Merry Christmas!!

Here are some from Christmas... sorry for the lack of writing but I figure most of you just want to see the pictures not read my boring narratives...

December 2008

I finally uploaded pictures! Here are some from our Christmas Tree cutting excursion (it was SOOO cold!)












































































These are some miscellaneous photos including one of the boys sick... so pathetic...

Sorry...

Sorry for the lack up updates lately. Our main computer has been down so it has been difficult to post pictures. I will get it up before Christmas though :)

The John Deere Store

Probably the highlight of Tommy and Jack's trip to Maryland was the John Deere store that my dad took them to. I wasn't there, but I can only imagine the size of Tommy's eyes as he walked in. I was told it took him awhile to warm up to sitting in the tractors, but by the time they left, he was jumping into the big ones. Thank you Grandpa!!!

Tommy's Preschool Picture

Here is Tommy's preschool picture - so cute!!

What An Awesome Weekend!!!

Well, all the festivities have ended and Greg and Renee are currently relaxing on some beach in Aruba... but what a weekend. I think there is a consensus among the guests that the wedding was one of the best parties we have attended. Everything went off without a hitch and fun (and dancing) was had by all. Congratulations to Greg and Renee - we wish you all the best as you begin your married life together!!!

Some pictures from Tommy's School Party

This is the daily "My Day" e-mail I got from Tommy's teacher yesterday:

Happy Halloween!!!

Today in preschool

We started our day by decorating our table (covered with orange paper) with Halloween stamps! We then used the stamped table as our table cloth for our party!!

At circle we looked at everyones Halloween costumes and we talked all about our day!!

We then went out with the other ps classes as well as K classes and marched to some of the classrooms and the office since we will not be here in the PM for the parade! It was fun to see all of the other costumes!!!

When we came back it was time to PARTY!!!!

We started with pin the nose on the pumpkin! We let each child have a turn just putting the nose on the pumpkin and then we blindfolded the children spun them around once or twice and had them try to put the nose on the pumkin! This was lots of fun!!!

After pin the nose on the pumpkin we ate snack! Gabriel's Mom brought in special Halloween cookies and Marco's Mom made us special cupcakes that were VERY yummy!! We also had doritos and pretzels!! There were no healthy foods in today's snack!! Actually we did try to serve banana's!!!

Miss Carey read us The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything!

We then made our Haunted Houses! Gabriel's Mom got us really cool foam stickers and had us decorate a Haunted House! This was lots of fun!

Our day was ended with Miss Sue's scary story and 5 Little Pumpkins sitting on a Gate!

Hope you all have a fun, safe Halloween!!!

The kids looked GREAT in their costumes!!

Thank you again to Michelle and Brenda for planning a great Halloween party!

Happy Halloween!

The boys were great today. Tommy had a party at school and brought home a TON of stuff. Then we took the boys trick-or-treating for the first time right before dinner. Tommy got the hang of the whole thing VERY quickly. He'd ring the doorbell and yell "Trick-or-Treat" and if they didn't answer the door in like two seconds he would run to the next house. By the end, Jack understood that if he walked up to the door he would get candy. Once we got home, Tommy helped me hand out candy to all the kids. He put one piece in each bag and yelled "Happy Halloween!" - so cute. Jack kept yelling because he didn't want us to give away the candy. Overall it was a wonderful day. BTW - Jack was Yoda and Tommy was Obi Won Kenobi.













This is what Tommy came home from school with!