Thanksgiving and my Birthday

I GOT A CAMERA....I GOT A CAMERA........I totally scored a new camera for my Birthday~can I get a WHAT WHAT!!! Thank you Mom for giving birth to me around Thankgiving so I could reap the benefits of the day after Thanksgiving sales.

since I didn't get my camera until after Thanksgiving I had to use my iphone...so I didn't take too many pics~this is Casey~Chad and Jessica's daughter...she LOVED Josh pulling her around on the sled!!

Jake is trying to figure out why I am making him wear all this snowgear when there is only 2 inches of snow outside.....Why??? because I was cold therefore HE had to wear a jacket and snow clothes......after Thanksgiving Dinner, Chad made a campfire and we all said what we were thankful for, it was a great way to end the night~

Ladies and Gentlemen!!! I would like to formally introduce you to the BLUE DRAGONS! While Denice and Robert were here....the boys had a jam session and decided to form a band, they were considering taking it on the road but sadly, the boys demanded too much money!

On my Birthday we went to watch Caleb and Matt race at the motorcross races, I had the best time playing with my camera....I love these two pics because it makes them look like they were traveling at warp speed!!!

Matt at the starting line

Jacob cheering on his buddies!!!

After the races we came home and watched Ramona and Beezus, the boys were none to happy but since it was my Birthday they agreed!!! I love the Beverly Cleary books as a child and my sister not only LOOKED like Ramona Quimby as a little girl but ACTED like her too!!! It was such a cute movie!!! After the movie we put up the Christmas tree, drank hot cocoa, and listened to Christmas music!!

only my child would make a superhero cape out of the tree skirt!!!

He made this ornament for me in 1st grade!!

When I was pregnant with Jacob my parents sent me this ornament~we didn't know he was a boy yet!

Frank adding the star at the top, my Aunt Rosie has used the same top of her tree since my cousin Debbie was born, and I loved that idea so the year Jake was born we bought this star and hope to use it till he is an adult~

the finished Christmas tree!!!!!

while researching cameras and photography online I found this really cool type of photography called bokeh~while I wasn't very good at it~it was alot of fun to try

our Christmas stockings....can you guess which one is mine?

It's not the years in your life that count but the life in your years

Man Down!! Man Down!!

Since my parents left the WHOLE house has been sick even the dog ;0) AND my camera broke so I am working only with the Iphone, BUT my birthday is coming up hint hint.  Some of the pics are a couple weeks old but I love them and so will you!! When my parents were here they suprised Jacob by taking him to the GreatWolf Lodge. It was the BEST time of their trip. The place was AHHHHHMAZING and lots of fun even for the adults. My Mom covered Jakes eyes as we pulled into the parking lot and when she uncovered them he said "uhhhh Mom what about my swimtrunks?" My mom told him we packed them and he started yelling at the top of his lungs!! Talk about Grandparents of the year!

They had this "Harry Potter" game that my parents bought him, and boy did that keep Frank jumping....I asked him if I could play too and Frank said "no you will just slow us down" he was running from the 1st floor to the 3rd then back the 1st again...the joke was on him...I got to sit and relax in the hotel room while drinking my latte in the awesome starbucks cup my Dad bought me

the game was EIGHT hours long.....TRUE STORY!!!

the waterpark was a blast! The lifeguards were on top of things, I swear not one of them stayed in one spot the whole time, they are constantly moving.....one of THE safest waterparks EVER~

my Mom signed up to get texts the whole time we were there, and one of them was a free family sunday with dinner. It was GI-normous, and delish~how could it not be with a cotton candy mountain!!

Frank and My Dad put wood floor in my living room!! L-O-V-E it!!!

My Sister, Tim and the Boys sent Jake some silly bandz....he was soooo happy~they were SUPERHERO!! what what!!

Jake and Frank making deer feeders

sooooo Elk season is over and now we are on to extended buck....it's like a dang holiday around here.....kids miss school and everything.....I TOTALLY don't get it but whatev! it makes Frank happy~

Jacob wanted to make peanut butter cups, so here is our creation in the beginning stages

please no paparazzi!!!

look at the concentration

clearly he ate WAYYYYY more than he put in the pan

He's gonna love me and hate me along the way, the years are gonna fly by and I already dread the day~