Christmas

Opening her Vsmile games


Very excited about Hi Ho Cherry-O



Play-dough!

Look I can be a scary dragon when I get out of the bathtub!!!

Well this was a very interesting Christmas for sure. There aren't many pictures because I forgot my camera at home when we went to Warsaw and Evansville/Jeffersonville. So that said we did open up gifts at our house on the Friday before Christmas (I know I know it was really early). We were really busy every day up until Christmas and since we were out of town we didn't want to have to drag all the gifts to my families house and Chad's mom's house. Anyway this whole Christmas season started off poorly since Grant had a bad habit of opening presents (not just his, everyones!!!) he opened a record 13 in a 30 min time frame. Then the Saturday before Christmas Rileigh was standing on the rocking horse instead of sitting on it and lost her balance and fell into the tree which in turn fell over. Rileigh was fine a few ornaments did not make it through the ordeal. We got the tree back up with no problems and then on Tuesday the day before Christmas eve Chad and I both came down with the stomach flu... go figure. We ended up feeling better on Christmas Eve but I will kinda be glad to see this Holiday Season come to an end. It will definately be one to remember!

Preschool Musical

Singing Away in a Manger

Rileigh's preschool had their Christmas program tonight and it did not disappoint. It was all 3-5 year olds all singing together..... I was quite entertaining. Rileigh had a part in the program where she placed a heart on a banner, she was very proud of herself. We weren't sure if the program would take place since we are supposed to get an ice storm sometime this evening. (ugh) When Rileigh walked in she was holding hands with her "best" friend Lainey, it was so cute! We got pics of her and her two best friends at the end of the program. Her class was supposed to go caroling at a nursing home yesterday but due to the weather the field trip was cancelled and Rileigh was very upset, so I am glad that there were no issues tonight with the weather.

Ok I was trying to upload a short video of the kids singing but as usual blogger does not like my videos for some reason and after an hour of attempting I gave up..... maybe another day I can get it to like my videos :(

Ri and her best friend Lainey

Ri and her other best friend Jillian

The Christmas Play

Rileigh played Mary in the church play this weekend. It was quite hilarious

since the 3-5 year olds played the part of the manger scene. Rileigh and Riley were Mary and Joseph, they were pretty good did their part it was the shepherds that were funny. One of them kept taking his staff and raising it as high in the air as he could and then lowering quickly back down. We thought he was going to hit someone on the head it was quite comical. Here are some pics of my child looking oh so innocent.

Let It Snow!

Here are the kids at Grandma and Grandpa's house on Thanksgiving. Noah, Spencer, and Hunter weren't there since Spencer is still in the hospital. We hope you come home soon! Gabe was at his dad's house so it was only the 3 kids.

We had our first snow early this morning. Grant woke up and looked out the windows and said "mommy, it's snowing where's the grass?" So after breakfast all the kids got dressed in their snowsuits and went outside and played in the snow. Cousin Lucas and aunt Ellen were down visiting since Gabe was going to other cousin Noah's birthday party so he was out playing too. We then went to the Noblesville Chrismtas parade and froze our butts off! It was very chilly but the kids had fun seeing McGruff the Crime Dog, firetrucks, police cars, and at the very end Santa!!!!! They got more candy (just what we need since we still have Halloween candy left). It was a fun afternoon and the kids are so ready for Christmas. They can't wait to open presents and make cookies. We love this time of year. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families!

Here they are enjoying the freshly fallen snow! They made huge mounds of snow in attempt to make a snowman it was very wet snow.

Here they are at the parade.....freezing!

Say Cheese!

Friday evening we went to get the kids annual pictures taken. It was an adventure as usual. The place was running about 30 minutes behind and there were kids and parents EVERYWHERE! The photographer said that they were 3 people short that night so that is why it was so crazy. The kids did well regardless and managed to not mess up their nice clothes while running around the store with some other restless little ones. There weren't as many good pics as in the past years but some turned out really well so here are a few. Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I couldn't get this one to rotate sorry...

Needless to say they cropped out the purple flower..... daddy didn't really want it in the pics but it kept Grant busy :)

You're not my friend?

Ok so we had our cousin Hunter over on Wednesday for a several hours to play and visit while his older brother is in the hospital for his second round of chemo. It is so funny because in this pic they are of course having a good time watching a movie together like nice little boys..... haha! For the first 2 hours he was visitng things went pretty well and then Grant and Hunter did their usual fighting routine. Why the two of them do not get along is beyond me.... they are 6 months apart and their cousin that is right between them gets along with both of them pretty well. Anyway so there is a reason God did not give me twin boys.... having 2-3year olds does not sound like my idea of a good time. They were fine and I love having Hunter over he is a sweetheart and loves his aunt Amee but at one point Grant looked at him and said you are not my friend... hahaha hopefully when they get older they will be the best of friends, but right now they fight over EVERYTHING... even more than Rileigh and Grant do. It was so funny when Hunter left Grant gave him a hug and a kiss. Oh boys...... but you've gotta love them!

Happy Halloween!!!!

The weather was so awesome last night! The last couple of years it has been freezing outside but it was a comfortable 65 degrees yessterday. The kids went 0ut in the neighborhood with Chad and I stayed home to pass out candy to all the other kids. Here are pics of the kids in their costumes.Grant wouldn't wear the spiderman face but he carried it in his hand all night.