Catching Up on the Blog... Football and Family

I know we are quite behind updating our blog, but hopefully we can catch up in the next week or so.

This cute little picture is from a fun Saturday in November when we went to watch the BYU game at Rochelle and Shawn's house.  The boys were hooked to the football game... but I don't think they ended up doing as well as they had hoped.  Jena and Carson played Superhero in the backyard.  We had a great time eating pizza and hanging out with the family.  It definitely got us excited for the Holiday Season ahead.

Little Helping Hands

Most of the time we seem to follow after our kids cleaning up one disaster after the next. It almost seems as if they don't even notice the difference between a room that is a mess and one that is cleaned up.  But with the many chores around the house, these two little girls have a few things they love to help doing.  Jena loves to help clean the fish tank.  She will hold the siphon tube as the gunk is being removed, hold the hose as new water is being filled into the bucket and use her little cup to refill the tank.  She enjoys it so much that she even gets upset when we clean it without her.  Taylor's favorite chore to help with is to push the wet clothes into the dryer.  She will stand right next to me awaiting each wet item.  She also loves when I say "push, push push" and she will try to repeat it back as she laughs.  During those days when it seems like our biggest parental job is as a cleanup crew we just think of those cute little moments when our two little girls are just as excited to help as they are to make a mess. 

Beauty Bribes

After some candy bribery Jena finally let me put a barrette in her hair.  We thought she looked so adorable.  She pranced around for awhile and even agreed that it was cute in the mirror.  But after a little more time had passed, she was done letting mom dress her up.