CHRISTMAS

Gotta love cookies season! We made ginger snaps, lemon meringues, date pin wheels, chocolate yule logs, snowballs, peanut butter blossoms and sugar cookies this year.

Leaving out the cocoa and cookies for Santa, and the carrots for the reindeer:)

Oh Christmas tree. Oh, Christmas tree.

Santa came!

Dax enjoying his new bean bag from Grammy and Grumpa.

Good morning.

Unloading Santa's sack.

Oh Ya! A shark!!

Yay, a new walker!

What is this?

A TRAMP! (Set up by magic, apparently. We took no pics of the 2.5 hour set up process.)

Best gift ever!

Winter Adventures

Our first snow of the year came when Calon was napping a few days before Christmas. Kes couldn't wait 'til he woke up so he ventured out solo.

Back out again after Calon woke up. Those boys really thought Christmas was coming soon because it was snowing.

Needing a little warmer clothes once there was lots of snow on the ground.

Spiky hair day.

Waiting outside for the Christmas Parade, which I mistakenly ventured to alone, with just the 3 little boys. Not the greatest adventure, for me, I had no idea where to park, stepped in cactus, had to carry Cal & Dax, got blasted by chilly wind, and all for an overall lack luster parade. At least the kids liked it :)

A day at the aquarium, followed by the zoo, where we took no pictures for some reason:(

Keston's first school program.

Calon, the audience.

Keston was a knight in the Castle Play.

His lines, "I am a powerful knights. My powers are water, fire and ice." He was awesome!

I will try to upload a video clip later.

Thanksgiving

I am thankful that some of my family was able to come up for Thanksgiving. Even though it is a lot of work to travel and a little hectic with so many people around, the holidays sure aren't the same with out family. Thanksgiving turned out delicious and was so much fun! (You can click on the slideshow to make it bigger.)

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We Love the Fallidays!

Here are a few pics from some of the fun things we have been up to this Falliday.

Our $4 after Halloween special costumes.

Here are a few pics from some of the fun things we have been up to this Falliday.Baby Dax has just about outgrown his sink baths.

Our friends, the Pfeifers, came down from CO to spend the weekend with us before Thanksgiving. We had a terrific visit and the kids got along so well. The only tears the whole weekend came when Zac wiped out and got the hugest goose egg on his head.

He is one tough kid, after about 90 second of crying he was back up and running with the other kids.

A lovely chocolate confection Robin got Chris when we visited the Candy Lady, a tiny old school candy store in downtown Albuquerque.

Zac, Kes, Lacee, Kenzee and Cal had tons of fun jumping on all of Keston's beds.

Keston and Calon got a surprise trip to Monster Jam with Chad.

Calon proved to be a little too young for Monster Jam, he was really scared of the loud noise until Chad scored him these heavy duty earphones.

Kes loved it, as usual! The regular earplugs worked great for him :)

Chad and Dax watching a game together.

Oh Christmas tree...

Ya, not sure what those poses are.

The big boys helping Chad put the star on the tree. Gotta love having a strong Dad!

Monster Jam never gets old...for the boys:)

Adorable!

Daxon will be 5 months on the 21st, man does time fly!

Such a smiley baby.

Keston could not wait to see Santa at the mall, but when we got there he wouldn't even wave to him, so here is his letter to Santa, so Santa will still know what he wants.

Calon, however, went right up to him and got himself and Kes a candy cane. Unfortunately, you cannot take pics of your kids with Santa unless you buy at least a $20 professional picture with him, what a racket!

My boys love the movie Shark Boy and Lava Girl, so here is Kes with a homemade shark fin.

Calon insisted he did not want a fin, but 15 minutes after Kes had his he was ready to join in the fun.