nutcracker night.

Cole had a special night at dance class a couple of weeks ago. She was so looking forward to nutcracker night and wearing her "fancy party dress" :)

movie date.

Cole and I had a really special date a couple of weeks ago to go see Tangled! It was adorable!!! I had a Rapunzel doll waiting for our special date too...a bit of an early Christmas gift :)


She/WE were so excited!


We take our popcorn eating very seriously!

After our movie, Cole and I headed to the mall to finish up some Christmas shopping!

I really can't put into words the delight I have spending time with this girl! She is a beautiful young lady inside and out and it is a joy to watch her grow!--most of the time ;) We always joke that we need to get out of this house full of boys!

I love you Cole Brianne!

case eats gifts.

Case really got into gift unwrapping...or should we say gift eating?!

Oh there's a toy in there...

Hey, can I have that paper back?!

Thanks Megan...super cute toy! :)

school christmas party.

As a "room mom", one of my primary responsibilities is the Christmas party--so party we did :)
Cole was so excited about this day...she had been planning with me for about a month and couldn't wait any longer!

Cole's first item of business...reindeer antlers.


The finished product.

This girl LOVES her craft time!

A very happy Rudolph!

A poor unsuspecting dad that thought he was just there to spectate, got put to work :) Yummy!

The class was so excited to share our gifts with two very special teachers. We got them a really handy personalized L.L.Bean bag, an attempt at a crafty mug (see next picture...the class mascot is the hummingbird and those are the kiddos finger prints), a Target gift card and a Spa gift certificate...not too shabby ;)

What was your favorite part of the party? Cole says, "making reindeer food!"

Merry Christmas from Mrs. Beck and Mrs. Blesse's Pre-K Class!

sweet uncle jim.

Sweet Uncle Jim...we miss you! Aunt Maureen, our prayers are with you for peace, comfort and hope! All our love!

sweet treat.

And on our way out of town...we had one last, very important, stop...
Cold Stone Creamery!!!

Camden and I were really enjoying our ice cream :)


Case was cozy while we ate our ice cream ;)


And then the sugar kicked in!


With all THREE of them!

We sure don't take our family time forgranted! What a fun few days we had together!

Cole, Camden, and Case,

We love you guys so much and enjoy our time together more than you'll probably ever know! Thank you for making our lives so much fun! We love you so much!

Love,

Mommy and Daddy

chuck-e-cheese.

As if we hadn't had enough fun, the next day, we headed to Chuck-E-Cheese. It's amazing how much fun 20 tokens will get ya!

Case was taking it all in!

A friendly game of water guns! :)

And you know Cam had to play basketball!

Oh and then there was Barney.

...he LOVES Barney!

This was Cole's favorite part...the horse!

The virtual roller coaster...pretty cool!

Case got in on the race car game.

Cole was really good at the ball toss.

And of course you have to hammer something on the head at Chuck-E-Cheese!

The kids got a kick out of picking out a prize for all of their tickets!

A pretty fun $5 spent if you ask me!

proud mama.

Wow am I one blessed girl! Thank you God for these little treasures!

Is it really possible to have this much fun just hangin' out in the hotel room with 3 kiddos...YES!

three little snowmen.

So I think I took about 30 pictures of this and the following were about as good as it gets :)

Still pretty sweet if you ask me!

These next two crack me up!!!

These two have fun together...wrestling being one of their favorite pass times.