Sneaking Alina...

Every year after we have decorated our gingerbread houses we sneak them to someone's house. This is normally not as easy as it sounds, lets just say we are working on the sneaky part. It's especially not sneaky getting a loud little boy out of his carseat but it definately adds to the fun. This year we took our house to Alina Jayden's friend from Nursery. He was soo excited to give it to her.

After this picture we ran as fast as Jayden and I could and hurried up and buckled up, we didn't know then that she wasn't home, but we still had fun!

ICE

Its the Holiday Season and what better way to get into the spirit than to go to ICE! at the Gaylord Hotel. This year we went with my parents, we all had a blast watching the shows, and drinking the hot chocolate. We walked around the hotel for a while and then went into ICE, it was freezing and I don't know what I was thinking not wearing socks, but we survived the cold. The kids had so much fun looking at all the ice sculptures, there was even a horse (that won over Jayden), the slides for the kids were great too. Jayden went down again and again.

Dad, Debi, and Grandma Luce (even she took a turn down the slide)

he loved this horse!!

Our nutty family!!

watching the music show...

thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!! This year we ate at Linda's house. She had lots of yummy food all of the favorites! It was a great dinner and a great time spent with family. I am so thankful for my family, I love these boys and I am a better person because of all them. I can't help but to count them a couple times when I count out my blessings!

Alex was loving his first Thanksgiving feast!!

The kids watching Snow Dogs Christmas

The boys kicking around the ball after dinner...Run daddy..Run..Jayden

grandmas monkeys

Grandma Linda loves to take her grandchildren to do fun things and since Monkey Joes went out of business we have found a new jumping place called Jungle Zone and it is just as much fun. The kids love it and its very safe. Today we all played ate an ice cream treat and then jumped some more.

Macie, Jayden, and Payton going down the slide together....

and going back up...

Alex's first time going solo down the slide!!

He loves this place!!

Alex playing with Macie

gingerbread houses

Every year we always decorate gingerbread houses as part of the Thanksgiving Day Tradition, but because of our expanding families it has gotten difficult to keep the mess to a minmum so this year we decided to do it just the girls. We all stayed up late this night and laughed and really were able to enjoy everyone company without having to worry about little fingers spreading the mess around. Decorating our houses is a serious thing to us girls and some of us even researched our ideas this year(not going to say who..Katelyn;) )We are always trying to out do each other's creative ideas.

working busily to decorate our houses

Spikey Like PaPa

So this is what Alex's hair would look like if Jayden controlled the hair styling in the house... it looks like Alex loves it though...

look how proud Jayden is of his styling ability....

columbia childs play...

So after the wedding we needed to get some wiggles out and play so we took the kiddies to the best children's museum. They had a blast well I think that we all had fun and we played and pretended and just laughed and we.....

rode a camel in africa

Geoffrey took some chickens into town...

Jayden and I caught some fish...

Alex drove a tug boat...

Jayden went grocery shopping...

became a dentist and cleaned some teeth...

I checked out Mr. Wise's groceries....

the brothers went grocery shopping....

Jayden plowed the field....

and milked a cow...

was the bell man at the north pole.......

Alex tried to be the bell man but the hat just didn't fit;)....

Geoffrey ice skated.....

the big boys played ice hockey.....

Alex and mommy went down a ice slide...



that's right watch out Alex is driving....(scary thought huh)

fill-er up daddy....

my little firefighters...

climbing around in be Eddy, you could hear and see his heart,brain, and his stomach, it was pretty neat...

Big Eddy and Jayden...