Believe it or not, it has been ten years since we got married!  We took advantage of the occasion (and my parents' generosity!) to take a little 2-day trip up to the Cities to celebrate.  It was so much fun to talk uninterrupted, eat at a nice restraunt, go to dinner and a movie without…

Remember that song from the Forgotten Carols?  I have always hated that song.  Thank goodness I had been listening to the soundtrack from Les Mis today and had better things running through my head… otherwise, I probably would have cried as I took the tree down all alone.  I thought it would be easier without…

  Welcome to a place where almost EVERY DAY is a birthday.  Emma's baby Ellie has had enough birthdays since Christmas to make her older than Emma!  And Emma sure knows how to throw a party.  Hats, presents (wrapped, of course), cake… the whole nine yards.  This day it was TWO birthdays.  And it's hard…

Emma is no longer a sunbeam, and she is the proud owner of a new CTR ring.  She was SO excited.   Carter stayed in nursery THE WHOLE TIME!  Without screaming.  He got some new teachers (guys this time) and somehow that made all the difference in the world.  He was pretty proud of himself,…

Zach and Emma had to poke and prod and really try hard to wake Carter up at 7… (although at 2am he was demanding cereal, funny kid.)  Luckily, Santa had come, which quickly cheered him up.  Zach spent the morning building Legos with Nate, too busy to eat.  Carter spent the day eating m&m's (mostly…

We spent Christmas Eve… Building a snowman (and a snow-elf, can you tell?) in the rain (yes, rain on Christmas eve in MN!) because it was finally warm enough to make the snow packable!     Making cookies for Santa (and setting out bowls of carrots for the reindeer)   Wearing our Christmas Eve pajamas…

This year, I FINALLY got our advent calendar done.  And with the idea from an extremely creative friend, I put an activity in each day of something fun to do.  It was so much fun.  Here are some of the things we did:   take Christmas card pictures (never mind that we didn't end up…

  A:  The boxes they came in.  Seriously, they played in them for 2 entire days.     

 1:00 church is rough on Carter.  He usually gets a short nap before church that helps a little, but not this day.  He fell asleep in the car on the way home and there was no waking him up.  In a few more weeks (with 9:00 church) this will be all of us after lunch!…

 Emma came home from a friends' birthday party with way too much fun stuff to eat and do.  So here she is trying to fit it all in at once.  She will be a great mother.