I am so sorry its been so hard "to keep up with the jones' " Any of you that have wondered why they didn't receive a Christmas card its because we didn't send one. I am so sorry. I don't know about anyone else but this Christmas season Nanita has been exhausted. I always have two trees up, my pretty one and the boys. All we have is the boys tree up. They did a beautiful job decorating it.


I only made one kind of Christmas cookie. Well I think you get the point. I am going to let this be my way of telling you that I hope you all had an amazing Christmas. If your reading this then know how blessed we feel to have your friendship and we love you all and hope to get together soon. If your a family member ( I am sorry) know how lucky we are to have so many people who love us. We love you all so much and treasure our time with each of you.

Let me recap the year for you especially for my family and friends back east. I miss you all deeply.

TYLER- Tyler began kindergarten this fall :( We received an amazing teacher, Mrs lamb. We are truly thankful for her. Its been so neat watching him grow he is beginning to spell and read words. Most days he enjoys school, he has lots of friends and even his little girlfriend. He played soccer this fall and was really good. ( I guess I am a little biased) I definitely think he got his daddy's abilities in soccer. Thankfully not mine. ( right mom?)
He has brought so much joy to our family. He has a heart that is so big and caring, he often brings tears to my eyes. His smile and the twinkle in his eyes is enough to make your heart melt.

CHASE- Chase began preschool this year. He did great, not one day of tears. He also has two great teachers, Mrs Jackie and Mrs. Ruth. He continues to amaze us how much he is learning and loves to learn. When Tyler does homework he loves to join in. He has made a friend that he just loves. His name is Tanner and loves having play dates with him. He as well played soccer. This age is so fun to watch, they all just run together. He as well brings amazing joy to our family. He has such spunk. He has the funniest facial expressions. He enjoys trying to take care of Carson, although Carson wants no part of that.

CARSON- Well Carson's biggest news for the year is that the hole in his heart has closed. Praise God!!! Thank you all for your prayers for him. His biggest achievement you ask. HE IS FINALLY WALKING and crying is less and less everyday. He took his first steps at 17 months. He did not play soccer this, but he was boys' biggest fan. I must tell you though that he would walk around the field kicking a soccer ball. He was at all of their games cheering on the side lines. This little man brings a lot of laughter to our family. He is going to be our clown for sure. When he doesn't want to do something he lets you know for sure. He is beginning to talk, not a huge vocabulary but he is saying some things and mimics what you ask him to. He is already trying to join in with the boys. Loves to try and wrestle with them. There is nothing that they do that he definitely doesn't try to do.

CHRIS- I think the most exciting thing that happened to chris this year is I am not pregnant and we didn't have a baby. Our boys are our biggest blessing in life, but were done. ( for now) He continues to sell realestate, and still loving it. i must thank you all for your support whether it was through buying or selling your house through Chris ,or even if you referred someone.
Chris has begun a new adventure in life. If any of you know Chris you that he has a very entrapeneur kind of mind. I am glad he is able to this do this. He and a friend are putting out a new magazine called HRN, home refferal network. keep your eyes open for it. Or give him a call and let him tell you about. We are all so proud of him.
I am so thankful to Chris, he works so hard so that I can stay home and eat bon bons, and watch my soaps:) Seriously, he does amazing job providing for our family so I can do what I want and thats to be home with our three little boys. Chris is still enjoying playing basketball, and is still quite good. He had fun helping coach tyler's soccer team.

We started our fall season out with a trip to the pumpkin patch with Grandma Jana and Papa Rocky.

Here are our little guys all dressed up. We had fun trick or treating at a few of our friends homes and then we sat out front and handed out candy. Tyler had no problem telling kids if they were too old or asking where their costumes were.

FINALLY

FINALLY.......he's taken his first steps. Carson that is. I was away this weekend for a very good friends wedding and I was upset that I was going to miss Chases' first soccer game, but miss Carson 's first steps was making me sick at the thought of it. So I begged Chris to make him sit the whole time I was gone. On Sunday I am pleased to say that Carson took his very first steps right into my arms. What an amazing day. I don't have pictures right now but I will. I hope to even be able to post a video .

