Keeping Up With the Joneses

The kids have been waiting no-so-patiently for enough snow to build a snowman and go sledding. Finally last night Mason got out with some neighborhood friends and built a little snowman. Yay for great friends and neighbors!

Can I just say how much I love Myles? And how much he DRIVES ME NUTS sometimes? The kid has more energy than I can ever imagine having, and I don't think I've ever seen him sit completely still. Sunday Marshall was out of town and I was on my own for church. I was substituting doing the music in Primary, Mason was giving a talk, and Myles was saying the prayer. And the thing I was most worried about was Myles' prayer. I don't think I've ever heard him say a prayer that hasn't included something very unorthodox like "please bless that Mason's head with explode" or "please bless that Max's eyes will fall out." He adores his brothers, but knows just how to make them upset. So we survived getting everyone ready for church, getting the primary music set up, and we even (mostly) survived Sacrament meeting with just me and the three boys (though the people sitting in front and behind us might wonder). But then we walk into Primary and Myl...

I was just cleaning off the pictures on my phone and wanted to post these recent pics. It took 2 weeks, but we finally got Myles to play with Christmas presents other than his DS. He loves the playdough grandma gave him! But truthfully, this is what he would rather be doing. Just so you don't think I'm terrible, I definitely limit his time with video games. But I love these two playing together (but separately). They are so funny to listen to. They are polite to one another and then trade DSes when they get stuck. I love this picture because Mason looks like he is concentrating really hard. We got him Battleship for Christmas and he loves playing with his daddy. They both take it pretty seriously. On New Years Day we had a fun fondue and game night at Jessica's. We took this picture of us all together eating chocolates and playing games to make our brother Scott jealous that he couldn't be there. Turns out Mason LOVES fondue. He briefly considered cha...

Max has given up sleeping with stuffed animals and now sleeps with guns.