Thanksgiving!

We love it when family drives across the state to visit us and this year we were blessed to have the Hain's here for Thanksgiving!  We were very sad that Grandpa and Grandma Buman weren't able to make it, but we will be invading their house soon!

There was a lot of parents vs kids games during the weekend!

We had fun making gingerbread houses!                                                                                                 

I was quite impressed how good all of the houses turned out!

Isaac's final house

Emma's house

All sides of the house were pretty awesome!  She also helped cut out all of the pieces of gingerbread dough.

Brodie and Ellie's final product

All sides of their house were pretty impressive also

Isaac wanted Emma's attention all of the time

Silly cousins!

Extra silly cousins!

We also celebrated Isaac and Abel's birthday!

Isaac checking out his awesome presents!

Rob and Isaac checking out the presents.  Isaac wanted Rob's attention all of the time also.

It may have snowed on the Hain's trip here, but it warmed up and the kids had fun playing outside!

Ellie is just getting started

I had to take pictures of Emma at the bottom of the tree because I couldn't see her when she made it to the top

Isaac's turn

Brodie and Ellie!

Winter Weather

After our early snowfall, we've had a very mild and beautiful fall.....until today.  It went from early fall weather to mid-winter weather overnight.  Thankfully we had gotten most of the winterizing of our house done already.  We hadn't gotten any wood brought up to the house yet, so the guys took care of that today.

Before Isaac went outside (the frigid cold outside), he says to me, "you just do what you've got to do...if you need to vomit, just go vomit and then come back and do what you've got to do."   I have no idea what he's talking about, but it was so cute because he was very serious about it.  I had said I was going to get his and Brodie's stuff ready for swimming, so maybe he thought that was very important work :)

Going to load up some wood

Isaac loves to help

 It is so nice to have a fire going!

Isaac is ready for swimming!

Proud Parents

We've had a good week.  They boys are taking swimming lessons.  I was worried they would have trouble because they haven't taken lessons in a year and because we haven't been swimming in quite awhile.  I was wrong.  They boys are doing great!  Isaac doesn't have any fear this year and Brodie just swims laps like it is no problem.  He is happy because he can jump dive now also.  Abel and I were watching lessons earlier in the week and he looks at me and says, "we have good kids."  Yes, we do.  We have been so blessed!

After a long, stressful day at work, I came home to a very excited Brodie.  He was given the award for student of the month at school (of course he got the award on the morning that we realized we left his homework on the kitchen table when we were half way to school.  He was a few minutes late getting to school because we had to go back and get it.  He got the award in front of the whole school and he told me, "I'm surprised they still gave me the award since I was late").  Brodie wanted to dress up for school today because he said he had to get his picture taken for being student of the month.

Halloween Fun

We went back to Lincoln for Halloween and had a ton of fun!!

We went to Roca Berry Farm...

Digging for dinosaur bones

Duck races

Climbing hay mountains

Trying to find a pumpkin

We loved jumping!

We had lunch with Grandma!

We had a ton of fun with a scary Halloween dinner at the Hains followed by trick or treating!  It was a great night!  Thanks so much!

Emma's eating the hot dog fingers

Yummy Halloween cake

 

The three young ones ready to trick or treat.

 A little work had to be done on Emma before she was ready...

Now she's ready

We also went to the football game (at least part of it before Isaac got sick and we had to leave)

Silly boys having fun

Heading home.  Husker stocking hat on top of his headphones.