Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Christmas 2012

We had a great Christmas here at the Blair House!

First off, we didn't think we could make the Blair Christmas down in LR and last minute we got to go! We all are so glad we got to go and the kids love playing with all of their cousins! I don't have any pictures from that Christmas but we did get a SUPER great camera from that Christmas that I do have pictures from our Christmas in Springdale. I may update blogger now more that I will have pictures. It was hard to get motivated about blogging when I had no pictures really to upload. Ha.

Anyways, here are some pictures of our Christmas up here (mind you we were grossly misled about having a white Christmas....we got NOTHING!!)

Now...pictures......
 One of her gifts from Santa.


 Her other gift from Santa. Honestly, these two were from Santa because we couldn't wrap them!
 Hayden's from Santa.

 Time to open gifts!!


 Dinosaur book. Of course.
 I just love his face here. Like, 'seriously, why did mom buy this?' Its Megamind and I swear  he does like it!! :)
 Minnie Mouse headphones. Hayden got some spider-man headphones and besides their capes I think its their second favorite gift.
 Hayden got attacked by wrapping paper. :)


 He LOVES this shark hat.

 Cooper is such a good dog. Just lets the kids ride him, put things on him, tease him with food (pic below) and the list goes on, on what this dog will put up with.

 Poor poor Cooper. I turned around and find my poor dog being tortured. Ha.
Olivia with her baby doll loot. She was quite pleased.


After our Christmas down in LR I think Hayden thought we were done...or just didn't care anymore. He woke up Christmas morning and crawled in our bed, Andrew opened his eyes and Hayden said 'Shh..close your eyes and go to sleep.' Ha! Well, now that Christmas is over its full on for Miss Olivia Kathryn and her birthday! I'm excited for her birthday party this year. I always seem to do more or get more into Hayden's parties but I like her theme this year. Easy to work with! Trust me...there will be pictures!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Argue...

Hayden-'Mommy, what does this book say?'
Me: 'Five Little Penguins Slipping On The Ice'
Hayden: 'Really? That's what daddy said.'
Me: 'Well, that's because that's the name of the book.'
Hayden: 'No, its not. Its Five Jingle Penguins who slip on the ice.'
Me: 'Okay, Hayden.'

Hayden LOVES to argue. He literally teaches Olivia how to argue with him. :/ I love him to pieces but he is such a mess. :)

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Oh Blogger.....

I have not been in the mood to blog...at all. I think I have said this before. I guess I am just not the blogger type. Eh...oh well. Well, I have a bit to catch up on so here goes.

We were supposed to get our pictures done at the beginning of October but Hayden had an ear infection due to allergies. Yuck...I loathe allergies! Anyways, he was pretty pathetic and then the very next week we were at the Dr office again for Olivia this time. She had croup. And what caused the croup...the beloved allergies!! It was not a fun two weeks. BUT, things then got SO much better....Hayden cracked  his nose in a horrible bike wreck, Olivia got a nasty stomach bug as soon as she got over her croup, I then caught said stomach bug and then Hayden caught the stomach bug the day before Halloween. OH.MY.GOODNESS. I am exhausted.
 Ha. Cuddling with an US Weekly magazine. Haha.
 The two above pictures is all Olivia would do when she was sick. She just laid around and slept. I felt so bad for her.

 OH! I forgot to mention that a  few days before Hayden had his bike wreck he was playing outside with his dump truck and was pushing it around. He lost his balance and face planted the concrete. He skidded his nose and fingers. He didn't even know he  had hurt his nose..ha...I had taken the picture before he went and looked in the mirror. He then started crying...of course. BUT, as soon as he had band aids on he told me he was ALL better. I have pictures of his nose from the bike wreck but they are pretty bad. :(
This is some of the food for our Halloween party. Lots of dips, dessert and some yummy chili. Kids snacked and watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown after trick or treating. We all had a great time!


 Hayden came up with the idea to sit on the chair to pose! He is so funny!!
 Pretty kitty cat.
 They are being 'scary' here.



 The two above pictures of the 'gang'. Such a great group of kids and all had a great time.

                                                                                 
And they are off!

Haha!! Hayden looks very unsure.


This is what Olivia would do anytime she saw someone scary or Krista and Billy! LOL. She buried her face in my legs or she pretended she was sleeping. Ha. Wouldn't it be great if we all could just pretend we were sleeping if we didn't like what was going on. Meeting at work..nah...I'm sleeping. 



