Saturday, December 29, 2012

Merry Christmas!

This year Sven, Charity and the boys came to Buchanan to spend Christmas with us. This made for a super exciting fun time with lots packed in. Rib dinner with Buddy, Jackie and Emma. The following night a prime rib dinner with Mom, Gary, Jennifer, Tom and Danielle (Reid was sick). Then our annual Christmas Eve party and traditional Christmas day activities. Here are pictures to highlight.



Charity wanted to take a walk into downtown Buchanan. She later called for a ride home. I found her at the Tavern and was able to ditch my kids and join her for a Christmas Eve beer.



Maddux & Nash










Carolyn and the much desired Dream Lite



Hank playing with his new animals. I LOVE those juicy lips!

Eleanor & Carolyn got new fur vests. Carolyn has yet to take hers off.




Oh the joys of parenthood on Christmas morning...





Nora was out of her mind with joy after opening each of her presents. So fun to watch such a happy, easy-to-please young lady.

And I guess Nora gets that easy-to-please'ness from her mom :)




So much for getting all five kids looking good at the same time

Hank LOVES Lola

Sibs

All the kids love Devin

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Getting Ready for Christmas (catch up post)

With so much going on during the holiday season, I seem to have forgotten about my blog. How sad that it's been since the end of October since my last post. I partially blame my awesome new iphone for this. Especially when I see I only used my Nikon 2 days in November and so far just two days in December. I've been using my iPhone to post to Instagram and Facebook. But I need to show my blog (and blog followers some love). So here is what this family has been doing to keep busy.

We've been voting

We've been eating Thanksgiving Feasts at Moccasin School

We've been tumbling

We've been enjoying evenings out with family

We've been enjoying family time

We've had visitors from the North Pole

We've been in timeout

We've been reminded to be good

We've been crafting

We've been making Pepparkokar

We've been shopping

We've been at the Tire Rack Christmas party

We've lost teeth

We've been out looking for Christmas lights


We've been writing nice notes to family members


We've been sick

We've been to the doctor
We've been sick again (times 2)

We've been to the Jessie's for their final year of lights



We've been at classroom parties

We've been at more classroom parties