A little of this, a little of that...

So when you don't post for a month, and then upload your camera and have 70 pictures to choose from...where do I start?  January is by far the longest month of the year so I am glad we are almost through it!  We've stayed busy playing cars, potty-training, BYU basketball, playing play-dough, peek-a-boo, and reading stories.  That about sums up our days.  Here's some pictures to go with it!

Matt and McKay playing out in the snow.  They had to gather all the snow in the whole yard to find enough to make this snowman!

McKay and I enjoying a BYU basketball game- GO Cougars!  Logan got to stay and play with Grandma while McKay went on a date with Mom and Dad.  He did pretty well through the game as long as he could see Cosmo.  And then he kept telling us he had to go potty so he could get up and go for a walk...talk about manipulation!

As Matt & I watched the game, McKay watched Cosmo.  He got all excited when Cosmo started to come near our section and then Cosmo turned around and went back down the stairs...such a disappointment!  So we found a picture to pose with instead.

Almost every afternoon as I start dinner, McKay plays play-dough.  Elise & family gave him a set with Sesame Street characters and shapes and he LOVES it.  It has been a hit.

Don't you wish you could eat your toes?  It's Logan's favorite past-time.

 Isn't he a handsome guy?  I might be biased but they don't come much cuter!

 Playing peek-a-boo with Daddy

 Laughing at their silly Daddy.  I love the holding hands- they both love to hold hands.  It is very sweet!

funny story- So McKay is into shutting doors- let me rephrase that- slamming doors.  So hard it wakes Logan up...it is not a good phase.  Well earlier in the day McKay had been playing with the doors and I was now putting Logan down for his nap.  I got him down and was leaving the room and I just happened to turn the doorknob as I closed the door- yup he'd played with the little lock and it was locked.  Saying a silent prayer that I hadn't shut the door all the way, I hurried and unlocked the door.  When Matt called at lunch I told him how bad it would have been if I would've locked Logan in the room.  He told me it wasn't that big of a deal, the doors were a cinch to pick the locks.  To prove himself that night he locked our door and shut it...well they are not really a cinch to open we learned an hour later.  You have to take half the door apart to pick the lock!  So moral of the story- know how to do it before you lock the door on a demonstration and always check the lock before you close the door with McKay around!

Potty training...  Well, I'm not sure at what point you actually say their potty-trained but I now dare to leave the house and we rarely, if ever, have any accidents any more so I say we're doing good.  McKay picked out a little block set he wanted a while ago and it has been sitting on our fridge until he was a "big boy" and could earn it.  I finally decided the other day that he was a "Big Boy" so he got his blocks.  He's played with them ever since!  Happy Day!!

Daddy and McKay in their cougar aprons.

Happy January!! 

(yes it is 1 am, tell Logan that!)

Happy New Year- Part 2

So New Year's Eve is the Wright Pool Tournament; New Years Day is bowling with the Rowleys.  We had great fun Monday bowling and eating yummy Mexican food!

The top bowlers club.  My Dad did amazing, Matt was right behind him, McKay did really well (when you have the stand to roll the ball and the bumpers come up for you, you better do well!), and Logan slept!  Katelyn and Adrian put up some competiton, and we'll just say my Mom and I don't have much to brag about!

Waiting very impatiently for his green ball to come

Aunt Katelyn & McKay

Strike!

Cheese!

Yummy Los Hermanos to start off the New Year!  Happy 2012!

Happy New Years

Every New Year's Eve we have the annual Wright Family Pool Tournament.  Don't get the wrong idea- we're not professional pool players.  We play once a year- every new years eve, so it makes it kind of fun because we are all equally rusty!

Me & Daniel

Matt getting his shot

It wouldn't be New Years without some games...

Matt finally won!!  Yah!  Bragging rights until next year...

Happy New Year Logan!