All the kids going door to door. Above is Jaks...he is Harry Potter. Jackson is Hayden's favorite of the triplets. He follows Jaks around and probably annoys him to death but he is so sweet to Hayden and just lets him. 



The houses in Krista's neighborhood really get into the holidays with decorations and such. This house was pretty fantastic! All the kids went up and grabbed their candy...except Olivia. If a house was too scary or the adult handing out candy was too scary she just stayed far away like the above picture or buried her head in my legs. She was cracking all of us up.


Hayden was done trick or treating after about 40 minutes. He said 'I think my bucket is full enough.' So, we headed back and to Krista's and saw a bunch of people standing around her front porch and were wondering where Billy was. WELL, he was pretending to be a dead zombie lying on the ground all sprawled out. It was hilarious!!! He made a couple kids cry and some kids refused to get candy because it was too close to him. One teenager boy walked up and kicked him in the leg so Billy jumped up and just stared at him and the kid ran as fast as he could away!! 
It was so funny! He even creeped out a few adults. Haha. That was our Halloween and boy did we have fun. But, now that Halloween is over it  is full on Christmas! Yes, I realize there is still Thanksgiving but I want to have my fill of the Holiday season by Dec 26th. That way when I put away the Christmas tree I am not sad. I LOVE the Christmas season!! And in my house it lasts 2 months! Luckily, I have a very go with the flow husband and he may make fun of me but always goes along with it. I think he secretly likes the Christmas season too. Even if he won't admit it. ;)

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Fun.

This past weekend my friend Krista and I went to Dallas for a small girls weekend. We got into Dallas around 730pm on Friday. Our first stop...IKEA!! (We deliberately got a hotel that was near the Ikea...little did we know we could see Ikea out of our room window!). We ate a delicious meal in Ikea (seriously, the food was pretty good) and started browsing. It is the greatest store I have been to in a while and wish we had one closer! On our way down we were looking up 'ghost tours' or 'haunted houses'. We found this great ghost tour and booked online. They had zero opening for that Friday so we booked for Saturday. Well, it poured all day Saturday....our ghost tour was cancelled and our money refunded. BUT the guy told us that next we are in Dallas we can do the tour for free! (Like, we frequent Dallas that much. Sigh.)
 Anyways, the trip was just relaxing and all we did was walk around the Galleria, Ikea and Crate and Barrel outlet. But, not having to fight kids, get a stroller in and out at every stop, having to say 'quit touching that', and, well you get the picture. We rented movies in our hotel (could have bought two tickets for imax theater for what hotels charge you for movies!) and ordered room service. Just what I needed. But by Sunday, as much as I enjoyed the trip, I missed my little chaotic life. I think I would be bored if I had an easy life. Love my little family and missed them bunches!

Thursday before I left for my trip I had to take the kids to their semi annual teeth cleaning. I am taking them to a new dentist because I just didn't like the one they had before. Pediatric Dental has the NICEST facility and the dentists! So patient with the kids.

 Hayden playing games while waiting for the Dentist. This lasted about 2 minutes.
 That's the 'movie theater'.
 Large saltwater fish tank. Kids loved it!
 Hayden watching Rio while waiting.
They were playing Dora on the ceiling to keep kids distracted while messing with their teeth. It did not work on the young girl next to us. She was scaring my kids. Ha. But Hayden did alright. The dentist made him nervous and he put up a small fight but quickly gave in. Olivia on the other hand...sheesh...you would think she was at the spa!! She just loves the dentist!
 About two weeks ago Andrew had asked me if I had ever been to Natural Falls. I have not. I don't know why I haven't. I grew up in Siloam and Natural Falls is about 10 minutes from Siloam. It is such a clean and beautiful place! I can't wait to take the kids back there in the fall.

 Hayden peeking through this rock. He thought it was pretty cool.
 The park at Natural Falls.
 Just love this picture of her for some reason.
 Olivia peeking through.

 This place was just beautiful. And even this waterfall left my kids quiet.

This was part of the lake there. They have it sectioned off and this is the 'swimming hole'. My picture is awful....it actually looks like a place I would let my kids swim. Ha.

I am sure I am forgetting some stuff that has happened but this is it for now. :)