Visit with Friends!

Everyone was in line to get their tattoos : )

Cute buddies

Connor teaching Savannah how to play video games

Nightly hang out / movie time

They brought chairs and books over and made their own reading corner...it was so cute!

Having fun!

These 2 LOVE to wrestle....one of many times that Cameron was rolling off the air mattress!

The day after Christmas one of my best friends from high school and her family came to visit for the week. We had a blast as usual! All of our kiddos get along so well! The kids enjoyed playing at Monkey Joe's, wrestling, playing video games, and having nightly movies and sleep overs together. It has been great getting to see them! They have visited very frequently this past year so our kids have been able to grow pretty close even with us living hundreds of miles apart. And the best part is.....they are moving down to our city, actually our very neighborhood, this coming week! I am so excited!!!! Can't wait for them to get here!

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas again this year! Unfortunately, most of the pictures were taken on my mom's camera so I only had a few to upload from Christmas morning at our house! The "big" toy gifts from Santa this year were a Princess doll house and workbench. We were able to spend Christmas this year with my aunt and uncle from Oregon. It was so nice having them here! Hopefully, I will be able to upload more from my mom's camera another time.

Happy Birthday Jesus Party!

Sending Jesus his birthday balloons

Getting ready to send their balloons to Jesus

Savannah helping mommy set up for the party

Cameron hanging out with the boys

This is the 2nd year that we have hosted a "Happy Birthday Jesus Party". It is such a fun time and allows the children to remember the true meaning of Christmas. We had 17 children this year for our party. The kids did crafts, ate cupcakes, and sent balloons up to Jesus for his birthday! They had a great time! We plan to continue making this an annual tradition!

Christmas Part 1

We are fortunate to live within driving distance to most of our extended family. So a few weeks before Christmas we met up with some of my aunts, uncles, and cousins (and there kiddos) to celebrate. We had a great time chatting and letting the little ones play, make crafts, and eat popcorn while watching Polar Express. Although we don't get to see each other as often as we would like it is nice that all of our kiddos are still pretty close! It makes you very thankful to have been blessed with such a wonderful and loving family!

I'm Still Here

Still here....we have just extremely busy since before the holidays! I am going to try EXTRA hard to play catch up on here this week sometime. So please come back soon to see whats been going on in our household : )

New Family Tradition

We decided to start a new family tradition this year. We would have a family sleepover next to the Christmas tree in the living room. It was great! We put out air mattresses and sleeping bags on the floor, ate popcorn, drank hot chocolate and watched the Polar Express. We weren't sure how Cameron was going to do but he and Savannah both ended up falling asleep shortly after the movie and slept pretty good most of the night. It was so much fun! Savannah has already asked to do it again. Definitely a Christmas family tradition we will keep!

Parent Participation Day at Gymnastics

Cameron doing his handstand against the wall

This week was also parent/sibling participation week at gymnastics class. Since I have to be helping out the whole time during Cameron's class (since it is a mommy and me class), it was nice to be able to take pictures of both of them during Savannah's class this week. Here are some of the pictures of the things they are learning to do.