Christmas Pictures with Santa 2016

One of our friends had a cookie decorating/Santa meeting party. Lillian was pretty suspicious of Santa. I absolutely love her glare at him. If you want full size pictures let me know.

First Snow in 2016!

We got our first snow of 2016! The kids and Alan shoveled and then played for a couple hours. I watched from inside where it was warm, they had a blast. Simon built a snow castle (out of buckets of molded snow like a sand castle) and they slid around on their backs and bellies and then pulled out the sled and pushed/pulled each other across the back yard. The kids were super funny trying to pull Alan in the sled.

Gingerbread House 2016

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We decorated! And had our first snow! The kids played in the slushy, icy snow for about 20 minutes before Lillian fell in a puddle and got soaked to the bone. It was a blast though!

From Left to right: Holden (6), Ava (2), Simon (5), Lillian (3)

Kids Singing: Twinkle Twinkle Duet

A friend of mine's little girl is in the hospital so the kids sang her a feel better song.

Random pictures

Zoo Trip: Thanksgiving 2016

On the Friday after Thanksgiving Grandpa Bart, Emily, Lillian and Simon went to the Zoo! (Alan had to work.)  We hadn't been to the Zoo in a long time and everyone had a really great time. We saw the new polar bear exhibit and I included a video of him playing. We watched for a really long time. 

First time that Simon went into the climbing thing fearlessly.