The Holidays

It's been a while since I last posted, I will blame it on the holidays and nothing to do with my laziness!

Ryan's parents &Grandma came for Thanksgiving, it was great to have family here!

We took the kids to look at lights at the Ethel M Catcus Garden & to visit Santa at Bass Pro.

To quote my Grandma, the kids made out like bandits at Christmas!

Santa brought all three of them a baby turtle and they got tons of other cool fun stuff!

My mom came down for a few days after Christmas which meant Ryan & I could enjoy a night away for our anniversary! My boss gave us tickets to The Jersey Boys for Christmas, which was fantastic!

Here are a bunch of pictures. :)

Mary reading Emma her new book.

Emma & Grandpa Leo, who is apparently very funny!

Aubree won the wish bone contest.

Emma with Grandma.

Emma "helping" swiffer, which means spray all the cleaner onto the floor.

Emma would have nothing to do with Santa, and was not even happy sitting on my lap next to him.

Bundling up to go to the Cactus Garden.

Curls after a bath.

Giving Grammy a good whack with the plastic sword.

All About Aubree

Our beautiful Aubree turned 9 this month. We are so lucky to have her in our family!

She got some new boots, books, slushy magic, a remote control car and lots of other fun things!

In true Aubree form she wanted a lizard cake again.

I tryed to convince her to do something different.

We compromised on lizard cupcakes.

She also got to invite 4 friends to go see Hotel Transylvania.

Aubree participated in the Harvest Run again this year, which was over a mile!

She did awesome came in 40 of over 150 kids!

She also received the Kindness award at school.

Of course, being the middle child means it's rarely "all about you".

The littlest one has found climbing onto things is her calling in life.

She kept trying to drink out of the glow stick, it was hilarious.

Loves balloons!

Happy Halloween

We took our annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch.

Here are the girls getting ready. Emma's helping Aubree with her bows.

Emma's first time in a bounce house. She was a little scared at first, but did great when Aubree came and jumped with her.

Emma watching the big kids go down the big slide.

Aubree, Michael & Karson

Her fear was confirmed, it was scary! :)

Dad looks a little scared too.

She was not a fan of the train, it upset her everytime the train would go past me and the kids. Like we were leaving her over and over.

Karson & Aubree in the maze.

Emma was intently watching the other kids on the trampoline and refused to acknowledge we were trying to take some pictures. Geez.

Halloween!

Emma was an angel, some days we thought maybe the opposite costume (devil) was more fitting.

But she looked like an angel!

Aubree was SuperGirl and of course looked beautiful as usual!

Emma's first house trick or treating!