New Blog

So I decided to change our family blog. I wanted to keep this one the way it was but kind of wanted to sart a fresh blog with a new look. Anyways, I won't be posting on this blog anymore but if you still want to follow the Tidwell adventures, then you can find us at www.thetidwelltribune.blogspot.com
It is still a work in progress so don't judge yet!

Yay Yay Yay! I found out how to post my pictures bigger and I am so happy! This was an experiment so sorry about the random picture. It was from Sundance last year so let's just say I am posting it to give everyone hope for spring!!!!

Should I be worried?

Shawn is going to be very mad that I actually posted this picture but I can't help it. Gunnar came running up the stairs in this outfit, laughing so hard at himself. He thinks he is so funny, and he really is. Now that he is going to have a big sister and a little sister, we are going to have to try extra hard to get this boy camping and doing manly things!

Just another day at the zoo!

We love a good zoo day! Especially in January! Denver can be 60 degrees one day and a blizzard the next. We took advantage of this nice day to go hang out with friends and do one of our favorite things!

1-2-3 Soccer!

Gunnar started a soccer class with his buddy Charlie and it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen! These two boys are hilarious! Can you believe that they are only 10 months apart in age? Charlie is the fastest little guy I have ever seen. It is no wonder that his mother is so skinny because he is hard to catch! Gunnar worships his coach and loves to help out. I even noticed him teaching the whole class how to to do the robot the other day. He is quite the character.

Polar Express

Seriously Polar Express. You are such a fun experience and really bring the Christmas Spirit, but if you are going to charge an arm and a leg, could Santa at least cover his real mustache.

I don't think that I am asking for much. It would just add to the experience if your kids really thought you were going to see the real Santa. Call me crazy. I guess I can't really complain since we got our tickets for free. Babe got to work three nights on the Polar Express so we went on a test run. Hopefully they worked out this kink before the paying customers went for a ride!

Thanksgiving in Utah!

Rider (Andy) has grown a new healthy head of hair! He wears fake tattoo sleeves every second so that nobody can poke him with needles anymore. His cancer is gone and he is doing so great! He loves to beat Babe and Father at Yahtzee and Uno. Seriously, a couple of words of warning. If you play a game with Ryder, let him win. If you call him Andy, prepare to get yelled at or mooned. And if you are Gunnar, never call Rider a poo head. I don't think that needs an explanation.

We had so much fun at Thanksgiving. Grace and Gunnar found out that they were going to be big brother and big sister and they were so excited! I should say they are so excited! We went to the local Nutcracker production which was so sweet and wonderful! We got to visit with lots of family as well. Aunt Kris, Babe, and P Pa made the best Thanksgiving dinner I think I have ever had! We also got to go to Polar Express and I will be posting some pictures of that as well.

Wicked!!!!

November brought a highly anticipated event for

Gracie and I! We got to go to Wicked with our good
friend Lindsey and it did not disappoint! Grace now

has everyone in her class calling her Elphaba and has

every word to the soundtrack memorized. We cannot

wait for it to come back. Gunnar wants to join us next time and I just might let him considering he knows most of the words now too!

Why do I hate to blog?

Okay! So sorry for the months and months of no posting. I do not know what my problem is. This is how scrapbooking went for me too. I jumped on the bandwagon in the beginning and then not only fizzled out, but detested it. So someone help me to love blogging. My poor children need some memories of their childhood recorded besides 5000 random pictures. Okay. Here goes. I am going to change my attitude. Here are some Halloween pics of Indiana Jones aka Gunnar, and Juliet the vampire aka Gracie.

Super Gunnar to the Rescue

Gunnar is OBSESSED with dressing up! His favorite character to be is Indiana Jones. I am seriously loving it. He loves to wear his pajamas unbuttoned halfway so he looks like Indy. When he is with his best friend/fighting partner, he loves to be Superman. I just cannot get over the differences between my little girl and my little boy. They both crack me up!

Rider

I know I haven't blogged in forever but I just wanted to say how grateful I am to everyone for all of their prayers and love during our scary time with Andy (or Rider as he likes to be called) in the hospital. It was so nice to have such wonderful friends that dropped everything at a moment's notice so that I could go to Utah and help my parents out. And it was so amazing to be with Rider for four days and see how he miraculously felt better so quickly. This can only be because of everyone's prayers and Heavenly Father being so willing to bless such an amazing person like Rider. All of the snakes and other presents he received from everyone really helped his attitude and made him feel so special. He is the most inspiring person I have ever seen and I feel so happy that I could go spend so much time with him! He is on his 8th week of chemo already and is responding really well to the treatments. He goes into the hospital every Wednesday saying "I LOVE CHEMO" so I can only imagine how his attitude is helping others going through the same process. We had such a fun time over Christmas with him watching our UTES in the best bowl game ever! Anyways, thank you thank you thank you friends and family! We love you all!

Gracie got her ears pierced!

I am so proud of Grace! She said she wanted to get her ears pierced and was dead set on doing it. Once we got there however, and she was in the seat, and her ears were prepped, and she had a girl with a gun on each side of her, she decided she wanted to wait until she was 8. But even after being scared, she decided to follow through and she couldn't be happier! I can't believe how grown up she is getting!

We love family!

Pictures with my beautiful cousin Jen!

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Our fun day with friends in Breckenridge and Silverthorne, site of my future dream cabin!

San Diego Zoo

We had originally planned on Disneyland but Grace wanted to go to Hollywood instead. Scary. We compromised on the San Diego zoo which was fun but tiring. It was probably 90 degrees and we were all a little sunburned from the beach. I didn't bring Gunnar's stroller so by the end of the day I was carrying him to the car. Not easy when your 2 year old weighs 42 pounds. It was still a pretty fun day but I think next year we'll do Hollywood. Hannah Montana here we come!

Go Angels!

So as we were getting ready for the game, Grace picked her outfit out hoping that she would get on the jumbo tron. Whenever there were people on the jumbo tron, Grace would dance like crazy and jump up and down. Everyone around us was laughing and just thinking "whatever kid." When all of a sudden we look up and we were all on the jumbo tron. It pretty much made Grace's life. She was ready to sign autographs as we left the stadium. I don't know if Gunnar loved the game more, or the ice cream sandwich that Grandma Ruth got him.

We love SoCal!

So I obviously went waaay overboard on pictures here but I really could not pick which ones I wanted to post! We had the funnest week at the beach house my mom rented in Newport Beach. I have not relaxed like that in six years! I am really proud of myself because I even got a little tan. If you know my mom, you would know that even at my tannest I am still an albino next to her. But for the first time in my life I was able to stay on the beach as long as she did! We are talking eight hours a day people. Add El Cholo to the mix and I would say it was a little bit of paradise. We seriously ate Mexican food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You think I am exaggerating but you do not know how good enchiladas can be at 9 am.

The kids had so much fun! My cousins and my aunt and Grandma came down to play a couple of days while we were there and it was so fun to hang out with them. My grandma is the funnest person to be around and can make me laugh harder than anyone! My cousins were the best babysitters and I felt like I did not even see my kids the whole day because they were so entertained! My cousin Miranda is Grace's age and they played so well together and I seriously HATE writing on my blog because I sound like such an idiot. This is for you Heather