A quick update...

I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. A lot has been going on in ours lives, and it's only about to get more hectic, so I thought I'd update now.

A couple of Saturday's ago, Ryan and I (O.K., mostly me) decided to build a gingerbread house with the kids. Ryan helped, which was awesome, cause I don't have much patience for this kind of thing. It turned out o.k.


Here are all the kids with the finished product.


This is Chloe's gingerbread girl. We did not promote the two pink gumdrops. Those are her "shirt!" :)

Here's the finished product ~ notice the windows on the roof. Yeah, I screwed up and thought those were the side pieces, only to find out that they were the roof. Oh well ~ we have skylights! :)


And this is basically what Brett wanted to do the whole time ~ he's got a sweet tooth.


These are my images of Owen lately...

He absolutley loves playing "peek-a-boo" between his legs. We do this about 100 times a day!

Let me preface this picture with ~ I allow my kids to jump on their beds. I know, some of you moms probably don't agree with this, but this is the only place they are allowed to jump (no couches, chairs, etc.) without being punished. I figure I'll let them be kids and have a little fun. Anyway, Owen has figured it out already, I took this picture from the stairs going up. Notice the mowhawk ~ Ryan thinks this is cute, and most nights after dinner, after he gets washed up Ryan gives him one. :)


Last, but not least, we took this kids downtown on Friday night to see the lights. We had an awesome time, and awesome weather! The kids LOVED it!!


The windows at Macy's were "Mary Poppins." Chloe just watched this movie with Grandma Betty, so she really got into them.


Here's where the boys were most of the night.


This was an attempt to get a picture of all the kids by the big tree ~ didn't work out so well.


And yet another "attempt" at a family picture...

Chloe LOVES nutcrackers, so when she saw this ~ she went nuts!!

That's all for now. We've got a busy week ahead of us. Christmas tomorrow, Tuesday, we're going to Wisconsin Dells ~ we'll come home Thursday, and then Friday morning, we head out to have Christmas with my dad in Pennsylvania. Lots of time in the car!! Uggggghhhhhh!!!! Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone!!