Laundry Day!

I was up doing laundry at my parent's house last week and this was all i could scrounge up for socks for the kids! Everything else was dirty so we headed into town like this!
Good thing they aren't embarrassed by how I dress them yet!

8 months old

Sadie is 8 months old today! She continues to be our sweet, happy, easy baby! She is now on the move, she started crawling just after she turned 7 months old. Mainly she crawls just to get closer to me. She continues to be quite the mama's girl and wants to be in my lap or held by me at all times - keeps me busy :) She continues to adore Case and loves playing with him and his toys! She loves to smile and laugh, especially when Matt kisses her and tickles her with his whiskers.
She's eating baby food three meals a day and will sit contently forever if she has a saltine cracker!

Here's a couple of recent pictures of her showing some of her different expressions



My new favorite sibling pose...And just because he's cute...

Sledding Fun!

Last Sunday my family got together to celebrate Alisha and Matt's Birthdays. It was a beautiful day outside so Matt and Scott took the kids sledding! I had packed a bag of Case and Sadie's winter stuff... and then left it at home. So we had to borrow a few of Macey and Jordan's things - that's why Sadie's hat looks so funny and Case is wearing pink gloves :)

Macey and Case had a blast playing in the snow. Case loved crawling in the snow and attempting to do snow angels!

Wordless Wednesday

Gingerbread Houses

Growing up, my family had a tradition of making gingerbread houses. Brooke and I thought we'd pass on the tradition to the kids this Christmas! When we were little, my mom would bake all the pieces of the house, but we figured we'd do that when the kids get a little older. Instead we bought one of those pre-made, just put together and decorate kits. We put them together while Case was napping, so here's some pictures of Macey as she very seriously supervised Matt while he put the houses together!
Then we helped Case and Macey decorate. They did great! We gave them a little bowl and put some M&M's in it and told them they could only eat the candy in the bowl, the rest was for decorating. That worked great for a little while but then Case started putting the candy for decorating into the M&M bowl and then eating it. Too smart!

It was fun to continue this tradition with the kids and Case and Matt really enjoyed eating the candy off the houses over the next couple days!

The Christmas Program

We had a great time celebrating Christmas with my family up at my parents house. I'll try to blog more on it later, but I have to blog about the first ever Christmas Program. It was... hysterical and so much fun! Macey and Sadie were Angels and Jordan and Case were Shepherds.

The Shepherd's entrance!
The program pretty much consisted of Macey saying she was Angel Gabriel and was here to bring joyful news! Then she sang some songs while the other kids looked on. The songs ranged from 'Away in a Manger' to '10 little pumpkins' to 'fast, fast goes the squirrel'.

Mean while Case wondered around and would randomly fall over stiff as a board face first onto the ground. It was so funny, we have no idea what prompted him to do it, but he'd just stand there and then boom, fall flat on his face! Sadie enjoyed most of the action, and surprisingly all the kids were pretty good about wearing the outfits, but she did start to lose it by the end.


One tired little shepherd...

Half Birthday Party

We have a little tradition in our family to do a little tiny half birthday party for the kiddos on their first half birthday! It's really small, just the aunts, the kids and the friends who are also "aunties". I wasn't going to do one for Sadie because December is just so crazy and all. But then I started feeling bad, thinking that eventually she'll realize we had one for the other kids and I did really want to do on for her! So... Brooke, Alisha, Nachelle and the kids came over for a little half birthday party! They even fought one of the big snowfalls we've had this winter. We missed Kari and Hannah, but still had a great time!

Opening presents... Macey was very exited to give Sadie the presents she picked out for her!

The party girl!

All the cousins!!

I'm so thankful that we got to be in Minnesota to continue this fun little tradition!