Determination

Have you challenged yourself today?

Playing basketball while sitting in a box at a desk.

He is determined to do things differently!

Clara

She's laid back and mellow.

 Rarely cries as long as Momma is close by.

 Loves to smile at her brothers.

Will talk to anyone willing to listen

This is our two month old Clara!

Verbatim

While driving to school we pass a fire station and hope to see a truck out. The other day this was our conversation passing the station.
Landon "Mom, some fire trucks are black and red and some are yellow."
Me "Wow, you're really smart"
Landon "Yeah, it's because I'm a paleontologist of fire trucks."

Ornaments

As a kid my parents got my sisters and I a new ornament every year and we opened it Christmas Eve.

I really want to do something similar for our kids.

This year we painted our own.

Santa

 We visited Santa last night

 I tried to prep Ollie for it, but when we walked up to say hi, he pulled on my hand back towards the door

 That's as close as he wanted to get to the scary guy. Close enough to protect Clara

 Clara doesn't know any better.

We talked earlier in the day that if he didn't want to sit with Santa

maybe he could give him a high five.

Love

Christmas 2011

We decided to stay at our house this year for Christmas and celebrate. In the past few years, since we moved from Wyoming, we haven't gotten a tree. Since we'll be here this year we got one. The boys had fun decorating and un-decorating. They are still enjoying that.

They are also having fun working on the tree with their tools.

Even attempting to cut it down.

At least he was trying to be safe. The hard hat fell off.

Off to a great start

Craig is out of town and this is how we start the week!

This picture captures Landon for the past two weeks, granted he was sick one of those, what's his excuse now?