Almost a year... well 8 months really. I suck, I know. Life gets busy, kids are older. Here is a summary of what's happened....
Dallas turned 4.
He loves preschool.
He is still a picky eater, but he loves his meats.
He loves rescue bots, superheroes, dinosaurs and ninjas.
He is still a skinny boy.
He loves dogs, he has been asking for another dog for months now. One day..
He is crazy.
I wouldn't change him for the world.
Calie is almost two. March 16th.
She doesn't talk much, Dallas talks for her. She will say mom, dad, milk, dunno..
She loves water.
She is just getting into babies and princesses.
She loves food! Shrimp, broccoli, yogurt, streak... pretty much anything. Except bananas.
She loves to be outside.
She loves the chickens, always wants to play.
She is starting to use the potty, but we will see how long it lasts.

Russell started his own business, Comfort Creations HVAC.  He is loving it, but like anything new, it's very stressful. The paperwork and tax side is what I dread.
Ashley still works at the credit union and still enjoys it. The work is easy & the co workers are fun.

Summer so far....

Summer has started!!

We love it!

Here is what we have done......

The Dirty Dash!!

 FISHING!!

Rock Climbing

Dinosaur Expo!

 Strawberry Days Parade

The rest of the summer we have Dallas' birthday, 4th of July, Lehi Pioneer Days, Baby Contest, Hunting, Camping and playing with Grandma & Grandpa Rowley!

April

April Showers bring May Flowers.... which is fine with me, as long as there isn't anymore snow!! My kids LOVE being outside.  Calie cries when we come in, she could stay out there all day, rain or shine.  She loves walking around the back yard exploring.  She usually makes her way over to the fence to entertain the horse next door.  Calie turned ONE almost a month ago and I never posted about it!  She looked so cute in her strawberry dress.  We had a Strawberry Short-cake theme.  She was a very spoiled girl.  We spent Easter camping, followed by a BBQ at my Grandmas house.  We have since been camping a second time.  Dallas loves it!! I think he would live in the trailer, he is constantly asking if we can go camping.  He is such a funny kid.  He did get to ride on the front  of a "mowhecyle" aka motorcycle on our most recent camping trip.  We have plenty more camping trips planned for this year.  We are also very excited for Grandma Becky and Grandpa Leon to come home for a while in the summer time!!  Here is a recap in pictures...

Calie's Birthday Invite

Decided the Rug was a good place to nap.

HaPpY BiRtHdAy CaLiE!!

Cutest Face!!

Finding Worms

Dallas & Calie Camping

Dallas riding the dirt bike

Kangaroo Zoo

Swing!!

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Easter Dress

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Ok now that the Christmas post is over.. here is what's new.


Calie:

• 11 months old.
• Eats anything and everything.
• When your eating, she is trying to climb your leg or crying to get some food.
• Is starting to really play with toys, more then just holding them.
• Her favorites are the push dog and the barnyard that she climbs in & out of.
• 19 lbs as of Jan
• Standing and walking with everything.
• Laughs at Dallas for everything.
• Adores her Grandma Dawn.  She starts laughing and moving her arms when she sees her.
• Loves water, the bath, the tub, Dallas ice cube.  
• Still sleeps all night.
• Loves to cuddle.
• Loves to talk.
• Has 6 teeth and 2 more on the way.
• Is almost ONE!! I very much dislike this.  I have made her birthday invites already. :)

Dallas:

• 3 Years Old going on 30.
• Major attitude!
• Loves any action hero.
• Loves cartoons.
• Still loves water,
• Potty trained, we still have an occasional accident but usually anywhere but home.
• Loves to play, I love to watch him play.
• HUGE imagination.
• Afraid of the yellow slide on the swing set.
• Loves guns and watching Dad do anything with them.  Luckily he seems to really understand that the guns mom and dad use are different then his guns.  He will not touch them instead he will stand back, keep Calie back and tell us they are dangerous. Don't worry they are always locked up.
• Loves chocolate milk.
• Loves the idea of school.  He is enrolled in preschool that will start in September.
• Loves swimming and will be in swimming lessons again this summer.

