Baking is COMPLETE!!

Here are our baking creations this year. We attempted Jell-O popcorn this year. It was really pretty, but not our best work. We did stick to the old stand-bys---coconut macroons, star cookies (minus the stars b/c I COULD NOT find them anywhere!), and Daddy's favorite peanut clusters! I wasn inspired by the Smuckers commercial, so we took the boys on a trip to the neighbors to deliver our treats!

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

After a really fun night driving around Johnson County looking at the beautiful lights, we headed home to see if we could get Santa to come that night. We set out cookies. We put on our Christmas jammies. And we of course, did the reindeer dance. Well, what you know! It worked! The 'Elfinator' let Santa in the garage door and he dropped off lots of goodies for the whole family!

He said what?

C is quite a character. When we say ornery, we mean ornery! Here are a few things he has said lately...

"Mommy--I threw the elf on the shelf away. He was being bad and I told Santa, OK?"

"Mommy, today for lunch at school we had chicken nuggets, green beans, and BEER! Ha Ha Ha!"

Christmas Programs Galore!

This is the week of Christmas programs! B and C had their first one at Sunday school. B did a great job singing his heart out. C had a little stage fright and spent the morning on mommy's lap. C and A just finished theirs up for their preschool. It was so sweet. Even A was up on stage singing his songs! We are so lucky to have a great daycare for the boys!

We now have a Mr. 4!

C is the big 4. He is pretty confused by his birthday, Jesus' birthday, winter, snow, Santa. It's a lot to take for a little boy. He does know one thing for sure, he IS a superhero and having a batman birthday party is SUPER fun! He was way excited to have his buddies over to help him celebrate and our friend Stasi made some yummy cupcakes (estsy helped us with the cool cupcake picks!). And the highlight for Mr. 4---getting to have a whole vitamin each day instead of just a half of one. Oh--it's the small things in life!

Turkey Day

We were so lucky to have the Jansens join us for Thanksgiving. The boys LOVE their cousins. I wonder why! They are spoiled rotten by them. We had a great trip with shopping, eating, shopping, and more eating! A enjoyed his first turkey dinner and passed out quickly after dinner!

Christmas Tree Time!

We got out our Christmas tree to decorate our new house for the first time. We get to laugh every year about this little Charlie Brown tree and remember how Aunt JoJo talked us into buying it many years ago. Every year Matt spends about an hour fixing the lights. This year was no different, but he was a good sport about it. The boys were thrilled to being decorating and hearing the stories behind the ornaments. The 'trip' ornaments are their favorite. B says he liked the skiing trip the best (ummm....he wasn't even a figment of our imagination when we went on that trip, but OK!). C and B posed by their creation, but A wasn't willing to join in on the photo shoot like usual.