You Want Me to Do What?

The other day we all went outside to play in the snow.  As most of you know, I am not a huge fan of cold weather and snow.  I think maybe Charlie is going to be more like me when it comes to this.  He HATED it!   He cried the whole time he was outside.  It was pretty funny because everytime anyone leaves our house he wants to go with them, because he thought it liked the outside.  He is quickly learning what seasons are!  After torturing him for about thirty minutes I gave in and took him inside.  Darn it, I had to go in with him where it was nice and warm.  I was pretty bummed!  If I ever figure out how to do it, I will post a video.

Character Award

I had a proud Mommy moment today I wanted to share.  I try to volunteer on Friday mornings at Tyson's school.  Today happened to be an assembly in the gym first thing in the morning, so I went to watch.  His school is really big on building character.  This month 4 of Tyson's classmates were chosen for the Caring Award.  Tyson was one of them.  Today the teacher picked the two most caring kids in her class and they got to go up on stage to get a certificate.  Guess who was one?  Tyson!  When his teacher said "Tyson Lundstrom" he jumped up like he knew exactly what he was doing, went up on stage walking as proudly as you can imagine, accepted is award, and stood there so proud while all the other classes were announced.  I was such a proud Mommy!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving this year, unfortunately I have no pictures.  Yes, the lady that always has her camera had a camera but no batteries.  So I have ZERO pictures of our trip back to Iowa.  But here is how it went. 

The boys were pretty good in the car with a little help from the Black Eyed Peas.  I think we listened to Tonight is Going to Be A Good Night approximately 50 times (not exaggerating).  While we were back we had 2 Thanksgiving dinners, an all night shopping excursion, a visit to Santa, and a Fiesta birthday party for my nieces and nephew.  We also got to see our newest nephew whom we hadn't seen since he was born in August.  It was fabulous!  Hopefully my sister will send me some pictures so I can post them soon!   

Christmas Is Here!

Tyson decided this year he wanted to help Joel put up the Christmas lights.  He climbed up the ladder, onto the roof, and loved it!  He would have gone to the very peak if his nervous parents would not have been having a panic attack the entire time he was up there.  He kept saying, "Mom, I'm on the roof!"  He had a blast.  Joel has decided next year he might just let Tyson do it.  He HATES the roof!  Last year our neighbor helped him with the really high parts of the roof, but since he is in Afghanistan this year Joel had to do it himself.  We miss you JC! (but not just for your lack of fear:) )