Time flies when your having fun!

It is hard to believe that my little man Walter will soon be five! Anyway, yesterday we where talking about how his Birthday is coming up soon and Rose E said "it will be mine Birthday too right" and I said "no not yet, your birthday is in May" and she replied "no my Birthday is in this house." She has been saying the cutest things lately. This morning her band aid came off of a scratch and she said "my band aid came off mine owee, that's okay because my owee died." Then I started to think about how someday I'm going to miss all of those cute expressions such as Rose E calling feet "feets" and Walter calling won "winned".

Happy Birthday Grandma!

Hope you had a very special day (it was Saturday):)

A Very Merry weekend

We had a festive weekend! On Friday Walter and Rose E went over to one of Walter's friends house from school to decorate cookies. Then on Saturday we went to the fire hall to see Santa and today (Sunday) was the church Christmas party. The kids where a little leery of seeing Santa so I had to carry them up there. Just never know from year to year how they are going to react to the big guy!

Here are all of the local cousins together afterwards. Ho, ho ho!

And here is Walter in his Christmas program at church. He is in the middle with the polar bear sweater, he was a donkey this year. He sang quite a bit during the songs.

The cool cats

Mr. Stud muffin here with his train belt buckle on. I've never seen a kid as crazy for trains as this one! Oh and Rose E said "you forgot my seat belt" after Walter put on his belt.
We are not lacking for snow here now, we could measure it in feet! Anyway, the other day we where walking to the car and Rose E said "the cold is getting on me, I don't like it, it's too spicy (whenever she doesn't want to eat a certain kind of food she also says "it's too spicy")." What a goof!

Deck the halls

My Aunt Sherrie came to visit us last week for 6 days, the kids had a blast with her!
While she was here we decorated for Christmas

as Rose E likes to say "peep a boo."

Here Walter dressed his sister up like "an elf wearing glasses "(of which he taped onto her hair and hat). It was also cute because when we set the tree up Rose E said in excitement "our tree is terrific!"

And yet another "peep a boo." The kids have been getting a kick out of Chessie's new resting place. We have been fortunate that she has never tried to climb the tree though.

A litte of this and that!

It has been very exciting in this household because Walter is starting to read!
Every night he has been reading phonics books to us, sometimes he gets excited and tries to guess what the words are going to say but when he takes the time he can actually put the sounds together and read the word. The only thing is now I can no longer get away with spelling out small words out loud to Jeff without Walter figuring out what they say!
Bare with me here, I took all of these pictures off of our old camera and these are all the way back from Thanksgiving. Here are the kids cousins Brady, Kirsten and Cale and

Walter taking it easy after all of that turkey and

the kids with their cousin Ariel. It was a nice Thanksgiving. So many blessings to be Thankful for!

Now on another note here, this weather has been crazy! Just a few days ago we had no snow on the ground and now we have close to two feet!

I took the kids out to do some shoveling and playing. It was fun to watch the excitement as they made pretend "train tracks" and a snow castle. I think this is going to be the first year that Rose E is going to actually enjoy playing in the snow!