account of Kade's throwing up the day before..didn't want to spread that joy), but they did send over some turkey and ham and YUM--it was great! Not to mention that Jess made an AMAZING Green Bean Casserole this year. I've always hated green beans...so...that's pretty awesome right there!

Since Kade was sick we did our treasure hunt a few days after Christmas. (we usually do an extensive search for the boys pajama's on Christmas Eve. This year we went all over town and ended at the movies instead of pajama's--the boys love finding the clues and figuring out where to go next! YAY!! I love family time!

Our Christmas season was so so great! We have a great book that Jess' mom put together for us that we can read to the boys and show pictures to them about why we really celebrate Christmas. Our lives are soooooooooo insanely blessed. I love my Savior. I hope every one's season was just GREAT!

Thanksgiving 2009

We had such a fun Thanksgiving. We spent the whole day with the boys. They helped with EVERYTHING! What we ate, what we wore, what we did. It was so relaxing and nice. They loved "de-grossing" the turkey with Jess...they peeled potatoes for the first time, making desserts and hats and going to the movies and.....it was awesome! Jess made such a yummy turkey--and turns out I'm the only one who likes dark meat so I got the drumsticks (I LOVE DRUM STICKS!)



Our Freaken awesome hats!

such a classy shot! But for real--I really love turkey...

Making "Pilgrim Hats" Luke was helping by cleaning up the chocolate that was all over the toothpick--you gotta do what you gotta do!

Halloween, Friends, and Birthdays

So it got kinda crazy there for a bit with Disney World and Thanksgiving and life...but here's the stuff we missed:

Halloween was fun--we go home from Disney World the day before so I was thrilled that the boys wanted easy costumes (Kade's was last years too--awesome!). Jess was sick so he stayed home and passed out candy....to our 2 trick-or-treaters. Ha Ha--so we live on a hill...it's kinda steep...and well...either that or we give crappy candy, but we had one little boy and the Mitchells (woo woo Mitchells--thanks for spicing up Jess' night)
Kade and Luke enjoyed trick or treating though..Luke got tired in the end and was carried home but Kade loved it!


In November our good friends the Johnsons left. We like them lots and will miss them tons! Kade didn't want to celebrate his birthday without them so we were able to have them over for an early b-day party...dinner and cake. ANYWAY--We miss you guys!!! Enjoy Nebraska!!!

And Kade turned 6! Woo woo little man! He invited a friend of his from school and we went ice skating. Turns out...at our place they don't like to let pregnant people go ice skating....I couldn't even sign a waiver or anything..so Jess (experience on ice--like once) was in charge of Kade, Luke, Caroline and himself out there. He was freaken GREAT! and the kids loved it--wet and all. they had little crates duct taped together (classy I know--but it was a great surprise) that they LOVED. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KADE!

See how they are doing their ice moves? (that's what this pic is....)

And finally--can I just say I LOVE BEATLES ROCK BAND! Our boys favorite sing Beatles songs ALL the time now, and they can play really well. (i.e. not get booed and kicked off by the game )It is so fun to pull out the guitars and have all four of us play...I love my family!!!

(Kade was getting into Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds here I believe)

We're having a....

It's a BOY! And we're all super excited around here!!! GO BOYS!

Disney, Disney--YAY Disney

DISNEY WORLD IS SOOOOOOO GREAT!

So for REAL! This vacation was so so so much fun. We've had lots of vacations back home and to visit family but this was probably our first real FAMILY VACATION. A HUGE thanks to the Davis' for inviting us to stay with them--it was soo much fun and so nice to go with our friends-not to mention that the place we stayed was way nicer then any place we would have stayed on our own. We loved it and THANKS THANKS THANKS! Shari's blog is up too if you want to check it out here .

We drove down Friday--went swimming in the places AMAZING pirate pool (with a ship and slides and water shooters--this pool was so so great! And the next morning started our trip with Animal Kingdom. Jess, Shari and Ben went on Expedition Everest and LOVED it. Me--being great with child---and getting motion sickness since I was little gladly stayed with the kiddos! But they loved it! (Everest is in the background...see...that white blob that didn't show up...anyway--I heard the ride was awesome!)

See how tough they are?

This was a dinosaur digging area. Both boys found a spot where there were no bones--and dug till they found their own--they were pretty proud of themselves!

