Merry Christmas!

Christmas has come and gone, the New Year is almost year, the flu has run through this house 2 times in the last 2 weeks, and my baby is almost two. Wow.
Cade got an early Christmas present...ice skates. He has been out once and we hope to take him again soon, he had a blast.


Andrew cut down a full size tree for us and brought in the top of it! It was prefect!



We spent Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa S's house. Cade was sick the night before so he took it easy watching Polar Express.


Eve waiting for present's after dinner...


She knew there was a few "BIG" presents that were hers!


She is all about babies right now, she hasn't stopped pushing the stroller around with one of her many new babies in it!


Christmas chaos...




After going home that night the kids put out cookies for Santa and even checked the window's to make sure it wasn't flying by!







Check it out...Cade Skywalker-


Baby #1...


Cade's new bike-




After naps (yes somehow we got them to nap on Christmas) we headed to Grandma and Grandpa R's house. Eve sucked down as much egg nog as she could!


We've gotten so big the living room is now the dining room!


The cousin's sing Christmas carols





Total Chaos...


At the hotel after the farm. Unfortunately Cade wasn't feeling the best the first day at the farm, and the second day Eve got sick again...make it stop!


Cade got a camera for Christmas...

Here are some "best of" Christmas photos from Cade's point of view:

Halloween

Halloween preparations...Genevieve found a pirate wig and lived in it for a day. Maybe next year...



On Halloween we headed to Jilly's school for a parade. Then we were off to the Zoo for trick or treating!
Cade, my orangutan, had fun pretending to eat Genevieve all evening.
They came up with their costumes by themselves. Cade said he wanted to be a monkey again, and Eve looked right at me and said "Nana!" Then Cade said, "Yeah and I can eat her!"


They all had to touch the snake.





On Sunday we got to celebrate Madeline's 3rd birthday at Adventure Park!
The kids played, ate pizza, cake and ice cream and had a great time!





After a much needed nap, Genevieve got her first motorcycle ride and she was WAY into it, which kind of scares me. I thought she'd just want a little ride around the yard, but they went up and down the road and apparently she was yelling "faster, faster"...Hmmm...

Hiding...

So we've been hiding a bit, that is because all I do is make the kids work, especially Cade, and there is no fun taking picture of that!
He rakes leaves:


Teaches Eve yoga:


Styles her hair:


And puts her down for naps:


We still have Trash, he weighs about 70lbs now, and still growing...


Cade had said to Eve that her and the scarecrows hair matches, now she calls the scarecrow, "Eve".


A favorite sitting place.


Building whatever he can dream up for the day.

September

Well, yesterday our little boy had his first day of preschool! Cade and I get to go together (he starts "real" preschool after Christmas). We play, eat, sing, read, and then Cade gets to have "class" while I get to go hang out with the other moms. Genevieve comes too. She gets to play for a few hours in the sibling room. Really, I'm not too sure what she does, because once I leave I know if she sees me again she wouldn't want to stay in the room! But there are lots of babies in the room and she loves babies.


Jump all the way back to the beginning of September...We went to the cabin for Cade's birthday party. Almost everyone made it up for a day of swimming, boating, relaxing, and of course, chips.




Cade soaked uncle Michael by the end of the day.

Plotting something...

Complete present madness..


Cade got a fishing pole from Grandma and Grandpa S, and no kidding, in about 10 minutes he was casting farther than Andrew.


A few weeks ago, Chris and I left our families behind and headed to VEGAS for 5 days. She won the trip, the room, and a Cher concert...so all we had to do was figure out how to eat and drink for cheap. We succeeded, we ate very well and cheap and basically drank for free (just lost a few dollars on the penny slots!). It was hot, and probably a day too long, but we had a fantastic time!



Oh yeah, I even got to meet my 6th grade dream boyfriend...(I know, I've always wanted a sugar daddy I guess...) Donny Osmond.


Last weekend all the cousins headed to Apple Jack orchards. Cade and Eve each went on their first horse rides! They loved it. They also got to ride on a cow train, a tractor, get lost in a huge corn maze, and gorge in the orchard on apples and raspberries. The next day Chris May and Neil took us to the Renaissance Festival...It was interesting!...We almost rode an elephant but the kids were so tired from the day before that they wouldn't have enjoyed it. But we watched a magic show and just had fun people watching!