January

January is almost over!  This month has flown by!

This month I turned 29!  It is official that my twenty somethings are almost over!  My baby is turning one next month and is crawling everywhere when he hasn't pulled himself up next to something!  He melts my heart!  I just love that little guy!

This month has been full of lots of these!  The worst cold/flu has whipped through our whole family!  Which turned into a double ear infection for Lincoln and I have had a sinus infection like it is going out of style!  I am thankful though that we are MUCH healthier than last January!!!  At least when it is cold out like it is you don't mind being snuggled up in your jammies and pulling up your favorite quilt!

This month we have discovered Zooreka!  We love this game!  I LOVE babies!  But I LOVE that my kids are getting old enough to play games like this!  We have had lots of laughs and fun with this game this January!

The snow blower picture is for our wonderful neighbor who without being asked surprises us now and then and snow blows our walk and driveway!  We feel SO blessed to live next to wonderful neighbors on either side of us!

Snow Day

Days like today call for a yummy bowl of homemade soup!  Last night I made Lasagna Soup.  The recipe is from the latest issue of Family Fun Magazine.  I love this magazine!  It has so many cute ideas!  The soup was a hit with its cheesy goodness!  I did modify this recipe a little.  I only used one onion and 1 lb. of italian sausage!  Yummy!

Traditions

This year Ryan and I were talking about traditions for New Years.  Growing up we always ate chinese.  My kids unfortunately are not too fond of chinese food.  So we made up our own traditions starting this year.  We went out to an Italian restaurant which all of the kids love.  Our other tradition we started was to see a movie at the theater as a family which hasn't happened since the movie Cars was in the theater.  We decided on Bolt and LOVED it!!!  It was a laugh out loud movie!  

My favorite character was Rhino the hamster!!!

Happy New Year!

I can't believe another year has gone by!  My baby is now almost one and Ryan is approaching his final year of school!  I am excited to start off another year, and am so thankful for my family, health and friends!

Christmas

This year we stayed home for Christmas.  It was so relaxing and the kids had a blast!  Happy First Christmas Lincoln!
It was love at first sight when Evie opened this ballerina outfit.  She wore it all day, slept in it that night and wore it the whole next day.  I had to do some coaxing to get her to not wear it to bed again.  Little to say she loves it.

Kaitlyn opening her Saint Lucia wreath for Kirsten.  Kaitlyn and I read the book together a month or so ago together.

Evie opening her "Tinker Bell".  Her reaction to opening this was priceless.

Reuben is the master artist behind this gift wrapping!

I think it is so neat when Reuben and my Dad put legos together together.

Part of the finished product.

Christmas Eve

This is my only picture I remembered to take on Christmas Eve.  We received a package from Devin and Marsella which was awesome!  Thank You!!!  We played Jenga over and over again the whole day!  It was so fun!  That evening we had our traditional steak dinner, mash potatoes, peas, and a green salad and Dickens Pudding for dessert.  The kids opened up pajama's from Grandpa and Grandma Ellsworth, thank you!    

Country Lights

I am a little behind on my blogging... On the 23rd we were able to go to Lake farm park for their Country Lights program.  This was our second year going and the kids loved it!  The kids get to pick a wooden toy to help make with Elf assistance, their was a model train to watch, a horse drawn ride to look at Christmas lights, Santa, and a horse show.  It was a full night.  This year my parents were able to come with us, which was a treat!

Eve was SO excited to see Santa.  She really wanted to make sure he knew that she wanted a Tinker Bell for Christmas.  It was heartbreaking when our turn was over.  Eve cried and cried because she didn't want to leave Santa.
Reuben picked a top gun, Evie picked a school bus, and Kaitlyn picked Tinker Bell.
They really went all out with the decorations.  It was so fun!