Friday, November 27, 2015

Thanksgiving Visitors

Thanksgiving weekend my Brother and his family drove down from ND for a surprise visit!
 We had such a wonderful time with them! 
 All the FO grandkids.  Houston Ambellina Hannah & Heath. In a few months the girls will outnumber the boys 4:2.



Uncle Dallin babysat the boys and all the adults and girls went to Branson for some Black Friday outlet shopping.

These two were so good and so cute!
 Uncle Nile loves Mexican Villa so we all went out for lunch their last day.
 These two had so much fun playing with the chips and dip.
 The whole clan: Ambellina Brittany Nile Heath Grandma Grandpa Dallin Houston Hannah (Matt was at work)

 Man, these are fuzzy.  Grandma Grandpa and their Grandbabies.

 It is so fun to watch these two interact with each other.
 They both got really good at saying Chock it, so they could ask Grandma for chocolate chips.
 Uncle Nile and his Girlies.
 Houston and Ambellina really hit it off. They played really well together.


Hannah & Ambellina would be best buddies one minute, then screaming at each other the next.  Usually they were friends though.






Playing with cousins all day sure is tiring.





























Come back soon! We miss you! 

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

November

This is how we watch the Notre Dame game at our house.





Heath loves to eat wild onions.
 Houston loves to be crazy.

Hannah loves to swing.(and Houston loves to push)

 This girl is such a goof. One of her new favorite things to do is whisper to me, "Mom...mom....mom." when I answer she says, "I cry."



 I love finding these boys like this.


 Heath was really working hard on that spiderman hand.


 This time at the park Heath made an onion nest for the birds.
 Grandpa got Hannah her very own rocking horse.

She loves it and also loves wearing her brother's clothes.
 Back yards are SO awesome!
 We all got some kind of a stomach bug one day. Hannah and Houston were throwing up and Heath had a fever. We watched lots of Library movies that day.
 Before Christmas we went to the Winter Wonderland in Bass Pro.  Super fun and all free!

 The boys loved target shooting.

 Hannah's outfit of choice.

She is beginning to become very conscious of what she is wearing.  If she has an opinion about what she wants to wear she definitely lets us know now about it.
 Heath has been getting a lot better at reading.  Just before we moved he was really getting frustrated and hated to do it.  After we moved to Spfld he explained his frustration to me like this, "Mom, you know when we would be driving in St Louis and you would tell me that I couldn't talk anymore because your brain just needed to think about driving because it was too crazy.... that's how I feel when I am doing my reading and everyone is crazy."  So now, rather than doing his reading portion of school at the kitchen table, I now turn on a scripture reader video for Houston and Hannah while Heath and I go into the bedroom and he reads. It has made all the difference. I'm glad we figured that out.

 We have been very much enjoying the mild weather here this year!
 Hannah loves to snuggle into Daddy's spot after he leaves for work.  You'd think she was a Daddy's girl or something.
 Bob the Cat is so well loved and so patient.

 Hannah adopted Kayla's old doll Anna Baby.  She takes such good care of her.
 Look at what Hannah found...
 Houston is the king of falling asleep in weird place.
 We found a crazy Uncle Dallin on the side of the road. The boys thought it was SO cool.



 Living without a dishwasher hasn't been too bad. We only have a few dishes so really you have to wash it to use it so dishes don't pile up.  Houston LOVES to wash the dishes for me.  He did it most of the time.
 Hannah and her Uncle Dallin.

 Houston went to the dentist for the first time and did great. It probably helped that he got to wear some sweet captain America shades.  Houston is cavity free and happy!
I love to find Hannah selfies.