More Holiday fun..

Mommy and Wyatt on Christmas Eve..

Taking sister for a ride....

Riding with my buddies...

Wyatt, Brock, and Nascar Star Locker

A little behind.. the other two are way up front!

The jeep thing has caught on! Brock received one for his birthday and of coarse Zach and Holt do not want Locker and Wyatt to have a smaller/slower jeep so this is what happens.. the three amigos! Zach, Holt and Ryan took the boys out to Holt's ranch to let them ride and Wyatt literally wore the battery out. They had a blast... I have a feeling this will not be the first time they are racing and getting into things... I hate to see what they are doing when they turn 16... we will have armored trucks by then!

The girls meanwhile had a wonderful morning at Jenn's.. Laura and I sat at the bar while Jenn cooked and served us.. the nice thing is Laura and I enjoy sitting and talking while Jenn cannot sit still.. so it work out great. Sam and June played and enjoyed the time of not having their brothers steal all of their toys. Laura is really starting to feel the last final months of her pregnancy.. I cannot imagine being pregnant right now with a 1 yr old and a 2 yr old... so keep her in your prayers that she makes it to deliver a healthy Annie Grace.

my sorry cake... sorry Jesus!

Of all times to mess up a cake.. the birthday party we had for Jesus on Christmas Eve.. doesn't this look good?! I am so not a cook!

Christmas Pictures...

Every time Wyatt would open up a present he would say " Is it a car?" the kid loves cars!

Look at our new Jeep! I can ride too!

Meema and June holding her new "Lala" doll

Meema and Wyatt on Christmas Eve

My first Christmas...

More Christmas Pictures...

Papa and June on Christmas morning

the "imagination" train.. Wyatt and Papa

Wyatt giving June a hug.. or trying to get her off his jeep, I am saying it is a hug!

Wyatt riding his jeep Christmas morning

" I love my Jeep!"

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

"WOW!"

June and Nonno

June and baby "Jesus"

Wyatt and his new firetruck

Daddy and Junebug on Christmas Eve

It has been a busy few weeks... Christmas was wonderful this year at the Doss house. Wyatt really got into it and June was right there with him. (All of this after we got over the lovely bacteria infection that June did not seem to pick up..thank the Lord!) Christmas Eve we went to church and then over to my Mom's. We have a wonderful time, we had pizza and a birthday party for Jesus. I am trying to teach Wyatt (and June) the true meaning of Christmas not just the excitement of presents...but presents over take meaning when you are 21/2! We made a birthday cake that afternoon and I just want to apologize to Jesus for the fact it was the ugliest cake I have ever made... but it did taste good. (I substituted pumpkin and yogurt ILO oil and butter and it was sooo good, but I did not wait until the cake was completely cook to decorate... obviously you can see the mess we ended up with.) Wyatt now thinks Jesus is his best friend for all the wrong reasons... bc "Jesus brings me presents and shares with me..." (yes, to some degree this is true). Mom had our favorite Chicken artichoke pizza and wine and it was perfect. June got into the present opening as well.. she received a few adorable dolls (thank you!)and Wyatt named them as we went along. Mauri brought her the most adorable soft Alexander doll and he named it "Sarah" after his favorite teacher at school. Laura gave her an adorable life size doll and it was "Lala" after his favorite Laura... and Dixie had to sing in church Christmas Eve to a doll who was suppose to be baby "Jesus"... so I feel like we really need to take care of that doll! June loves them all!

Saturday morning Papa came over and the kids woke up to see what Santa brought. (Papa) Santa brought Wyatt a jeep that is nicer than my first two cars. It is incredible all the little features it has on it, not to mention a little faster than I would like. Papa also brought over a train (he found at a garage sale for $5) and that has been the favorite toy... who knew! IT does not work quite right so you have to use your "imagination" (at least that is what I told Wyatt.. he came back a few minutes later and asked "where is my nation? I cannot find it anywhere?!")

June actually loves the Gacho and loves to sit next to her brother as he drives her around (they have very good seat belts) It was a fun morning.... we then went over to Skeet and Nini's for Christmas round 3! Nini fixed a wonderful lunch and the kids (and us) were spoiled. Skeet gave Wyatt a firetruck and he loves it.. it has a real bell (thanks Skeet!) that he loves to ring and play like he is a fireman. The day was wonderful and long.. we were all tired just to get up and drive to Shreveport the next day.

Friday we headed to see my Grandmother and Aunt in Bossier City... 10 hours away! I dreaded this trip but all in all they kids did really well and we had a good time. Zach got to escape and play a much needed round of golf and I got to spend time with my sweet grandmother. She is precious and was so excited to see the kids. Once we got home.. Zach and I treated ourselves to a 24hr escape to Dallas to watch what we thought would be a great game.. the only problem is Tech forgot to show up! Regardless of the game, it was nice to eat by ourselves, have a wonderful night with no children. Skeet and Nini kept the kids so thanks for a nice start to the new year.

And we are caught up! Zach and I did set New years resolutions to eat much healthier this year.. I hope we stick to it... I will keep you updated!

Wishful thinking or Manic Monday?!

I could not decide on a title for today so there are two. "Wishful Thinking" is referring to the last email where I said " I hope it is 24 hours." Wrong. It was not even the stomach bug... but a bacterial infection. Wyatt has really been sick this weekend and poor thing cannot seem to lick the diarrhea (yes, I know moms are the only ones who read my blog, so I am not going to sugar coat the weekend!) I knew it was something serious when he started pooping blood. I got nervous and fortunate my Dr was on call this weekend so we saw him Saturday morning. (I love him more now than I did before!). Wyatt did get a shot and some antibiotics, he said if he was not better by Saturday night he would need to go to the hospital.. the medicine did help a little so he was fine to stay home. Sunday he woke up in a good mood... I was hoping we were over it and I was wrong! Today we are better, but not cured. Thank goodness for grandparents bc when I got the news Sat morning he was contagious, I called mom and she dropped everything to take care of June... THANK YOU!
"Manic Monday" is for the fact that I have to keep two kids inside on a cold day and try to entertain them without the TV. I gave in this weekend and let Wyatt do whatever he wanted bc I felt so sorry for him.... and now we are back to our normal routine of only 1 hr a day.. that went very quick this morning. Wyatt has diaper rash so bad that I cannot put anything on him bc it hurts. So this means I have to watch him super close and somehow I missed the fact he peed on the Christmas tree twice.Do you know how hard it is to clean a Christmas tree?! He will not go to the potty bc wiping hurts too bad. AHH !
June apprears to be fine so far.. but we are not out of the woods yet... Is it bad to want a glass of wine at 10:30?!