Grandma Dee

YUM!!

Grandpa Oli, Grandma Dee and great-grandkids

Happy Birthday Grandma Dee! Last month we celebrate Grandma Dee's birthday with chocolate meringue cake I made- it was delicious!!

15 months

Pey received this hat from our neighbors in WA, one day he found it and

proceeded to vacuum the house wearing it!

Giddy-up!

Its hard to believe Jack is 15 months old!! He's getting so big in the last few months. He currently weighs 22lbs and is 33in long. He's still little for his age and is finally in the 25th percentile for weight. He's FINALLY sleeping through the night--yeah!! He's working on new words and says about 8-10 that we recognize anyway...although his favorite one seems to be "eeh"! He can sign more and please. He loves to play with his sister, throw the football (or anything that's in his hand), and his tractors are one of his favorite toys. He never stops and runs all around all day! He still loves to eat anything, except for sweet potatoes! He'll run at the sound of water as he loves taking a bath as well, and will generally sit and look at books for good periods of time.

Cakes, Cakes, Cakes!

Penguin cupcakes

Scott and Nola!

Half of our family--including Fancy the cat

The rest of four family

Happy Birthday Dad!

I received a cupcake book for Christmas so we've been busy making cupcakes for Pey's preschool snack and my dad's b-day! They are a lot of work ...but fun!

Broken Bones

My poor fingers!

Such a sad face!

Never thought Jack would be our first broken bones...but he broke 3 fingers this week when shut in the hinge side of a door. Yuck ...so he has to wear a splint for 2 weeks--poor little man! He's been a trooper through it all

Father-Daughter bonding

Jason likes to do puzzles and Pey has inherited the love of them from him....they get their extra bonding time while working on puzzles together! Do you love our hand-me-down couch in the background!

New Years Eve

Getting ready to play cards

Madison finally passed out at about 11:30!

A heated game of dominoes

Had a fun time w/ friends at our house New Years Eve...just hung out, ate yummy food, played cards and watched the kids run around..pretty low key but it was a good time!

Holy Snow!

My parents farm

Up the sidewalk to my parents house

Shoveling away!

Yeah for snow (Peyton says anyways)

Ugh...in our driveway after the first night of snow

Can't believe the crazy snow we got last week...probably about 24 inches total ...combine that with the blowing wind and you get crazy drifts as well as get to be snowed in for awhile. Oh also an aching body from shoveling your driveway for almost 3 hours- and no that wasn't me along..including Jason and neighbors! At least it makes some nice hills in our flat yard for Pey to sled on! Why do we live in South Dakota..today it was around -7 degrees most the day...wonderful!

We had a wonderful Christmas season....it was busy but great. We had a total of 6 Christmases and finished today! We started off w/ Christmas w/ the Meyer's (I forgot my camera); then we had Christmas w/ my parents, Christmas w/ my Grandma Dee, our family Christmas; Christmas w/ Grandma Fern; and finally w/ Jason's mom...whew--it exhausts me typing all of that.. Thankfully they were spread out by planning and by the blizzard we had over Christmas! The kids had fun, Jackson could care less about opening presents but actually started opening them this last time!