New Favorite Spot

For Chritmas Mindy gave us thse ADORABLE kids chairs, one blue and one pink. We set them up and they are perfect size for all of them, and Sammie likes them the best. She loves how it's close enough to the floor that she can crawl into it herself and just sit there. It's what she goes to first thing in the morning. Seeing that she's adorable, and the chairs are adorable, I have LOTS of pictures of her in this chair :)

Full bath

Sammie has been wanting to join the other two in the big bath for a while now and we finally switched her over. She used to be in her own little bath right next to Bradley and Gracie in the big bath but she would literally try to crawl out to get over to them every time. She LOVES it now. She loves to splash them and wait for their reaction. :)

Christmas in the mountains

After everyone got over their Christmas colds (that seem to hit every year with perfect timing), we had our Christmas with Dad and Jan. We had a wonderful brunch meal, opened presents, and played games - sounds perfect to me :)

 

 

 

Merry Christmas :)

I sure love Christmas. I LOVE watching the kids get so excited the night before with anticipation, that's ALMOST as good as watching them Christmas morning :)
Here's Sammie eating her first Christmas present :) I can't believe this was her first Christmas!

My little model :)

Speaking of models :) Here's Bradley showing of his shoes and scooter at the same time :)

After we open presents and hang out at home for a little while we make our way over to Mom's. We were so blessed to have everyone together again including Uncle Rick from Saint Louis.

Crazy to think next year we'll add another little one to the bunch! Can't wait to meet baby Ayden!!!

Oh how I wish I could post another picture ;) Mindy was having a hard time with the new kittens in Mom's house, she has become very allergic to cats over the years. She was sneezing like crazy and her face was all itchy. I have a WONDERFUL picture of all of us together and she was in mid-sneeze and Kevin immediately said she looked like the Predator in the picture and (sorry Mindy) we all agree. It's SO funny and I'm laughing just thinking about it, but unfortunately I cannot share. Hopefully my great description of it is enough :) LOVE YOU MINDY :)

 

Christmas cookies

This is the first year the kids actually got into making the cookies with me. Gracie was too little last year to care, and Bradley very quickly lost interest. This year they loved it!

Boys' Birthday

I gave Kevin the good ol' trick candles for his cake, the kids thought it was hilarious :)

I attempted to make Bradley cupcakes in ice cream cones, they did not turn out very pretty, but they were yummy and he thought it was cool :)

Bradley's drawing of his birthday cake, with him, the number 5, and it says Happy Birthday Bradley :)

Christmas photo shoot

I decided to try to take pictures of the kids myself this year for our Christmas card. I wanted to get one good one of all of them together, but ended up using individual ones instead because it was just not going as planned :)

 

Even though now the more I look at them this is my absolute favorite because it shows their personalities :)