2 important H's -hunting and haircuts

H is for Hunting!  The boys have been out several times with Jon and the dog grouse hunting.  This time we remembered to get the camera out before they went.  I love this picture with Delyla in her pj's and shooting her fake gun at a bird...Dalton is checking his safety and Darion is in his own little world!

I told the kids to pose for a Cristmas card - the redneck way and this is what I got.  The only thing missing is a few more old cars in the background and a huge hound dog.  Our dog runs the other way when the boys have their bb guns out - she's smart!  Darion is looking at a huge bird trying to decide if he wants to eat it if he shoots it.  He decided black birds might not taste very good.  Thank heaven I haven't had to make any squirrel stew yet.  Darion is getting better at aiming so I might be calling Brianne for a recipe...gross!!

Dalton was not thrilled with our progress here.  He said "where are the dang birds".  Can't get much more Texan than that - Sandy Squirrel would be proud.  Our favorite quote of hers is "Don't take the name of Texas in vain!"  We overdosed on Sponge Bob this summer and are still in a little bit of withdrawal since school started. 

We are trying to teach the kids to be "tree huggers"  - Delyla said this one it too big!  I told her the big ones are the oldest and she said "mommy I think this one is even older than you".  Well - I do have a birthday coming up - I'm runing a slight second to the tree - all three kids couldn't stretch around it.

Delyla is holding a used shot gun shell.  Such a great combo of girly and tom boy.  She came up to the door once this summer with princess shoes and a tiara holding a snake...

Peek a boo - a little heavy on the boo!

On to the second H - HAIRCUT.  Now I know most of you think our family is anti-barber - especially if you saw us over the summer.  Well, 30 mins and $45 dollars later we have 2 children who are almost unrecognizable.

 Darion said he didn't care how I told the barber to cut his hair since I won't let him have an afro.  Dalton wanted a faux hawk.   It was actually really fun taking them to Taos to get the cuts done.  Jon has a great golfing buddy that owns a salon there - he hooked the boys up with some style.  Darion was very concerned that the girls would think he looked like Justin Beiber.  I don't see the resemblence at all.  Dalton just said he looked "wicked" good. ( He hasn't seen Good Will Hunting... )

 Delyla just has to be in a picture if the camera is out.  She got herself dressed this morning - nice color coordination.  I have since chased her around the house and sat on her to get her hair brushed.  She looks very presentable now.  I love the bed hair though!

Delyla and I were picking flowers and she brought me these teeny tiny purple blossoms.  She said they were her favorite and that they'd be my favorite because they are purple.  Girls are awesome aren't they?!

Here is my little mini me on our flower picking day.  It has  been much cooler the last week so we were wearing jackets - of course hers is pink.  I took an adorable video of her and tried to upload it, but couldn't make it work.  I'll have ot figure that out.  She went up to a mullien stalk and said "Hey mom, look, it's soft."  I explained that sometimes on hikes people use it for toilet paper because the leaves are wide and soft and thick (like Charmin;).  After that she saw another one and said "Hey mom, look, toilet paper."  She's so smart.  In another video, she comes running up to me with a seedy dandelion and begins to blow on it.  She blows like crazy and nothing happens - it is so adorable to see her try so hard.  

This morning we're having an indoor picnic and watching Shirley Temple.  I am in heaven!

Yesterday we went to the golf course in Taos.  Delyla had a wonderful time.  Jon got her a tiny putter and some yellow range balls.  She ran all over that putting green.  She said she's ready for a tourament now like Daddy.

Here she's getting a little how to from Jon. 

Nice background huh?  Overcast and windy day - green, green grass and blue blue sky in between huge puffy clouds.  Jon's headed to the US Mid - Am today in Albuquerque.  If he can putt, he can win!! Pray for a good putting day everybody! 

Hey there Delyla

Since I blogged about Dalton and Darion last week, I thought I'd talk a little about Miss. Delyla this time.  She is growing so quickly.  Delyla absolutely loves Dora!  She also likes Strawberry Shortcake and Barbie and littlest pet shops.   She loves to help me in the kitchen - we were making Chewy Brownie Cookies that day.  She's really great at rolling them into little balls. 

