The Yantz Family

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Snow Snow Snow and a little sledding

I do believe that KY had the most snow that I have ever seen fall in my 20 years here. There was 8 inches in some spots that we walked! Especially in our back yard! We were literally trudging through the snow! It felt like when I was a little girl growing up in FL and walking/trudging on the white beach sand. Only ALOT colder!! Although this has made us hermits for the past few days, we did finally take advantage of having no school and go the few blocks down the street to sled! I have to admit that I did NOT take part in the sledding, I was the official photographer and helper of putting gloves back on, pulling underarmour down, putting hats back on, listening to "I'm cold but I don't want to quit yet" and all things pertaining to sledding other than actually sledding! The kids had a great time with a few of their friends. Peighton opted out on this adventure!

I think I had a weird setting on my camera for this pic but thought it was kinda cool looking!

Kami and BFF Peyton

Nolan and Ashton

Racing???

I love how big brother has little bro in his lap. Sometimes they do pretend to love each other! ha

Here we GOOOOOOO!

Trying a sled chain for the umpteenth time!

The whole gang after 2 1/2 hours of cold hard fun!

This is the only negative about sledding! It creates MORE laundry which as we all know, is my nemisis!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

A little bit of middle school basketball

It is really hard to get still pictures of a boy on the basketball court, so I decided to take a little video instead. Feel free to mute the sound so you will not have to hear this poor child's mother and father yelling.(all positive things of course :)) BTW, the poor boy I am referring to is #51. Also take note of how large(as in tall) the other teams players are. We have since realized that in the state of KY, parents will hold their boys back and not let them start kindergarten, until they are 7!! This makes for a 13-14 year old playing 6th grade ball, 14-15 year old playing 7th grade ball, and full grown MEN, playing 8th grade ball. KY REALLY takes their basketball serious!!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Prayers needed for Baby B

I came across this amazing, humbling, scary, loving, heart wrenching story through a friend of my cousins, blog. This little guy, Bronson, needs all the prayers we can muster up, not to mention all the support and comfort his dear mother needs as well. I find myself hugging my kiddos a little tighter and putting off the "little things" alot more lately!

http://www.stakerzxposed.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

"Good Things"

Kami brought her composition journal home from school the other day and happened to leave it on my nightstand when she went to bed. Curious to see how much her writing has improved, I picked it up and started flipping through it. I found this and knew I had to write it down so I would always have it. This is her writing word for word.

Good Things

~I love playing soccer

~I love visiting my cousins

~I love playing with my friends

~I love school

~My favorite subject in school is Math

~I love picking people flowers like roses

~I love going to the pool because I get to see my friends and my old teacher

~I love babys

~I love playing with kids

~I always play soccer with my sister and it makes me happy

~I love visiting my Grommie because we always go crawl fishing

~I love my mom and dad

~It makes me happy when somebody helps me up when I fall down

~I love popping bubbles

~I love Spongebob

~I always play Guitar Hero

~When its my birthday it makes me feel really happy

~When I got to go to the fair I was really happy

~When I go to the beach it makes me really happy

~I like collecting really cool stuff

~I love helping people take care of babies

~When my mom babysits a kid and I get to feed its bottle to him it is really cool

~I love when my Grommie comes it makes me happy

Footed "kajamas" and "Batman" gingerbread man

One of the things that Nolan wanted for Christmas was footed "kajamas". He has always LOVED these type of pajamas but as he has grown, they have became VERY hard to find in his size. Target usually has them, but this year I waited to late and his size were all sold out. Well, as many of you may know, I LOVE a challenge when it comes to finding a good deal or finding an item that is hard to find! I set out about 2 weeks before Christmas trying to find this last item for Nolan. I went everywhere from Meijers to second hand consigment stores to no avail! I couldn't find them anywhere!!!! As the days grew closer to Christmas I was getting quite anxious about not finding them. Such a little want surely had to be fulfilled for my sweet little boy. I searched the internet and almost spent WAY to much money on a pair. Finally on the Monday before Christmas, I was at the mall looking for anything Batman, and something drew my attention up the escalator to the second floor of Sears. Just as I stepped off the escalator, there was an entire bin of footed "kajamas"!!! It is so funny how something so little could bring such great joy to a mom! Not only were there 2 in a package, there was also some in Kami's size! I was able to get 4 pair for the low price of $24! That is $6 a piece!! Anyway.......the look on Nolan's face when he opened that present was worth all the stress, miles, and gas that I put into finding them! Although he is getting older and learning to read, he still insists upon calling them "kajamas". I have to say though, that none of us correct him, but instead join in with him and call them "kajamas" as well! One cold night, both Kami and Nolan wore thiers and I couldn't resist taking pictures of the little wild monkeys! My only problem now is trying to keep them clean so they can wear them literally EVERY night!

