Scooters from Santa

Santa brought the kids scooters this year. Owen's was stolen off our front porch last fall and, while Emma has a bike with no training wheels she doesn't have the strength or the balance to hold it up, so she got a scooter also. She loves this scooter and while she fell a couple times she loved racing Owen and so did he; he's quite quick with his.

Kylie the Wonder Dog!

Even though she is almost 10, has an arthritic hip and a titanium hip she is quite the playful do still. She loves this toy, which Santa brought and shortly after this great display of athleticism she was so mad at the Piggy she ripped out his insides! It is fun to watch her play since we had to go through so much to get her back to where she is now.

Brownies!

This is Emma's Brownie troop. It is our first year with the Girl Scouts and it is making life a little crazy but Emma is enjoying it. She is working hard right now trying to sell cookies for her troop so that they can do something fun like horse back riding camp or Great Wolf Lodge at the end of the year. She made cookies, seen below, and was very proud of them (I wished we had made a couple extra because they were quite tasty!).

This picture was taken at the Cookie Rally which they nicely scheduled for a Friday even so everyone was on their A game and not snotty or anything...can you sense my sarcasm? They learned a lot about the cookies and had fun making crafts so I guess it was worth it!

Happy New Year!

While we didn't actually bring in the New Year, we celebrated the end of a crazy year the way we do every New Year's Eve. We each picked an appetizer and watched a the last Shrek, which was really fun and we went an did poppers outside around 8. It's an early night but a fun tradition and it keeps us safe from all those crazy drivers! We wish you all a very great New Year with lots of safe and fun adventures!

Christmas Crazy!

As always the holiday season is fun yet stressful and exhausting! We started with my mom's family celebration on the 19th, my dad's family on the 24th, our celebration in the morning on the 25th and the Wren family in the afternoon on the 25th, and dinner at my mom's on the 26th. So, very crazy and we spent the last week just recuperating. Scott had most of the time off so it was nice to just hang out as a family! We wish you all had a great holiday season as well!

We went to Zoo lights this year and while it was very cold and Emma was sad that she couldn't actually see the animals, it was nice. We beat the crowd and then went to dinner at the Ram.

This is how Scott spent most of the holiday; with two kids attached to him.

The kids opening gifts on Christmas morning. Notice Kylie in the background sniffing out her stocking. Santa brought her some bones and the kids scooters. It was a nice day.

On my mom's side of the family, it is tradition to have the kids read the Christmas story and this year it was Zachary and Emma. You can see the kids played hard before this picture was taken as Owen already has his shirt off! Emma did a great job reading as is to be expected!