My babies started school this week. What an emotional week for me. They were both so excited and there were no tears on their end just mine. I just can't believe Tyler is in kindergarten already. He just loves school and his teacher. Her name is Mrs. Lamb and I could not have asked for a better teacher for him. What an answer to prayers. I have to tell you a funny story that tyler came home and told me. He tells me " mommy I met this girl and she is so beautiful and she smells beautiful too". I could not believe that came out of his mouth. The next day he found her and introduced her to me. I didn't think boys went girl crazy til high school. What ever happened to girls having cooties :)

Here is my little GQ posing for me on his first day of school. He was so excited he ran all the way. I could barely keep up with him.

This is Chase on his first day. He is attending Northside church's preschool. Tyler attended here as well. Chase's teachers are Mrs. Jackie and Mrs Ruth. They are both wonderful and again could not have gotten better teachers. He too was so excited. He did not come home with any stories the way tyler did. I am sure they will come, I will keep you posted.

This is the class pet and we get to bring him home for a weekend. Not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing yet. I'll let you know. :)

We have a lot of fun things going on lately and finding the time to blog has not been there. Tyler, Chase, Chris, and myself had the opportunity to take the boys on Lake Millerton. We went out on Will and Allison's boat. We all had an amazing time. Tyler even went tubing he had so much fun in fact he kept telling us to go faster.

Tyler and Chase even got to drive the boat they thought that was just neatest thing.

Tyler and Chase have formed a special relationship with Will and Allie. My boys just love them so much. They want to either be on their lap or holding their hand. Thank you so much for such a great day.

The rest of our summer has been filled with going to the waterpark and playing with friends. This week we went to a friends house and had a great day. Here are some pictures.

This tyler jumping from the waterfall

The future Mrs. Chase Jones :) The other two pictures are so adorable to me because Chase is trying to swim so hard taking Cami to the other side of the spa. You can see that in the second picture his head is beginning to get lower and lower. He did it though he got his little princess to the other side. What a gentleman :)

This is Chase and his friend Trey playing together in the water. They had so much fun just splashing each other. Trey is the son of my friend Tiffani. A friend that I have recently become close to and what a blessing her and family have been to ours.

This is her beautiful daughter Audrey , Carson, and Trey.

Chase and Camryn catching some rays.

We had a very big event take place. Chris' best friend of many, many years was married on 7-7-07. He married an absolutely amazing woman, Allison. She has already been a blessing to both Chris and I. We are are so excited for them. Their wedding was amazing and beautiful.

Chris had a special tie made just for the wedding . He took their pictures at rehearsal dinner and it put on a tie for the wedding

Danielle, me , and Natalie.

That's all folks and here they are Mr. and Mrs. William Dyck :)

Ok so its been awhile a long while, Sorry :( . I am gonna do my best to catch you all up on our summer. We started our summer off with a week a vbs ( vacation bible school) where Tyler and Chase got to sing, play games, crafts, and learn about God and sing great songs of worship.

I even joined in on the fun and helped Traci with the games. I am not sure how much help I was, I did a lot of talking to the team leaders and visiting :) I had a blast though .

A big Thank you to all had a part in giving my boys this amazing experience.

Our big events in the last couple of weeks

Tyler during his performance.

We had a lot of big things that have happened the past couple of weeks. Tyler graduated preschool. He really loved school. His favorite thing was playing with blocks and playing on the computer. His least favorite thing was art.

He got four shots for kindergarten and did not even cry. He was so proud of himself that he did not cry. Tyler has also had another exciting event this past week. He lost his first tooth.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY CHRIS

I took the time to sit down with the boys and ask them what it is they love about their daddy and this is what they said. Tyler loved that his daddy would take him to McDonalds to play, he takes him to the movie store to get a movir for movie night, he plays with him at the park, and he took him to see the monster trucks.

Chase loves his daddy, infact he calls himself daddy's boy. He loves to lay on the couch with daddy and watch any kind of sports. Chase loves to wrestle with his daddy. Most of all I think he loves it most when they tease mommy. Chris and Chase are so much alike sometimes its scary.

We had a nice surprise, my sister and niece came down from Oakdale to go to the waterpark. We spent the whole afternoon there. It was really nice to be able to have them here. Tyler and Hailey had a blast riding all the rides in the kiddie area. Chase on the other hand was not to sure about it all. The last ten minutes he started to enjoy it. Next time should be even better.

After we were done we came back home and enjoyed some pizza together and played outside. Hailey pulled the boys in the wagon. We really enjoyed having them. Thanks for coming down and come back anytime.