Sunday we just chilled. We went to church, then in the afternoon drove to the Orlando temple. It was only like 15 minutes away so it was awesome to let the kids see it. And just walk around and see how gorgeous it is. I wish I could do landscaping like the temple people...so so pretty!


Cutest quote of the week was done by Lilly our friends 3 year old. While at the temple, she ran to one of the doors, banged on it and said, "Jesus! Let me in!" SOOO CUTE! (me and Jess were laughing at this in this picture)

Monday--Typhoon Lagoon and it was so fun! Kade and Luke could have stayed all day in the wave pool and been perfectly happy. Every time that water went up for the giant wave they would scream with the happiest little faces I have ever seen! Then I'd just hold onto them while we all got washed away...FUN! Jess took Kade on some medium sized rides and he LOVED it! Then for the bigger tube rides we switched off with Shari and Ben and had so much fun!

Jess is awesome and did all the super scary rides--(which next time I am SOOOOOOOOO doing! (here's my rant) I love water parks and LOVE freefalls. And it's a good think Jess was there to keep me, and our little one inside, from going down them...I wanted to real bad...he's a smart guy...probably kept me from going into labor. Anyway--anyone up for Water Parks next summer???)


That day was perfect. We even got this giant "Garbage Pail" ice cream for everyone to share at lunch--soooo much ice cream and tons of toppings--it was awesome---Even with all of us eating it, we still had to throw tons away. FUN THOUGH RIGHT? The kids played in the sand, rode on tubes--did the lazy river thing..it was so nice!

Here is Kade's Sand Monster. I'm sure the Typhoon Lagoon people love it when parents let kids get all sandy over and over again and wash off in the water...probably right? They were loving it though!

Tuesday was Magic Kingdom. We splurged and did this pirate thing for the boys where they got their faces painted and spent like an hour with other pirate people getting medallions and swords and pictures and swearing pirate oaths. It was cute--and I think the boys really liked it...but we probably won't do it again. Luke took off all his stuff within the hour, and then just looked like we beat him cause of the makeup. And for real---should I really be encouraging stealing and lying and cheating? Probably not. ANYWAY--it was fun though.

Luke's close up

Kade's best pirate face--in the secret pirate room....

Lucas acted like we didn't give him anything to drink. He tried to lap up all the water here...he got soaked!

On the way back from Magic Kingdom. The Conductor guy let Kade and Luke open all the monorail doors and gates--that was nice!

Wednesday we went to Sea World....we went to one show, and Kade felt nasty sick. So I took him home (our hotel was like 2 minutes away--so that was nice). It was a super hot day and it sounded like comparing this Sea World to Disney was rough--the kids thought it was fine...and everyone came home early..and we played in the pool and watched movies.

Thursday we went to Hollywood Studios. Kade loved his autograph book this week and filled it up with all the power rangers here. My only regrets from the whole week were that we didn't take Kade to the Hollywood Tower Hotel Ride. He had LOVED all the rides like Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Splash Mountain, this scary dinosaur one.....other stuff Jess took him on...and he really wanted to do this one, but after the simulator Star Tours Jess took him on Jess felt nasty so..he didn't have anyone to take him. Another time I suppose. I was so impressed with him though. He and Luke both were so brave!

Luke wanted so bad to go on the bigger rides but was 2 inches too little. He did enjoy one roller coaster called the Barnstormer something...after it he was all hysterical and happy and giddy and wanting to do his roller coaster again...and then after the second time, he said..."I don't want to do that one ever again." in a plain, "there you go" manner.

And seriously--who doesn't remember that scene from Honey I Shrunk the Kids where they eat the giant oreo? I loved that part and had Kade pose.

Here's a shot Luke took of us all relaxing. Seriously--it was such a great trip!!! Happy happy happy! (and sooooo much food...and great dinners...and just...YAY)

Ahhhhhh....

Kade and I are reading "The Chronicles of Narnia"--"The Magicians Nephew" (the first one) and without us telling him anything about it, he said this one night,
"Mom, Aslan reminds me of Jesus. He created the world and is really nice." Ooooh, it made me so happy to see this happy smart awesome little boy making these comparisons. Anyway--he's a sweet one!

The boys loved it, we loved it...it was amazing. The whole week was so much fun--it was just perfect! YAY