January slump

It is hard not to get into a bit of a slump in January. We just had Christmas, time off, fun times with family, and a month of sugar overload. Add to that cold weather and sickness and it can be pretty bleak.

That aside, we have still managed to have a little bit of fun. We got a lot of snow in December and it is slowly melting. That means we have had some crazy icicles 

I painted our main bathroom over the Christmas break and for some cheap artwork Kim did a photo shoot of the kids in the tub and we will put a few of the pictures up. Here are a few of my favorites.

 Unicorn?

 This is not the sight Kim wanted to see when she got Nixon up from his nap. We think he had a diaper malfunction (maybe he got the velcro undone) and he was also not impressed with what he found. He just kept saying "yuck!"

 I got Kim's plate hung up (she got the plate from her grandma Bullock) and Nixon likes it

Lyza got her 4 year old doctor's appointment, which meant shots, and she was one horrified girl. I told my boss about it and she bought Lyza a package of dinosaurs as a late Christmas gift/condolences gift. Lyza loves the pterodactyl  

 Imagine our horror when we open up our newly delivered Amazon Subscribe and Save packages and find these critters inside!

 The biggest news at our house recently was the moose that we had in our yard last Sunday. We woke up to this guy sitting in our backyard (I forgot to shut the gate the day before)

 Nixon checking out the moose while wearing his moose pajamas. It took a while to teach Nixon that what he was watching was a "moose" and not a "sheep"

 We thought it was cool at first, but when he started doing things like eating the branches of our apple tree or pooping everywhere we wanted him to go

"I know there is a moose, but I am trying to finish my cereal"

 We didn't mind too much when he decided to eat the broken branch that fell into our yard from our neighbor's broken tree

Eventually he left and it was a bitter sweet moment. Now I know why I am supposed to keep the gate shut. Sorry you had to clean up all the poop honey:)

Kim has gotten her craft on and made this nice valentines decoration

 Nixon raided Lyza's costume chest

 He also decided this week that we were waiting too long to get him changed into pajamas and took matters into his own hands. Who cares if your shirt is backwards or if you put your pant leg around your waist?

 Kim also made this inviting sign to spruce up our front door (they are actually pine needles, so using "spruce" was not really a pun)

To end things off here is a video of Lyza singing "the biggest dinosaur"

Take care