HIghlights of February

If you can't guess from the background of some of these pictures, we are in Arizona right now for a few months. The kids are having a great time with their cousins; playing in the sand (lots of it), jumping on the trampoline, playing with baby Declan, and lots of other fun stuff. The weather is still nice so that is good. Alyssa and Corbin are liking their new school and teachers and making new friends well. School starts a bit earlier here, but they get out earlier and they love the longer play time in the afternoon.

Colston's Daily Activites

Colston is a very good helper around the house. He helps put pots and pans away, cleans out cupboards, and he is always the first one running to come help me witht he laundry. (Now wether it is because he likes to dive into the basket and through all the clothes everywhere or actually wants to help me is still to be clear) He is such a fun little boy to have around. Getting busier by the day though.

Alyssa Turns "9"

Finally.....SNOW!!!

We woke up to lots of snow last Saturday. We hurried and ate breakfast and got our snow clothes on and went out and had a lot of fun. The girls made snowmen and Corbin and the neighbor kids shoveled the street randomly. We had a great day making snow angels and snow balls. Now we just are waiting for another storm to come our way and give us some more snow.

MeRRy ChRistmas!!!!

Preparing for Santa

The kids put out 8 piles of food (oatmeal, rice chex and glitter) and carrots for the Reindeer, cookies for Santa and the special Santa Key outside so Santa could get in.

Christmas Eve

We had the Thompson's over for dinner Christmas Eve and had a very yummy ham and potato dinner. After dinner we went to our neighbors and acted out the nativity story with all the kids, then came back to our house for dessert. (Chocolate Roll) We had a great evening spending it with family and friends.

Donuts with Dad

Gingerbread Houses

We made our annual Gingerbread houses again this year. It was a lot of fun as usual. We had our neighbors join the fun this year. We got into pairs and went to work on our masterpieces.

Colston 8 months old

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Sarah's 30th Birthday

My birthday landed on Thanksgiving this year. Yes its fun to share a birthday with a yummy good looking bird. The night before we were with my parents and my brother and his family and they took me to a fabulous Chinese restaurant for my birthday dinner. My mom and dad made up a basket full of 30 fun and creative gifts for me. (Thank you I loved it!) That night we headed north to see the rest of the family for Thanksgiving. Birthday morning a bunch of us ran a Turkey Trot 2mile, & 10k I haven't ran a race for a while so it was a lot of fun to run with a group. We all didn't stay together of course but it was the idea that we were all running somewhere in the same direction. I got a picture with Tom the Turkey and actually got to pet a real turkey. It was beautiful. solid white! Julie made some yummy brownies for my birthday dessert; made to order, (thanks Julie they were delicious.) blew out some candles and Magically I turned 30. Happy Birthday Me.

Thanksgiving 2011

I know out of order a little but thats ok right. It got on the blog so thats something. We went down to Arizona for Thanksgiving this year to visit my brother and his family, my parents and Brads family too. It was full of fun the time packed with stuff to do! There was lots of yummy food for all and great company. We made turkeys with our hand prints and name place setting with rocks and pasta. We had some great weather and then the sickness happened. A lot of us I guess shared a little too much love and got sick Friday/Saturday for the last part of our trip which made Sunday an awesome day to travel!!! NOT. It was horrible. we survived the drive as best we could and it is good to be home. Thanks Liz and Todd for having us for Thanksgiving.

Breakfast in Bed....

Well the Birthday Boy wanted breakfast in Bed this year so we made this wish come true. He planned his menu and just let the rest flow. So Corbin is usually one of the first to awake every morning because he is roomies with the baby. Not today. I had fed the baby around 6:30am and put him back to bed thinking he would just wake up in a half hour to an hour like he usually does. Next thing I know it is 8:15! I don't hear the baby so I get up real quick and check on everyone. Ava is watching cartoons for who knows how long and Corbin is playing in his bed awake just playing with his stuffed animals waiting for someone to bring his breakfast whenever that might be! He requested one eyed sailers, pears, OJ, and a banana and hot cocoa when he was done eating. So for 45 mins Corbin entertained the baby in his room singing 12 days of Chirstmas while I made breakfast. All of this does not normally happen like this but today it did and it was wonderful on all kinds of levels!! We love this big brother in our house! He is an amazing boy. Happy Official Birthday Corbin!!

Corbin 7th Birthday

Corbin wanted a LEGO party this year for his friend birthday party. He helped make his LEGO invitations and he built the awesome center piece on his cake. Each boy got a LEGO placemat with his name on it that Corbin helped color and glue lego guys on them. This was one excited boy the whole week before the party! He made 8 LEGO cars for each of his friends so they could race them down the track when they arrived. They were all hungry little boys and ate lots of pizza and cake and we all had fun watching Corbin open his fun presents from all his friends and family. Corbin said all he wanted for his birthday was for all of us to play legos with him for 2 hours! I love legos so I liked that wish for sure. Happy Birthday Corbin!!!