Our Snowy Weekend

It was a white Christmas!

Snowy street in Walker.

Ethan and one of his hockey idols!

First time with a stick on the ice! He LOVED that!

Kellen wants to skate SO bad!

We spent the Christmas Holiday driving back and forth to Walker spending time with Doug's family. Overall traveling wasn't too bad and we did most of it in the daylight. We only saw three cars in the ditch and they were all on Saturday afternoon. Saturday Ethan went skating with Zach and got to shot some pucks after spending some time skating around the rink. He did a great job and had a lot of fun with Zach!

Snapshots of Christmas

Christmas Eve at home.

Ethan Christmas morning.

Kellen being silly!

Cousins! Megan and Zach.

Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa's.

Christmas Cookies

My helpers.

Rolling out the dough.

Very serious business!

The finished products! Yum!

Ethan's Christmas Program

Ethan attends preschool at Calvary Lutheran Christian Preschool. They had their Christmas program last week. Each year the teacher spends time telling the story of Jesus' birth. Then she has the kids "write" their program by having them tell the story back to her. Ethan's part was "the star shined down on baby Jesus" .....I am pretty sure that is what he said last year! Apparently that made an impression on him. Then the kids sang 2-3 songs and we had cookies and coffee together. It was pretty cute!

A staged photo of him putting up his star on the story board!

The whole class.

Grandma Joanne was able to come!

Ethan and Kellen with their early Christmas present -- Fisher Price's Nativity Set, they love it!

A Walk in the Woods Thanksgiving Weekend....just before it got REALLY cold!

Ethan's birthday! It's a big one....he's FIVE now!

Ethan and Landon in the pool.

Checking out the goods!


Sam, Landon and Ethan having pizza!

My attempt at a cake...not as good as Jess, but he was happy!

Ethan had a pretty good birthday this year! Well, a week late anyway. For those of you that don't know he was in the hospital on his actual birthday for two days with a flu like illness and breathing problems. He recovered quickly and has been fine since. We just postponed everything for a week. He had his first friend party - a pool party! Then we had our family party the next day. Good times! Hard to believe he is five already, it was a big deal for him, he suddenly feels so much older!

Happy Halloween....ok, I'm a little late! Camera/computer issues!

Batman and Tigger

Looks like a mug shot....from the preschool Halloween party!

Kellen is 2!

Ok, now that we are back from that VERY long bike ride and I gave up on trying a new layout, here we go! My baby turned two on October 23. Here are some pictures from his party! It was a fun day!

Oooohhh...a mo-mo!!! That's motorcycle if you are not familiar with Kellen talk, they go VROOOOOOOOM VROOOM!!!

Let's take it for a spin, shall we?!

Shooting hoops!

Here's the cake my friend Jess made! Isn't it great? It was yummy too!

The beloved DQ cake!

Blowing out the candles!

Under Construction

Bare with me here as I try something new! I thought I would jazz things up a bit! I am experiencing some technical difficulties...between being tired, a slow computer and just not getting how things work! I need to iron out a few difficulties.....Time for bed now, I will be back soon! PS...nothing new to post, no new pictures...we have been pretty boring lately :)

Out for a bike ride!

Ethan is getting pretty good at bike riding. We did over a mile and he made it the whole way. Has a little trouble getting going once in a while, but he did a good job! He was pretty proud of himself, on the way back he raced Daddy and Kellen!

A trip to Animal Land!

The lions were taking a snooze in the sun!

Ethan and I had fun feeding this deer, it followed us all over!

They love grapes!

Kellen had fun feeding the fawn grapes!

We spent a couple hours at Animal Land this afternoon. It's just down the road from us and in four years we haven't been there once. So today was a beautiful sunny day, a bit too cold for my liking at the end of August....it felt like fall and we decided to go. Kellen was really into feeding all the animals grapes and Ethan was so busy runinng from one animal to the next he didn't feed them as much. It was a good time! They have deer, goats, ducks, camels, a llama, raccoons, lemurs, cougars, lions and a bunch of other things I can't remember the names of. Then they also have some fun things inside like a boa constrictor, a macaw and baby tigers!

Kellen's First Hair Cut....not a baby anymore!!!

Ethan went first to show Kellen how it's done!

Look at those golden locks!!

Better sit on Mom's lap, I am not too sure about this!

Kellen sat very still, was a little skeptical about Jess and those scissors!

Mommy was very brave, only a couple tears.

All done! He chose beads and a sucker for his treat!