Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a great New Year!
We have been enjoying our time off from work and there is still some celebrating around the corner. I have been spending some time with my sister and it has been fun.
The kids had a great Christmas and Jake and Owen are enjoying all of their new toys that family gave and Santa brought!

I love the new year and all the possibility it brings!!! Happy New Year- More pics to come ! : )

Some recent action, snow shots........ ( not really action, but you know)

Here are some recent snow pics after our first major accumulation. Jake is loving the snow- he is really playing in it for the time since we have been living here. Daddy made him an igloo and he also loved pretending he was "king of the world" on top of a very small pile. We made snow angels which he thought was pretty cool!

Owen, on the other hand, doesn't really care for it. He plays a little, but once he loses a mitten, or his hat blows off- then the tears come. He also is not so steady on the snow so- more tears, and he is pretty much ready to come in.
He did enjoy riding his bike down the driveway, over and over but there wasn't snow involved with that.

A lot going on....

There has been so much going on here.... too many things to do, the holidays, the kids sick at different times, work, home stuff , the list goes on and on..... I am way overdue at putting pics up - so here are just a few- and I will try and be more diligent about updating!!

Trying to get the shopping done for Christmas..... thinking about whether I should make cards this year, should I include a Christmas letter, and also trying to decide what to make for cookies....

We put up lights in the boys room- they love it- will post later with those and then of course we have so many lights everywhere else. I didn't have as much "decor" up since I unloaded alot this past year- which I am glad!!!

Here are some pics from Thanksgiving, the Christmas train and some other stuff- so ENJOY!

Happy Halloween Continued......

Happy Halloween

The boys had a really nice Monster Mash at their school- They went trick or treating and then they continued their party in their classrooms. Hope everyone had a safe and Happy Halloween!!
I can not wait to get these in a scrap book- and this was Owen's first Halloween where he went up to the door on his own!!!

The costume that never was.....

Owen was going to be an Garden Gnome- but since he had a recent urgent care visit- we decided to not dress him in the suit- it was a little chilly for trick or treating so we went with warmer choice-- but I did manage to take a pic of O in his little suit- here is a sneak peek!

Pumpkin Fun

Here are the kids carving pumpkins at their school- I missed out on the fun so Daddy took some pictures for me.... Owen kept getting into the cookies at school towards the end of the carving- Enjoy!!

Last night Daddy carved one of our pumpkins and Jake wanted "a mean looking pumpkin" so Jake is giving his "mean face"

More Halloween pics to come...............