Santa Claus is comin' to town!

Well look who it is!

I love Nate's expression! He is soo cute!

My boys weren't afraid of Santa. They loved it!

For those of you who know my family, know about the Santa that visits us...Here you can see Josh tell Santa who he reallly is!

My three monkeys! I am soo glad that I got to enjoy Christmas this year with my family!

Now here is someone who does NOT like Santa...if she only knew....reminds me of Taylor when she was 8 months. I love these kinds of pictures. My boys have never cried on Santa's lap!

Okay, so I had to add the picture of my boys with Taylor. This was in 2003. I love Kim's expression. Josh thinks it is quite funny and Jared is just waiting for anyone to take his picture. He's got the "say cheese" grin!


Aunt Cheryl!
These aren't my babies, but aren't they cute?
Ailee and Savannah!

Slacks, Shoes and Sledding

Josh is sooo skinny, he can fit in Jared's pants. Eat, Josh, Eat!

After we went bowling, Nate put on his church shoes and called them his bowling shoes..and, they are on the wrong feet of course!

Mike took all the snow from the driveway and put it in the center so he could make a jump for Jared to have fun on!

Who's this child's mother? Shouldn't he have on a helmet or something...stay tuned for more sledding...if it would only snow again.

Josh's Birthday - Double digits!!!

Josh Josh really wanted to help with his cake this year. It was lots of fun for him to want to be included. He had a great birthday with a homemade cake from me.

We asked Josh what he wanted to do for his birthday and he wanted to go bowling! So here's the family doing some more bowling. Mike actually beat everyone, but he had been there the day before for him company Christmas party, so he got lots of practice.
Too bad none of us broke 100.

Here's Jared getting a running head start. You have to watch out when he's bowling!

Here's Josh with the backwards throw. I think his even went into the alley next to us, but it was connected to our ball return, so we were okay!

Well, here's Josh's cake that I made. It was fun to decorate and Josh seemed to really like it. We are glad to still have our miracle baby even though he seems to act more and more like a regular boy!

Snow ball (or powder) fight

This is like the first snow of the year and the boys had fun throwing it around. We even got the next door neighbor involved. I don't think he thought Josh had a mean bone in his body, but Josh got him good!

Josh even got sweet little Nate in the face. Nate was a little trooper and threw his little heart out!

Now here is Jared...most likely to hit everyone he could find. I got him a good one though. I told him to come show me his snowball that he was making so I could take a picture of it and I squashed it right in his face. What a mean mom I am!

This was a small snowstorm compared to what we got on Christmas, but we made sure we had lots of fun!

House picture

I just thought I would post a picture of our house. Only because Mike did the landscaping for it. He is really talented in this area and it is much cheaper than hiring someone. Mike actually lost quite a bit of weight over the summer doing this. He has now gained back some of that weight to keep warm for the winter. hahahaha!!!

Bowling and Purses

Heidi had us take a picture with the turkey when we were done. It's kind of creepy, not knowing who is in there.
Okay, see this lady with the purple purse...we gave her the rude award for Thanksgiving day. One of Shaun's kids accidentally spilled her drink and it went behind us and went towards this lady's purse. Shaun started apologizing, but the lady told her that not any of her apologizing would mean anything. That purse was a---get this---$300.00 purse. Shaun tried to offer money, but the lady was just plain rude. Okay, 2 things...who can afford to spend $300.00 on a purse and secondly, who brings that purse to a BOWLING ALLEY!!! Shaun was sincere and understood why the lady was upset, we just couldn't understand why she wouldn't take Shaun's apology...sad lady!

We had a blast bowling like usual....a bunch of pictures follow! It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without bowling.

Loves and kisses between cousins!

Leah getting her pose on!

Mike's sister Marilyn, Denny and Heather.

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We don't' have any pictures
of us eating, but it was nummy!

Turkey Trot

Here's Heidi showing us all up. She did the 10K and beat here time from last year!
Here comes the mama. Way to go Mom!

Here's Matt, Leah and their 2 girls!

Here I am, going slow, but at least I was out there. Got the bug to run again, but just have to get rid of my joint pain. I also got to work off a few calories before Turkey time

Okay, these pictures are backwards. This is us before the race. We are trying to stay warm!