Saturday, December 29, 2012

Christmas!


We had a fantastic Christmas (our first Christmas in Nebraska in a few years)!

Isaac packed himself in a box for the trip back to the other side of the state :)

There was some Christmas cookie decorating...

Notice how clean the table was to start with

Poor Ellie was too sick to participate

Grandpa even got in on the action
Emma is getting really good at decorating cookies

Can you guess where Isaac was sitting?
Unfortunately, there was a little more illness going around than we would have liked, but we still had a great time!


Isaac and Grandpa sharing some cereal





Christmas Eve...



Having fun playing with new bathtub toys

The guys having fun playing Brodie's new game

Isaac really wanted to join in


Thursday, December 20, 2012

Snow!

We are getting excited for Christmas, although I don't think I am quite as ready as the boys.  We didn't get quite as much snow as the other side of the state, but we did get a little.  Hopefully some of that snow will hang around for Christmas!  Here is a little video of some fun we had in the snow ;)


Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Birthday week!

We had a great week celebrating Isaac's and Abel's birthday last week!  It was a long drive to the other side of the state, but it was definitely worth it!

Isaac packed the cooler for the trip
Are we there yet?



 We had lots of fun with cousins!



Lets play some music




The boys made their yearly gingerbread train with Grandma.



Isaac celebrated his 3rd birthday (and Abel's birthday had a '3' in it also):


Isaac was very excited about his cake!

Getting ready to open presents



We had fun bowling...




 And more fun with cousins:

Gabe fixing Isaac's train :)

We even got all dressed up for 'Beauty and the Beast'


We had a fantastic week!

Christmas Program

Brodie had his preschool Christmas program last night.  We were a little nervous because we had been on vacation for a week before the program and we weren't sure if Brodie knew any of the songs or poems.  Everyday before we left for vacation, I would ask him if he learned any songs at school and he would either say 'no' or 'Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer'.  Well apparently he learned more than one song and he remembered them very well!  We could hear him singing from all the way in the back of the room.  His teacher told us, the last little girl that sang that well in preschool went on to do all of the high school musicals.  She said he was ready for Broadway :).  You gotta love preschool teachers! 

Waving to Mom and Dad in the back

All lined up and ready to go (wearing their reindeer antlers)
Brodie was a little sad that his grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins couldn't be there to watch, but thought that we could tape it so everyone could see it.  He was a little disappointed that I didn't tape the entire program.

Brodie's teacher told the kids that Santa would come if they did a good job and Brodie said, 'we must have done really good because Santa came!"

Telling Santa what he wants for Christmas


And on another positive note for Brodie...his stomach seems to be feeling much better.  He ate a ton for lunch today and said, "my stomach doesn't even hurt when I eat a lot!"

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Preschool picture

Here is Brodie's official preschool picture :).  He picked out his own clothes for picture day. 

5 years old