Happy New Year

Here is a look back at the Wiggy 5's 2007. We feel so blessed and truly feel like God has given us more than we could have ever wanted. Love to all and Happy New Year!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Buddy! We love you so much! We can't believe you are SIX already!

Jack celebrated his 6th birthday on Wednesday! He had both sets of grandparents here for his birthday party. We are planning on having a half year birthday for him in June or July, because the poor kid has never had a birthday party. It stinks to have a Christmas birthday.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

We hope you all had a blessed day full of love, laughter and joy.

Bittersweet

I was downstairs this evening making dinner. I didn't have any biscuits or crescent rolls so I decided to whip up some home made biscuits, wich by the way, were awesome. While I had gooey dough all over my hands I called Matt down stairs to help me put some flour down on the counter. As he was helping me Jack yelled from upstairs "Rachel went potty on the toilet!!!" We both asked did she just sit down or did she really go potty. He told us she REALLY went potty. I started crying and blubbering about how I couldn't believe I had missed her first time pottying on the toilet. She is our last baby and I missed it. We both missed it!

But I guess, yeah, she went potty on the toilet?!?

Straight No Chaser - 12 Days

Ice Casualty

I have been destine to live in a place that has ice storms instead of snow storms. I can't tell you how sad that is! We are having an ice storm right now. It is cold enough to rain and freeze the rain into ice but just not quite cold enough to snow and make a blizzard. This morning we scraped 1/4 inch thick ice off of Matt's car before he went to work. Most of Tulsa is out of power. "Knock on wood" we still have power. But we are out our one and only beautiful shade tree in our backyard due to the ice. Check out the picture!As you can see we are so lucky it didn't hit the house. I am watching closely to make sure that the rest of the tree isn't going to fall. Although, I am not sure what I could do if it did decide to break?! It has not stopped raining. I am hoping the rain is melting the ice and not adding to it!

I am so sad that we lost part or all of our tree.

Happy Birthday!

Rachel turned two yesterday! My baby is TWO! She enjoyed everyone singing Happy Birthday to her throughout the day. By the end of the day I think she finally realized it was her birthday, and started saying "mine birthday".

Rachel is pretty much like every other two year old and says "no" to pretty much everything and is constantly testing the boundaries. She weighs 24 lbs and I am not sure what her height is. We have not taken her in for her two year check up yet. We usually do Jack, Mallory and Rachel all at once after the New Year, since they all have birthdays w/in a month of each other! I can't keep a diaper on the girl. She is ready to potty train, but I'm not ready...lol. She sits on the low-let, as she calls it, alot but has yet to actually do anything while on it. If she wants it it is hers. If she gives you something and changes her mind later, it is hers. If she can take it away from you, it is hers. If she had it a little while ago, it is hers. If it is hers, it will never belong to anyone else, no matter what. If we are building something together, all the pieces are hers. If it loos like hers, it is hers! MINE!!! She loves to hop. She hops around the house from one thing to the next. We have been having bedtime battles lately. She does not want to go to bed and cries anywhere from 5minutes to 20 minutes, depending on how tired she is. She is talking much more. And her words are becoming clearer and much easier to understand. All in all, she is growing up and getting big! I can't believe I don't have any more babies. We love her so much!

Hilarious!!

I sent this to some of you. Click on links below for a good laugh!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1244299069 --Boys
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1243219258 --Girls

Thanks Mom!

My mom has gotten into quilting. Besides making me an awesome throw blanket she quilted this Christmas table runner for us. I got it in the mail yesterday and decided to spruce it up with some greens and candle holders. I think it makes a nice Christmas centerpiece. Too bad the table wasn't exactly clean?!

Very Proud

Dalton told us, about two weeks ago, that there is a boy at school that bullies him on the playground. We have been talking with him about how to handle the situation and checking in with him to see if things are getting better.

Yesterday we got in the car after I picked him up from school and he started to tell me about what happened at school, and I got a wonderful surprise.

Mimi, you know that boy Wesley that is mean to me on the playground? He only has one friend in third grade. We play these math games in class and we get to choose a partner. Wesley is always the last one to be chosen. So, today I got to pick my partner first and I chose Wesley, because he is always chosen last When I chose him everybody is class said "Oh man, Dalton, why did you pick him?" " Why didn't you pick me?" But I didn't want Wesley to feel bad because he is always chosen last.

After hearing this I teared up with joy and pride. I could not praise Dalton enough for what a thoughtful, Christ-like, bold decision that was. I was/am so proud and asked him if he was proud of himself. We talked about how it feels good to do those kinds of things, even when its hard.

What a thoughtful young man that he would recognize that and want to do that for someone in his class. But absolutely AMAZING that he did it for his "enemy" and turned the other cheek.

SOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!

The girls got their hair cut today. I absolutley love it!

Bear Scout

Dalton had a den meeting last night where he received his bobcat badge and a whittling badge. H worked hard to get his bobcat badge and memorized a bunch of stuff.

He looks so handsome in his uniform!

YITES!!!

Rachel LOVES Christmas lights! She sees them and screams Mimi, Daddy, YITES!!!! She won't stop saying it and grows more intense and louder if you do not respond to her with " Yes, Rachel, I see the pretty lights." It's pretty cute.

Ho Ho Ho!

'Tis the season! This weekend we got ready for Christmas. We went with our friends the Su's to pick out our Christmas tree. We go to this tree farm every year where you get to take a hayride out to the tree fields and cut down your own tree. I was so glad the weather was cold, because it just doesn't feel like Christmas tree shopping weather when its 75 degrees out!

We got the Christmas tree home and pulled out all the Christmas decorations and went to work. We got the tree decorated last night. The kids all(excluding Rachel who we put to bed before the decorating festivities) had so much fun pulling out ornaments and talking about the "history" behind some of them.

We finished getting the rest of the decorations up today and put up some more lights out side the house. We also hung my favorite decoration, our door sign that says Flakes Live Here! Something about Christmas decorations makes the house feel so much cozier. I love the smell of the tree when we come into the house. I can't wait until we have our first fire. Now all we need is some snow! I hope we get some soon, but I'm not holding my breath.

Daddy Daughter Dance

It was that time of year again for the annual Daddy Daughter Dance. The girls LOVE this. It is such a special time to them. I am so thankful I have a husband who is such a great dad and looks forward to these times as much as the kids do.

This was Mallory's first time being able to go. I waited to tell Mallory until Wednesday that the Daddy daughter dance was this weekend. I knew if I told her any sooner than that it would be never-ending questioning about how many more days, when was the dance, what day was the dance! Two days was about all I could handle. She must have said Daddy, Daughter dance 30 times a day(no exaggeration)!

The girls got to choose any restaurant they wanted to go out to eat. They chose this cheap, buffet style, pizza place called Cici's Pizza. At least it wasn't McDonald's! They ate dinner and danced the night away. The girls both looked so beautiful. Both have been talking about about how much fun they had all weekend and how they can't wait until next years dance!