Ethan's Christmas Show Performance

Ethan was hilarious in our Kid's Christmas show. In this song (the only one he actually knew), he was pretty good. The rest of the time he tried to push others off the stage in his attempt to get to the microphone, sang random words, stood with his arms open to me asking for a hug and being the "kid" that always makes these things entertaining. He even had some of the other kids on the stage cracking up. It was really hard to keep a serious face while I was watching!

Christmas Pictures

Ethan and Katelyn were not scared of Santa this year! Ethan was very bold telling Santa that he wanted a Little Einsteins Rocket Ship and a Diego Dinosaur rescue center (which he got!).

This wasn't her first Santa encounter this year. When Tracy took her to school one day, Santa was there. She promptly ran up to Santa (in front of the others) got in his lap and told him she was a princess and wanted candy for Christmas.

Relaxing with Daddy!

The Christmas Parade train--and Ethan fell asleep in it like he did last year!

This has fascinated Katelyn all Christmas. They sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" mooing, meowing or barking.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas day. We certainly enjoyed ourselves--so much so that I really didn't take any pictures!

Happy a wonderful New Year too!

It's Christmas Time!

I can never get these pictures in order, but here is Katelyn's Christmas tree. I had the same bow for Ethan, but he freaked out and said that bows were for girls!!

They enjoyed decorating Katelyn's tree.

Our decorated Christmas tree. I love Christmas! We had a great time decorating the tree as a family and listening to Christmas songs!

Katelyn playing with the nativity.

Tracy put up some lights outside and the kids say "Good morning, lights!" every day (even at night).

Ethan's Christmas tree!

Little People Nativity

Last year, Janice bought the kids this adorable nativity set and the kids love it!

Who says there isn't a difference between boys and girls?

Notice how cute and sweet Katelyn is dancing and then Ethan comes on the scene stomping feet and flailing arms! : )

TTEK

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Amy's funny Elf video

This is hilarious--Amy made this video with pictures of herself, her cat, Janice, Ethan and Katelyn. I died laughing. She did another one with Tracy and me too and as soon as I get it, I'll put the link too. Click here.

Ethan's Birthday Party

Ethan helped make his birthday cake.
The masterpiece! Ethan loves chocolate cake!

Yes, Katelyn got presents too, but Ethan really did get more and he has been so great about sharing!

Thank you Nana and DaddyBob--Ethan's playing this as I type! This toy may find it's way to Nana's house for a visit! : )

MiMi (Amy) got Katelyn the cute tiara and earrings and Katelyn kept saying that she looked like MiMi because she had earrings on. It was too cute!

About to blow out the candles!

All by himself--what a big boy!

The party got crazy after a while with the kids running around like crazy and Katelyn changing her wardr0be!

Ethan had a great birthday! Thursday night we stayed at home and just had cupcakes then Friday night we took him to see Bolt, his first movie in a theater. Ethan sat still the whole time and when it ended, he said, "Again!" For his birthday party, we just had family over and the kids loved it. The theme was Thomas the Train. Ethan got a neat Handy Manny toy that he and Katelyn have been playing with from MiMi. He got a guitar and big Lightning McQueen from Nana and DaddyBob (which he slept with) and he got a Thomas the Train train set from me, Tracy, Grandpa and Terry. We joked that it's going to be hard to beat this at Christmas!

Happy 4th Birthday!!

Ethan's 3rd Birthday

Ethan's 2nd Birthday


I can't believe Ethan is 4 years old. He's having his birthday party on Saturday but we had some surprises for him today--he got to wear a birthday boy Cars pin today, got some little presents (I found some Thomas the Train books at Goodwill) and cupcakes. After we sang Happy Birthday, Tracy and I hugged Ethan and told him how glad we were that God brought him in to our lives. We just love him so much!

A Maze, a Hayride and Lots of Fun!

"Tell me what it's really like to be a goat!"
"Look at those cute piggies!"

Riding the cow train!

On the hay ride!

Playing with the pumpkins in the pumpkin patch.

They had miniature hay mazes in addition to the giant corn maze.

You can see Ethan holding a map here. I didn't take any pics in the corn maze, but he and his friend got to hold the maps and tell us which way to go. They took us all over the place, but they loved being in charge!

My friend and her son--we went to college together 14 years ago! I'm so glad she lives somewhat close by now!

Last weekend, a friend and I went to a nearby farm to take our kids on a hayride and to a maze. We stayed there all day and had a blast, but were exhausted when we got home. Maybe I should rephrase that--my friend and I were exhausted but the kids were fine!

At the park and Boo in the Zoo

We just finished a kiss when she took the pic!

Ethan didn't feel like dressing up!

I went to the park with a friend and took some pics with the kids. We had a great day! I also have some pics from when we went to Boo in the Zoo with some friends. It wasn't nearly as nice as the one in Louisville, but Katelyn enjoyed being a princess.

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Pumpkin Fun

We decided a few weeks ago to get a pumpkin and carve it. We let the kids pick out a face from a book and they both wanted a scary face. Afterwards, Ethan was convinced it was watching him (much like Katelyn's Dora balloon) and wanted to throw the pumpkin away. We had a big talk about it just being for fun and it really being "a vegetable with a candle in it". This really helped! We've already thrown it away since it rotted, but the kids loved saying good morning and good night to it and lighting it at night!