Delyla has a big opinion about what she wears - and actually a big opinion about what I wear as well.  She picked out this outfit to match her new church shoes from Aunt Rita.  She asks me every day when she wakes up if we are going to church today.  She loves going - loves dancing and singing in nursery.  I can't wait for her to be a sunbeam!  She's our little sunbeam already, but she says she wants to be a sunbeam for Jesus.  So precious.

Delyla absolutely adores her brother Dalton and does everything he does.  If she's getting her picture taken, she runs to get Dalton so he will be in it too.  They are 2 peas in a pod.  My mom made the comment that she had always told me Darion would be easier if I had another child for him to play with - I can really see the truth in that with Dalton and Delyla.  They play together often and with anything from mud to stuffed animals to dressing up.  If Dalton has yogurt, Delyla has to have yogurt...if Dalton is putting on his shoes, Delyla puts hers on...if  Dalton says "butt"...well, you get the picture. 

Off to school

The first day of school is just so exciting!  Getting up earlier, eating a healthy breakfast for a change, wearing clean clothes and having combed hair.  Dalton is starting Kindergarten this year and was thrilled to be one of the big kids.  There was absolutely no way he was going to let us drive him to school either.  He was determined to ride the bus with his big brother.  Darion was being so sweet to him and reassuring him that he was going to have a wonderful day! 

Dalton ended up with a wonderful teacher this year.  With all of the budget cuts, they reconfigured what grades the teachers were going to teach.  Dalton ended up with Ms. Jassmann - the same teacher Darion had last year for 4th grade.  She is super and hearing that from Darion made Dalton even more excited.  Darion is entering 5th grade this year and has an awesome teacher too - Ms. Ammerman.  I told him last night we were expecting big things from him this year - after all, 5th grade was my most memorable elementary school year.  He said - in an OH so TYPICAL Darion way..."Oh man...."

The boys were sporting the highest of fashion from Old Navy this morning.  Darion in some "Sweet" red cargo pants and a Jaws T-shirt with new tennis shoes too.  Dalton decided to wear his slick pants - which are evidently the coolest thing he has.  He wore them with the ultimate Yoda shirt - it says..."read, you should".  So hilarious.  Dalton told me he looked really handsome this morning - well, I have to agree. 

The boys posed for me in the yard and then we all piled in the car to go to the bus stop.  Delyla watched for the bus out the truck window and the boys made silly faces for me.  Dalton and Darion jumped out of the car and ran over to the bus without glancing back at their poor old mom snapping photo after photo and holding back tears.  That is actually one of the funniest parts - for all of you that hang out with us often, you know that I should be jumping for joy that Dalton is starting Kindergarten, but still, I felt just as emotional as I did when Darion started.  What a big boy!  Delyla is home with me today since I didn't have to work and we've been cleaning and cooking and watching Dora the Explorer.  She just fell asleep and the house is absolutely quiet - so wierd.  What do I do now?  I guess I start blogging again;)  After all, I promised Kareena I would.  Maybe I'll watch a cooking show too;)

To catch everyone up on what we've been doing the last while - I quit the daycare job - hallelujah!!!  Jon is working doing construction still and loving it - playing golf (really well lately!!) every chance he gets and looking hot doing it;)  I work 3 days a week at a beautiful store called Aldura.  Jon's mom Carolyn is still living up here and insists on making our life that much more enjoyable by keeping the kids and giving us date nights every so often.  Her sister Rita has moved up here as well and keeps Delyla for me on the days I work.  How did we exist without them near before?  Darion has grown into quite the opinionated, lazyish pre-teen - although when I ask and he sees I'm a little stressed, he jumps right in and helps me with a million different things  ---and---he does it with a semi-smile.  Miracles never cease.  Dalton is as precocious as ever and dominates the room wherever we are - his little minion Delyla copies everything he does whether it is good or bad - and usually it isn't good....  She's gorgeous though.  Delyla is a big girl now and was really upset she wasn't starting kindergarten too.  She said maybe she could go when she's 4 since she's a big girl.  No arguing with her - even when she's wrong.  I wonder where she gets that trait? 

