Trying out the bikes Santa left

Despite us finally having some cold winter weather, it warmed up enough for us to venture out to the local park and try out the new bikes and scooter.  It was a beautiful day and felt nice to be outside again!

Riding his scooter he got on his birthday.

Excited for his new bike!

Tucker just wanted to ride!!!

Riding the scooter didn't last long, he decided to walk and have me take his picture a bunch of times!

Finally...for my Trey

Trey Finally lost his first tooth.   It has been loose for a while now (can you see the grown up tooth that already grew in behind the baby tooth??)  He did not want anyone else to pull it out because he is a big kid and can do it himself...So as he was sitting in front of the computer he was pushing it with his tongue and pushed it out all the way!

I don't know if you can tell, but he is just a little bit excited!

New Year's Eve

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!!!!
From our family to yours!

Cheers to 2013!

Electric Safari

This year we went to the electric safari again, but we went a couple of days after Christmas and we had decided to make it our new tradition to go after because there were hardly any people there.  We could wander around and not worry about being separated (because we always come in a big group).  We also were able to stop and enjoy the warm fire pits without having to fight for a spot of warmth.

We even got to see the new Elephant area..it is awesome and we can't wait until it is finished!

This is our normal crew we go out with....we have fun!

Ty getting a ride from Grampa

The girls with the pretty flowers

We always have to stop and take a pic with the bear and as usual Ty is not in the picture because he is afraid of the bear!

A few more pics from December

My dad's birthday!

The big 6-0!!

Me and my baby at Devin's winter band concert!

Devin is the cool kid in the back playing the big drum!

Christmas Day 2012

We had a beautiful white Christmas!  It was a great day to celebrate Jesus' birth with our family.  After a pretty relaxed morning, we headed to Church, came back home, and then the boys' cousins came over to have a little celebration!  We opened presents and played on of our new boardgames!  Our family LOVES boardgames and I think between all of us we got 7 new games.  Our new favorite is called Dicecapades.  If you love games, this is a must have.  (We have already played it 4 or 5 times)  So FUN!!  The rest of the night we just relaxed...a very good Christmas!

The boys after Church...they were so excited for freshly fallen snow on Christmas!

It's a lot easier to get a group picture of all the kids when you have presents to bribe them with!!!

Me and my handsome boys!

Christmas Morning 2012

Santa is an awesome man and thanks to him we had a pretty awesome Christmas morning!  The highlights of the morning were definitely the bikes for the big boys and Packer's Jerseys for all the boys. (If you can't tell we love us some Packer Football!)

Christmas Eve 2012

Christmas Eve was a lot of fun.  We opened a few presents and then had a cookie decorating contest! We had so much help decorating cookies I only got to decorate one cookie...so I made a solid blue Christmas tree. 

 

Trey putting out some oats for the reindeer.

The boys and I about to read Twas the Night Before Christmas.

Christmas Eve Day

We were lucky enough to spend Christmas with some of my extended family!  We haven't had anyone from up north spend Christmas with us for quite awhile now and we had a blast.  During the day we went to my nephew's indoor soccer game (where his team won!) then headed to one of my favorite places here in town!  Even though we all have been here numerous time it was still so much fun exploring.  I don't think I will ever get over the natural beauty of this place.

Do you see the kissing camels???

Ty totally snuck into Trey's picture

All the cousins!