It was a very Merry Christmas!

I think looking at this picture is honestly the first time I've thought to myself, Holy Cow! That looks like a lot of kids!! Luckily, they are everything I ever wanted but didn't know to wish for. We had a wonderful Christmas. We hope you did too.

Dave's Christmas Present

Sweet Adam's Christmas Pics

Adam and mom with the bracelet he made at cub scouts. He is so sweet and is always sneaking in for a hug.

Adam always loves Smokey. Sometimes a little more than Smokey would really care for, but she tolerates it very well!

No one could ask for a better little brother than Adam. He is Paul's biggest fan... most of the time.

Adam loved all his presents. His big present from Santa was a Nintendo DSi. I think Santa knew if Adam got the DS everyone would get turns. Adam shares so good and never even complains about it.

Paul and Adam checking out the remote control snowmobile. Adam is always up for a good time. Check out the mound of snow behind the boys. At the front corner of our lot it was probably 8 foot high. The boys really enjoyed having a WHITE Christmas.

Big Paul's Big Christmas

Paul is about to outgrow me. I know this because he points it out every time he walks by me. He got a lot of cool stuff for Christmas.

Nothing wrong with morning hair. He is such a sweet big brother to Jude

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Paul got everyone in the family a present this year. He used his own chore money to buy Dave the Wii game he wanted. He gave coupons to Jude promising to rescue him when he cries. He gave his airplane collection to Noah. He gave me a whole coupon book of sweet promises, like a no complaining coupon! He was really thoughtful this year.

Baby Jude's First Christmas

Jude loved his big dump truck. It reminded me so much of Paul's first Christmas.

I have a feeling that truck will get some hard use in the next few years!

He wants to run with the big boys, but eventually I get my little baby back.

(Check out those thighs!!... um, him. NOT me.)

Yep, Jude's favorite part of Christmas was eating the paper.

Noah's dinosaur was bigger than Jude and it can rear up on its hind legs and roar. Jude was fascinated and a little scared, but wouldn't stop crawling after it.

Baby Jude. Always brave in the face of the unknown!

He is the sweetest little guy imaginable. We all love

him soo much.

Noah's Christmas

We had SOOOO much snow this Christmas and all Noah ever wanted to do was go out and play in it. Our steps on the back deck were so thick with snow that Noah was sledding down them. Climbing back up was the hard part, but he even had a good time doing that.

Showing off his hard work!

Santa brought Noah a remote controlled walking roaring dinosaur Christmas morning. Everyone was having a good time with it. Noah especially enjoyed chasing Jude with it. Jude... didn't enjoy it so much.

Noah BEGGED this year to make a Ninjabread house with me. Yep, it's just a regular old gingerbread house, but I guess if your a 4 year old boy ninjabread sounds a LOT cooler.

Santa Clause came to Noah's preschool as a surprise and he was absolutely terrified. I realized it wasn't going to go well when we were walking in. Noah was nervous and he asked me if he was going to get shots? I guess the three flu shots this year traumatized him a little more than I thought. So, there was a lot of crying at first, then he tried really hard to look happy and tell Santa what he wanted. He didn't quite pull it off though.

Remembering Steve

Happy birthday Steve. Your always in our hearts. Love you.