Christmas 2011!!!

Christmas Morning!

 All Grant wanted was a water gun for Christmas.

We had a wonderful Christmas and were so lucky to have family come and visit us.  We were very spoiled, as always, and very blessed!

Christmas Eve :)

For Christmas, My parents came up and joined us along with my little brother Jake and his wife Janelle.  We partied hard on Christmas Eve.  We went and visited the train park with all of the lights.

Then we had our own little ugly sweater, fondue party.

The elf dropped off some new pj's for the kids.

We decorated stockings.

Had a little dollar store exchange.

And read our Christmas story.

November snow!

We don't usually get much snow here in Clarkston, but when we do the kids love to play!

This is more snow than we've ever gotten here.

We had to go sledding with Dad after he got home from work and it was dark.  The kids loved sledding in the dark with their headlamps.

Grant is now fOuR!

Grant finally turned 4 the day after Halloween.  He was so happy to finally be old and growing up!  He woke up so happy to open all of his presents. 

HalLoWeen

Happy Halloween!  Ali wanted to be the mother off of Tangled, Grant chose a skeleton, and Danny went back to his roots and just did what came natural to him.  The kids and I went downtown and did trick or treating to the downtown businesses and then we bundled up and went to the church for a little Halloween dance and some trunk or treating.  No one hardly recognized Danny, but his truck gave it away.  At least he has fun!

We carved pumpkins the day before with Grandma, Jake and Janelle.  If you look closely in the background you will see how much Daniel got into carving.  He's taking a little nap in the chair.

Soccer for 3 year olds?

Grant wanted so bad to be involved in some kind of sport, but he seems to be too young for everything.  I did find a soccer league that let 3 year olds play so I decided to sign him up.  Grant understood it and was a pretty good hustler.  The problem was almost all the other 3 year olds had NO attention span and didn't want to be there.  It was probably a waste of time, but Grant didn't think so.  He loved going to soccer and playing and being big.

Ali turned 9

Ali turned 9 on September 18th.  Daniel and I drove home from Whistler on her birthday so she had to wait for us to get home to celebrate.  But when we got home we opened presentes, ate dinner, ate birthday cake, and even had a friendly game of soccer.