Christmas Program

Thank you grandma Laing for encouraging us to put on a Christmas Pagent. It was wonderful. All of the parents fully enjoyed it, and the children really had fun.


Our little Wise-men/Shepherd...They were both.
Because we have a lack of boys, (Logan is the only boy out of 9 kids in the 2 families present) the girls played all the roles, and that is why they are in pink...All of them wanted to be Mary, this was our attempt to make it better. Cute pink shepherds huh?


Most of the cousins, minus just a few who were sick or too little.
Left to right, back- Emily, Aubrey, Kaitlin, Megan
front- Olivia and Allison


Mary, Joseph, Angels and Shepherds. :)


Someday, Olivia will ask, "why aren't there very many pictures of me?" And we will have to tell her, it is because you did this when ever we wanted to take your picture...

Or this.....

Logan's First Birthday

Logan's first toy trucks, and they make NOISE!!!!



Family Birthday party, and Logan's gift from Aunt Alicia and Uncle Aaron, it was a BIG hit.
(that is cute cousin Sophie in the background)



Enjoying his birthday cake...

Blowing out his candles....well, not really, but we tried :)

Logan Walks

This is Logan, crawling and carrying his Lamby, then taking his first steps. SO Cute!!

December's BIG snow...

So, we had our first HUGE snowstorm this week. 19 inches in 2 days....

All the kids watching the snow come down in the morning.

Our backyard in the morning on the 21st.

The snow was almost too high for the snow-blower.

This is the snow igloo that Craig and the kids built in the backyard....It had 2 rooms and 2 doors. It was high class!

Are you nice now?

First a preface to set the stage...When we have time-outs at our house, the kids may come out when they are ready to "be nice". When they poke thier little heads out of thier bedrooms and say, "Can I come out now?" I always respond with "Are you ready to be nice?"

So yesterday, Olivia was throwing a fit because Ally was using the bathroom that she wanted to use....sigh.....I informed her that she should just use the other bathroom, to which she rebuttled that she didn't want to and she wanted Ally to get out so she could use the bathroom "right now". Well, after I had enough 2 year old attitude, I picked her up and hauled her to the other bathroom, and set her on the toilet. She was not happy. She continued to be sassy and rotten, until she got a little 'love tap' on her backside. I let her pout for a few minutes and then came back to see if she was done going potty and if she needed help with her paperwork....when I came in, I said, "are you all done", to which she responded...

"Are you nice now?"

:)