Merry Christmas

Sorry for the delay but this has been a pretty busy week. Christmas was good, we spent the 24th - 27th at the cabin. Rhianna flew in on the 28th so we had another Christmas the next day.

Alex didn't really understand the concept so we opened his stuff for him and he took an early nap.

He did like his new toolbench though.

Rhianna is a fan of her new dollhouse too. (truthfully she didn't really care about it that first day, but now she must show it to everyone that walks through the door.)

Big Boy Bed

He's still not that used to it but he was pretty excited to get a big boy bed. Julia was excited too because she got to make him this quilt to go with it. And too top it all off, Rhianna was pretty pleased that she gets the top bunk. Some day (hopefully soon) he will stop waking up and coming to get us in the middle of the night.

What's he gunna do?

Another one of those pictures you don't intend to take but it's too funny not to post.

For Sandy & Christine

Sandy, per your request on the family website, here are our pumpkins from the Great Pumpkin Carve Off!!!! The top one is Nellie's Frankenstein, the Winner. The middle is Jeff's house window looking out over a graveyard. The bottom is my 'gobblin' that ended up looking more like an owl. Either way, it was a good time!!

Halloween Festivities

Halloween was pretty much awesome and crazy busy for 3 days. We started off on Thursday with a trip to the pumpkin patch (which was FREEZING!!!) then back to my mom's house for the great pumpkin carve off. Nellie won the carve off with an awesome frankenstein. Then on Friday we dressed up and went to Boo at the Zoo which was so cute. The zoo was all decorated in lights and pumpkins and the mokey cages had cardboard pumpkins and blow up decorations in them, and there were trick-or-treat booths set up all over the place. Right after that we went down to the river where Nellie was part of a free city trick-or-treat carnival type thing. So we played the cakewalk and got more candy! On Saturday we went to Roz's for a hay ride which Alex loved, then to my moms again for a eating/getting ready party before trick or treating. All in all the weekend was a lot of fun and Alex is STILL recovering from all the activity!

Leaves are awesome

Since it is fall, it is time to play in the leaves right? Of course. Alex loves playing outside and didn't even seem to notice the leaves until Jeff started sweeping them on him, which he LOVED. It was pretty funny. Tomorrow we are having the great Pumpkin carve off. Apparently Kyle wins every year so Jeff is determined to knock him off his throne this year. On friday we are going to a mini-carnival at the river, then on Friday we have a Halloween party at my mom's house then Alex gets to go trick or treating for the very first time. We are also hoping for a hay ride if we can talk Roz into it. Should be a pretty fun rest of the week. Will post pics when I have them!

Pics that make me laugh.

I went through mom's pics this past weekend up at the cabin and found a few of them that made me laugh pretty hard. I mean really!