Venting!

I have been horrible at updating lately! This post is going to be just venting, sorry. Tyson has been so ornery lately. He screams the worst high pitched scream when he wants something, or when he is mad or I guess whenever he feels like it! And he cries ALL the time. It's honestly driving me crazy! He has been giving the meanest looks EVER! He squishes his eyebrows together, puts his head down puckers his lips out and looks up just with his eyes. It is so mean looking! I know that he is teething, because he is drooling like mad and has diarrhea, so I assumed that all of the crankiness was from the teeth. Well last night he didn't sleep good at all. So I decided to just take him to the doctor to see if he had a ear infection. (Hoping for an ear infection at least I could give him the antibiotic and he will be happy!) Well, it turns out that his left ear is infected and his right ear has fluid in it! I am so glad that I took him in!!! I am hoping that the antibiotic will take the crankiness out of him and he will be my sweet little Tyson again!

OK I said this is venting so I am going to keep going!

EVAN! I have really been struggling with him too! He does exactly what I ask him NOT to do! And when I tell him to stop he just looks at me and smiles. What have I done wrong! He really is a good kid. It's just been the past couple weeks it's gotten really bad. Hopefully it's just a phase that he is going through. Maybe he is still having trouble adjusting to Tyson. (He had a really hard time with that.) I am hoping that with having a happy baby EVERYONE will be happier!

10 Months Old

Tyson was 10 months old on January 1st. Every month I say that I really can't believe that he is growing so fast, but I honestly can't! He is starting to crawl more than scoot on his bum. I think he figured out that he can go a lot faster crawling, and he is a lot faster!!! He can also pull himself up to just about anything and just stand there. He still has to hold on but he thinks he is big stuff! He is a good little story teller!:) He will just babble and point like he really knows what he's talking about. I LOVE it!!! He is also getting to be feisty! When he is done eating what ever it is I'm feeding him he will hit the spoon out of my hand and make a mean little face. (His lips puckered and VERY serious eyes!) And the food on the spoon goes everywhere!!! He loves it when Makayla is being silly, he laughs and laughs and laughs!!!! Tyson you are so much fun! We love you SOOOO much!!!

New Years Eve

We had a little party at our house this year. It was really fun. We had pizza and snacks and played games. We ended the year at 10:00. Misty brought some noise makers and the kids went out side and ran around and screamed in the new year!!! Every year right around New Year's we go to Hardwear Ranch with my family. And on the way home we always stop and eat out somewhere. (I don't have any pictures because my camera battery was charging.)

Our Christmas

Christmas Eve! Makayla and Evan were so excited to leave Santa a treat! We left him a cinnamon roll and a glass of milk, and some carrots from all of his reindeer. We were able to track Santa online! We watched him go all over the world!!! Evan was so nervous, he kept telling me "we have to go to bed so Santa can come to our house too". He was afraid he was going to miss our house. They went to bed really quick! I love to watch them get so excited for Christmas to come. It is such a magical time of year and I love the magic they bring on Christmas Eve!
CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!!

Tyson got a train bike. Evan plays with it more than Tyson does. Tyson just can't fight back yet!

Evan woke up first and woke up Makayla. They went downstairs before they came in to wake up me and Ryan. After they saw that Santa had come they came running up the stairs to tell us that there was presents in their stockings and big boxes under the tree! When we went downstairs Evan and Makayla got the presents that they made for me and Ryan and wanted us to open them first. It really surprised me that they didn't want to start with their presents! I guess the gift of giving is just has fun for them as it is for us. Makayla gave us her hand print on a tile and she wrote her name underneath (she made it at school). I love it! Evan made a snowflake ornament at preschool with his picture on it. It is so cute! I love it too!!!

The day after Christmas we went to Byron and Misty's house and went sledding behind their 4-wheeler. They got a lot more snow than we did. The kids had so much fun!!!

Houghton Family Christmas Party

This Houghton Christmas party was with my immediate family. We always have a yummy dinner, act out the nativity and the kids get new jammies. For the nativity this year Misty found a play script for the navitity from an old Friend. Everyone had a part and there was music to go with it! My dad was the narrator and my mom played the piano. The rest of us dressed up for our parts and acted them out. It was so cute and got everyone involved! Something new we did this year was every family put together a little song or (Auston told jokes) and we shared with each other. It was pretty funny. We even got my mom and dad up there!!!

Clarke Family Christmas Party

At the Clarke family party we played a game where we rolled dice, if we rolled doubles we got to pick a present and unwrap it. You could either pick a present from the pile or someone else's. It was really fun! We had a yummy dinner and exchanged gifts!

Houghton Family Christmas Party

Our Houghton Christmas party is with all of my dads side of the family. My Aunt Tammy buys little gifts for everyone at the party and wraps them up. Then my dad plays "Santa" and hands out the presents! It's a fun tradition!!! The best part is EVERYONE gets to sit on "Santa's" lap. When Ryan sat on "Santa's" lap, he made sure he felt it!!! (He was digging his butt into his legs!)