December

I wanted to blog these pictures before Christmas because I am doing my best to stay caught up on my blogging and I know I'll want to blog about that! This is what we've been up to the last couple of weeks....

I look forward to tucking my kids in at night because I never know what I'm going to find. This was Gracie after a long day.

Mikey got an advancement sticker in Karate!

The kiddos are so good to go with me in the mornings to get my drink. They don't complain at all while we go for a little drive.

We got an elf! Pippy the elf came to live with us in December so he could keep an eye on us for Santa. He flew home every night to report on how the kids were that day. Sometimes it was a quick trip and he got bored so he would make trouble. This night he got in a snowball fight with the other toys!

Then he made snow angels in the sugar!

My kiddos making their Christmas lists.

Gotcha Mike!

Toothpaste mess!

Mikey tuckered out playing on the phone.

Pip was hiding!

The weather has been FREEZING so we stayed in and played boxes. This is one of our favorite things to do.

Remember the kitty Grace got for her 5th birthday? Tie has gotten HUGE and Grace still loves him so much.

Oh my boys. They both got SO SO sick for a few days so I took them to the doc. Mikey had to have an Xray of his lungs and he was put on a pretty aggressive antibiotic. Little did we know he was severely allergic to it and he had to get a breathing treatment for his lungs. The poor boy was a champ. Little O is still a little sick but I think they will be all better by the new year. We set up a huge bed on the living room floor and watched a whole lot of movies.

Little O is fascinated with Christmas. He loves all of it.

Giving Thanks

I am finally blogging about Thanksgiving! Just when I think I have caught up on things another pile of things to do gets dumped on me. Thanksgiving this year was so fun. We headed to Logan to be with Chad's family. I don't know how much I even saw Grace and Mike because they had so much fun playing with cousins. I think Grandma and Grandpa are still recovering from the mess. We missed the Philly family but we are glad we got to see them not too long ago. Here are some photos of the week. (though I took a gazillion more)

My babes in the tub. Wow are they all looking at the camera? Wow.

Family fun center with Russ and Traci!

Bekah got a kitty on black friday. This is the cutest kitty ever.

Chocolate dipped pretzel time!

Dodgeball at the church! Not the best activity to do with a full tummy.

The kids table!

Grandpa gave Riley and Grace the turkey legs. It was a bit much but they tried!

The feast!

Jake showing me his best super hero pose.

Turkey carving time. Big Mike sure knows how to carve a turkey.

Jen on dish duty!

Oh the hair. Max and his hair. I would kill for one of my kids to have a fraction of this curl.

Aimee helped me so much with O

What's the point in having boy cousins if you don't wrastle?

computer time.

Michelle working on the veggie tray. mmmm...

Burning some apple wood.

These are just some radom pics that I had to blog.

I take my kids with me on my morning coke run. They are such good sports to get in the freezing car with me and take a drive while I talk to Grandma and Aunt Case.

School turkeys

Owen is all over the place. He isn't crawling yet but he rolls all around the whole house.

And he is a thumb sucker! I've got to break this habit!

Chad taking a much needed break in his office. I walked out to talk to him and this is what I found. Sneaky boy.

Gracie bundled in bed.

Self portrait