Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas is Coming!

Well, I know Christmas has already come and gone, but I'm running a little behind, so bare with me. It has become a new family tradition to decorate sugar cookies together in early December and give them, along with some other of our favorite cookies, to neighbors as our way of saying Merry Christmas! Jonah seems to really enjoy it and they are time consuming, but very yummy and cute when it's all said and done. This year, Jonah was on sprinkle duty (again) and we had a slight incident.

Everything was going well...

The cookies were looking good...

But then somewhere between this move and sitting back in his chair....

this happened.

Oops!


Sorry if your cookies was sprinkleless. :) We had fun at least. More Christmas posts to come...

Monday, December 15, 2008

Happy Birthday, Abs!

On December 4th our little gal celebrated her first year of life outside the womb. This is a rather long post, but it highlights the week of festivities. First, her cake on the actual birthday.


The old bait and switch.

Can you tell Jonah likes attention?

Now for the party. Abby and her cousin Ryan had a joint family party, so it was all about superheros and princesses. Here is the princess herself awaiting the arrival of guests.

There were a few games, all of which involved the kids rescuing the princess from the evil villain (aka Uncle Reed). Here they are detaining him beyond his strength.The princess in her "cage" anxiously awaiting the aid of her rescuers.
She's saved!
What you can barely see here is the celebration in the basement for a successful mission. It was a dance party with glow sticks in the dark basement. I think the kids could have done this for hours. We had to have an encore after dinner.
The chaos that is opening gifts.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Hunting

A blog from Brian...

The first shot of the new gun proved to be a killer. The fowl of Nebraska are not safe anymore. Notice the red basketball shoes. Would you rather look good or be good? I think the bird speaks for itself. Chef Nick cooked up a mighty tasty pheasant. We're living off the land, baby.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Keeping Busy

Well, since our little princess is turning one tomorrow, I figured it's time to show a few pictues of what she's into these days. One of those things being mischief.

Sneaking in the cupboard, thinking no ones watching...

She got a sneak peak of birthday cake at mommy's birthday.

Hanging out in the plastic cups and bowls drawer...

Giggling!
We love our sweet pea and are so thankful that the Lord intrusted us with her. She is a little ball of energy and laughter and have loved spending every minute of her first year of life with her. Happy birthday, Abby!