HAPPY NEW YEAR

So we were TOLD our Internet would be up and running by the 28th, and yet it didn't actually happen till YESTERDAY. LAME! But we have it now, and all is right with the world.
We were a little too excited about our video camera that we didn't really take pictures Christmas morning. So when I figure out how to upload it from my camera I'll post it. Meanwhile I do have a few pictures of Christmas with my family and later Christmas day.
This was our Christmas tree the day we set it up. (just to top of our tree) We had a magical tree this year. In order to keep Danton away from the tree we just had the little tree for most of the month. Then Christmas Eve we set up the full tree in the living room, so Christmas morning it was magically HUGE, and it had presents too.
We did not however get any pictures of the full tree except on video cause well it just didn't last very long. After the presents were all open it didn't take long for Danton to go for the tree. Within 2 minuets the bottom half of the tree was COMPLETELY undecorated. It was put away by Saturday.
This is Christmas with my family on Monday the 21, all the little kids (and Lilly) eating lunch together.

And Lydia being SassyChristmas morning just after we finished the presents Danton found a candy cane just where he could reach, so he pulled it off and played with it. He ended up sitting on it which broke it and then when he put it in his mouth he could taste it cause it wasn't all covered in plastic. He ate the whole thing and didn't make much of a mess.

Lydia got the purse in her stocking, and she got a snow white barbie and a Cinderella barbie, she she had to put on her Cinderella dress. The Bear is what Danton got but Lydia was having fun with him too...or I guess according to Lydia HER since after all the bear is wearing the purse.
Lydia got this tutu from Granny and Papa Rone on Christmas, and Danton liked it too. See how happy he is


Now for my new years resolutions... I figure if I tell everyone I have a better chance of actually doing them.
1. Practice the piano often. We had to put the key board away for a while and when it wasn't out I didn't pull it out to play. So I set it back up this week and I want to practice more.
2. I want to practice my fiddle also. I got a new fiddle book for Christmas and I really want to play. I do need good strings on it though. It's a waste of a good instrument just sitting up in my room. And I LOVE the fiddle. I want to learn how to play, so here we go
And finally
3. Get the laundry DONE weekly. I often only do one load at a time, or I forget about the last load in the washer and I have to restart the washer a couple times cause the clothes sit too long. And then it never gets folded till I need to do laundry again and I need the baskets. So I'm going to get another hamper and pre-sort my laundry. then when I have enough for a load I just do one load, fold it and put it away, instead of doing laundry all day....lets hope it works right? :)

Merry Christmas!!

We have had a great Christmas (so far) We didn't sleep great last night, I thought I'd grow out of that when I got older...
I was to excited. I was ultra sneaky. Mark thought he was going to get something in a little box, but I got him a home theater system. I snuck it in side and hid it in the Laundry room inside another box that has been in there for ever. I was so excited to give it to him.
Oh and my awesome sister gave us her "old" video camera for christmas, so we set it up last night and taped the kids this morning. It was like waking the dead to get Lydia up this morning. She didnt' get a nap yesterday and was dead at 5:30, so we woke her up gave her a bath and put her in bed at 6. We had to tell her 3 times this morning that she gets to open presents and have candy before she woke up and got out of bed.
Oh and I got a pocket knife, and a special eddition of Mary Poppins, AND a cool fiddle music book. Mark knows me well :)
We didn't really take pictures this morning since we had the video camera. So I wont be posting many pictures.
OH OH OH, our internet will be set up on MONDAY!!

Coming Soon

So it is looking like we will get internet soon. With Marks new calling he need to communicate with the Bishop on a daily basis, which means email. WAHOO!
And I'm so excited. We just got a Wii for our Christmas. We had an extra surprise Chriastmas "bonus" so we got it over the weekend. It's made out arms a little sore. But it beats the HECK out of watching TV.

mostly pictures

Lydia went as Giselle from Enchanted this year. 1/2 the time she makes me call her Giselle, and she wont answer to Lydia.

Danton is my little climbing monkey, so I thought this was very fitting. :)

Not to mention he is my trouble maker. He loves my cabinets and I can't keep him out of my kitchen the door way is too wide.

I guess he decided he was hungry cause he got in his chair all by him self

This is Lydia posing in her heart blanket skirt. Isn't she lovely!


And one day Lydia left several pieces of her shredded wheat cereal in her bowl and after they were all nice and soggy, Danton pulled the bowl off the table and ate the mess off the floor. As you can see he was quite proud of him self, and he actually did a pretty good job of "cleaning" it all up. He got every last piece.

Thanksgiving day Lydia got a hair cut. She had been talking about it since I got mine and she even held open scissors up to her hair one time, so I figured I'd better do it before she does. This is the before picture.


