White Christmas

We definetely had a white Christmas this year. There was a ton of snow all week long. Jeff and Cayden took advantage of the snow to go sledding. Cayden came home and told me that he had to erase one of the videos that they took because "it might scare me." Apparently Cayden's sled got a little close to running into the truck and you could hear Jeff yelling at him to "jump off" loudly. These pictures were taken about 35 minutes east of our house. We live in a beautiful place!

Merry Christmas

Our new tent trailer


lighted tent trailer


look at that mess!!!



Cayden and Bryce happy with their loot

Santa definetely came to our house on Christmas. Our two big gifts were a new (gently used) pop-up tent trailer thanks to contributions from many family members and a Nintendo Wii. We surprised Cayden with the tent trailer on Christmas Eve. Jeff decorated it with lights and once Cayden got over the confusion about why it was parked in our driveway he was super excited. The next morning was even better with the discovery that Santa left us a Wii with the game of choice, Lego Star Wars. Bryce enjoyed tearing into some paper and has definetely enjoyed his new toys. Here are some pictures of the tent trailer and Christmas morning.

Rudolph or Bryce?

Bryce and Cayden both got some reindeer antlers. It took awhile to get Bryce to wear his so I needed to post the picture.

Cayden's Christmas Program

Here are a few videos of Cayden performing at his Christmas program on Tuesday afternoon. And, don't forget, he is a hamster, not a dog. He did great knowing his lines and was a little shy on the songs.

Bryce learns to Crawl and Cayden is in the school play

Bryce finally is crawling. He is 9 1/2 months old and has waited for the Christmas tree to be up to crawl. It figures.... Oh well. He is also recovering from ear infection #1 and hoping to get a bunch of teeth before Christmas. And, because of this, I am hoping to get a full nights' sleep and a happy child for Christmas. Dear Santa...

Cayden has a speaking part in this year's Christmas program. He also has to dress up like a hamster?! All the children are representing animals around the house having a conversation about Christmas and he is the hamster. I hope that I can find something that looks like a rodent for him to wear.

The latest cute Cayden comment is about our nativity scene. He calls it an "activity" scene. When he set up our "activity" scene he put all the people and animals clumped around Mary and Jesus. When I asked him why they were so close he said, "because they are all looking at the baby. That is what people do when there is a baby". Silly me!

Another Hike

A couple days after Thanksgiving our family took a hike. Notice that Jeff is in shorts, Cayden is in short sleeves and the sun is shining. We had a beautiful holiday weekend and we took advantage of it to be outside.