More Christmas

These pictures are from Christmas morning at A's sister's house and she has a little boy that is 18 months old. S and K both loved the little bike he got! We then went to A's parent's house to visit with everyone and all the cousins were there to open presents from Grandma and Grandpa together.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year visiting A's parents and some of his siblings and their families. It was fun for S and K to spend time with new cousins they had never met before and older cousins that only S could remember if he had a super memory at 14 months (that was the last time he had seen them). We spent a lot of time eating, playing games, talking, laughing, shopping and just enjoying time together. We are truly looking forward to more time with all of A's immediate family this summer for their every 2 year family reunion. S and K were great traveling on the plane (I would say just K got restless since he doesn't have his own seat yet) S LOVED the airport and the planes and flying on one! They both did really well adjusting to all of us sleeping in one room every night of our trip and the late nights. What we really loved was sleeping in with them in the morning since they would be so tired from the night before. We got to sleep past 9:00 am most days because they were still sleeping too! I haven't seen those times since college! So even though it was busy, we still got to relax somewhat too. Seeing everyone made me miss them more. It would be so much fun to live closer to A's family. Here is a bunch of pictures with no captions, (sorry) but it was truly a memorable Christmas.











All those pictures were from Christmas Eve. I didn't get a lot of pictures of the nativity we acted out, but S really loved wearing that scarf on his head for a shepherd. He would get sad and cry if it fell off. We all got a good laugh from him!

Christmas Village

This will begin a series of "catching up" posts. S and I got to go to Christmas village in the town I grew up in and my mom was able to watch K for me. (K probably would have enjoyed it too, but it was nice to do something special with just S) We never got to see Santa because the line was really long (probably about a 2 hour wait), but we got to see the elves workshop, reindeer, and Santa's sleigh. We had a great time and hopefully we can plan in right for next year and see Santa and hopefully he will like Santa more by then too! :0)

Christmas card pictures

This year I have had a really hard time deciding what picture to use for our Christmas cards. I like different things about each of my three favorite pictures. I sent all three out in an email so they could all be seen. I usually don't do the email christmas cards, but this year I did to reach more people and some people will also get the card in the mail too. I think I am going to go with the one with S's big cheesy grin because it is so funny! I do love the one of them looking at each other too! The other one is just nice because we are all looking. Well we shall see!

We have been baking lots of cookies, decorating the house and the tree, and we got the picture done! I am feeling pretty good. Shopping is mostly done too. I LOVE this time of year! We are getting ready to vist some of A's family for two weeks and we leave the 17th. Hopefully S and K will travel well! :0)

Cute Pictures after Church

A Thankful Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! This year was filled with back to back turkey and family. We celebrated with my father's family on Thursday with all my siblings and then with my mom's family and all my siblings on Friday. Usually my mom has her own Thanksgiving the weekend before, but it didn't work out this year. The back to back turkey time was fun, but hard on our little guys. They were cranky by the end of Friday, but we all had a wonderful time filled with many things to be thankful for.

We are so grateful to have our house. It makes such a difference to own your own place. I also can't imagine life without S and K and the joy outweighs any stress I have with them by far! I am also grateful to be married to such a hardworking man and a caring father to our little guys! I am so glad that all my siblings could be there for both days (it doesn't happen that often anymore it seems). I miss them a lot even though most of them are still living here, we usually don't see each other unless it is a big holiday. One of my sister's doesn't live around here so it was really nice to spend some quality time with her. All my sisters (minus one who had other plans and doesn't really like the twilight movies for some strange reason) went and saw New Moon! It was AWESOME! Much better than the first one! I saw it again last night with some friends from college! It was still so good! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Pumpkins and Pirates

I am way far behind in updating the blog. So here it goes: We went pumpkin picking and the nice orange pumpkins were slim pickings. Lots of nice green ones though! I don't think we will go to that patch next year. Both S and K had a lot of fun choosing out just one pumpkin for the family.







For our Halloween activities, we went to our friends' party on Friday night for couples and kids. We had a great time all participating in dressing up as a family of pirates. On Halloween we geared up to meet some more neighbors while trick or treating. Turns out there are A LOT of anti-halloween neighbors on our street, but we did manage to meet a few more people and S had tons of fun this year! He really got the concept of trick or treating (last year was a little dramatic because he thought we were visiting new people and didn't understand why we weren't going inside to everyone's house) He was so cute in wishing everyone a big "Happy Halloween!" nice and loud as we were leaving each house. K seemed to enjoy the action from the stoller and kept trying to peak at what was going on with each candy deposit. We were lucky and went out early before the rain so we had a great time! Happy Halloween!