Happy New Year!

So here we are already....it's 2010! 2009 seems to have flown by! Nothing much exciting here happened to ring in the new year. We decided to opt for a low-key New Year's Eve this year. We took the boys to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs at the cheap theater. It was a very cute movie. Then we came home and just hung out there. Mike and I had rented a couple movies to watch once the kids went to bed so when we got them all tucked in we put our movies in. Surprisingly I was able to keep my eyeballs open and see the clock hit 12:00.

We're hoping for another fairly uneventful year. Uneventful meaning no major surgeries (which are not planned as of now) and no major bad news. We are hoping for health for us and all of our loved ones.

Hope everyone has had a great new year so far!

Merry Christmas!!!

I'm sitting here watching the beautiful snow fall and reminising about Christmases past. I think that Christmas takes on a whole new meaning when you have kids of your own. The magic of Christmas is all different when you see it through the eyes of your kids.

Last week we had a visit from Santa Claus for a party that we had for daycare. Santa told a couple stories, sang some songs and handed out presents. All the daycare kids got hats that were knit specially by me. They all looked so adorable! When it was time for Santa to leave he went out to his PT cruiser and it wouldn't start. We looked out the window and he had the hood up so we sent the guys out help him. Nothing seemed to work including pushing the car out of the driveway to pop the clutch. So I was asked to call a tow truck for him and while all the moms watched from the house I tried to explain to the tow company that Santa needed a tow truck. At first the lady on the phone seemed really confused but eventually she decided to play along. When she asked where he needed it towed to I told her I would ask and she responded 'to the North Pole'! Avery had a solution for Santa....if he just would have brought his sleigh he could have just hooked up the reindeer to go home! If only...

Como Family Santa Picture.


Avery goofing off with Santa.


Boys watching Santa with the hood of the PT Cruiser up...


Santa watching his car be towed...


So tonight we celebrated Christmas with Mike's family. We always have so much fun and normally we have a family hockey game but with all the snow the ice wasn't in shape for that. So instead we just opened presents earlier and then played our Dirty Bingo game. The kids were so excited to play but the end of the game Avery melted down. The way the game works is we roll dice when you get doubles you get to pick a wrapped gift. Once they are all gone then everyone opens them and then we can steal from each other when you get doubles again. Well when the game was over Avery wanted the scarf that he got at the beginning. That ended our night! Time to go home and get two very tired boys to bed.

So now we are getting ready to put out some presents and watching a movie. Hope everyone has a great Christmas and has safe travels wherever you may be going!

Annual Checkup & Birthday Boy

The past week was a very eventful one around our house. Tuesday was avery's annual checkup with his cardiologist, Dr Burton. He was given a clean bill of health. Everything is looking great and we go back to see him in another year! He did so well with all the tests. So glad to have the appointment behind us. Afer the trip to the dr we went to the Mall of America. We took the kids on some rides and then to the Underwater World. You should have seen their eyes when we walked into the mall...they were both in awe. It was a great day!



Then Thursday we celebrated Thanksgiving with our first official Thanksgiving at our house. Everything went great and it was a great relaxing day.

Finally we celebrated Avery's 4th birthday! He was so excited for his birthday but he couldn't decide what he wanted for a gift. The only thing he told us he wanted was an Iowa Hawkeyes sweatshirt. I believe he has one coming from Grandpa & Grandma Berg but he hasn't stopped asking about it since Saturday. He is so excited for it. Mike asked him on Friday (while I was out Black Friday shopping) what he wanted for his birthday and his response was 'I don't know but I better figure it out because my birthday is tomorrow!'

We are hoping that him turning 4 flips the switch to make him act older and be more well behaved. So far so good on that front! Hoping that it continues!

Good Report

We had our first conferences with Blake's Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Morrison, this week. We got a fabulous report. It seems Blake is in the advanced reading group and his testing scores were above the average for the school. Made me want to swell with pride! We know he is smart and a good kid but it is nice to hear it from someone else!

Next week is Thanksgiving and I feel like I haven't started Christmas shopping this year but I do have a few things. Did a little shopping today and then went over to do some more things at uncle Mark's house. We are still working on cleaning it out so it can be sold. Lots to do!

Tomorrow is hockey!

Halloween

I just realized that I haven't posted any pictures from Halloween yet! It was a fun time this year. The boys really got into it. Avery has really figured out what it is all about...the candy!

Jack-O-Lanterns


Hometown Heros


Directing Traffic

More October

We ended up getting tickets to the Vikings game vs. the Ravens at the last minute. So we packed up the truck and headed to the Metrodome. It is the first live Vikings game that any of us had ever attended. We were kind of worried about Avery as he doesn't like loud noises but he did pretty well actually. He covered his ears a lot of the time when it got loud but he still had a lot of fun! We all managed to have a good time despite getting bad news at the beginning of the game that Mike's uncle Mark had passed away. Here are some pictures from our exciting day!

Such a slacker...

Okay I know it's been an entire month since I've posted. We've had quite a month. We've celebrated two birthdays, started hockey, saw a Vikings game live and Mike & I took a trip to Vegas.

Blake turned 6 on October 11th. It was a fun time as we celebrated in a construction theme. He had a friend party at the local cheap theater where they got to have a behind the scenes tour of the inner workings of the theater. THe birthday boy also got to push 'Play' before we went to watch the movie.

More updates soon...