How is my baby this big already??
Phil put a plywood floor in the boys' hideout...
"C'mon... Don't take my picture."
Big boys were asking and asking to do a craft for a few days after Thanksgiving so we made some belated turkeys. They came out pretty cute.
Love that tongue!!
Happy 38th Birthday, Phil!! Oh, man 38 sounds really old. I actually thought we were turning 37 this year until the day before Phil's b-day when I realized I was already 37. That was a disappointment! :(
Not sure what Reid has going on here during the singing of "Happy Birthday"... Lol
Boys were so excited to decorate the Christmas tree this year!
I have about 27 of these pictures... each with someone looking the wrong way, or someone else's eyes closed, etc.
Phil "Clark Griswold-ed" our house with Christmas lights this year. It actually turned out really great... can't believe I didn't get a finished picture!
Not sure what was going on here... I just walked into my room one morning and saw this and thought it was funny.
J and E are demonstrating where the bathroom is in their hideout. This is a bathroom for #1 only (hopefully).
When I got our Christmas cards in the mail there was this wine voucher on top of the pack. I'm sure they gave it to everyone but it made me laugh thinking that someone looked at our cards and thought, "Whoa... she needs wine with that crew."
Reid wanted a helmet with goggles SO BADLY for Christmas so Phil made him this makeshift helmet with goggles for the time being. He loved it.
Okay... Here's Reid's foot again. But I just had to point out how his second toe is always cleaner than the rest of his toes because it overlaps the other toes and never touches the ground! HA!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!
FREE pictures with Santa at Bass Pro Shops!! They had such an amazing setup there with games for the kids and everything and it was all free. The Santa was wonderful, too.
They loved this laser shooting game.
Life-size reindeer!
Here's how the pics came out... Sorry they are kind of blurry. I took pictures of the pictures with my phone. :)
I made the boys salt dough one day and they seriously played with it for about two hours. Reid loved it the most.
THEN... just like a Keebler elf... Reid woke up early one morning and decided to make salt dough himself. Although he used sugar instead of salt and made quite a mess. This was fun to wake up to.
Here's the state of his dough when I found him...
Just a fun little story (sorry to those that have already heard this)... I have this ribbon light garland that I made a few years ago in Oregon. It worked fine until a few days before Christmas, then one day it just didn't turn on. I was like "Great... That's one more thing I need to do before everyone comes" but just left it alone. Then a few days later I was doing school with J and E at the kitchen counter while Reid was in the middle of a huge tantrum and I was almost in tears from frustration... I just prayed really quickly for patience and strength and lo and behold my garland lights clicked on again at that very moment. I was like "Thanks, God... I'll take it!!" :) Lol!! I loved it!! (**Update: The lights pooped out again the day after Christmas. At least they made it through the holiday!)
Watching Muppets videos with Daddy...
Sweet sleeping Reid...
At the Bethlehem Village across the street with our friends...
ATV buds...
No photos from my birthday, other than these two. A friend of J and E's has a b-day the same as mine and had a little skating party that day. So I took J and E for their first ever roller skating experience! They did great! E got a little frustrated, but they both pretty much had the hang of it by the end. J was doing really great!
And this was Christmas Eve... as I was making final preparations for everyone to show up at our house. A neighbor knocked on the door to let me know the boys and some neighbor friends were getting soaked in a huge puddle in an empty lot a few doors down (we had had a TON of rain for days prior). Phil and I went outside and found this...
Lol! Reid was obviously the worst, but all three got showers outside right then and there. :)