New Year's Eve 2011

Playing the Kinect

They made it till midnight.

We spent this New Year's with most of John's family. We spent the night at Roger & Dee Dee's. The kids had so much fun playing dress-up and running around till midnight.

Random Photos from the past month

Her Cheesy Grin, but look at all those teeth.

This is Alivia's favorite spot to sit. As soon as she hears the fridge door open she comes running and takes a seat.

The kids have moved on from Angry Birds they are now addicted to Temple Run.

Wearing Daddy's Shoes

Hudson is always feeling left out when the girls match, so I found him a shirt that matches one of Alivia's dresses.

Ella dressing Alivia up in some of her clothes.

Alivia playing on my phone. She loves to turn on the music and dance around.

Hudson and Alivia love to play together and wrestle.

Our kids are early risers and as soon as Ella woke up, Alivia asked her to read her a book.

The kids all playing on Hudson's bed pretending to be asleep.

Ella our Little Author

Ella's Book

(in case you can't read her writing I will interpret)

The three Girls went to take a walk
Chapter 1 The girls go on a walk. On the walk Avery said
I see something it looks like a deer. They run is fast as fast as they could.

Chapter 2 Run for your life. They were run for their life. Ella said how about will go this way.

Chapter 3 Go for the short cut. They went for it Haley saw the deer.

Chapter 4 Got chased again. So they run and run and finally they stop.

At Ella's school they have different centers that they can go to for free time. Ella's favorite is the Art Center and she created this little chapter book. I think it was pretty good considering she did it all by herself and she is only 6.

Decorating for Christmas

Alivia dancing in the chair.Showing off their hard work. They really did put almost all of the decorations on the tree.Setting up the villageThe kids love to add their own decorations to the tree and usually they are pretty funny. So far I have found this remote control (for Hudson's car) that he put in the tree and Alivia put her pacifier and some crackers in the tree. I guess no one will have a tree like ours.

The kids always love to help decorate the house for Christmas and this year even Alivia was able to help. Another thing they love is dance to around to Christmas music.

Thanksgiving/Christmas 2011

Well right after we got home from Hutchinson we had all of my family over for Thanksgiving and early Christmas. We all had a really good time for some reason I didn't get a lot of pictures but it was a great time.

Thanksgiving 2011

The guys playing football after lunchElla going down the zip line backwardsHudson going down the zip line.

We spent Thanksgiving in Hutchinson. The weather was amazing considering it was the end of November. It was hard to catch up with the two older kids. They were always on the go playing with their cousins. They really enjoyed the new tree house that was just built. And we finally got Hudson to go down the zip line by himself. Alivia did pretty well with all the chaos running around and I think Gramma even got to see her sweet little personality. It was a great time for all of us and of course we all ate too much food.

Kids & the Camera

I did take this picture. I tried to get one of the three of them smiling.

The kids had fun playing with the camera today and taking goofy pictures of each other. They decorated their little tree and started taking pictures of themselves in front of their tree.