January 2013

Craven Corner Highlights

  

Ty is so handy around the house, and he has had plenty of chances to use his skills.  He fixed a leaky pipe (again.) 

 

Jackie supervised Tyson.

Jackie checking out the winter wonderland

Tommy is pointing to the ice sickle 

 We had some huge ice sickles, which the boys thought were soooo cool.  They wanted to play with them, eat them, and look at them.

Ty and I hoped our porch step didn't turn into an ice sheet like it has in years past. 

North Ogden was so pretty covered in white.

Tommy

 Sometimes the boys look so alike to me.  They have some of the same expressions. 

Wes

Beautiful View of our mountains

Tommy helped mom shovel snow

cold hands

  

Welcome new niece - love you Baby Harper!  Her big brother helps with his sister.

Mom, "Do you need a diaper change?"  T: "No, I'm good."

Date night.  We tried out our new camera we bought that night.

Date night - they are the best!!!! (But Marisa isn't happy I took her picture.)

Our "bosom friend" Lindsy brought her fiance Jeff.  He's awesome and read a lot of books with the kids- Come back anytime.....loved seeing these two!

FHE highlight: the kids liked being blindfolded and tried to find their way with and without the "iron Rod" (aka a rope.)

In one Fhe, Ty asked who the original disciples were.  Wes said, "John the Baptism."

more snow!

It's been a long winter with a lot of snow.  

The kids loved the snow and helped Mike shovel with the 4 wheeler.  It was beautiful.  It was a lot of work to shovel at our house, but we enjoyed it.  They kids love to play in the snow!

Jackie headed to a snowy day at school

Chlo-bug scooting around after slithering out of her pants

T is deep in thought

More smiles

T Smiling

December 2012

The first time we got snow this winter Ty and the kids shoveled it all to be able to make a snow man and then a snow cave.   Christmas was fun.  Ty and I put up the tent and hand to tie it to pieces of furniture to get it to stand up.  He's AWESOME!  The kids were confused to not see any presents under the tree.  We put them all by the tent, but they found them.  Chloe learned how to stick her feet through her crib slats.

For New Year's eve, we cleaned out our storage room.  Ty cut a whole in the wall to find the water shut off that was sheet rocked over when they finished that room.  Again, Ty is awesome and helped me do this project.

November 2012

I have had lots of parenting experiences.  In the pictures above, Wes got mad, and he threw over the trash can, so he got to pick up most of it.  I helped him with the egg shells.  He looks happy, but he wasn't.  I held strong, and he eventually realized that he had to clean it.

We went up to the cabin after Thanksgiving.  We stopped at the Brigham City temple and took pictures.  We went to the open house a few months earlier, but it was very busy so we came back and enjoyed the grounds.

October 2012

Ty's parents left on a 6 month mission to little Rock Arkansas in October.  They send us weekly emails with pictures, which we love.

We turned into landlords over their three rental properties while they are gone.  This has been very busy, especially for Ty because he has been over there often fixing something.  I've heard general authorities say that you bless your family by leaving on a mission.  This has been true.  We've had many blessings even though it has been challenging without the Cravens.  They are so helpful to us.  Being landlords has been challenging too.

Ty's employer sold the company to one of their customers.  Harmony Concepts became a member of the Rhema Group (from Canada.)  It is in transition period.  Ty worked hard keeping his guys busy because the schedule didn't have enough work.

The kids and I got to spend a day with "Uncle Parker" in Provo.  We toured the campus, ate BYU ice cream.  It was so much fun.  We love Parker.  He is awesome!!!

We went with Wes's preschool class to the pumpkin Patch.  Below is a picture of Wes with his teacher Ms. Helen.  The boys had so much fun.  Grandma Judy came along to help.  

The kids had fun Trick-or-treating.  It was warm.  We had hundreds of trick or treaters.  I ran out of candy.  Chloe stayed with me and helped me hand out candy.  She got so excited to see people.  I suggested that the kids stay home and hand out candy.  Jackie said no way.