We've been to a gazillion golf tournaments this summer and Jon has played poorly in a couple, but very well for the majority of them.  He has gone back to being an amateur golfer which is much more enjoyable.  I still love to watch him play.  We celebrated our 15 year wedding anniversary on Sunday and had dinner over at the Batchelders.  I am so glad we have such great friends here.  Jon qualified to play in a championship level tournament for some ESPN thing that I'll have to get more details on to understand - but - the exciting part is that the tournament in is Las Vegas.  Jon and I were married there and are so excited to go back together for the tournament.  Hopefully we can get it all planned and have a second honeymoon  - around the golf tournament schedule of course.  I've been following Jon to these things for about 20 years now and they are still thrilling. 

I think that might have to do for catching up on life for now.  I'll try to upload some fun pics from this past winter - Darion was an awesome snowboarder and Dalton learned to ski - they already zoom around me on the mountain. 

Off to a cooking adventure - hmmm.... lunch for just me.....wierd.  Have a great one everybody!

Miss Delyla

Delyla is a ham. She loves to kid around. Some of the funniest things about her right now are:

You have, I mean HAVE to call her Delyla. If you call her honey, or goof ball or anything, she says "I no goofball, I Delyla."

She is in charge of wiping in the potty department. We are potty training and she is super independant about it. - Super ewwww...thank you sanitizer companies

She loves to make faces. She'll say look and make the silliest face and then she'll tell you what that face is - mad, silly, sad, suprise!

She is all about her hair. We bought some spray in detangler stuff and she has it in her hand every morning. She says she wants pony tails, one or two...or honey buns (where you don't pull the ponytail all the way through). She'll choose her bow or barrette. She got an Ariel hair brush for Christmas and always wants to brush my hair with it. Not so hard Delyla!:) Too bad she's not so excited about brushing her teeth. We got some rollers for her hair and she thought she was so special - she looked adorable before and after, although you can't really see how pretty it was in the picture, believe me, she looked super sweet.

Delyla chooses what to wear. Even if it doesn't match. Even if it really doesn't match. I'm going to have to start taking pictures.

She has to sleep with her door open. She throws a fit if you try to shut it before she is asleep. I think she likes to see what we are doing - or what she is missing out on.

She thinks she likes Dora. She'll say " I watch D-D-D-D-D-Dora" like the theme song. We'll turn it on, but she never really sits to watch it. I know, Dad is saying...where'd she get that? I rarely sit through anything either.

She copies Dalton all day long. If I serve lunch and Dalton says he doesn't like it. Delyla doesn't like it either. If Dalton takes a bath Delyla takes a bath. If Dalton goes potty, Delyla goes potty. If Dalton says he wants cheetos, Delyla wants cheetos. If Dalton is talking about poop, yup, Delyla is talking about poop. If Dalton jumps off a bridge....well, anyway. Hopefully Dalton will grown into being a really good example, because she sure watches everything he does.

We are so glad to have our little Delyla.

Uncle Spanky

Old McSpanky came to town e-i-e-i-o
And on his lap he has 3 clowns e-i-e-i-o

Jason (Jon's youngest brother) suprised us by coming to town the week after Christmas. It was awesome to have him here. Here's a run down of what we did: ate, watched football, ate, snowboarded, watched football, ate, watched football, snowboarded, ate....

It was so fun - now I need a diet for my new years resolution though!!!

Christmas at the Bohannon's

Christmas was great this year. Ebay is my new best friend;) Living in an area where shopping is limited, we still were able to enjoy a wonderful Christmas. The tree was gorgeous and had a few presents for everyone. Dalton and Delyla were vigorously opening presents as you can see from the pictures. On Christmas Eve, they opened their pj's ( a tradition) and then we went to Gammy's to open her presents for them.

Christmas morning was super fun. Santa brought a bunch of Littlest Pet shop animals and accessories. The kids were having so much fun playing with them that we were able to cook and eat breakfast before even getting to the presents. It was nice that the morning was slow.

Darion's favorite present was a Halo action figure. Dalton's favorite was a big rig and a remote contral dump truck. Delyla really liked her Ariel pj's and panties. By the way...Edward was there...in my stocking...Isn't Santa the best?

In the past few years, we have spent Christmas with much more of our family than we were able to this year. We really missed having Mema and Poppy around as well as our siblings that are in Texas and Michigan. All in all it was very peaceful and fun to be home together.