Crash

Well, I didn't take any pictures and I should have but my van is in the shop this week. Riley had his first really good wreck, and he actually had two. The first one, he backed into my dad's carport. He didn't think he hit it that hard, but it put two pretty big dents in the back corner of the van. Then about 10 days later he turned to sharp into a pole. That one really hurt the van. It cratered the passenger side pretty good. We couldn't close the doors. They would close just enough to hold shut but the back door wouldn't latch. Needless to say we have to get it fixed (and we are going to go ahead and get the scratch fixed that I put in it when I ran over the mailbox ;) ). He is ok but he wasn't very happy with himself. I still love him. My flames will not be there when I get it back, but that just gives me a good reason to get new ones!! Green and gray and black!! Go Loboes!!

Reading

My Nolan, he is an interesting "little" boy. He is determind to get 200 AR points by the end of the year. He wants to go to a rockhound game!! He almost has 150 points. His 1st 6 weeks 27.5 points, 2nd 6 weeks 27.5, 3rd 35, so far we are 3 weeks into the 4th and he has 41.4 points. He is in the middle of a book that will give him 5 more and his teacher is reading a book that will give him another 5. I don't think he is going to have any problems making 200. Oh, and his teacher set a goal for him at the beginning of the year to get 15 points each 6 weeks. He scoffed at that. What a kid. I actually have to ground him from reading when he is not getting homework done or chores done.

Wisdom Teeth

Poor Riley didn't want to miss any school this year so we had to schedule getting his wisdom teeth out for when he wasn't in school. That would be over Christmas break. So on December 22 we got his wisdom teeth taken out. He was so swollen, and he really had a hard time eating anything. He looks much better now. The swelling went down after about a week. He also is getting braces. He already has the top brackets on to help bring in a tooth that has decided it didn't want to be apart of the rest of them. He will have braces longer than normal because of this tooth. He sure does take it well though.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. Mom and Dad were supposed to go to Ft. Worth to spend a few days with Leanne and Lindsey but they got turned around because the weather was so bad and the roads were closed. It was nice having them here. Since everyone but me lived in that area for a while, they haven't been here for Christmas in a few years. We opened all our presents in our new house and Santa brought all our gifts there.

The boys all got aprons for Christmas from mom and dad. Kisha made all of them. She did a great job.

Richard and I got Aprons too. Aren't they cute.

William got some good stuff from santa.

This is Evan's new stuff for his bedroom. When we get all the walls painted and everything up I will post it.

Nolan and Caleb's room is outerspace. We are having fun with it right now. We are trying to get everything up and I think it is looking good.

Riley's room is Dallas Cowboys. We are pretty much done with his room. He has a mess in there right now because he has boxes he is going through. I need to get in there with him and help him figure out what to keep and what to throw away.

The boys wanted books for Christmas so they got BOOKS. Nolan has really got into the Animorphs series so Santa brought him the entire set. He was happy. He also has got Caleb and Riley interest in them, so these were good for everyone.

All in all I think it was a wonderful Christmas. Probably the best we have had. I know the boys were happy and Richard and I have been very busy getting there rooms decorated and unpacking.

Our new house.

Well we got our new house about 9 days before Christmas. We got to spend Christmas night in the new house.

This is the house as they moved it onto the land.

They are putting the house together here. It was pretty cool to watch.

This is the livingroom.

the kitchen

the dinning room

the student center

Mater bedroom

master bathroom

We really love our new house. We are doing a lot of stuff to it. The boys rooms are being decorated right now. I will post those as we get them done.

Dutcher-Phipps Christmas Party

We had the Dutcher-Phipps Christmas party at the begining of December. It was a lot of fun.

Caleb was Mr. Cool

Riley wasn't shy. He wanted his present!!

Nolan was really excited!! He knocked Santa's hat off. Silly boy.

Evan was happy to sit on Santa's lap.

And Will really liked Santa. He was the first one to sit on Santa's lap and he didn't even have a present ready for him. He did get his present a few minutes later and that was fun too. It was a good party. The food was good and the boys had fun.

Riley

Tyrel took Riley hunting. This is what he got. It has a beautiful rack!!!

Ouch

As we were getting ready for Church one Sunday morning Nolan or Caleb ( can't remember which) was playing with Evan and he was on the chair laying on the footrest. Whichever boy it was decided to put the footrest down and it slipped out of his hand and William landed on his nose. I though he had a broken nose but it wasn't. I stayed home from church with him while Richard took the other boys to church. He got better pretty fast. I think I was sadder longer than he was. Poor little guy.

What an angel.

William

Just some pictures of William. He is a funny boy and his brothers sure do love him.

um, um good

That is one tired superman

Silly Nolan, putting a can on Will's head.

Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving at Mom's house this year. She invited family from both sides and it was really nice. There were cousins there that I haven't seen in quite a while.

William liked sitting on a big chair

The guys enjoyed the game While the girls enjoyed each others company.

We also had a lot of fun playing games. When don't we have fun playing games??