Christmas Cookies

The weekend before Christmas everyone came to my house to make cut-out cookies. Our plan was to have the boys help too but they were taking naps at the time so they missed out. It was probably easier that way anyways. The girls had fun making different shapes. They had to leave to go to a Christmas with Calvin (Coye was running a fever so I stayed home with him) before we got a chance to frost them, so dad, Hannah, Jenna, and I frosted and decorated them. They turned out cute and were really yummy!

The girls and I made ornaments for the tree out of pom-poms, a styrofoam ball, and stick pins

Pictures at the Lake

We had Thanksgiving at mom and dad's house this year. I wanted to get some family pictures for our Christmas card while we there. Thankfully it was nice out and we went to the park and got some great ones. 

Picture Update

Here's what we've been up to lately . . . 

Playing outside - Coye insisted on wearing Chloe's bicycle helmet

Poor little guy was so exhausted from not taking a nap that he fell asleep in his high chair at supper

We got mom and dad's piano from them. Aubrey is taking lessons this year and we finally broke down and accepted the fact that we needed a real piano for her to practice on. I'm so glad we did.

Ornery as ever

Happy birthday Daddy!

Painting

I think he got more on himself than on the paper. 

Fingerpainting

Mom and Dad came last weekend to make Christmas cookies. It was so nice having some extra hands. I don't know why we've never done that before.

Aubrey read us books while we worked.

Then it was her turn to help.

Halloween

So I'm really behind in blogging. I had good intentions of keeping up but my life just kind of got in the way. It's December - there's a million things to do but I'm going to try and catch up while I'm up with the youngest and the other two are sleeping.

The kids loved carving pumpkins for Halloween. Coye absolutely loved digging through the pumpkin innards - he's such boy. :) The girls had fun drawing their faces and then carving them out (with a little help).

Costumes this year were so easy. The girls wanted to be princesses so all we had to do was get out dress-up clothes. Coye was a farmer - we borrowed the sweatshirt and hat so all I had to buy was the boots. They were so cute!

Mom and Dad came down one Sunday to help us carve some more pumpkins. We used stencils this time which was much harder. I'm so glad they were here to help!

We went trick or treating with my nieces and nephew. It's so nice that the kids are older and can go up to the houses on their own now. They had so much fun!