Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Christmas-Part II

Our Christmas weekend was low key, but very fun.  The boys were so excited for gifts and Santa this year.  On Christmas Eve, we did our own little family of 4 Christmas.  The boys had picked out gifts for each other as well as for Adam and I.  They were so excited to give gifts to each other, but then had a hard time understanding why that gift was not their own.  We went to church on Christmas Eve and had family over to our house for snacks and drinks.  Christmas morning the boys raced downstairs to see what Santa had brought.  Then we were off to Ellsworth for the Rash Christmas.  Again this year, the boys were totally spoiled by all of their aunts, uncles, and grandparents.  We enjoyed all of our holiday festivities and feel very blessed to have such loving family.

Aidan giving Ethan a gift.

WHOA! It was a football.

To Aidan, From Ethan.

Cars!

Some travel pillows.

Goofy kid!

Beatles!

A snowhut from the Partridge's...if we only had a little snow!
Christmas morning!

Did Buddy (our elf) really leave with Santa?

Stocking are always the best!

What's inside??

Our own gum!
And chapstick!

Our new football uniforms.
Cousins.  Aidan, Connor, Ethan.

Aww, thankfully there was a doll in this box for Kayla!

Lightsabers!!
Whew, Christmas wore us out!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas with Grammy and the Aunties!

Playing in the first snow of the season.
Wasn't much to play in!

"Oh Cool!"
From the Ohlendorf family!

Auntie Mimi helping out.

Auntie B gave superhero costumes!

Obviously, we loved the costumes!

It even fits Auntie B!

Why do they make toys so hard to get in to??

Aidan checking out the new movie.

Snow shovels just our size.  Now we can help Daddy!

And a new sled...if only we had snow!

Spiderman!

It was 50 degrees on Sunday, so the superheros we out protecting our backyard.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Aidan-man!

Batman to the rescue!

Auntie B got her cell phone search by airport security.  Luckily, they found this picture on her phone and realized that she hangs out with the good guys!
After 3 days of much eating, drinking, and fun, the Aunties had to go home again.  The boys are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Santa in a few short days.  They each received a video message from Santa Claus.  Ethan was on the nice list, and Aidan unfortunately, made the naughty list.  But, after some "shaping up" he received another message saying he made it to the nice list.  Hopefully, they love what Santa brings them!


Hope everyone enjoys these last few days before Christmas.  Take time to relax and enjoy the moments!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

2 months...Really?

 It's really been 2 months since we've posted last?  YIKES!  We have certainly been busy the last 2 months.  We've been outside as much as possible enjoying those last few days of summer and fall.  This afternoon, the last of the outdoor stuff officially made it into the shed and is stored away for the winter.  We also put up all of the Christmas lights on the outside of the house while it was still decent outside.  The boys are totally into Christmas this year, which make us very excited for it.  Very soon "Buddy" our Elf on the Shelf will make his appearance back in our house to watch over all of us and report back to Santa every night.  Hopefully he'll have only good things to say.

Since it's been so long since our last post, I decided I'd play catch up through photos.  The biggest highlight of the last 2 months is that the boys turned 4!  They had a race car birthday party and actually celebrated for an entire week.  Trust me, they were birthdayed out by the end of it all, but they quickly wanted to know how long until they turn 5 so they can do it all over again.  Unfortunately, the memory card in our camera went on the fritz and we lost almost all of the pictures that we took of their birthday week.  Guess it has to be forever engrained on our memories instead.  Hope you enjoy our photo update!
Just laughin it up.

Aidan-4 year pictures

Ethan-4 year pictures

Seriously Mom, are we done yet?

Silly face!

Yes, money!

Opening gifts

In the corn pool at Center Grove Orchard

The giant slide at the Orchard

Aidan LOVES tractors

Ethan pedaling.

Train ride

Feeding the goats


Kissing Pigs!

An old schoolhouse...they boys made Adam and I sit at the desks and they taught us a new song!

Picking pumpkins!

Ethan liked this one.

Making our pile.

Scarey faces.

Trick or treating with our friends, Lily, Luke, and Owen

Ethan and his princess.


The dragon...it was a dark and stormy night....