Chrismakah 2012

2012 marks I believe our 6th annual Chrismakuh where myself and my best girlfriends come together with our kids to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah  It is so crazy to see that there are 7 children now to celebrate with and one more to come next year.

We all gathered at Marissa's house for some good food and company. Grace had lots of fun playing with their dress up clothes. 

Here are the kids minus Jackson. They are all getting so big!

Grace opening her gift from Avery, Ben & Emmy. 

And here is Brian with the kids after our fun celebration. 

We had lots of fun - Merry Chrismakuh!

Grace's Holiday Program

Grace's school had a holiday program last week. It was super cute and Grace was so excited to have us there and to have cookies and juice. Her class sang us some songs and were beyond cute. 

Here is Grace with her best buddy Bostyn.

Ready to sing to us. 

 

I thought it was pretty humorous that they sang we wish you a happy holiday - everything is so PC these days. :)

We look forward to many holiday programs to come from our girl who LOVES to sing. 

Happy Holidays! 

A Visit to see Santa

We headed to Fort Collins to see Santa this year. At the hospital where my mom volunteers they were having a special Santa breakfast so she invited us. It was perfect as we didn't have to deal with mall lines and could take as many photos as we wanted. 

We went to mom's the night before and had lots of fun making sugar cookies to take to Santa. 

Jack watched the cookie making action. 

Grace just put on a few sprinkles...

The next morning we headed to visit Santa. Here is Grace telling him that she would like a new Snow White dress, a bed (not sure where this came from, she has a bed) and books. The list has grown quite a bit since we saw Santa on December 2. 

Jack didn't ask for much this year - lol. 

Grace looking like Rudolph after doing a craft. 

Thanks mom for inviting us - we had lots of fun!

Jack is one month old!

Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving this year was hosted at our new home. It was fun to have my sister and her husband Mark here as well as my mom. We also had our good friend Mark join us - lots of Marks at our house. :)

Here is our little turkey. 

Brian with the first turkey he's ever made - it was quite tastey and even better later in some enchiladas he made. 

Grace with Aunty K showing off the broccoli casserole they made together. 

Our table - after being married 4 years I FINALLY used our wedding china. 

Our little chef helper or as she likes to call herself little chef and we are the big chefs. 

Uncle Mark D with Grace & Jackson.

The Wadas side of the family all together. 

GG with all of her kids. 

Here is Grace singing her Thanksgiving song - she is so cute when she sings to us. 

It was fun hosting our first Thanksgiving. We thank mom, Katie & Mark for helping to cook a great feast. We look forward to many more wonderful holidays in our new home. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Snow!

It has been super dry here in Colorado this year. We finally had our first decent snow November 11. Grace was very excited to go out and play. It is pretty funny that this year she is super into getting out in the snow whereas last year she hated it. 

Today (December 19) it has snowed and I think I might have to wait until it is dark to get Grace at school so that we don't have to fight about playing outside since the wind chill is like 5 degrees! :)  That little girl is persistent! 

Jack's First Bath

Here are some photos from Jack's first bath. He seemed to like it. He never fusses much when we give him a bath which is nice. 

After his first bath it was time to watch the Bear's game with Daddy. Here he is sporting his cute Bear's gear his Aunty Rachel sent. So cute. 

Daddy with his cute kids - go Bears!

Halloween 2012

Grace at age 3 was very into Halloween this year. She had a blast decorating pumpkins and going trick or treating. This year Grace was a butterfly. We dressed Jack in a pumpkin shirt and hat - simple for a 10 day old baby!

Having fun at her class party. 

Ready to hit the neighborhood. It was so fun to see tons of kids out in our new neighborhood and Grace loved every minute. She insisted we stay out until her bucket was filled - we got pretty close, but after a while her bucket got to heavy and we headed home. 

Happy Halloween!