Russell and I have been enjoying the winter.  We love having the wood burning stove on, relaxing and watching movies together.  Russ did a lot of Duck hunting this year and did pretty good.  Dallas always asked to go and always asked for his ducks when Russ got back.  I don't want him to grow up, but I know he is going to LOVE hunting with his Dad.  We also applied for our concealed weapons.  We held a class here a week ago and are just waiting for the application to be finished.  

Dallas trying not to laugh.

Playing on my pony

Kisses from Dallas

My little helper removing all the silverware

Bath Time!

Cheese mom.

Bath Time Over. :(

Helping with the dishes.

Christmas

Wow, for some reason I thought I did a Christmas post, but when I finally logged in, I realized it's been since NOVEMBER!!! Yikes!!  Since I missed Christmas here is a simple catch up!

Christmas Eve:
Dinner at my parents followed by Christmas Vacation.

Christmas Day:
On Christmas Day we had to wake Dallas up!  He was asleep in our bed but kept telling us, "No Santa not come".  It finally took a phone/video call from Grandma Becky to get his cute bum out of bed.  Once he saw the tree, he was WIDE awake.  We had Grandma & Grandpa Rowley on skype so they could watch him open all of his gifts.  He was one spoiled boy!! At first he thought that only one present was his but after I handed him two more he understood.  Santa also left a big present in the backyard..  When we took him to the window to see the new swing set, his only reply was,  "Wow, I'm gunna take a nap in there". Calie didn't care for anything after her first toy.  She first opened a talking airplane and spent the rest of the morning pushing it around the house.  Russ got a smoker and a food chopped.  I got a handgun and some waders.  I think we all were a little spoiled. After we finished up at our house we headed to Grandma Dawns house, which the spoiling continued.  Dallas was very sweet at Grandma's house, he said thank you and gave them BIG hugs!  After Grandma Dawns we headed over to Grandma Greats for Christmas breakfast. I think the breakfast was Calie's favorite part.  The girl loves to eat.  After Grandmas we spent the rest of the day hanging out at home, letting the kids play.

Now that Christmas is long gone, I miss it.  I love the magic and the excitement for little kids.  Dallas will still mention what Santa brought and what Santa brought Calie.

Catch up time.

While writing the post on Calie I realized I have posted anything on the deer hunt or Halloween!! So here we go....
The deer hunt was so much fun! I ended up staying the whole time, which was not my plan to begin with. We started off the trip by riding the razor in Moab. I was scared half of the time!! Russ and Dallas loved every bit of it! After the razor ride we headed back to camp for the week. On the way back to camp Dallas decided to put gum on top of his head not realizing that it would get stuck, so as we are driving through a canyon I am hanging in the backseat cutting gum out of his hair with sewing scissors!! I laughed so hard thinking back on that. Anyways...Dallas had a blast playing with Rylee. The weather wasn't the greatest but when it was nice we were out in it!! Dallas loved playing in his jeep! He kept trying to jump it off a little rock. He was so fun to watch. Calie played in the walker while we were outside and got to play with Dallas toys inside! The kids did great!! We went into Moab a few times, once for groceries and once to go to arches national park.  The park was not as fun as I was hoping but with two babies in tow, it was as fun as it could have been. The drive was horribly long but worth it! I love making memories. 

Halloween!!
This year Dallas was Spiderman and Calie was a cupcake! Dallas didn't really like the trunk or treat but he did love going door to door.  Calie was lucky enough to get a few pieces of candy, suckers mostly.  The best part of Halloween was that grandma and grandpa where here when Dallas woke up!! They got to visit for a few days which was not long enough!!Dallas adores his grandma Becky. He loved having her here, we all did!! He definitely did not like her leaving!