happy winter

i wanted to post some recent pictures of us. the most recent was tonight... we had a dogpile on dillon or 'dil-when' as parker now calls him. it was fun for about 3 seconds until wyatt started fussin. then on saturday we had a heat wave of 39 degrees! it was like spring again! so we bundled up the boys and took them north of town a little ways to play outside. dillon cross-country skied with wyatt in the front pack and i snow-shoed pulling parker in a sled behind me. it was a blast. we loved it.



too bad i can't figure out how to organize these pictures so it looks nice...oh well. i'm open to suggestions, if anyone has any! anyway, we had a fun time. earlier that morning dillon took parker ice fishing with some people in our ward and they had a ball. we had 4 rainbow trout for lunch the next day. it was delicious.

jan 17 and 18 we went to the open house of the rexburg, idaho temple. it was beautiful. we took the boys through with us and it was hard to keep them still and quiet, but it didn't take away from the peaceful feeling that only the temple can bring. it is so sacred and holy. we loved being in the temple. we also got to spend the night with emily and kyle (my sister and brother-in-law). we had so much fun being with them and the boys loved playing on emily's long-board.

on sunday, we went to dillon's parents home to celebrate boone's (dillon's little brother) 16th birthday. papa sid (dillon's dad) had his old train going and the boys LOVED it. that's basically all they did the whole time we were there was play trains with papa sid. it was the highlight of parker's week.
parker and i have been going over the letters of the alphabet. everyday we talk about a new letter and color pictures and make little things that start with the letter we're 'discovering.' so one day we did the letter E. i made him some EYE-glasses and we made hard boiled Eggs, which he did not like at all. but had fun holding them once they were boiled. we are also in potty training mode...again, i'm open to suggestions!


we DO have another child...it just seems parker is always in the spot-light cause he does so many funny things. wyatt is our little adventurer. he can climb onto parker's log bed and likes to try and jump off of it. he's had a really good teacher. they are inseparable partners in crime. i am mostly at my wit's end by the end of the day. wyatt got a haircut tonight and no longer looks like a long-hair hippie, thank heavens. i didn't think it was possible but, yes, he looks even cuter now that his hair is cut. he's a fun baby!