Our Lil' Christmas

Before.....

And after...gotta love it.

My two most favorite boys!

Kaylie's big present from Santa...it was a huge hit (once she woke up enough to realize what it was.)

Gotta love the stick horse and the fact that dad had to show her how to use it. She clopped around all day in her princess dress (not in the shot, obviously), crown and lovely heels (which broke two days later...nice.)

-All in all, it was a very good Christmas considering the circumstances. We just feel very blessed, and are grateful for each other. We're hoping that the new year will bring lots of good news too!

'Nother Funny Story

-Kaylie is at such a funny stage...you gotta love what kids say. The weekend before Christmas while we were in the middle of our move, my mom came home and told me that Santa was at the grocery store. I decided to drop everything because we needed a little Christmas cheer. So I went to pick up Kaylie at her friend's house. Then my sister and I took Kaylie and her friend (Cheyenne) to see Santa. While we were driving there Cheyenne kept calling Kaylie, Lucy (which is Kaylie's cousin's name). It was pretty funny because they had been playing together all day. We got to Santa and Kaylie was too scared to sit on his lap so the more experienced Cheyenne went first. I whipped out my camera and took a picture and then my batteries died...(typical), so no picture of Kaylie on Santa's lap...oh well. On the way home Cheyenne said to Kaylie and I quote: "Hey Lucy, I bet you can't guess your name, I'll give you a hint it starts with a K." (My sister and I are cracking up) then Kaylie replies: "You're crazy Chantell". (Chantell is Lucy's mom.)
-I'm driving through Salt Lake and in a hurry. This lady is driving in front of me and she is super slow. Plus she won't let me pass her. So when she finally makes a right hand turn I say "move it grandma". As we drive past Kaylie looks at the lady and says..."that's not grandma".
-Kaylie's newest thing..."no-kay". I ask her all the time if she needs to go potty just to be sure and she always says "no, I not, I'm okay." So the past few days she's decided that "no-kay" is the short way to answer her annoying mom.
-Coming soon, Christmas pictures. Once I find my camera under all the mess.

On The Move...Again!

No Decking the halls at the Flamm's this year, these are moving boxes.... It's becoming a fact of life for us, every year or so we decide to move and now we're on the move again. This will be move number 5 for us and we haven't even been married 4 years! We're moving back up to Idaho, so this picture was just perfect for the occasion. Why Idaho you ask? Well we need to cut back on expenses and my Grandparents were in need of house sitters (they're on mission number 5!), and the timing was just right. Now we can try to start our business and then figure life out from there.

Just because it's been a while...

I decided to post some new pictures just because it's been a while since I have. Here's Aaron and Kaylie hanging out with dad while he works on the computer. Notice Kaylie's dress, it's the second day in a row that she's worn it. She's really excited about Christmas and Santa Claus, she's at such a fun age.

Aaron's starting to sit up...it's just crazy how fast he's growing, he'll be four months next week! He's quite the talker too, he woke up at midnight last night and talked for a half hour to himself, it's cute during the day but not so much at night.

Kaylie is such a ham. She just can't be left out of a photo.

Here she literally jumped in again....lovely. Sorry Aaron, I just don't think that we're going to have as many single photos of you as you'd like.

Just checking out dad's work, he's definitely a daddy's boy.

One Really Rough Day

This last Sunday Kaylie had one of her worst days ever. We were walking to church, and sort of in a hurry I might add, when she tripped and took a nose dive into the sidewalk. I looked up to see her face flat on the ground and her feet in the air. When we got her up her face was all scraped up and there was a ton of blood in her mouth. Being the paranoid mom that I am, I started to panic. Luckily Jacob was there too take over. He took her back in and got her all cleaned up. But these photos were taken after church.

And to top off her nose dive, she tripped in nursery and skinned her knee so bad that she limped for the next two days.

I love how miserable she looks. Poor kid has had one super rough week, she's been sick with just about everything. Sometimes life just isn't so fun.

Aaron on the other hand has been happy as can be, since we've discovered that he has acid-reflux and we've put him on meds. He's at such a fun stage, where he loves to bat at things and show off his skills. I still can't believe how fast they grow.

Halloween

This year for Halloween we got to go to Jo-Jo's (my mom) house to celebrate. I don't know anyone who is more obsessed with Halloween than her. Here is Stockton in one of his Halloween Costumes. I say one because I guess he has at least three.

Here's Jo-Jo's porch on Halloween night. They spent at least two hours preparing. It's a little much, but that's what makes it so much fun.

Eben though Aaron was a pumpkin for Halloween, we had to put him in his coat because it was so cold. His coat is a Pooh Bear suit, he's such a cutie and growing way too fast.

Cousins posing for Halloween, this was one of the better ones. It was impossible to get all of them to look at the camera at the same time.

So cute!

I know their not looking at the camera, but I thought this was a super cute shot, I love my kids.

Aaron as a pumpkin, thanks for the costume Amber it was perfect.

And life goes on...

Yes, we're still alive and kickin...
I just realized the other day that my blog has been a little gloomy for the past few weeks and I'm just now getting around to posting something a little more positive. I would like to thank everyone of you who have been praying for us, it's definitely helping. No, we haven't found a job yet (we've called just about every Mortuary in the West) and we haven't won the lottery yet either...(kidding, we're not blowing money we don't have on lottery tickets). But we do have a few ideas. And we'll head back to school eventually, not cool, but such is life.

Here's the kids in dad's shades. They love doing stuff together, and it's kind of cute to see how much they like each other. Aaron loves watching Kaylie, he's fascinated by her. But they have their moments, they like to keep each other up all night, Kaylie bit Aaron's eye today and slapped his face a few days ago, so I guess you can say that they act like brother and sister already too.

We made chocolate chip cookies this afternoon while Aaron napped. I have to keep Kaylie quiet some how, so cookie dough worked wonders today.

Aaron is a huge stinker when it comes to sleep period. He especially hates naps. He just wants to be a part of everything. So being a little on the desperate side (like all parents) we've tried everything to get him to sleep. The pain is that something will work for a little while, but not forever. These past few weeks we've discovered that he likes Portuguese music while he's in his swing, it knocks him out cold...so nice to get him to sleep, but I'm at whits end with Portuguese music. My kids get their weirdness from their dad.