Cabin

Every year my family goes up to the Rowley Family Cabin inbetween Christmas and New Years.  This year was fun but was weird because there wasn't any snow.  There were small patches of snow here and there but it was icy.  I had fun taking pictures with the new camera...

Me & McKay

Marisa, Katelyn, & McKay on an "adventure"

Trying out the neighboring cabin's swings

Logan all bundled up with Aunt Ris

Mommy & Logan

This was the cabin last year we were there over Christmas...

...and this was this year.  Crazy!  It was so warm and no snow!  Usually we go snow-shoeing, sledding, and stuff.  But not this year! 

 Me and the boys- Matt had to work so he just came up at night.  My sisters helped me with the boys during the day.  Thanks for your help!  And of course since my boys didn't sleep at night, thanks for putting up with no sleep for a few days!

McKay wants to wrestle with Logan so bad...It is cute at first but then McKay starts to get rough and I have to intervene.  I keep telling  him when Logan gets bigger.  Then he asks me "Mommy, is Logan bigger yet?"



Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!!!  We had a great Christmas this year and are finally recovering and getting back into regular life.  McKay loved everything Christmas- from the music to the lights and decorations he was in heaven.  Marisa watched the boys for us one night so we could do some Christmas shopping and he kept getting after her for not having enough Christmas decorations...We knew every house with fun Christmas lights in the Payson area because each night he wanted to go for a ride to see lights...We are still singing "Jingle Bells", "Away in a Manger", and "Up on the Housetop"....  It was so fun to get into all the magic of the season and see McKay's face so excited with everything he saw!   McKay keeps asking when Santa will come again and I told him it will be a long time so he better start looking forward to the Easter Bunny.  Logan was happy and enjoyed the whole season as long as someone was holding him.  He is so laid-back it doesn't take much to make him happy!  Santa brought McKay (and Logan and Matt) a basketball hoop along with Super-man,  Mr. Potato Head, and some much needed pants and socks.  Logan had a Christmas of clothes (all of McKay's hand-me-downs are summer clothes so he needed winter wear).  Matt had a BYU apparel Christmas and I got a camera :-).  So beware- I had to use my new toy...I took A LOT of pictures the past two weeks!  It was a blast and we had so much fun enjoying it with all our family.

Jingle Bells on the kazoo- we are so musically talented don't you think?

My Christmas projects this year was aprons (I sewed 8 of them total...I'm taking January off)

warm comfy sweats & the two cutest chick flicks = Who could ask for more?  thanks Katelyn!

The annual Christmas Calender

 Go Logan GO!!  This wrapping paper is fun!  Who cares what's inside!

 Logan enjoying being the center of attention

McKay's favorite thing at Grandma Rowley's is the piano.  Grandma took pity and played Christmas songs for him all night and he took the microphone and sang his heart out.  It was so cute to see him belt out each Christmas song- and he knows a lot of them pretty good.  It was by far my favorite Christmas moment this year.

 Matt's Christmas toy- ARMY GUYS.  Growing up he loved to play army guys so I found a set and gave them to him for Christmas.  McKay and Matt have spent many hours playing and setting up their battles.  It is fun to watch them get into it.  Matt is just a big little boy!

Great-grandma and Grandpa Wright came down Christmas afternoon for Christmas dinner and presents.  It was fun to have the afternoon with them and BJ, Amanda, & their kiddos.  All the kids were going crazy with all the Christmas excitement so it was a little busy, but it was fun.

Wright girls in their aprons

Wright cousins, minus Logan.  The excitement was a little much for him...he had to take a nap!

McKay enjoying Logan's new toys...isn't that how it always works?

Christmas morning Matt, Logan, and I were up early while McKay was sleeping like a log... finally we had to wake McKay up because Logan was getting antsy to take his morning nap!  Here is Logan patiently waiting for his brother to wake up so he could attack the wrapping paper.

Mr. Potato Head!

McKay showing off his Christmas haul

BYU man

My handsome boys showing off their new snazzy Christmas clothes.