Time to myself!

My Anniversary gift and Christmas gift this year was a day at lotus spa, for a pedicure and massage. The lady that does the massages ended up getting sick, so I had to reschedule the massage, but ended up getting my pedicure. It was relaxing! I love Lotus Spa. I go back on Tuesday for my massage. Nothing like two days to myself. Not that you want to look at my toes, but you get to anyways.

While making supper, I caught William crawling into the lazy Suzan to reach for something way in the back.

Caught ya!

William's favorite spot lately has been the lazy Susan. He pulls out anything he can find. Little did I know that the raisins were stored in there as well. He thought he was pretty sneaky getting them out and eating them.

Happy New Years Eve!

I ended up picking up a shift at work today, so I took Grace and Charlie to the sports center before work. It ended up getting interrupted due to work calling and asking if I could come in earlier since they were swamped. I can't say no, so I came in earlier.
Charlie wanted to be a cowboy, but the only costume they had was a ninja, so he was a ninja cowboy.

Grace wanted to show off her ninja moves as well!

Then they played air hockey.

We rang in the new year at a coworkers of Ross's house. We played some games, ate some food and watched the ball drop. Good bye 2010, it has been a good year!

Merry Christmas and day 3 of Christmas festivities.

We spent Christmas day morning with the Krebs family, this is my dads side. Due to the snow storm last year, we haven't seen this side of the family for two years and alot has changed. More babies, engagements and new families.

Here is Laven and William. They are a week and a half apart in age. He is my cousin Shannon's first child. They played as well as 1 year olds would.

The Grandchildren and spouces.

Dylan, Grace, William and Charlie, all posing so nicely for pictures.

Grandma Krebs with all of her Great-Grandchildren.
Afterwards, we headed back to Ross's parents house for some naps for the kids, then we headed to my mom's side of the family, the Bauers.

for some reason, William was all about having his picture taken today.


So, I didn't get pictures of the entire family. My Aunt did and is hopefully sending them to me. :)
But, here is Grace with her Godparents, Brian and Michelle, in her dress up outfit they got for her.

Christmas Day 2!

Merry Christmas Eve. Today is the day we spend with Ross's family! We started out with lunch, then naps. Unfortunately Ross's mom got the flu right after lunch, we sadly had to continue on with christmas without her. She did make it out for a bit to see the kids open their gifts from her and for a photo with the grandkids.
And more presents. Here is a lineup of the kids before opening presents

Abbie and Grace

Zach and Issac

Charlie and Carmen



Grace got the American Girl doll diaper bag from Grandma and Grandpa she again, has always been asking for.


Grandpa and Grandma with their grandchildren. All excited about the gifts they got!
After church, to our surprise, Santa had come to Grandma and Grandmpa's house.


And then comes our yearly family photo shoot. Here are the girls.

And our family.

Christmas Day 1!

Our Christmas always ends up being a long weekend! Lucky for the kids, but tiring on mom and dad! But it is always nice to see all of our family again. Today we headed over to my parents house to have Christmas there with my sister Kathy, nephew Dylan and my parents! My dad, Ross and Kathy took the kids outside in the morning to go sledding down the hills. Ross ended up pulling them on the fourwheeler, which Charlie apparently LOVED. He even fell off a couple time and just got back up and went again. I was watching from the house with William, getting very nervous watching them!



William telling me he is ready for a nap!
Then of course...present time!

Grace got the easy bake oven she has always been wanting, so she says.

William enjoying opening his presents. Usually Charlie comes over and helps because William takes his time. Charlie apparently can't wait that long.


Charlie got Woody, to go with his Buzz Lightyear.

I was shocked when I walked in the room and saw William sitting in the chair, enjoying his milk and snack. He was very proud of himself that he could get up there all by himself.
When we returned to Grandma and Grandpa Lendt's house, they were all involved in decorating cookies. Grace and Charlie jumped right in. They have been waiting to do this for a while.

Charlie's Haircut!

It was time for a haircut for Charlie. I usually have been cutting his hair, but it ends up being a battle and he cries the entire time, so I thought I would try taking him to someone else. Ross gets a gift card to a salon from work, so I used that. He did okay for the first part, then when the hair started to dry and get all over his neck and he got more squirmy. He sure is handsome though!