Happy Birthday to our favorite 2 year old!!

A few random pics from last week!:)

 Ethan and Blake doing some "stretches".

 Blake now happily sits at the table with his brothers :)

 New jammies!

A trip to Toys'R'Us would not be complete without a ride in every single battery powered car!:)

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Christmas is in full bloom here in Boise! The boys have their first real Christmas tree decorated with all homemade ornaments (because ours are all in storage back in MI). They wrote letters to Santa, baked and decorated Christmas cookies, visited Santa (wanted to see him from far away, not up close), have been reading all of our Christmas books, and watching lots of Christmas movies :) Happy holidays!

 Decorating the tree!

 Ethan topped out tree off with a homemade star :)

 Stringing popcorn and fruit-loops.....

 Blake helping to eat them once they were put on the tree (they are now moved up out of reach!)

 Writing Santa letters!!

  

 Blake wrote one too!

 All done!

 Movie night watching Frosty the Snowman :)

 Cutting out Christmas cookies!

 Time to decorate!

 Santa's letters have arrived! Santa sent his elf to deliver them!:)

 Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving 2013

This Thanksgiving we had some special visitors. Laurie's brother, sister and brother-in-law came to visit us! We spent a lot of time catching up, playing games, going for a hike, a little shopping and a lot of good food! We were so happy they were able to join us and make the long trip to Boise. We definitely missed our other family members who we were not able to be with. We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

 Uncle Mark is in there somewhere :)

 Ethan and Aunt Kelly had a the LONGEST game of war ever!

Uncle Mark reading the book he brought them for bedtime.

 My poor sister spent much of her time not feeling well. The good news is that all this sickness means I am going to be an aunt in June!!! So excited for them!

Snow!

 First snowman of the year!