Ten Years

Jack and I celebrated our tenth anniversary this month and it is kinda exciting! It is exciting because I still think that being married to Jack is fun! He is such a great guy and we really are best friends! We still enjoy discussing all sorts of different ideas and topics and we still laugh at each other's jokes. I am grateful that I am married to a man who enjoys my company and makes our relationship a priority in his life and who puts up with a wife who listens to the Harry Potter books on tape every single day while she does the dishes! I guess I am happy that I didn't run out of the temple before the wedding ten years ago like I thought about doing!

Trumels Turns Five

Wow! I can't believe that our little man is 5 years old! He is so much fun! He is always surprising us with funny little sayings, songs or jokes that he has made up. He is also great at giving hugs and Eskimo kisses. He wants to say every prayer of the day, not because he is a spiritual giant or anything, but because he thinks our prayers are way to long. He is a wild man and is constantly running, jumping, climbing and diving! He received a bike for his birthday and he is already "The fastest bike rider ever!!". All in all he is a great kid and we love him.
Here are some pictures from his piratical party.

Snow!!

So for the first time since we moved to Maryland, I feel like we actually had some winter weather. It snowed this week and then we had an ice storm. I had to dig my window scrapper out of my trunk and I actually had to use it TWO DAYS IN A ROW! I know, my life is hard!

New Year, Same Amount of Coolness!

Here are our happy new year tidings to all of you out there in blogger land! We had a fun Christmas and New year. We held our traditional rockin' Christmas Eve sing-a-long and this year Truman joined in on the percussion instruments (kind of). The Day after Christmas I was enjoying a delightful day of sleeping in when Jack came into our room and announced that he did not want to spend his vacation sitting around our house. Sooo.... we packed up the car and headed out to Iowa to visit my brother and his family. It was the craziest drive ever, we literally drove all night. We encountered rain, FOG, and an ice storm! But we finally made it to our destination and all of our travails were worth while because we had a terrific time with my brother , his wife and their kids! While we were there we got to enjoy the extremely brisk Iowa temperatures and Truman got to play in some snow for the first time this winter. We also toured the place of John Wayne's birth and saw one of the bridges of Madison county. So good times, great oldies!

I know, I'm a Weirdo

For some unknown reason I feel compelled to document all of the really large messes I make. Just ask Jack about all of the pictures I have of different things I have spilled and broken. So with this information in mind, this is a picture of the half a bag of flour I spilled on the floor last week. I had Truman get into the picture as a point of reference and he decided to display the recipe (aka concoction) of chocolate chips and banana slices that he had made while I was busy making cookies. Coincidentally this little "recipe" of his soon found itself all over the floor and then in the trash. But Truman did the spilling that time so I did not take a picture.

Yuletide Beginnings

So last week our little joy school performed a nativity play at a retirement home, and it was great. Truman played Joseph and this year he actually wore the costume and played the part (last year he refused to put on a costume and crawled around on the floor). Then all of the kids sang some songs and handed out some Christmas cards they had made. All of the kids were so cute. And I was actually thinking that I had a pretty great kid.
But then the incident occurred...
We went out to our cars and started loading up the kids. While I was putting Truman's car seat in our car, I heard my friend Mary say, "Oh, No Truman." And a great fear entered my heart. Truman had scratched her car with a rock!!! TWICE!! I was no longer thinking that I had a pretty great kid! Yikes!! The roller coaster ride that we call motherhood.

YUM...TURKEY!

So we had a great Thanksgiving! Our friends Carriane and Jason came over to our house for dinner. We have known them since we lived in Arizona and it is fun to get to hang out with them again out here in Maryland. We had a fun, relaxing day and the food was great. The best part was that Carriane and Jason brought the turkey, ham, rolls, and pecan pie, and Jack peeled the taters, so all of the hard stuff was taken care of by them. It made my day a whole lot easier.
I also wanted to mention the fact that Truman has taken to using the word "SWEET". For example, "Sweet, we get to watch cartoons!" or "This toy is sweet!". I am so happy that he at least sounds like an Idaho boy, even if he doesn't live there.