Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas! We celebrated Friday evening with Jason's family at Uncle Carey and Aunt Casey's house. We celebrated on Christmas Eve with Ma, Pa, and Uncle Mike. Then we spent Christmas Day just the four of us. We had lots of yummy food, fun presents, and got to attend the Christmas Eve service at our new church. This was the first adult service the boys have been to and they did quite well. We are so happy we got to spend the holiday with our wonderful families! The boys were thrilled with their presents. Kyle's favorite was his Nintendo 3DS along with quite a few games for it. Max's favorites were his macaroni and cheese (2 years in a row!), legos, Leap Pad, and Thomas snowy adventure train set.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We celebrated Thanksgiving by going to my parents house to visit with them and my brother. It was a beautiful day outside so we spent lots of time outside while we were there. We also played games and celebrated Uncle Mike's birthday. We had a delicious dinner and spent the night. We spent the whole day Friday there as well and Jason and I even got to go to a movie while Ma and Pa watched the boys! Oh and Friday morning Max went with Pa to get donuts - I think that was the highlight for him. He tells everybody who asks about Thanksgiving that he went to get donuts with Pa :).

We also celebrated with Jason's family the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures to commemorate the day but almost everyone attended and we had a nice time.

Max's family birthday party

On Saturday we celebrated Max's 4th birthday with a family party at home. Ma, Pa, Uncle Mike, Grandma Luster, cousin Michael, Grandpa Inman, Uncle Carey, Aunt Casey, and Uncle Jonathan were all able to come. We enjoyed Max's favorites for lunch - homemade mac and cheese, chick-fil-a chicken nuggets, fruit salad, and chocolate cake. He opened his presents and played and visited with everyone. It was a fun time and Max loved everyone being there to celebrate his birthday with him.

Happy 4th Birthday Max!

Today Max turned 4! When he woke up in the morning we gave him his present from us, a Caillou treehouse playset. Caillou is one of his favorite shows to watch so now he can reenact the episodes with this playset. Then, we celebrated with a party at Chuck E Cheese in the evening with some of his friends. He loves Chuck E Cheese and I'm pretty sure he wanted a party there because Kyle had his 6th birthday party there. He did not, however, want the whole party package with the singing and dancing - that part overwhelmed him at Kyle's party. So, we just invited a few friends and found a corner of the place to camp out and ordered pizza and tokens and brought cupcakes for everyone to enjoy! It was a fun time. And Jason even won the jackpot on skeeball - 150 tickets! So we ended up with quite a stash of tickets when were done! When I put Max to bed he said "That was the best birthday I ever had!"

Happy Halloween!

We had quite a few celebrations around Halloween this year. On Friday Max had a Harvest Party at his school in the morning and Kyle had his Halloween party and parade at school in the afternoon. Saturday evening Kyle and I were invited to a party at the home of his two best friends from school (who are also cousins). It was a fun time with music, food, and a clown for entertainment. And tonight we went to the Harvest Festival at the Germantown Soccerplex that is hosted by Church of the Redeemer every year. The boys got to play lots of games and play in the moonbounce all while "winning" lots of candy! Kyle decided to be a ninja this year and Max went with Tigger again (same costume as last year). I dressed up for the first time in years and went to the party with Kyle as a mouse. It was a fun weekend!

Halloween Cookies and Pumpkins

Today was a snowy/icy day outside so we stayed inside most of the day and carved pumpkins, roasted pumpkin seeds, and made Halloween sugar cookies in pumpkin, ghost, and cat shapes. Jason made his own batch with pumpkin spice added and cut them in circles and made different designs in the icing. All the cookies turned out delicious!

Butler's Orchard 2011

On Saturday we took our yearly trip to Butler's Orchard. We had a great time. The weather was pretty nice - not as cold and windy as it has been in past years. We did a hayride to pick our pumpkins, played in the hayloft, went on the slides and spiderweb, went through some mazes, fed some goats and petted some pigs, played on the tractor and train, played in a moonbounce and ate some yummy food. It was a fun time as always!