Decmber to Date

Laura

Sophie and Connor

Decorating Gingerbread Cookies

Happy Birthday to Tyler! We had a little party for him after music class.

Laura and Connor constructed this obstical course course out of wrapping paper rolls that I had left out in my room. They had lots of fun making up games and jumping over and into different parts of it.

Sophie's little tree

We found the perfect tree! (Can you believe it? Two family pictures in a month! I think our last family picture was at CONNOR's baptism!!!!)

Searching for the perfect tree (Laura takes a decent picture from time to time. Although...ther are about 30 pictures of random Christmas trees on my camera too.)

Oh, and a picture of girls boots in a big puddle. Thank you Laura!

Going to look for our tree. Grampa came with us!

Our advent wreath

Our resident hummingbird! (or at least his tail)

Look! A Family Picture!

Snow Angels

It has been snowing all day and we have a lovely 1/2 inch of snow! The kids are overjoyed to have any snow at all and have been outside as often as they can. They have to come in once they are soaked to warm up and dry off! We took Tyler for a walk. He thinks anything outside is fun so he was really excited. Unfortunately, I can't find any of our baby mittens so I just tried to keep his hands tucked into his coat. He held out for about 15 min before he started to get too cold.

Happy Snow Day!

Happy Birthday Connor

Sunday we had a party to celebrate Connor's 6th birthday. We had lots of friends and family come over for a BBQ and cake. Connor had a wonderful time and has been talking about it all day today! Thanks to everyone who was able to help us make this a special day!Auntie Margaret and December

Daddy did a great job of grilling

Lots of kids

Connor and his friends Jake, Benny and Matt

The light side and the dark side to the Star wars cake

Star wars cake, Yoda was a big hit!

Big breath and .... BLOW!

Hey! That one came back and so did those ones over there! It was so funny watching the kids try to blow our the candles. They just kept relighting themselves!

Someone was excited to get a whoopee cushion!

Long Awaited Pictures!

These are sort of in order from most recent to farthest past. Hope you enjoy these little snippets of our summer so far. We have been busy and are enjoying all the sunshine we can get.

The garden out front

our pumpkin/tomato/cucumber/watermelon/dahlia/corn patch

the back garden

garden below the deck

broccoli from our garden

Looking at the crab Uncle Jeremy was going to cook for dinner

One of the crabs

Shadow, our new bunny

her deluxe OUTDOOR!!!! cage :)

Hmm, let me think...

Sophie!
Connor handing out candy in the 4th of July parade

Laura at the parade

Sophie enjoyed th strawberry farm immensely!

Tyler tastes his first strawberry.....

AWWWWW! What was that?

What a MESS!
Well, that was fun.

Tyler and Daddy liked the calf at the animal farm

Toes are tasty!

Sophie riding the horse

Connor rode too. Laura didn't want to though.

Mmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Strawberry picking!

Happy Baby! (not sure why this is in the middle of the strawberry pictures. Oh well it's still cute)

Hmm... Ball or strawberry???

Connor conquered the HUGE pile of grass clippings.

Sophie made a bed of towels at the spray park when she was done playing.

My big jumper wore himself out! Sweet dreams Tyler!