And these are the after. I love it and she loves it. She holds up her hair and says, "this is my style" It's pretty cute.

catching up

ok, so I have been bad at taking pictures since we moved. I didn't even get Halloween pictures. But Lydia wears her costume all the time, and Danton's was easy too, so we will just take pictures later. Lydia was Giselle from enchanted, I made her the curtain dress, and she has worn it EVERY day. Danton was a monkey. Same costume I made for Lydia when she was that age. Just as cute on Danton as it was on her. I wore my fall back costume, my chicken hat, and went as an egg head :) I wanted to take the kids to the trunk or treat, but it just didn't' work out, we were too busy that day. so we just went to people we know. Uncle Paul and Aunt Ann, Granny and Papa, and My friend that I have been tap dancing with. i think we got about 7 pieces of candy.
As far as tap dancing, this is the way to do it. Since it's just me and my friend we can go at my pace, and we are having a good old time. I've gone for 4 weeks, we have already finished one song and we are starting a new one. And each week we talk about something else and find more stuff that we have in common. That hour goes by SO fast. It's way more fun then the dance studio I was going to last year. :)
My little car that I got 7 1/2 years ago is finally giving us trouble. Mark is working on it again today for the 3rd or 4th time in the last month and a half trying to fix what ever the heck is wrong with it. We are hopeful that this part he is getting today will do the trick. But fixed or not, we still need to get a new car in the near future. We are driving a little 2 door car with a booster seat for Lydia and a rear facing car seat for Danton. So in order to get them buckled, we have to climb in the back seat. yeah, it's fun. We just aren't looking forward to car payments.
oh oh oh, I almost forgot! Renters insurance. We finally set up renters insurance. Oh Halloween night after we got the kids in bed we were watching tv and about 8:00 or so we started hearing sirens. We realized they were fire trucks and they kept coming. Mark finally said "Sarah, I think they are close." He looked out the back door and I looked out the front door. "I see it!" he said to me. There is an apartment complex right across the street from us and tons of smoke was coming up from one of the buildings. He walked down the parking lot to see and called me when he saw it. I made sure the kids were asleep, locked the door and walked down to see it too. It was crazy! I got there in time to see the flames cut out the side of the building and move on to the roof. We watched for about 20 mins. the flames for a good 15 feet above the roof. The next day we drove past on our way to church and we could see the damage it caused. Monday first thing I called and got our insurance set up.
ps 2 units were destroyed, one belonged to a couple in their early 20, and the other a single mom with a 5 and 7 ish year old girls. very sad. No one was hurt.

quick update

This is at the new house, Mark finally got his grill, and we have a bag of marshmallow so when ever we grill, after the meat is done we roast marshmallows. Lydia thought that was pretty cool.

Danton just learned how to climb (this is the old house)
oh he struggles

Ok I'll do my best to do some quick updates. I say quick cause after almost a month of not blogging there is a bit to catch up on. Lydia's new phrase is Kay-naw naw. We have yet to find out what it means. It's kinda like a wild card. She usually says it when she is mad or something isn't quite right with her. She has another wild card word. Ever. Ever is the opposite of Kay-naw naw. She will add the word Even to any sentence when she is happy, or when something is good, or pretty. She loves pretty things, EVER! She also mixes up her words, I how learned to do it, or I gotfor (forgot) I can't remember anything else specifically that she has said, but I do have a little story. (although it's not as good with out being able to see her face)
She was getting ready to take a bath and she was in the tub as I was starting to fill it. Once the water got warm I told her to plug the tub. She grabbed the faucet, I said no, it's lower push the plug, so she pushed a little metal round cap on the wall of the tub below the faucet looking a little uncertain as she was squatting in the tub. I laughed and said "no, push on the bottom" with a VERY confused look on her face she tried to follow my instructions and slowly moved her hand to cover her bottom. I busted up laughing and bent down and showed her what I meant.
We went to visit Great Grandma Willis last Saturday and we rode with Grandma and Grandpa Adams. As we got on the interstate Dad went to pass a car and moved to the left lane, Lydia said "Mom. I'm scared. (putting her hands on her face) We're on the wong side of the woad"
I didn't even know she knew what the wrong side of the road was.
Danton has 4 teeth now (finally) and is climbing EVERYTHING, he LOVES our stairs. He is also starting to stand up on his own.
I have taken to calling him Danton the Conquer. If he sees an obstacle in his way he doesn't go around it, he purposely goes over to it and conquers it. It is SO funny to watch.

pictures to come

We are all moved in, and we love the new place and the new location. IT's all totally great. Lydia likes the stairs, and I even made her a castle out of one of the bigger empty boxes. She loves to dance in her castle wearing her princess dress, with her frog, she is so funny.
We don't have the internet yet, and we probably wont get it till after we get a new car. Which hopefully will be soon. Readers digest version: Our only car (small 2 door car that I the end of my senior year in HS) is dying on us. The problem is not sever yet, but if we keep driving it, it will get bad fast I'm afraid. So the car is parked at Mark's parents house and we have been borrowing their 4 door truck till we get a new car. And with no internet it's hard to search for them. :)
I was looking at my camera last night and we have lots of pictures adn videos that need to be posted, but I forgot ot bring it with me today :( sorry.
So you may not see much of me on here and facebook for the next while. And I shall adjust to living "out of the loop" :)