Catchin' Up

Prior to my last post, I had not made a blog entry in 2 months!!! Well, I finally downloaded pictures from my camera to my computer, so here are some of the highlights of our last 2 months.

A trip to the pumpkin patch:

Owen in his happy place...on a tractor:

All dressed up for Halloween:

Snow on thanksgiving:

Owen could have spent all day outside in the snow. He just kept shoveling snow from one pile to another.

Noah's first try at solids:

Every time I'd give him a taste, he'd make a face like this...

...or this...

Noah's been crawling around everywhere for the last 2 months...

He definitely keeps me on my toes

Last month at the Christmas tree farm:

Decorating the tree:

All finished (and I have to take this tree down today...so sad...it's been a good tree to us, if you don't count the 2 times it fell over-both times at 3am)

Fire Department Christmas Party:

Making crafts

Playing games:

So that's it...our last 2 months in a nutshell!

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my friends and family!!
We had a great Christmas here and hope you all did as well!

Caitlin was very busy last week making and wrapping Christmas gifts for us. She was SO excited to give these gifts to us...
This (in case you couldn't tell) is a T.V. with a football game on it for Jon. She knows what her daddy likes:
And for me, she made this 'folder' which she told me I could keep my cards organized in.

All smiles before opening presents at home:

Christmas Eve at the VK's

Noah chewing on a box:

Owen opening his gift from his cousin Kyle:

Christmas morning:

Christmas Day at the VD's:

The best we could do for a family picture:

Noah chewing on another box:

Owen opening his truck and trailer. We should have had him open this last, because once he opened it he was DONE, he didn't want to open any other gifts!!

Noah at six months

I'm so thankful for my very talented sister-in-law, Theresa, who was willing to take Noah's 6 month pictures. Now I know that some of you have already seen these pictures on Facebook, but there are also friends and family who have not, so that is why I am also posting the pictures here! These are just a few of my very favorites:

Thank you Theresa!! You did an awesome job!

Thank you Costco....

...for individually wrapping your toilet paper. It kept Owen busy for a good 45 minutes this morning as he unwrapped them and put them away (so busy, in fact, that he couldn't look up for a picture)

Job completed. Owen was very proud of his TP "towers" as he called them:

And he's off...

Where's Noah? Six months later

Six months ago:
Today:

(He's a little easier to pick out now, don't you think?)

In a few days Noah will be 6 months old!! He's just the most squishable, kissable, huggable little guy. He's so much fun to have around (well, except maybe in the middle of the night), and his smile melts my heart! What a wonderful 6 months it has been!

First day of school

Today was Caitlin's first day of school. She's had her outfit picked out for a good week now...

This morning at home time went by really slow for Caitlin (she didn't have to be at school until 11am). Every few minutes she would ask me "Is it time to go yet?" And when it finally was time to leave, the whole drive over to the school she was saying things like "why are you driving so slow, mom?" (I wasn't) or "When are we going to get there?" Yeah, she was a little excited.

When I say it was her first "day" of school, I really mean it was her first "30 minutes" of school, because that's as long as she was there today (and Jon and I were with her the whole time).

She was there to find her hook in the hallway:

And to find her bin in the classroom where she will keep all her school supplies:

And to find her seat in the classroom:

The kids got to draw a picture while the teacher went over some information for the parents:

And that was it! Her first 30 minutes of school. Tomorrow she will have her first real "day" of school!!