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Showing posts with label daniel. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Christmas 2018!

Merry Christmas everyone!! What a wonderful year this has been. We're so grateful to spend this time of year with family and friends. The kids were so excited for Christmas morning and all the joy it entails. Last night, Will talked to Daniel about all the traditions he was looking forward to...


piling up on mom & dad's bed, reading about Jesus' birth from the Bible: check 

 pictures on the stairs: check
 opening presents, of course, that didn't even need to be stated










 emptying stockings: check


 pancake breakfast and staying in our pj's all day playing with presents: check

I love that lil man! What a wonderful Christmas. I so enjoyed spending it with my wonderful hubs & kiddos. I'm very blessed. Love you all!!! Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Christmas Tree

We finally put up our Christmas tree! Some may think it's still plenty early but I like to have it up no later than Thanksgiving weekend (by the end). I put up all the other decor before Thanksgiving this year! But he we are with our annual tradition of hot chocolate and tree trimming.




 Maggie looooves Christmas and decorating, so decorating for Christmas is pretty high on her list of all the things (wonder who she got that from?) She was stoked to put up the tree and worked so diligently on fluffing the branches. Then she'd say "ready up!" and Jake would grab the branch to put on the tree. It was adorable!! Daniel and I fluffed our own branches, until I started on the lights and that was my sole job. I love that girl!!



 Time to put on the ornaments! Will & Allie weren't that into putting up the tree but definitely like adding the ornaments.






Merry Christmas!!!

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Fall Festivals and Pumpkin Time

We have several fall events on the calendar this month- mostly this week. We went to "Candypalooza" at Allie's MDO on Wednesday. It's basically a trunk-or-treat but they did also have popcorn and food. The kids had a good time.


Tonight we went to the huge fall festival we went to last year with all.the.things. It was cool, but not freezing cold like last year. We jumped in the face painting and balloon animal lines first knowing how long they get. Then we had some hot dogs- still missed out on the chili eventhough it was early then did a few other activities- pony rides and bounce houses, had s'mores until it was time for trunk or treat.










Tonight when we got home, we finally carved our pumpkin. Normally the kids each paint a pumpkin for Halloween, but this year Daniel found a huge one and wanted to carve it. We didn't want to do so too early and risk it rotting out, but we may have waited a little long. Either way, kids loved it.





 Jake's faces throughout the whole digging-out-pumpkin-guts part are classic. This was probably their first time doing this- like I said, we normally paint pumpkins. 




He's ready to go to the front porch!