Christmas Prep.

Bennett was playing "Gold Rush" with my village snow.

Telling Santa that he wants a green combine.

Our House

A house in Waconia that has a light show synchronized to (religious) Christmas music.  

I love the lights that line the street in town at Christmas!

I was busy on Sunday :-)

Bennett's Preschool Christmas Program

Bennett had his Preschool Christmas Program last week.  It was such a nice little program.  The kids did great and they all looked so cute.  Bennett did a really good job and sang with to all of the songs...night and day difference from last years program.  Here are a few (very shaky but very cute) video clips from the program.

 

 

This one made me cry.  I held it together at the program but when we watched them back at home...oh that little boy made my heart melt and made me tear up! 

Tree Decorating

The kids really got into the decorating this year and had fun.  The only problem was that I had the entire bottom covered in the same colored balls.  So after they had a few boxes of ornaments hung on the tree, I secretively shut the other boxes and said that we were done.  And then after they went to bed, I rearranged and finished.  It's such a beautiful tree this year and I love it. 

 

This was Grandma's.  It plays music and the windmill spins which makes the snow fly around.  The day that we were cleaning out Grandma's house, nobody seemed to want this thing so I snatched it up and I'm happy I did.  My kids are too! :-)

Ashley - 35 months

Ashley recently had a doctors appointment and when we got in the exam room she looked around and pointed to something on the wall and said "What's that" I told her it was what the doctor uses to look at her eyes and ears.  She said "Oh, an Otoscope."  The nurse and I were shocked!  I am assuming she learned that from Doc McStuffins.  Maybe a career as a doctor in her future?

 

 

Happy Halloween!

The Saturday before Halloween our town has a Halloween Party that we went to.  It happened that Amy was in town this weekend so they got to see Evan and Grace.  

Then on Halloween night I took the kids out trick or treating.  We went to about 15 houses and came home with 2 buckets of candy.  My favorite was a guy who handed out little tubs of nacho cheese dip!  They both did very good at going up to the door by themselves and being polite.  It not my favorite holiday but they had fun which is what matters.    

Ashley was not in to this at all...as you can tell by her face.

My cute little Minnie Mouse :-)

Bennett, Grace, Ashley and Evan

My sailor man!

Kristen's Volleyball Season

Kristen played on the volleyball team at Bethany this fall.  We had a great time going to 9 of her games.  Ashley tagged along with me for the hour trip to almost all of those.  Bennett didn't have quite as much interest and only went with to one.  Her team didn't have the best winning record but Kristen herself had a good year.  She was a starter so it was fun to get to watch her play a good majority of the games.  

Laura came to one of the games because they were recognizing Laura's volleyball team from when she played there.