Mimi's Pictures

I forgot to upload the critical week on Mimi's time - the boys got to make their first snowman, they've been begging to do it but the snow we had never really worked - well that snow we had on the 8th that nearly made us late to the airport was apparently the correct type of snow for snowman building!

20 post-less days!

Spitting, I mean blowing out Mimi's candles

Mimi's "John Deere" cake - not sure they would have eaten Packer cake

A too tired boy

My handsome baby!

My naughty baby!

I think that might be a record and if I were a betting girl I'd say that my grandma isn't too pleased with my blogging performance! I guess I've been on a little blogging vacation. We took a real vacation too which of course counts for most of my "time off". Sean and I went to San Diego last week - he for a conference, me for some R&R and S, S = shopping, of course! I didn't buy that much but sure enjoyed looking and lingering which isn't usually in the boys plans. The weather in SD wasn't as warm as normal but beat the hell out of our longish Oklahoma winter. We got to enjoy some cocktails and delish food while the boys and Mimi and Papa survived on kid food! I think they had a good week as well, Carter learned all about racing with Papa and threw out all sorts of new terms last week while watching some racing on t.v. Lincoln threw a few "My-mommy" fits but managed to capture even more of Mimi and Papa's hearts in their week together.

This week we've been getting back into our routine and I came back from vacation with much less tolerance for naughtiness - not sure the boys were glad that I was back after the first few days. We even had some nice enough days to play outside this week and are hopeful they will return again next week although our weathermen don't seem to think that they will!

Carter's World

This is Carter's view of the world from yesterday, I am sparing you from the hideous picture he took of my butt!

Dear Mother Nature,

We love our house, we are sick of our house. Please let the weather become beautiful so we can venture back into the real world and please let us kick these colds for good. Thank you,

The Hogans

What happens?

This is what happens when the boys dump most of their shampoo in the tub

This is what happens when a 4 year old wants to build and sleep in a dog house

And this tragically is what happens when you let a 2 year old decide what to wear!

Yoga? Or something like it

Carter started doing these moves a few months ago - not sure what they are exactly but he calls them Yoga so I guess we will stick with that description. They've also started asking to have their picture taken hugging so we can send it out - I guess if you are nice to one another for the camera they think the will stay out of trouble with the Easter bunny, maybe? Carter also has a plan to trap the Easter bunny this year and started talking about it as soon as Christmas was over. Anybody have a bunny suit?

Shogun

I had the best idea I've had in months on Friday - to take the boys to Shogun! We hadn't been out of the house all day and I NEEDED out so we went to North Park, had a little walk and a little dinner. Carter was a bit disappointed that we weren't going to Buffalo Wild's as he calls it, because he says that is his favorite place to eat. The boys liked it all pretty well but stood in the corner of the room when the fire got "big" - they didn't enjoy that at all! Carter (our picky eater) did decide he's a big fan of shrimp and scallops and ate as many off of Sean and I's plate as he could and they were both thrilled that the meal ended with what other Japanese tradition but ice cream?