Merry Christmas . . .

Last night Todd and I stayed awake to put up and put together Justins train set. He awoke this morning and was "WOWED" when he came in the living room.

After playing with his train for an hour, we decided to give him his stocking. The first thing he took out was a cow flashlight and we had to coax him into opening up the rest of the stocking....he was content to play with that for a bit.

So, after we hung around for a while at the house, we decided to open up his final gifts...books...

and of coarse, mr. "Cheese" himself

After a bit here this morning, we trekked over for a quick visit with Grammy and Meghan before coming home for a nap.

Merry Christmas!!!

Baking with Daddy

There is no escape from having a little helper in the kitchen. Justin loves to help Daddy when he is baking in the kitchen....

Our Christmas Tree. . .

Our tree is done.




Our little helper

the 3 of us

Tree hunt 08

This past weekend we went with the family to find our Christmas Tree...it was 2 hours up and just as we were getting to the place, of coarse Justin falls asleep....Grammy stayed with him while Todd and I hiked to find our tree, then he woke up so they joined us...it was so much fun. The weather was great up there, no fog and warm and sunny.

With all the siblings..

The whole gang.

Workin on my car

I came from the bedroom to find Justin working on his car....just like Daddy!

With Papa

Not sure where Reese was...I didn't get many pictures of him and he wasn't around for this one, but Papa wanted to get in it with the boys...and Grace too!

Weekend Visit

We spent the weekend with my family...

Here is Tommy playing the Flute for us all.



Dana and Carsten


Carsten was ready to pose for the picture so Justin joined him


Dinner




More to come...