As everyone in the family knows, Nolan is a "Batman" fanatic. He truly thinks he will grow up and be Batman and help fight crime. Although he now tells me that some of the cartoons he watches are "fiction". Not sure where he picked that word up but he always uses it in the right context, so he does know what he is talking about!! LOL Anyway....he was sick quite a bit in December and missed some school. He was really bummed because he knew his class would be making gingerbread houses and gingerbread men. However, he was so happy that his teachers didn't forget about him and when he returned to school, he found this cute little gingerbread man waiting for him! I though it was so sweet that not only did they not forget about him, they made this little man exactly the way Nolan would have! I am so blessed to have such wonderful teachers that not only teach him, but also truly love and "know" him.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Making Memories with Family

We had fun visiting Tim's family this year. With Tim's mom having an emergency surgery to relieve the blockage in her carotid artery on Christmas Eve morning, we really weren't sure what to expect. But we were all relieved to find out that everything went well and she is doing really well! So on Sat. we loaded up and made the trek to London. The kids always have a blast with their only cousin on Tim's side,Kailin. She is 12 and always ready to have fun! We only wish we could see her more often than once or twice a year! Tim also had fun posing for pictures with his brothers! They are to funny when they get together. Of course Tim is usuallythe instigator of all things crazy!

Scott, the oldest, Tim, and Chad, the youngest!

Kailin Ann Yantz

We just realized the she and Kami have the same initials and her mom and I didn't even do it on purpose! KAY

(Kamryn Alexis Yantz)

Tim being crazy again and his brothers trying to run from him!

All of the Yantz grandchildren

Peighton and Nana. See how great she looks just days after surgery!

We were also blessed to have a distant cousin come and visit us the last week of Christmas break. My half-Uncle Cole's son Hayden who is 13, flew in and stayed with is for a few days! The kids enjoyed playing and getting to know him better. Hopefully his brothers, Nick and Carter can come next time as well!

Here are a few pics I took of Hayden and Nolan!

Two cute boys! Notice the resemblance in their gorgeous eyes!

Being silly!

We were making home made pizza and Hayden said it was the BEST he had ever eatin!

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas 2009

We started off the week with making Aunt Precie and Aunt Karmen's sugar cookies for F.H.E. Daddy was working so he didn't get to participate in this new Christmas tradition, hoopefully he will be able to next year! On Christmas Eve, we went to see a movie and then came home to make our infamous home-made pizza! (thanks Aunt Karmen for teaching us!) Each year we let the kids open one gift on Christmas Eve. They were soooo excited even though the older ones new it would be pajamas!! We also have a tradition of getting a new ornament each year. Daddy and I try to get each child one that represents what they have done through out the year. I think we did well!! After hanging the ornaments we made cookies for Santa and then it was time for the kids to go to bed! The kids have their own tradition of sleeping altogether in the bunk beds in the boys room.(although Peighton has sworn it over with after this year!!) I have to give the kids some credit as they did allow Tim and I to sleep until 9:00 on Christmas morning!! They had a blast opening thier gifts and around 2:00 Aunt Raina and Uncle Scott came over with more presents! Daddy had to work that night so mom and Aunt Raina and Uncle Scott set off with the kids to visit Grommie and Papa. On the way there, we pass the Benningfield Cemetery so we visited Grandmommie's grave site, shed a little tears, and took a few pictures. We miss you so much Grandmommie! Merry Christmas!!