Painted first RC truck body

(Dedrick) The plastic body to one of my RC trucks wore out from too many high-speed cartwheels and rollovers, so I painted up a new plastic body. It's the first one I've ever done and it was not that easy, but I think it turned out pretty well! Of course, the kids decided it needed to be mounted on their heads instead of the truck, but that's OK!

Dedrick's Birthday

My sweet husband turned 35 yesterday! I am very thankful to have him in my life and the kids. We just spent a quiet night at home, enjoying a yummy dinner of steak and potatoes. Then sang happy birthday with ice cream and eclairs. Then spent rest of the evening watching one of his new movies as a family.

I have been very blessed to have this wonderful man in my life and could not be happier to enjoy his birthday with him.

My husband the Viking baby!

Texas

So this year we decided to head to Texas to spent some time with Dedrick's parents for Christmas. We were able to spend about a week with them and it went way too fast. Dedrick's parents were grateful to have us, even though they had just moved into the house three days before we got there. So Grandma and I took the kids out of the house to do fun stuff, while Dedrick and his dad did projects around the house to help put up storage shelves in the garage and stuff.

We took the kids to the zoo, science museum, an IMAX movie "Born to be Wild", a park, the Dallas World Aquarium, the Dallas temple grounds, and the Tree of Lights. So we stayed very busy and had lots of fun. When it was time to leave grandpa and grandma's house, my kids did not want to. They just love to spend so much time with them.

The down side was when we were about half an hour from his parents house on the way there the check engine light came on. Dedrick and I thought we just need a oil change, were we ever wrong on that. Since we did not get to there house till late Saturday, and the next day was Christmas we had to wait till Monday to take the van in to the dealer. They called us back later that afternoon and told us it would take $2000.00 to fix what was wrong. Can you say WOW! So we had them fix it so we could make it back home safely. We hope the work will keep the van running for a few more years.

I want to thank my wonderful in-laws for everything, and for having us in the chaos!

First Snow

This year we have had only one snow storm. It did not drop much snow, but my kids still had fun playing in it. Thanks to grandma Janine they have awesome snowball makers and launchers in one.