Fun with Grandma

 Grandma McBride, Hallie, Dewey, and Sayer had a lot of fun building this Snowman together.

Island Park and Cross Country Skiing

We recently took a trip with the McBride family to the Davis cabin in Island Park.  We took the kids sledding and drove them around on the snow machine's.  Hank's favorite was being pulled around in his little tube.

Amy and the kids were waiting for a ride back up the hill.

Scary driver!

Saturday morning, all of the adults went to Harriman Park to cross country ski.  This was my second time and Sean's first.  Besides being cold, it was a perfect day. 

We had a good laugh at each other throughout the day. 

Breanna, Sari and Hank were screaming at the top of their lungs up in the loft.

They were being a little too quiet and I had to go investigate.  Breanna and Sari had taken their shirts off and they were all getting into Paige's makeup bag.  Luckily, Hank just had it on his mouth and not his clothes.  At least the girls took their shirts off first.  :)

Kandice helped the older kids play their own version of Rummikub. 

We had a lot of fun!

Christmas Break

During the kids Christmas break, we made plans with my sister Dawnette and her kids to pull each other around on sleds.  Here is Paige and Dewey waiting to get going.

Austin and his friend Brayden

Hallie and Shaylee

Dawnette looking oh so sexy.  :)

I pulled Sean and Dawnette around.  Sean ended up falling off at one point and Dawnette ran over him.  The kids complained that the parents took too long of a turn.  :)

Christmas 2012

We started out with a McBride family party.  We had a dinner and sang songs while waiting for Santa.  Hallie brought her keyboard and played jingle bells for us.



It didn't last long, but Hank sat on Santa's lap.



We also had a Packer family party.  The younger cousins had a gift exchange and the adults bought 10 dollar gifts.



Here are the kids on Christmas Eve.  Hank did very well at opening his presents this year.  They got the usual pajama's and an ornament.



Everyone in their new pajama's.  Hank had an ear infection and wasn't very happy.



 



As usual, we had a very good Christmas.  The kids were very spoiled and we are very blessed for all that we have.



Happy Halloween

 This picture was taken a week before Halloween.  Hallie had a Halloween party with her dance class and all of the girls got their face painted.  They did an amazing job!  Too bad it was late at night and she was coming home to go to bed.  :(

 Hank and I started with Hallie's school parade.  Here she is getting ready to parade through the halls.

 Then, we went to Dewey's school.

 Hallie was little red riding hood.

 Dewey was an EMT.  Poor kid wanted to wear the hat even though it didn't quite fit him. :)

 Hank was a fireman.  I had just barely put the jacket on him and he threw his hat.  As you can tell, he wasn't very excited about wearing a costume.

 After telling Hank about all of the candy he would get, he decided to wear the costume.

 We visited a few of our neighbors before heading to trunk or treat.

This picture is a lot happier than the first.  The kids had a fun night and we ended up with all of them asleep by the time we got home.