I'm alive

Sorry that I haven't been writing lately. I was looking at other people's blogs and realizing that I am a bad blogger! :)
We have been having a very good time the last month. We have been with our families for the holidays.
Some of the highlights:

• Lake Havasu Boat Light Parade
• The Bunnell 16 days of Christmas- The children opened a present everyday of December! They got every toy from Toys R Us and several new wardrobes. We might have to add on to our house to accommodate their loot!
• Sierra's 2nd birthday- we decided to do every color of streamer and a puppy theme.
• La Jolla with the Hurley's-walking on the beach was the best part. We walked both at sunset and to ring in 2009.

The kids are doing great.

Weston is really growing into a delightful boy. He will start preschool next month. This month didn't work out because we are traveling and he is getting his tonsils out. I am nervous for him to get them removed, but more nervous to NOT do it. He has a throat infection almost every month and it is so nerve wracking to play doctor mom in Mongolia. He is really a great little pretender now and able to play and talk about things quite thoroughly! I love having little conversations with him. I love his serious nature and the way he mixes that with the ability to tease and make jokes. When he colors a picture I think that he thinks staying in the lines means getting the space COMPLETELY covered with color. He doesn't care if he is out of the line, but is truly not happy until the entire space is covered! He loves to joke too. In Lake Havasu, he thought it was hilarious to call Aunt Julie, Aunt Megan! He delivered the joke well too! He also likes to make up his own silly songs. He closes his eyes and hums to his hearts content and always is very pleased with himself when his song is done.

Sierra is a crack up. She has comic genius in her and has a radar on everybody else's emotions. If someone is sad, she wants to give a full body smasher hug to cheer them up. She is sensitive when she displeases me but she is also a bruiser. She can walk into a perfectly tidy room and destroy it in less than five minutes. She can play hard around the big kids and sound not be allowed to play with babies! Just ask her one year old cousin Logan!

Her hair is out of hand. It falls forward onto her face and now her bangs are too long so she looks like she can't see (bad mommy!) I have done some research this week to figure out how to do hair. I am bad at at it---as anyone that has seen my hair can attest too! I have pulled off some impressive styles this week, I only had to feed her an entire box of Trix to get her to hold still! I will post pictures. She is still NOT sleeping at night. I heard of a Super Nanny trick that seemed to work last night?! We'll see. I never get excited unless it works for two night in a row.

Tomorrow we leave for a 1,000 mile road trip. We'll be in Santa Clarita Thursday-Sunday and then up to Central California the following week. We'll be speaking about Mongolia 4-5 times. It will be good to have the major travel behind us after this trip.!