Thursday, December 30, 2010

Starting out Christmas week with a CRASH...

On Dec. 21st I was on my way home from work and was rearended. Traffic was backed up by Walgreens and I stopped only to be rearended. The car that hit me did not noticed that traffic was stopped and didn't even have time to brake. When he hit me, it pushed my van into the truck in front of me. No one was hurt but the van has about $3600 dollars in damage.

The view from the front doesn't look all that bad but it took out both headlights, blinkers and the reinforcement bar.

The view from the back doesn't look all that bad either but again, it took out the reinforcement bar and a few other things.
Not the way I planned to start off Christmas but things never really go as planned.
Eston thought that we should just leave it the way it is because it makes it easier to find our car in the parking lot. :)

Rotary Lights

The Friday before Christmas we took the kids to LaCrosse to the Rotary Lights. If you have never been there, we highly recommend it! Here are a few pictures from our trip.

Here are Santa's Reindeer. They weren't as big as they boys thought they would be but they still thought it was pretty cool.

Eston got a kick out of this Reindeer as he was missing one antler. We called him Elliott (from Open Season).

They were very excited to see Santa and make sure he knew exactly what they wanted for christmas. They all hopped right up there - no tears or fears this year.

Here are some of the lights.....

Helicopter

Train

Here are Tim and the boy son Santa's sleigh.

Grayson wanted his picture taken with Rudolf and Gingy.

Asher, Grayson and Eston
We ran into some friends from HighSchool (Reese and Jodi Waite) with their son Fischer (same age as the twins). Here are all 4 boys. (Fischer, Asher, Grayson and Eston)

They Dragon

They Elephant spraying water.

and the fire truck.
There are many more lights (2.6 million). There is even a display for each branch of the military, a section that plays to the beat of the music, a live nativity and much much more.

Grayson's Christmas Program

On December 13th Grayson had his Preschool Christmas Program. He was so excited and Mr. Paul said he had done a great job at the nursing home earlier that day. Unfortunately, when it was his turn to sing for us, he got stage fright. He did sing his songs but he was very serious and didn't make much eye contact. They kids did a great job and it was very entertaining.

They all wore Santa hats - they were so cute!
After the kids were done singing, Santa came and gave each of the kids a little gift. Asher and Grayson jumped at the chance to sit on his lap!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

December 2010 Blizzard

On Friday night it started to snow, and it continued to snow until Saturday night. Once the snow stopped, the wind picked up (40mph)-CRAZY! While it snowed on Saturday we let the boys out to play and pretty much stayed out there the entire day. The wind and snow were whipping but that didn't stop them.

Here they are trying to push their trucks through the snow. It was so deep they could barely move. They were in these sames spots for about 30 minutes.

You can tell how snowy and blowy it is out there, it is amazing what kids will do to play outside.

With red cheeks, he was still able to smile at me. I was nice and cozy in the house making Christmas goodies.

Eston thought he would try throwing a snowball at the window. It didn't make it but he was all the way across the hard.

After they came in I needed to find something to entertain them, so I popped some popcorn and we tried making popcorn garland. It worked for about 20 minutes and then they were bored with it and had to move onto something else.

This is what it was like on Sunday morning. This is the view from the kitchen window - looking across the street at Thomley's. The snow was up to Brian's waist and way above the snowblower. It took a while to blow out all the snow, but it was fun to watch from the warm spot inside our house!!! :)

This is a video from Saturday during the blizzard. Asher and Grayson refused to come inside so I just let them play. I could hear them talking so I went to see what they were up to and found them in the stairwell carrying their bikes up from the basement. This is amazing, but it is more amazing because they were doing it with all their winter attire on. I told them to leave them in the basement, but the next thing I knew, they were riding bike on the driveway. They had a blast, I thought they were crazy.

Basketball Debut

Last Friday Eston got to show off his basketball skills at halftime of the JV game. This is the only video I had that was small enough to fit on the blog.

Great Job Buddy! We are so proud of you!!!

New Hat

This is one of our new hats - it is an old school football helmet. We had a request for this hat and loved it so we thought we would offer it as one of our specialties.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Cousins


Feel the love! Lauri brought the kids over the other night to play. They all sat so nice on the couch and watched "Horton Hears a Whoo (sp)"