Chores!

I finally got some time to wrap some Christmas gifts, and Grace and Charlie wanted to help. It was interesting where charlie wanted to put the tape, not always where it was suppose to go. Grace figured it out pretty quickly and loved doing it!


After supper Grace really wanted to wash the dishes. She refused to change out of her dance outfit, so she insisted on washing them with it on! Oh well. Charlie wanted to dry them...most of them stayed pretty wet, but it was the thought! He was proud of himself!

Then a photo shoot of William! He loves the camera!

His Ohhh face. He actually looks like he is going to give a kiss!

Clapping! We just figured out how to do this!

and praying...LOVE it!

Happy Birthday Charlie!

Today is Charlies birthday! Where has the time gone! He is getting to be such a big boy.....I feel like I missed the past three years. He loves making people laugh, he thinks he is always so funny. He not only looks like his dad, but his personality reminds me of him too. He loves to cuddle with mom and dad. Loves playing with his sister, even if she has to pick what they play! He loves fruit, so far my best fruit eater. He is a wonderful boy and we love him so much. Happy Birthday buddy. (oh, and I asked him what he wanted for Christmas, he said "nothing, I already got buzz.") Christmas shopping is done for him!

And, I have to post some pics from all the snow we got. I have no idea the amount of snow...but it sure is alot! Not to mention our furnace wasn't working last night when we got home, so our house was cold. Ross figured out that it was because the vents were blocked, so he had to go and shovel them clear as well. What a snow storm!

view of our deck.


before Ross cleaned the driveway. The plows finally cleaned the street.


After Ross finished our driveway, thanks to the neighbors snow blower, he helped another neighbor clean out what the plow left behind.

Braving the weather!

Allright, we are crazy. Ross's coworker had an ugly sweater party! We debated on going since the plows never cleared our roads by our house. Our babysitter got stuck trying to get into our driveway. But, we still decided to go. The main roads were fine, it was just tough trying to get out of our development. Ross had to plow through the ally way to get to the driveway at his friends house. I was a little nervous we weren't going to make it, but we did. This picutre is of the alley way, didn't turn out how I would of liked it to....oh well.

I had to drive home..I was so nervous. I barely made it to our house due to the bad side roads. Our dive way was all blown in, so Ross decided to plow through that as well....I thought for sure he was either going to hit our babysitters car, or the house...needless to say, the truck was covered in snow. Thank goodness for four-wheel drive!

Meet Fisbee!

We adopted a new member to our family. Fisbee, The Elf on the Shelf, has come to our home! Grace was so excited to see Fisbee, she looks for him every morning. For those of you not familiar with The Elf of the Shelf, let me explain his purpose. Santa sends each family an elf of their own. You adopt him, and give him a name, Grace chose Fisbee. The elf sits somewhere in your home, watching the kids. Every night, the elf flies back to the north pole to report to Santa if your kids were naughty or nice. The next day, the elf is in a new spot. The kids can talk to the elf, but he is under stick orders not to talk to anyone. He also can't be touched, or he loses his magic. There is even a website to adopt your elf. Grace loves Fisbee, she is always telling Charlie, "Fisbee is watching you"!

Irvine Park Christmas Lights!

I have been wanting to take the kids to the Christmas lights at Irvine Park in Chippewa Falls for a while now. Ross and I both had off tonight, so we decided to finally take them there. Grace and Charlie loved it! It was beautiful. The whole park it lit up. Grace was in amazement by all the lights, and of course by baby Jesus. Charlie really liked the green lights the best. The picture isn't the greatest, but you get the idea.

Happy Birthday Ross!

Today is Ross's birthday. Unfortunately we both had to work. After I picked the kids up from daycare, we headed over to Dairy Queen, picked up a birthday cake, and when Ross came home, we sang "Happy Birthday" and ate some cake! I asked the kids what they loved most about dad, Grace said she loved giving daddy hugs when he comes home from work, and Charlie said wrestling with dad. Happy Birthday!

Birthday Parties!

Ross and I decided to do a combined birthday party for William and Charlie and have it at our home. So, Ross's sister and her family came up on Friday, they braved the snow storm, and made it in 6 hrs instead of 3. My sisters also came up earlier in the day friday, but they got ahead of the storm outside of MN. Then, Ross's parents, Brother and his family, and his other sister and her husband made it up on Saturday. Can't thank everyone enough for braving the snow and coming up to make the day special for William and Charlie. We celebrated Williams birthday at lunch time!



I had to post this picture, I love this pic of Ross's sister Anita and her husband Jon!

William really wanted to grab the whole cake!

All the kids at the birthday party.

William eating his cake, something was really funny here, not sure what. He will just crack up at the weirdest things some times! What a goofball!



And then we had Charlie's birthday party for supper time. It was of course, Toy Story themed...



The matching Cousins...Carmen had worn this dress today and when I pointed out to Grace that she had that dress she had to stop prayer before lunch and run in and change to match Carmen.

Charlie and his birthday cake...I have never seen this boy so proud..he just sat there and soaked it all in while we sang "Happy Birthday" to him. I love this boy!


and yes, the boy in the background does not have a shirt on. Zach got really hot running around, so he needed to cool off!

Charlie with his Buzz Lightyear he got for his birthday. This kid didn't put it down until he went to bed at night. Then asked for it first thing in the am...set it down for nap time and again asked for it again. He wasn't so keen on sharing it with his cousins either....it was pretty tough to share him...he has wanted buzz for a long time now. I think he would sleep with him if he could...but then I would probably be hearing buzz all night long.....