Monday, December 31, 2012

Christmas Photos

Here are some pictures that I got of the kids when they were dressed up for various holiday things in December. 
 
For some reason Avery Lynn thought she should hug Caden in this picture. At least he's smiling!



Before the Christmas Eve service
Caden before his Christmas Concert at school

Before Christmas Eve service at Church
 

Both (Crazy) kids before Christmas Eve Service



The Magic Tree 2012

We always try to get some fun photos from the Magic Tree.  We decided to go on a night that wasn't absolutely freezing this year so everyone isn't bundled up as much as usual but the kids loved seeing the lights and it was a fun evening.  They also had a tree done in all blue lights which Ricky took advantage of and captured some cool (maybe spooky) pictures of us looking through the tree trunk.  So the blue pictures are from that tree.  Enjoy!
 





Friday, December 14, 2012

Christmas Program

Caden's LODO Christmas Program. His class sang Silent Night and Rudolph. They are a bunch of very loved kids, you can see all the flashes going off as they are singing. There were lots of pictures taken as well as videos. : )

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Santa Success!

We made it to see Santa this weekend.  Believe it or not, both kids sat on Santa's lap and nobody cried!  This is the first year that Caden has sat on Santa's lap (well except the first year when he was a baby).  The other two years he said he was going to and then we he walked up to Santa he quickly decided he just wanted to stand next to him.  Last year Avery Lynn screamed while sitting on Santa's lap while Caden stood next to Santa with his hand on Santa's leg.  But this year both kids sat down and nobody cried.  Success!  I don't think Caden stopped talking the entire time.  (Which isn't really that surprising.) He rattled off everything he could think of to tell Santa he wanted...except when I asked him what he told him he told me he couldn't think of anything so he just told him a couple of things.  But we could hardly get his attention to take a picture because he was talking talking talking.  Avery Lynn wasn't quite as talkative, but Caden swears she told Santa she wanted a princess.  I don't know if she really said that but Caden says she did.  Typically when I asked her what she was going to tell Santa she wanted she would just tell me she wanted Santa.  Anyhow, here are the pics.
 
 

Caden talking

Avery Lynn's checking him out....You're Santa??

You have to sit on the four wheelers when you go to Bass Pro. Right?


Monday, December 3, 2012

Final Fall Photos

I've finally decided that I'm not going to use these fall pictures that I took for our Christmas card so I will share some more pictures that we took this fall. The leaves were awesome up here, even without much rain, and I got some cute pictures of the kids with an awesome orange tree at Stephens Lake Park.
 









The kids made this piece of wood into a slide

Caden found a stick and was using it as a sword in between pictures.