To Pierce or Not To Pierce???

Recently Tatum has been mistaken for a boy. The poor thing since day one I have said it but no one agreed with me. She is cute, adorable, precious, yet some days her looks change and I like to dress her in brown a lot. So tonight Stephen asked me if I wanted to get her ears pierced. I always had in mind that I was going to let her decide when she wanted to do it but I am starting to think that Stephen is getting a little worried. I feel like such a terrible mom to admit this and to actually post it on a blog. Thank goodness she is too young to read and hopefully in the future when she looks back and reads this she'll laugh. So after our conversation tonight I decided I would make her some barrettes for her hair (or lack of hair) and just maybe she will keep them in. I really loved making hair bows for her but the little booger keeps pulling them off. We'll let me know what you think and we'll try the barrettes for a while.

Here are some pictures of two of my children in the same outfit. Can you guess which one is Tatum???

December... Fast Forward

Okay so it's been awhile and we have been very busy, so here are a few highlights of the month of December and I might as well do January while I'm at it and who knows maybe I should just predict February and March that way I will be caught up for the next few months.

So let's see what happened in December???? (it's been too long to remember... Kinda of pathetic I know!) Okay the beginning of Dec. (I think) my mom and I took Tatum down to the high school to get her pictures taken. Now many of you are wondering why the high school (Can't they at least afford Targets $4.99 portrait sheets) No there is a reason. My mom has a dress of hers when she thinks she was about one years old and a little blue stuffed doggy that she had her picture taken in so we took the dress, the dog, and Tatum down to the photography room and snapped some pictures that will soon be photo shopped to look old and vintage like my moms. So here is my mom and here is Tatum.


Chandler and Cooper finished up soccer and T-ball and it was hilarious. Cooper got his trophy first and then after Chandler's last game he got his and the first thing that the boys did was set them on the ground and measured who's was the tallest. Is that not brotherly competition or what?


Next we took family pictures of the kids. They are did really well and cooperated, so here are a few that I like best.



Then every year at the end of first semester my dad has a pizza party for his college class at Chandler High. It's really cool and it is something that we have done as a family every since I can remember. It's a little unique to the fact that my dad cooks the pizzas in his giant kiln that he would normally fire his pottery in. Over the years my sister and I have figured out that you don't want to be the first ones to have you pizza cooked because it usually comes out burnt on the bottom and doughy in the middle (probably due to the fact that it's cooking at the temp. of 800 degrees and then it slowly cools down. But anyways the pizza is really good and the boys really enjoyed making their own pizzas. (Thanks mom and dad)

A week and a half I took the kids down to the bird house to get Nana (my mom) a bird for Christmas. On the way to the store I had a talk with the boys, Cooper, explaining how it's a secret and not to tell Nana what we got her. So we ended up getting her a Tri colored Love Bird and on the way home I told the boys to come up with a name. So they were thinking and thinking and all of the sudden Cooper says, "How about Peach?" We all loved it and it stuck. Now the funny part was about four days later, Nana was taking Cooper to Preschool and Cooper blurts out, "Hey Nana we don't have another bird, No we don't." Well my mom is just too quick and she caught on fast. Fortunately we were able to keep the little bird's name a secret for Christmas but that was about it.



And Last, Christmas was wonderful! Everyone had a great time and it was great seeing and being with family!

Hopefully I didn't bore you with the book that I have written and my new years resolution is to be better at journaling but hey doesn't this say Stephen and Chelsea's blog? Stephen could jump in anytime now.
P.S. If some of the pictures look familar... Thanks Mom!

All Aboard the POLAR EXPRESS...

A tank of gas $80. New tires for a road trip $750. Monkey pajamas for the ninos $60. Being pulled over by half the Williams police dept. while your friends drive by laughing and your child does the potty dance in the back of the suburban.....priceless. (I'm only guessing that 2 squad cars make up half of the Williams police force, but it is possible it could be all of the Williams police force.) Even with our tangle with the law we made it to the Polar Express on time and had a great time singing Christmas songs, eating cookies, visiting Santa, and hanging out with our friends the Weavers and Grimsleys.

Reindeer Farm

According to Cooper the deer farm was the "best part" of our trip to the Polar Express. I have to agree that it was lots of fun feeding the deer, touching the camel, and checking out the reindeer and other cool animals. Cooper almost went head to head with an angry little goat....I still don't know who would have won. And if we would have known that we were going to meet Donkey from the Shrek movies we would have brought something for him to autograph! I guess just a picture with him will have to due.

Halloween 2007

Here you go Chels, don't have time to blog much so talk to you later!


Super Cooper to the Rescue!


Captain Chandler and First Mate Tatum!