Sorry for the lack of updates. We have been having fun this fall with our friends and each other.
Davis and Addie are the best little playmates. It's been so fun to watch their relationship grow.
The other day I was working on a project in Addison's room and Davis was in his room playing
with his trains and I heard Addie trying to convince him to come play with her downstairs. It went like this: (in super sweet voice) "Davis, do you wanna come play with me downstairs? It will be really fun. Let's go play with the cushions (they always play with the couch cushions). Davis, let's go play!" It was so funny to hear her in their trying to negotiate with him.
Davis started nursery last month and hated it! He cried and cried and was just so sad about going in. Even with Addie in there! (It probably doesn't help that there are
thirty kids in our nursery.) He's getting better now. We let him take his blanket with him and he's doing better. It was so weird to have the kid that was afraid of nursery and heart-breaking at the same time. They are just so different.
Jeremy has a big cardiology test on Wednesday morning and has spent 80 hours at the school the past week between classes and studying. I was feeling sorry for myself when it hit me that's the
average work week of a resident. So I'm
trying to have a good attitude about it since I know I will look back and think these were the easy days! It helps that my parents are flying in on Tuesday for Thanksgiving and I'm staying busy with Christmas gift projects.
I honestly haven't taken any photos of the kids lately. These are all taken with my phone:
The indoor waterpark here was doing free admission in early afternoons for the whole month of November. I went with both kids and met some friends with their kids. Davis and Addie were a little nervous about the water at first, but eventually warmed up.
We went to Costco a few weeks ago and Addie loved this princess bike. It was so funny to see her sitting on a bike! She even pedaled down the aisle a little bit, but was nervous about falling the whole time. I tried explaining that with the training wheels she wasn't going anywhere, but she wasn't buying it.
We always laugh because Davis does the goofiest things. He's just a little boy I guess. Anyway, he has started to try undressing himself after he wakes up from his naps and in the morning. Sometimes I'll come in and his pajamas are halfway unzipped or whatever. Well, the other day he apparently tried to take his shirt off after nap time but it got stuck!
I will take some better pictures this week and get them up here! Hope everybody has a Happy Thanksgiving!
Drifts in our driveway. Yeah, you're not backing out through that.
Backyard.
Neighbors. Look at the way the snow built up around his Honda.
View from my basement window.
Normally you step up a few inches to get from my front porch into my entry way....
View from front door.
I have to throw this one on here. I snapped it through Addie's window this morning. Jeremy still had class. Creighton U canceled or delayed their classes this morning. All public schools and Universities were closed, not to mention banks, etc. But, Jeremy had to dig out (literally) and take my car with the 4-wheel drive and get to school. Anyway, I put this picture on here because our neighbor was kind enough to let us borrow her snow blower. Then, a different neighbor saw Jeremy trying to plow out, and grabbed his SHOVEL and starts shoveling with Jeremy. We really live on the best street and I have LOVED my neighbors. 
And maybe I'm just overly emotional (who, me??!?), but laying in bed last night listening to the wind howl and wondering if my kids were warm enough in their beds, I couldn't help but think of the early Mormon pioneers who were camped in this very location during the winter of 1846-47. More than 300 of them died here, and last night, wondering if my babies were warm, I thought of the agony those mothers must have had trying to keep their families safe and warm. I am just in awe of their sacrifice. (To read more of their story, click here or here.)
