February Fishing

On any given weekend, no matter the weather, if you ask Cody what he wants to do the answer is always the same, he always says he wants to go huntin' and fishin'. Yes Robert has him trained very well. On Valentines day we gave in and took him fishing. Even though it was only mid 30's outside, Cody had a blast. Robert kept telling him that it was pretty cold so they should go back to the truck but Cody wasn't having it, he loves to fish and throw rocks into the lake. Robert had to drag him back to the truck, he just loves to be out in nature, very much his father's son!

Freezin' but lovin every minute of it!

Jake's 9 month Photo Shoot

Yesterday I took Jake to get his 9 month pictures taken. I was just planning on getting one or two poses of just Jake because we just had Cody's pic's taken, but of course they took such cute pictures that I got suckered into a whole package worth of pictures, oh well! Jake was sure smiley and was enjoying this photo shoot much more than the one before Christmas. I can't believe he is 9 months already, time flies. He is getting around much faster these days and loves, loves to just play. He loves Cody and his dogs and of course his mom and dad. We love you too Jakie!

Photo Shoot

Just some fun pictures

Walking with his walker, he thinks it's so funny!

Robert had to shovel the lawn to create this snowman and snow fort, you do what you have to!

Cutie Patutie!

Kansas Whitetail's

Ok I have been getting a lot of flack for not doing a post on the Deer hunting here in Kansas so here it goes. Robert shot his first Whitetail deer this season. He was very excited to bring it home to show Cody and the excitement was mutual. There have been several deer hung in my garage this season and Cody is always excited to check them out. Robert got this deer's antlers made into a European mount and that is hanging in our guest/dog room, I thought that was pretty nice of me to allow, it actually looks very nice.

Robert's 10 point Kansas Whitetail Deer

At the first of December Robert's brother Jason came out to visit/hunt, mostly the hunt part. He was after a monster Whitetail of his own and boy did they find one for him. This was the biggest buck that Robert had ever seen in the area that they hunt. It made the record books and is currently at the taxidermist being mounted to hang in Jason's house. The deer had part of a fence stuck in it's antlers when he shot it and all the guys thought that was pretty cool. I kept suggesting that they take the fence off for the pictures but apparently I didn't get it.

Well I am looking forward to this years deer season when I can walk out in my garage and smell the fresh venison and see the blood stained wall, oh the memories! I'm just joking, well not really but I don't mind it too much. Robert is lucky to have such a loving wife that let's him hang dead deer in the garage and have dead birds in her freezer, I must love him I guess!

Time to organize

Since it's the new year we thought we would try to organize the house a bit. Robert wanted to make shelves in the garage for our shoes so he went around and got out all the kids shoes to see what fit who and so on. We came up with 66 pairs of shoes for the boys. He was a bit flabbergasted but I quickly reminded him that all those shoes are from the ages of 0-4yrs. He had to set them all up to make it look worse than it really was, well OK it did look a bit like a shoe store but he is just lucky that we don't have a girl, I guarantee it would have been much worse than this. Oh yes and do take note of the wonderful outfit that Cody wore for the day!

Christmas 2008

Christmas 2008 was a fun year. We went to Utah to both our families houses and to Heber to go on the Polar Express, which we try to do every year. Cody was so excited for Santa to come this year and Jake was so fun for his first Christmas. We had a lot of fun in Utah and drove in a lot of snow! We hadn't seen that much snow in a long time and while it was fun we decided that we don't miss driving in it. Cody had a blast sledding in Price with his cousins. Cody even managed to sneak in a trip to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point with his Grandma and Papa Denney before we left. While we had a great time in Utah it was good to get home and settle back into normal life. It was so fun to see most of our friends and family and hopefully those we didn't get to see we will get to see next time we come to visit. Here are some of the fun pictures that we took this Christmas season!

A night in Denver

What started out as a fun little trip to Robert's company Christmas party in Denver, CO turned out to be quite an adventure. We were scheduled to leave Kansas City on Fri at 12:04pm, well we ran into construction on the way to the airport and one thing lead to another and our first plane left without us. We could have made the plane but our luggage couldn't. If you know us very well you know that we are almost never late so this was not the norm for us. We got booked onto the next available flight at 4:00pm and proceeded to security where the whole family got the pat down and luggage search. Robert is always a bit nervous about security being that he works around explosive propellant residue 5 days a week and it's bound to be all over his coat and clothes, but we managed to get cleared for our flight and we went and settled into our cozy airport seats for the next 4 hours, with 2 kids and no extra bottle for the baby. The kids were really good while we waited and I came up with a solution so that Jake would not starve. We took off on our 4pm flight and hoped Jake's first flight would go well. He did pretty good, very squirmy but no crying so that was great. On the plane me and Robert kept counting in our heads and wondering if we were even going to be able to make it to the party that was the whole reason for the trip. Well long story short we made it late but we made it. Our friends that live in the Denver area had arranged for a babysitter for the kids, which had been a worry of mine all week. I knew the babysitter would do great I just wasn't sure how I would do. This was the first time I left Jake with anyone other than family. He was crying his head off when we left but they said that he settled down and was just fine. Cody had a blast. The family that was watching them had a Wii and they said Cody had so much fun playing that. When we dropped the kids off we were running so behind that we had to change our clothes at the babysitters house, they were so nice about it and we came back downstairs and Cody said "What are you guys still doing here?" So we made it to the party and had a wonderful delicious dinner and met some people that Robert had never met before and talked with many that he had. At the airport during our 4 hour wait, the kids were very good, it was us parents that had a hard time waiting.

At the Country Club

Ok so these pictures of Jake are on the flight home. The flight home went really well. I fed Jake right when we took off and he fell asleep for most of the flight. When he woke up I put him in the empty seat next to me and thought this was too funny so we took a couple of pictures. Jake the traveling fool!!

We actually learned a lot this trip and will now be better prepared for the trip to Utah next week. We didn't even want to think about going back to the airport but we love our family so we will. I'm sure the more we travel the easier it will be, right!? We are excited to see all our friends and family next week even if it means going back to the airport!