Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Snow

December brought snow and the kids loved it!

Megan





Snow angels













The snow didn't really pack well.  Here is our sad attempt at a snowman.



Emily and Megan



Emily and Tyler

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Family Pictures

We had family pictures taken while we were all together for the Thanksgiving weekend.  I think they turned out great!

The whole family!



My cute mom and dad



The "originals" (Greg, Debbie, Gary, Janeen, Kimberly and Derek)



The adults (Greg, Brooke, Debbie, Darrell, Gary, Janeen, Sage, Kimberly, Derek and Tansy)



My parents with all of the grandkids



Us



Megan, Tyler and Emily





Greg's family (Nathaniel, Brooke, Daniel, Greg holding Silas, Laura, and Jonathan)





Kimberly's family (Kimberly, Olivia, Kyle, Sage and Aubrey)





Derek's family (Derek, Tansy and Samuel)





I love my family so much!

Random Pics from November

After making the moose bread, we decided to try a snowman.

Before



After



Making gingerbread man cookies (Emily, Megan, Tyler)





My mom, Kimberly and I had the opportunity to attend Time Out For Women.  It was a GREAT weekend!



Our cute Indians Emily and Megan after their preschool Thanksgiving Feast.



Silly Tyler wearing a fireman hat from Megan's Care Bear mug.


 

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Thanksgiving

We spent the Thanksgiving weekend with my family, and we had such a great time!  Nothin' like being with family for the holidays.

Thanksgiving Day was a nice "warm-ish" day and the kids had fun being outside.





Kimbo helping fill the nut cups.



Emily and Darrell checking out the Black Friday ads



Tyler, Emily, Olivia and Megan checking out the homemade rootbeer.



Waiting.... (Tyler, Megan, Olivia, Emily and Kyle)



Yummy!





Kimberly, Brooke, Darrell and I headed out on our traditional Black Friday run (although all the sales we hit were still on Thanksgiving Day, so is that called Black Thursday?)  We left the house at 3:30 p.m. and drove 2 hours to get to the sales.  We arrived early (ahead of the 6:00 p.m. sale), but the people at WalMart were really laid back and let us start filling up our carts around 5:35.  We made quite a haul with 2 shopping carts full. 



Then we headed to Target.  We arrived at 7:15, but the doors didn't open until 8:00.  It was a little nippy waiting out in 28 degree weather, but it was still fun. (Darrell, Brooke and Kimberly)



We made it back from our excursion around 1:00 a.m. Friday morning.  You can say what you want about stores be opened on Thanksgiving, but I loved that they were open and we could be done with our shopping and back in bed.  In years past we've had to leave at 1:00 a.m. to go to the sales.

The rest of the weekend was spent with cousins and having fun.

Megan, Emily and Tyler eating breakfast with Samuel.



Playing Legos



Hanging out with the big kids around the table--doing their own thing.



Emily cutting up paper



Megan cutting paper and playing with the ponies.



Tyler writing and drawing



One afternoon we went swimming at the Y, but I didn't get any pictures.

The kids opened our family gift from Derek, Tansy and Samuel--ice cream sundae cups and all the fixins for yummy ice cream sundaes.



Samuel, Megan, Derek and Tansy



Megan and Tyler attacking Derek



Tyler and Megan riding Derek



Derek being such a great uncle.  Tansy and Samuel having fun too.



Traditional holiday puzzle making.  Tansy, my mom and Derek


 

Sunday before church (Megan, Tyler, Samuel and Emily)



I love, love, LOVE my family.  It was wonderful to be together for Thanksgiving!