The Viehwegs: December 2011

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Since Josh works tomorrow, Christmas Day, we did our best to squish our traditions into 1 day. We woke up and had breakfast pizza then after lunch we went and saw a movie. After the movie we came home and while the boys napped I started to get our yummy dinner going. We decided that like last year we would have seafood and broccoli salad and crab stuffed avocados.

My Favorite.....King Crab Legs

After dinner was all through and Keegan was sure he couldn't wait any longer we started opening presents.

This year because of Josh's schedule we did Christmas like I did growing up with a Danish mom. We opened everything tonight on Christmas Eve. Except the Santa stuff of course.

Here's Elfie, he's been with us since the day after Thanksgiving. It's been a lot of fun but I'm glad he's going back with Santa tonight. I always forgot to move him to a new spot until AFTER I was all warm and cozy in my bed. And then because I was afraid Keegan would get up before me and see him in the same spot I'd have to climb back out of bed and go move him.

Our cute tree and presents. Keegan can hardly wait and really didn't want to sit still for this picture.

Koda and his GIGANTIC bone. Keegan and I got smacked with it more than once as he carried it around.

Keegan chose this present from Grandma Sue as his 1st one to open.......

The Aluma-wallet!!! Now notice he isn't too excited. It's not because he doesn't like it, it's because "I don't even make any money" He is sure you need to have a job to need a wallet. Little did he know Grandma Sue filled it with $1 bills.

Next one is from Uncle Jon, which he read all by himself. As he unwrapped it he saw that it was a cell phone!! And his response was "What??" I had to tell him that Jon just used an OLD cell phone box.

Because this is what was inside! He was really excited and jumped up. This picture doesn't show it because he never waits long enough for the flash on my camera before he stops smiling.

This one is from the Jamesons' It's a really cute dinosaur shirt and pants. He was very excited because they are T-rex's and those are his favorite.

Keegan with his gift from aunt Jacey. You can see that he's carefully sounding out her name.

This one is from Pa! He's very excited. It's almost as though he knows that Pa always gets him something really fun. Which it was, it was a r/c car that does flips and stuff

This one is from Grandma Sue. Another r/c car!! He says that's ok now we can all drive one and share

The dogs sharing (and growling at each other) the GIANT bone

You can see that even though Koda is now chewing on the smaller bone he won't let go of the big one.

Ahhh, he's excited for this one from Grandma V. Little does he know Santa is bringing the mask to go with it.

Somehow Scarlett got the big bone to herself.

And r/c car #3!! He loves them all and can't wait to get outside with them!!

Here's one he's been asking for for WEEKS! It's the Mega Wreck Shark Ship!

He was so excited that he said it's name 5 or 6 times.

Cute hat to keep his ears warm on the walk to school

And lastly from Grandma Sue, a Hippty Hop!! It was a hit!! After playing with Pa's car (that lights up) he wouldn't get off this. I finally had to take it away so he would go to bed.

And Finally, Santa came and filled our stockings!

We hope you all have a Merry Christmas. We're sorry we couldn't be in Utah this year but we will be there next.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Keegan's Answers

This morning I was checking out Pinterest and ran across one pin of fun questions to ask your kids and see what they answer. So here are Keegan's.

1. What is something Mommy/Daddy always says to you?

m: I love you
d: goodnight

2. What makes Mommy/Daddy happy?

m: Me
d: playing with koda

3. What makes Mommy/Daddy sad?

m: When I argue
d: When I argue

4. How does Mommy/Daddy make you laugh?

m: I don't know
d: I don't know

5. What was Mommy/Daddy like as a kid?

m: me
d: he was shorter and didn't know how to fish, you know when you were 3

6. How old is Mommy/Daddy?

m: 32
d: 33

7. How tall is Mommy/Daddy?

m: 25 inches
d: 27 inches

8. What is Mommy's/Daddy's favorite thing to do?

m: Go to It'z in ABQ
d: Go to It's in ABQ

9. What does Mommy/Daddy do when you're not around?

m: Read
d: Play video games

10. If Mommy/Daddy became famous what would it be for?

m: Selling Tires
d: for dancing a lot

11. What is Mommy/Daddy really good at?

m: Reading books to me
d: fishing

12. What is Mommy/Daddy not good at?

m: Hockey
d: he can't reach the light on the celing

13. What does Mommy/Daddy do as her job?

m: I don't know because you don't work at Cabela's or an office or in the hospital
d: Work at a hospital as a nurse

14. What's Mommy's/Daddy's favorite food?

m: Taco's
d: pizza

15. What makes you proud of Mommy/Daddy?

m: When she volunteers at my school.
d: sometimes he stays home and plays with me

16. If Mommy/Daddy were a cartoon character, who would she be.

m: Sponge Bob (Mommy isn't happy about this one)
d: Scooby Do

17. What do you and Mommy/Daddy do together?

m: Read a lot of books and play games.
d: fight for the ball with Koda

18. How are you and Mommy/Daddy the same?

m: we have the same feet since you have my feet on your feet.(I have his baby footprints tattooed on myfeet)
d: we both have short hair and he has a watch and I have a watch

19. How are you and Mommy/Daddy different?

m: you have long hair and I have short hair.
d: he's bigger and I'm a little smaller

20. How do you know Mommy/Daddy loves you

m: You give me kisses and hug me
d: he gives me hugs and kisses and squishes

21. Where is Mommy's/Daddy's favorite place to go?

m: The fabric store (dang straight it is)
d: downstairs to play video games.

