Miscellaneous

At the church museum with cousins Lani & Cali

Tyson and his friend Seth at the downtown library

Free Zoo day (or should I say "freezing" zoo day,

actually it wasn't that cold and the reptile house was nice and warm)

We hang out with the twins a lot. Zach loves his cousins Luke & Lucy!

Discovery Gateway

We've had so much fun with the Discovery Gateway last year, and now our membership is about up. I think we'll find another cool place to get a membership this year. The zoo maybe? Open to suggestions!

The store is just as fun as the play areas.

Baby Anna liked it! She is getting cuter by the minute, if that's even possible, and she looks just like her dad & mom.

Cute picture of the Noall family!

What good aunts Natalie and Kellie are!

A self-proclaimed "Woody"

Lucy just gets me! I just can't take her unassuming beauty and sweetness.

CHRISTMAS!

Can we juuuuust go in now?

Some parents put bows on their kid's presents...

"What? I AM smiling!"

"Got what I need..."

Tyson got a few more pieces to add to the collection...

"All I need is your presence..."

(we didn't do gifts for each other this year,

but we're totally fine with that)

The Young brothers

I'm way behind...

Back in December we all went to Natalie's dance concert, "The Polar Express". Awesome job Natalie!

Addison is a pro picture-poser. Tyson -

still working on it.

At the Festival of Trees

Tyson loves his puzzles. He finished his new 100-piece Toy Story puzzle all by himself, and it was his first time ever doing it.

Boys love dress ups too...

Back in the fall... (what, we actually wanted to be outside?

... It seems like ages ago!)

I LOVE FREE STUFF!!

I started couponing a few months ago and I'm HOOKED! It's extremely entertaining to get screaming deals, AND I've taken a serious chunk out of our monthly grocery budget, at least 1/3 so far. I'm working on getting the budget down to 1/2 of what we've been spending for years AND we have more food and goods in our pantry than we have maybe ever AND we get to try all new kinds of foods and products. And it's only been a few months.

In fact, it's so entertaining that I wanted to take a picture of a bunch of free stuff I've scored lately.

Yes, ALL THIS STUFF WAS FREE!!

Here's another picture of free stuff I took a week or two ago...

And, yes. That's good stuff...like my favorite razors I determined I was too poor to buy.

This isn't even everything, of course, since we ate and used many items that never made it to the photo session.

It is work to get all the deals, but I just don't mind it cause it's fun, and I love free stuff.

Halloween

Halloween was fun this year! We enjoyed the traditional Holland & Hart party, then the ward party, then lots of visiting with family.

And LOTS of candy!!

Tyson & Zach were Jim Halpert and Dwight Schrute from the office.

Dwight

Jim

I was Flo, the progressive lady.

We all won prizes at my work party!

(actually, I win every year, but I still get excited

and yes,

I know I'm a huge nerd!)

Quirky Kids

One of Zachary's quirks is going off on his own and rolling up in a blanket. Not for nap time (never!), just to chill.

Tyson's main quirk is the compulsion to put things in a row, a stack, or some kind of order (not that he's orderly by any means)

Trains/Cars classified by color

Don't know the classification on this one, but in his head it was great.

Usually it's with toys, but he'll mix in whatever other things are laying around, like the shoes in these "tracks"