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Ringing in the New Year

stephanie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:39:58 +0000

Our New Year did not start the way we wanted. New years eve started with Noah getting sick, just mommy and Ez getting to go to Abby’s party, then mommy ringing in the new year in Noah’s bed because he was feverish and just couldn’t stay comfy. Meanwhile daddy was starting to have fevers all on his own. By Monday all three boys were really sick and getting worse by Tuesday, so we finally went to the doctor. They all had strep throat, poor guys. Mommy only ended up with a mild case of bronchitis. Everyone was given antibiotics and we are finally on our way to enjoying the new year. It was one rough week to start it off though!

Christmas 2011

matt — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:22:20 +0000

Great christmas and a two very excited boys. Noah & Ezra have really been very excited in a genuine way this season. Not about presents, but about the presence of it all. Its very refreshing to see their joy and outlook on the season.

As always. we took a ton of photos. Here are some of our favorites. Click to enlarge. No comments for now, just too many fun moments.

Advent: 22 and 23

stephanie — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:25:41 +0000

On the 22 we played and sang some Christmas carols. Nothing like trying to play the piano with a squirmy toddler on each side and a cat in your lap. We had fun though, even if Noah kept turn the pages of my music book in the middle of the song.

On the 23 we drove around and looked at lights. The boys had decided to skip nap and were out cold by 6:50 pm. They were a little upset when we got home and were unloading them out of the car, but they were right back out when we tucked them into bed. Bonus they slept all the way until 8 am!

Advent: 19, 20, and 21

stephanie — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:13:08 +0000

We’ve still been doing our advent calendar, just don’t have pictures of monday or tuesday. Monday we went to the local frozen yogurt shop and tried the holiday flavored yogurt. It was eggnog and we put a little crushed candy cane on top. It was yummy! We had friends join us which was a lot of fun and then we took some to daddy at work. On Tuesday we read The Road to Bethlehem. It is an Ethiopian version of the nativity that I happened to buy before the boys came home (seeing the crazy prices now I’m glad I grabbed it up at a much more reasonable cost!) Wednesday we went on a family picnic at the park. It was nice to have lunch with daddy for once.

Advent:18

stephanie — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:54:03 +0000

On this cold and gloomy day we let the boys have hot cocoa with marshmallows. They enjoyed it a lot. Noah’s main goal was just to get the marshmallows though and he ended up a little messy.

Advent:17

stephanie — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:50:33 +0000

We went to watch our church’s living nativity Saturday night. The best part of any living nativity is the animals of course! This year there were three baby goats! The boys loved them, and the donkey, Ezra always loves the donkeys.

Thanksgiving 2011

stephanie — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:54:27 +0000

We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving this year. We hosted for the first time and everything turned out great. We had lots of fun with Papa, Gamma, and Great Aunt Sherri.

The boys made pine cone turkeys the day before and when they saw me cooking the turkey, they went and cooked their pine cone turkeys in their kitchen.

Advent:16

stephanie — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:03:17 +0000

We watched the Polar Express and nibbled on this yummy White Chocolate Peppermint popcorn bark. (Okay the boys watched about the first 45 minutes before the sugar kicked in and proceeded to run around spinning and jumping like crazy.)

Advent 15 – Zoo lights

matt — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:49:34 +0000

We spent todays advent enjoying some zoo lights.

Advent:14

stephanie — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:44:51 +0000

We made gram cracker houses for day 14 of advent. We had some construction issues so they ended up looking more like bunkers, but fun was had and way too much sugar was consumed.

Advent:13

stephanie — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:33:01 +0000

Today’s advent activity was to deliver all the goodies we’ve been making. I delivered some earlier in the day to a couple of people, and we were supposed to deliver to a few neighbors tonight. We got all ready to go and then noticed it was pouring down rain. Since we own no rain gear and the world’s smallest umbrella Matt made us stay home. We will have to finish our deliveries tomorrow.

Advent:12

stephanie — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:28:56 +0000

Last night we set out to make sugar cookies. It wasn’t going so well so I finished up the rolling and cutting out by myself. We then waited until tonight to do the decorating. Which was met with much enthusiasm and tears. Three year olds can be a tad emotional!

Advent:11

stephanie — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:41:47 +0000

Visit Santa! The boys went to a local Santa who volunteers his time to collect food for the food bank. The boys answered every question he asked with “3!” (Noah holds up four fingers, while Ezra holds up three.) Guess we are stuck on our age right now.

Advent Day 10

matt — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:42:14 +0000

Day 10 was a family hike! So we took two little boys to South Mountain for some hiking on telegraph pass. No we didnt make it too far, but we all had fun.

Advent:9

stephanie — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:30:34 +0000

Today I combined our advent activity with play school. We made candy cane play dough and had a blast! I managed to keep all four boys from burning themselves, but someone did touch the super hot play dough and feel the burn.

Remember you can click on the photos to see them larger and read the captions

(Wow that took a lot of red food coloring!)

All three boys were giggling uncontrollably so I got the camera out, of course the giggles stopped, but they were still silly and cute.