Is it spring already????

I don't know what is going on, it was 60 degrees today!!! The kids played outside all day without a coat...and it's a week after Christmas....weird....but I'll take it!

Science Center

My parents took the kids to the Science Center while I did a photo shoot nearby. They love this place and it's FREE!!

Here they are seeing how much it will cost them to go to space...only a million dollars!

The arch is done! Can you see the dinosaur in the back? Each time we've gone they've been so scared of this dinosaur (he moves and roars) but this time, they kept telling me they weren't scared....but you can tell Charlie's still not sure... Digging and cleaning fossils

Christmas Day part 2

In the afternoon we headed over to Wade's parents house for the second half of our Christmas day. The big present the kids got there.....were big wheels!! I had one of these as a kid, so I was just as excited as the kids!

Charlie and Gigi

Wade and his brothers all got top coats, don't they look handsome!?!?!

Gracie in her beautiful Christmas dress and her new necklace from Gigi

Charlie LOVED his new monkey and monkey pajamas (a monkey for my little monkey)

Wade and his brothers and sister..they all got hats with the logo of their farm on it.

Gracie was very excited to get this porcelin Aurora Pappa Chuck gives the kids money everytime he seems them, so he thought it would be fitting to give them somewhere to put all that money.

For some reason I completely forgot to get a picture of myself, Wade and I, or our whole family....oh well, maybe next year! :)

Christmas Day

Christmas morning we headed over to my parents house in the morning. We got right to opening presents....

Here is Charlie's big present....a train table! He was soooo excited!

Gracie with her baby alive And her Hannah Montana guitar!

Charlie was excited about everything!

Katie and her boyfriend John

Melissa and her hubby Ross (this was their first married Christmas..awww)

Gracie and her groovy girls!

Christmas Eve

We had a wonderful relaxing Christmas Eve. We spent it with just the four of us. We opened presents in the morning, went to church in the afternoon, and then ate a wonderful home cooked meal in the evening. It was a lot of fun!

Lots of polly pockets, she is really getting into these!

Look at these two...they sure do look alike?!?!This is not posed..this is her face when she opend up her gemstones (Melanie this pic is for you...tell your dad thanks, she LOVED them!) This is what Charlie really wanted...all the characters of Backyardigans! He was one happy boy!

BBQ barbie, for some reason she wanted to this very badly (and found it in my closet about a week ago, I need to get better hiding spots)

Christmas hangover

We are still dealing with our Christmas hangover...is it really over?!?! It is always so sad when all the festivities are done.....however we are still looking forward to New Years Eve. There will be pictures soon, we had such a great Christmas this year and felt so blessed to be able to spend it with both sides of our families. My house is a complete disaster and I have no clue how I'm going to fit all these toys into our house...but we feel so blessed to have so many people that love us so much. And as a bonus Wade brought out a present for the kids that I had forgotten about under my bed....they were so excited!! Were am I going to put them all?!?!?!

Christmas Eve

Since we are heading out eary on Christmas day to spend the day with both of our families, we decided to celebrate our Christmas on Christmas Eve. Santa called the kids and told them that he would be making a special early stop at their house to drop off some presents. They were so excited and were begging us to put them to bed!!! Here are some pictures of them after Santa called....

And here's the cookies and milk we put out for santa, and a carrot for rudolph, he gets hungry too!

Christmas #1

On Sunday we celebrated Christmas over at Grandpa Bill's and Grandma Betty's. The kids were excited to get some new clothes and toys...Wade and I were mostly excited about all the good food! There was 20 of us this year...every year it just keeps getting bigger! Charlie has to try on his clothes as soon as he gets this, I love these jammies on him! He was content with the first toy he opened...I don't think he realized there was more!

I didn't get a very good picture of Gracie in her Christmas dress...I'll have to get another one later...here she is patiently waiting for another present.

Send some our way!!

Just wanted to send a shout out to all of my friends and family back home....I can't believe it's the one Christmas I'm not there and you guys get the biggest snowfall in years! I love seeing all the fun snow pictures...so keep them coming! It's 9 degrees here today, and still NO snow! Come on!

Christmas Parties!

Both of the kids have been out of school all week, so today was exciting and the last day before winter break. They both had parties in their classes, so I was hopping back and forth, thankfully their classes are next door to eachother. They got to open one present at school, he's been wanting Austin (from backyardigans) for a long time. He was very excited!

Gracie's class put on a little performance for the parents...it was so cute!

Christmas Outfits

Here's a few of the kids in their Christmas outfits