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Okay, so I know it has been a while since I posted.
But do you know what sounds good right now?
110.
That's right 110.
110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Hot and dry 110.
Not the hot like when we were in Alabama and we wanted to die when it got over 85°. I'm talking about the kind of heat that bakes, not steams, you.
You know the kind of heat that feels like a blow dryer?
Or the kind of heat that makes you think you're in an oven?
Doesn't that sound good?

It sounds good to me.
Maybe I have been out of AZ too long and I can't remember what it is really like.
I can tell you that the other day when it was 43° I thought to myself, so this is what "crisp" feels like. They say it on the weather here all of the time.
It was cold, not "bitterly" cold they say that too, but cold enough to make you feel alive.
I kind of like crisp. I have come to the conclusion I can handle the cold, but only the kind of cold for sissies or newbies to the cold. I really don't like it when it gets near freezing. I am having a hard time grasping the concept of 30° (or colder) being the high for the day. I mean seriously? If I took my food out of the freezer and let it sit on my porch all day, it would still be frozen!
Don't even get me started on the wind here in Cheyenne. If you don't know, it's really windy here. I mean seriously windy. Like so windy we had to write our house number on our garbage can so when it blows down the street every week after being emptied we can figure out which one is ours. So windy that when the wind goes through our windows it sounds like our house it should be on an episode of Scooby-Doo. So windy that the boys start crying when I tell them it is going to be a windy day. It's mostly Ezra, because he has to play outside at recess and walk to and from the bus stop.
Oh by the way, I forgot to tell you that I was about to go on another weather rant.
Sorry.

So, what have we been up to?

Well.....it snowed.

Here is Joe doing his manly shoveling duty.
Isn't he cute?

The van covered in snow. It was pretty deep.

I didn't take this pic. I'm guessing it was Joe, he was pretty proud of the job he did on the walkway. It is pretty impressive.

He also likes to take a picture of the bed of his truck to see how much snow there really is.

That is pretty much what has been going on here.

Here are the events of the last few months.

We had a wonderful Christmas. Last year we started the tradition of leaving tacos for Santa, he probably gets tired of cookies. We did it again this year and I think it's a tradition we are going to keep. I love tacos on Christmas Eve!

Notice Ezra's note, it is adorable! Try not to be jealous of Santa's tacos.

The boys got enough bakugan to circle the earth a few times.

Cora got cute stuff.

Here is a list I found that Ezra wrote. It's your basic Christmas break itinerary.

• eat
• webkinz
• bakugan
• dart tag
• gator golf
• wii
• cora laughing
• news
• ds
• pet pals

Ezra has not started watching the news. It has to do with making up something you wish would happen and then reporting on it, I think.

For New Years, Amber and Alma came to visit. Yay! We had so much fun. What did we do? Mostly we ate. We cooked and ate. It was awesome. I love that they love food as much as Joe and I do. Amber and I got to have some girlie time and we even got to go on a double date(with our husbands of course)!
Here they are ringing in the New Year with some Martinelli's.

Did I mention that we cooked? Here is proof, check out the delicious home made doughnuts. I'm drooling looking at them they were so delish! Another tradition we will probably start. Home made doughnuts on New Years Day. Thanks, Amber. =)
Don't worry we ate our blackeyed peas, for good luck and our greens, for wealth in the new year. A tradition in Joe's family.

Okay, we got Rockband for Christmas. It's actually Guitar Hero World Tour, but I call it Rock Band. Anyways, River has turned into quite the Rock Star. I was not fully aware of this until he put this get up on, on his own and told me he was ready to play Guitar Hero.
-Dinosaur pajamas
-Ninja costume
-Super spiky hair, that he did himself.

He is pouting in this picture because I accidentally laughed when I figured out that the reason he was dressed like that was so he could rock out.
You should hear him do "Livin' on a Prayer" he totally rocks it. The surprise hit? LaBamba! That kid loves to rock out to LaBamba.

As I mentioned earlier it has been snowing. That keeps us inside. What do the Lasuras start doing when they get a little cooped up?
They start making animal shapes out of cheese crisps, of course. Here is a bat Ezra carefully made. He is very talented. He gets stuff like this from Joe. ;)

And I know you wanted to see a very cute picture of our Coco girl. She is such a good girl.

I have also included this picture of Ez and Cora, just because. I love how she is looking at him. She 100% loves her brothers!

What a lucky girl!
p.s. You know how Cora looks just like the boys did when they were babies? Not anymore. We pierced her ears. It was a big decision. I think it looks really cute.

Also I was tagged by Amber.
It was the 4th picture in the 4th folder.
The folder was called 2008-02. So I guess this was taken last year.
It is a picture that one of the boys took. It happens a lot. The camera is usually near the computer, because I leave it there after I upload pictures.
It's a picture of the desk, cutting mat, a bill, dvd cover and some pens. What is the orange thing? It's up for debate. Joe thinks it's a half eaten square of cheese and I think it a ripped orange post it note. We get lots of pictures like this. There will be about 7 pictures of the monitor 4 pictures of the floor and 5 pictures of the one who is not holding the camera. Good times.