Needless to say, I was kind of worried what he might answer on some of these. Like #1 could have been "Keegan settle down" or "Hurry up and eat, you don't have all day" or " LEAVE THE DOG ALONE" But I think my favorite is #10 that I'm going to be some famous tire mogul someday and that Josh is going to be the next dancing with the stars champ. Who knew?

Friday, December 9, 2011

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Yard Work

The very first time we looked at our house I knew we'd have to do some work in the back yard. There was nothing in it! Ok, I lied, there was 1 ugly and scraggly rose bush. Soon to be NO ugly rose bush. But in the east corner of the yard there was this small hill, at the base of the small hill you could already see a natural break where the slope was just too steep and was sloughing off anyway. I decided that was the perfect spot to add a cute little retaining wall and plant a garden behind it.

So yesterday, that's what we worked on.

Here's my little landscaping apprentice. He had a great time digging in the dirt and "working as a team"

We still have work to do, I need to even out the sides and along the front where the "grass" (moss and weeds) meet the dirt.

Not too sure what all we'll plant but I do know Keegan has put in an order for strawberries. Josh wants tomatoes, jalapenos, and green peppers. Which makes me think I'll be canning more than blackberries next year.

Keegan Funnies

"Mom, do you know how I see things? There are little guys in my head taking pictures of what I'm looking at and then they send them to my brain"

Early this morning Keegan came running out of his room with a shoe in his had and yelled "MOM there's a bug in my pants!!" I asked "there's a bug in your pants?" He responded, "not these pants, the ones on my floor, I saw it, and thought it was a running arrow, but it's a bug"

Uncle Jon works at the Costco that George Bush was doing a book signing at. Keegan was talking to Jon on the phone and I told Keegan to ask Jon if he saw President Bush. Keegan quickly ask "Jon, did you see a president in a bush?"

He's been saying this for a while now but it still makes me laugh. If you say to him "You don't say" he ALWAYS responds with "OH, I'll say alright!"

Today Keegan told me "Watch out mommy, I'm coming in hot" he then jumped from the coffee table to the couch. When I asked him if he even knew what that meant and he told me "it means I'm going really fast and it will be hard to stop"

When I was unsure of the pool temp he didn't hesitate and jumped in. When he saw that I was still standing on the side he said "jump in mommy, it's refreshing"

Keegan and his best bud had a bit of a disagreement and Keegs ended up with a 1 inch gash in his head. (He's fine) But when I asked him if he was mad at Evan he replied "No, but he sure was mad at me!"

Not a "funny" but just a note, while we were in Mexico Keegan learned to say his "K" and "C's". So he no longer calls himself "Teenan" and Koda is no longer "Toda" It was such a shock to hear him ask us how was "MexiCO" not "MexiTo"

I have resorted to washing Keegans mouth out with a tiny bit of soap when he argues. Afterwards I was talking to him explaining that arguing isn't good and that the soap tastes yucky right?? He looked at me and said "Well, it doesn't taste GOOD"!!

The other day Keegan fell out of my mom's really tall truck. When he was asked if he got hurt on the truck he said, "No, it was the ground that hurt me"!

**Warning, not really funny, but still so funny at the time, maybe shocking is the right word**

Keegan dropped the "F" bomb today, totally random and so unlike him that I didn't believe he actually said what I thought he did. I actually made him say it again to see if heard him right. So despite me and Josh laughing we had to tell him it wasn't funny and that if he ever said it again he would go to time out for a long long time.

He got a watch for Christmas, if you ask him what time it is he often says "here, you look at it" It is a digital watch and will read the #'s individually if there is a 3 anywhere in the time he thinks they are E's So the other day it was 4 "E"7

Josh was helping him put on the ONLY pair of pants that actually fit and don't fall down. Keegan doesn't unsnap the snap and was struggling to get them over his keester so he said "my butt is too big" If you have actually seen Keegan you know that is NOT the case.

He often asks me how fast different animals can run, he usually wants me to tell him if it is faster or slower than Koda.

I told Keegan his drawers were falling down, he turned to me and said "What???? my drawers???" he then immediately ran upstairs and pushed in his dresser drawers.

Keegan asked if Grandpa Dan was up in heaven? I told him yes. He asked if he was up in the stars and clouds? I said yes. He then asked, when he is done in his rocket can he come back down?

Keegan got to meet Elmo at Sea World, he ran up and gave him a huge hug. Afterward he told me that "I gave Elmo a hug and didn't even poke him in the eye"

When his finger nails get to long he tells me he has "girl nails"

While on vacation, he asked if we were going to the beach that day, I told him "No we are going to Sea World today" he started to cry and then told me he didn't wan't to go to Sea World that he wanted to go to Wal-Mart.

While out one day a little girl called to her mommy and Keegan turned to me and said "Mommy she said your name"

I had asked Keegan for another kiss this morning and he replied "Nope, only one kiss today."

"Mom, there is something in my flip-flop!!" I ask, what is it? Get it out. He replies "my foot"

"Pa" is going pee, but he doesn't need my step stool betause he is very tall."

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