HAPPY HAPPY

60th BIRTHDAY TO GRANDPA (DAD)!!

CLA (Children's Learning Academy)

Cole's class had their Christmas party today. They had a book exchange and made the parents some cards and ornaments! So cute.

(above) Ellen and her mommy

(below) Cole opening his book
Evan got Cole's book - it's all in German about trucks

Gabe fittin right in

Everyone (kinda) seated on their stars

jolly ol' st. nicholas

we set out our boots last night...and st.Nic found us!!:)

what'd he leave?...CHOCOLATE

morgie

boots and stockings ready to be filled:)

ready...

set...SWIM! minus the monster slippers....starting to get some clothes in order for our trip. Good thing I bought a few things in bigger sizes before we left!

he's getting so big:(

37th Christmas Party

welp, we got a real babysitter!! woohooo...and we got to go out and stay out!! wooohooo...Shane and Jessica:) so pretty. even if she had to wear dress #2.

Lindsay won the wine basket..lucky duck
me and ry

the girls...Jess, Lindsay, me

me and jessica

we had a wonderful night out. we are so fortunate to have met some wonderful friends already.

Christmas Decorations:)

hip hip hip hoooray! I have the blog back up and running:) here are our Christmas Decorations...I know you'd rather see pics of the boys and our adventures, but we hung up my MOST FAVORITE Christmas tree today so I had to share!:)

obviously these are the stairs:)

snowflakes (idea of Lauren Sanders) and my wreath I made a few years ago
windows...snowflakes, lights, and greenery

and HERE IT IS! Grandma Snaadt made this a long time ago and gave it to me a few Christmas' ago. It is my FAVORITE....a tree made of all her jewelry. It has lights in it too, but we don't have another transformer so we just hung it up...next to the palm tree:)

we just put lights on our plant. It was my full intention to get a real tree this year (since we haven't had one since '07)...but time has slipped through my fingers and now it's too late. So, the tree skirt is working nicely to keep Gabe out of the dirt and the lights serve the purpose. I hope to put the presents around the bottom:)

Merry Christmas:)

ps. will start posting the fall stuff tomorrow hopefully and go backwards...so sorry I have neglected. We have our Christmas party tonight and we got a babysitter!! wooo hoooo!!

9 mos

such a big boy