Happy Birthday Brannen!

He is officially three!  And oh the fun that was had!

The face just says it all!  Happiness!!

 When you have an eight year gap in age difference between your youngest kids this is what happens--  you drive past the Burger King "play place"and the two year old begs to go eat and play there and no one wants to take him.  Poor kid!  We already went there and played there for a really long time - for many years in fact, and now we are tired of it!  So on the day before his birthday I was feeling bad for the deprived little lad, so I begged the Sims kids to go with us to the PLAY PLACE!  And we did play!

  It was so so worth going - just to get this next picture!  He he he!  Burger King rules!

And on Sunday we had a nice family get together with Grandma and Grandpa and Grandma to celebrate this beautiful boy.

 It was all fun and good, until the pirate attack. . . . .

There you have it - the boy is three!  I simply can't believe it!  Are your kids growing up too?  How exactly does this happen!?!?

More Winter

 Shooting crows out the window!  Fun stuff!

 Just try and not notice that his toenails are painted too . . .  at least he's occupied and having fun - right?!?  The costume absolutely doesn't match his low voice or his obsession with monster trucks, guns, superheros and all things Brady.

 His new SPIDERMAN swimming suit is just about the coolest thing ever!  I can't believe how happy it makes him.

A good game of laundry basket b ball! 
Yes, it is definitely winter here ;  ) .   Reese is excellent at creating fun things to do.

Funny Brannen story - just so I don't forget it later.
Rae walked in, just getting home from late dance practice, and she walked over to the fireplace where Bran was playing on the computer with Reese.  She said hi to everyone and stood by the fire.
Brannen says to her  (kind of bored like, not really paying a lot of attention to her) "Hi Rae.  Are you a mermaid?"  She kind of chuckles and says - no.  He shrugs and looks back at the computer with Reese and says - "Okay." (We haven't been talking about mermaids AT ALL)
Rae, Brady and I look at each other ---what the heck was that?  Silly kid!!  Rae then teases him and says, "I'm only a mermaid in the summer."  He kinda looks up, bored again and says, "Okay."
Who really knows what goes on in his soon to be three-year-old noggin.

Ho Hum Winter

It is winter around here and it doesn't seem like much is going on.  The kids have been bugging me to blog more often (I guess they don't know what we have been doing unless they see it on my blog!) but I haven't really had much to post.  We have been busy, and a lot is going on - I guess it just hasn't been blog worthy.  But here are a few shots of the kiddos.

 

Ready for church!  Get a look at that tie would ya?!  He he he!  He was determined to wear one of Brady's ties to church since Brady is his new favorite person.  He talks about Brady non-stop - all day long.  That kid loves Boo!!  I tell ya, Brady is a great guy to look up to!

And I also tell ya, Brannen is totally a fourth child!  I mean- who cares!  Wear the goofy, very huge tie to church!  No worries!  It is kinda funny.  Rae certainly would have looked very very put together at church!  And I would have been concerned that she look just right.  Blahhh!  Live and learn, Gina - it doesn't matter!

Rae reminded me that I didn't post an "after picture" after getting her braces off.  Here's the smile now!  She is happy!  I am sad that one of her big front teeth is gray now.  I think she must have injured it in her big horse wreck and we couldn't tell until the braces were off.  Oh well.  What can ya do?  I know---  quit with the horse crazy!  Yea, not an option for her.

Do your kids spend their weekends messing up your house and creating strange blanket creations that they call forts?!?  Mine surely do!  I tell ya, you can't swing a dead cat around this place without hitting a Fullmer kid in a fort!  Sheesh!

You knew you were going to get pictures of the kiddo - didn't you?  He is still pretty darn cute and getting funnier every day - as we can understand his lingo more.  His new obsession (besides Brady) is going to Chucky Cheese!  Thank you very much nickelodeon commercials!  I guess advertising works.  The funny thing is that he thinks Chucky Cheese is up in the mountains!  As in --up Greys River or something!  We told him we couldn't go because it was far away and he got it into his head that far away was in the mountains.  Now anytime I drive close to the mountains, he'll say.  "I wanna go Chucky Cheese!  Please please please!  Way way up there!  Up there far away!"  Silly kid! 

He has also been working on his swing - and I've been touching up the paint on all of my walls. 

So that is some of the not much that we have been up to!  

Bye bye with a kiss!

Ski Trip

What's the sense of living here if you don't ski!  I mean, come on!  I can't believe I never got into this sport when I was a kid!  Kelly didn't either - and now our kids really love it - and it has kinda passed us by.  I'm too old to get my bones broken!  We will stick to the cross-country no speed kinda skiing!
While Jeffrey was here with Trenton we decided it would be great fun to take the kids skiing in Teton Village.  Trenton was the great uncle who helped them for the day - I was the mom who played with the two year old at the bottom of the mountain, and smiled and waved at all the "mom, watch me's"!

This was Reese's third time on skis and she did so well!  She was really nervous about this trip - because it was a new hill for her.  She has only been to Cokeville with the school, and wasn't entirely sure that Teton Village would be tame enough for her.  She begged the boys not to leave her in their snow wake, but uncle Trenton took good care of her and managed to get some good pictures too! I hear they didn't have to wait up for her one little bit.  Good job Reese!

They found a ski park on one of the hills and had a good time playing around on that.  Trenton took some fun action shots that turned out quite nice!  Brady loved the jump!

Jeffrey was the snowboarder of the kids  (Trenton boarded too) and he does so well!  My kids were impressed.  They are thinking they may try that some day when they get brave.

Fun fun stuff!  Even my snow angel enjoyed the ski day : )

ARRRRRGH!

Pirates have recently invaded our house!  Mean pirates - with really BIG muscles!

Pirates are the pretend fun of the week - don't know exactly where it came from - but Brannen now LOVES pirates!  He talks about them all day long.  His friend Daniel was playing here one day and Bran wanted him to dress up too.  You can see Daniel doesn't like to be a pirate nearly as much as Bran - but he was such a good sport! 
Believe me, you haven't had a good laugh until you've heard our little pirate sing,  Yo Ho Ho Ho - Yo Ho Ho Ho all around the house.  Too cute! 

Christmas Recap Part 2

Snow Day!  Well okay, snow days!  We had a few of them this holiday.  Here are the highlights: