Christmas... and snow...

The weeks leading up to Christmas were busy. I got shingles on my face... lovely and felt great... thank God for vicoden and benadryl...
We also babysat these two while mom and dad went to a hockey game...Allie had just gotten shots so she was not happy!

Before we opened presents on Christmas day Logan got in a little baby holding in practice for when baby squishy gets here...

Then the gifts were passed out and the crazy began!



As it turned out the weather let up just enough for Joe Katie and kids to make it... which in turn made my day! I love when my whole family is under one roof...

Tree Deco and Thanksgiving...

Tree Deco pictures can be found on the NEWLY updated website! here

We had a great time and got to meet Jed's friend and of course get the tree done!

I do have a few pictures of the attempt of trying to get all six kids to sit still for a picture...didn't work so well since Liam wasn't wanting to join us!


Here is Liam getting tired of pics

Liam wasn't the only one goofing around!

Here we are missing Zoey and can't see Logan...Nora Henry and Zoey had fun on the bouncy thing...
Fun was also had playing with the Ninja Turtles... I am not sure who had more fun... Jed or the boys!
Here are Henry and Zoey checking something out... maybe the pizza??

Joe and Nora's half of the family portrait turned out great...
Katie and Nora's turned out great...


Kirstin and Logan before the family pic...


Allie was smiley all day!
Here is Liam lifting some weights in the basement...
and here is Jackie wondering what kind of crazy has she wandered into!

Now I have to go take care of my farm on facebook!

Almost Thanksgiving...

I played a lot of farmville on Facebook this weekend...befriend me if you are on facebook and have a farm... we can be neighbors and help each other out!!
I also managed to update my website and do a few other things...Like on Saturday I went and held my favorite 4 month old... while her big sister slept and mommy, daddy and Papa put up Christmas lights.





On Sunday we went out to eat with Jed. It was fun to see him and hear about his crazy busy life...In the last couple of weeks he has been to both coasts to shoot footage for a commercial.. It will be nice to spend more time with him on Thanksgiving.
This school year is going by so fast! I love the kids and staff that I work with.... I am happy that I made the move!
Tomorrow a short work week and then a long weekend.

Fun Weekend...

Well this has been a fun week and weekend...First I joined Facebook and then I discovered some old friends that I had lost touch with are on there... then I found some fun games to play on there... Then on Saturday we had some visitors...
Logan's seems to be a little smaller but then he was not helping it!

Right after this picture was taken the boys fell in the front door...I love this sweater pattern tho... I want to make more of them!


As usual we got more picture of one boy than the other... here is Logan going through the keys in our dish!After they left there was time for a nap before we met the Klein's at Sam's club for some bargain shopping and of course we had lots of fun with these girls...
This is my little love bug or bug as I was calling her... she was so full of smiles!
And of course the big sister was also a smiley girl... she found a drawer full of pens and some paper and she was having fun!
More smiles...


Drawing us a picture with Zeeooooeeees...

I also saw a sweet girl that I used to know at South Grove... so that was great too...
Doesn't that sound fun?

Baby Wrangling and Weddings

This weekend we went to Mankato to be baby wranglers for the Meg and Kris Wedding... we started out baby sitting for the rehearsal dinner but the were no pictures because that was just kids in bed...
The next day we got the kids up from naps and then took them to the church where we took care of these cute angels...


This is what it took to get the pictures... see all of those adult trying to get the three kids to focus?


Here is one of pictures
Then Nora got tired of what she later referred to as "the babies"
What is a blog of mine with out a Nora funny face...

I love this picture ... she was spinning until her daddy said to stop...
This is after the ceremony


Then it was on to the dinner...

and the DANCING!!


and then home to bed... the next morning we saw these guys in the back yard and
here is Nora crying for her mom... but lucky for us she thought that this picture was funny and started laughing instead of crying...
It was a beautiful wedding and we had lots of fun with our little charges!

Haloween...

On Halloween we first went to see Zoey and Allie... They made adorable tigers and showed off the pumpkins they carved...
I am not sure Allie knew what she was doing but she handled it well... she is getting so big...


Here is a better look at the pumpkins and a big sisterly hug!!

Then we were on to see the Smentek boys... for our traditional pizza and trick or treating fun... Here is part of the group heading out the door... Gretchen was Boo in an adorable costume... and the boys were their favorites... Dark Knight and Venom I believe... some of
those super heroes guys!

All in all it was a great night... and next year we will have little Squishy...
I wish that we would have been able to get down to Mankato... here is a picture I stole from Joe's blog... hopefully he will add some pics of these two cuties, in their costumes, soon!