Monday, January 26, 2009

She's on the move...


We just loved her expression near the end where she sits up. She keeps us smilin'.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Catch up

Here are some of the highlights from our holidays. The kids had a good time opening a door each day of Dec. One of the days we made mallow-men...


We got to decorate gingerbread houses this year with one of our favorite families! These weren't just any ordinary houses, they withstood lots of moving and playing around with for weeks after. They even had little garages with cars and every fun candy you can think of.

And we were lucky enough to have x-mas eve at our house. Everyone did something for our program and it was so fun. Time will tell if we jumpstarted a tradition. I didn't get pictures of everyone but here is Trisch playing the flute, G&G singing to us - this was a major highlight for the kids, and we even had rudolph visit and sing to us. Ray put together a fun game of guessing what x-mas movie different audio clips were from. I attempted to play the guitar while the kids shook bells and everyone sang Joy to the world, it's just a good thing for me we're all family and there was no judges panel!




Santa's note, he got eggnog this year - yum!

The traditional Christmas morning picture on the stairs.
I think they all had a good Christmas morning...



And lucky for us we got to see Grandma Great the next week. She's an amazing woman who always brings the best spirit with her. We have fabulous memories of Grandma and it's so heart warming to see Kate love and adore her as much as I do. She is 92 and loved carrying Lily around, always gets down on the floor to play games with the kids and never misses out on the card games, it was a great way to spend New Years Eve.


And with all this snow we had we did manage to get in some sledding, I should say "they" managed to get in sledding, Lily and I snuggled on the couch for 2 hours while I finished a book for the first time in months!
Makenna and Jack waiting to be pulled behind the 4-wheeler


Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Reindeer delivered John Deer

You be the judge...a gift from Santa or a ploy to get some help in the yard?