December 30, 2009

Christmas Surprise!!



All the kids wanted for Christmas was a PUPPY.

We told them Santa doesn't bring live animals.

However, as we thought more and more about it,
it would be nice to have a little buddy for Powder to play with.

So several months before Christmas we picked out this sweetheart and reserved him until Christmas. He looks EXACTLY like Powder. On Christmas Day he was only 9 weeks old.
SO CUTE!!

We secretly went to pick him up on Christmas Eve and he stayed at the office until the kids went to sleep. We bathed him because he apparently slept with a goat and then
we introduced him to Powder...I think Powder is still waiting for him to leave.

We slept downstairs with the dogs waiting until Christmas morning. Everything was going as planned until....

about 1 minute before we were going to tell the kids they could come down Powder thought it would be a good time to get rid of this new intruder and took a little nip at him, which sent puppy yipping and crying loudly! The kids were very confused but still didn't know it was a puppy.

Once they came down the stairs...

Jessica saw the puppy right away
The boys completely didn't even notice him!

But once the secret was out, they were very EXCITED!












CHRISTMAS HIGHLIGHTS

1. Grandma, Grandpa and Shauna coming.
2. Bode our new Puppy (named after Bode Miller the Olympic Skier)
3. Bode peeing all over Jessica's picture from Santa of the reindeer.
4. Jessica's reaction from Boddie peeing all over her picture from Santa.
5. Watching the kids more excited to watch their siblings open the gifts they bought for them.
6. Having a full on nerf gun war with everyone.
7. Watching Logan move play with all his "experiments" and wearing all his different glasses.
8. Watching everyone (especially Shauna) try to beat the highest scorer (ME) on BOPIT.
9. Eating Christmas Dinner made by Chef Daddy...ahh yum.
10. Just hanging...watching Bode pee on everything.

December 24, 2009

Predictable Jammies




Christmas Eve night the kids opened their predictable jammies...

they now say, "Can we open our jammies?"

instead of ...."Can we open our present?"

it's getting harder and harder to pull anything around here.

Christmas Eve







Christmas Eve we went to our Annual Dinner at the Roses. YUMMY! Camilla slaved all day and made a beautiful traditional Swedish Meal. We look forward to it every year. We had a gift exchange, Camilla spoiled us this year. Thank you! We love you guys!

December 23, 2009

Christmas Eve Eve





These were the tastiest gingerbread cookies I have ever made.

I haven't made gingerbread cookies probably more than 3 times, so it probably wasn't a hard record to beat...but nevertheless...they were really good.

They became my breakfast for at least the next 3 days...

December 22, 2009

Snow Bunnies


The kids LOVE to spend hours outside in the snow.







But when they are done...they are done.
They want warm clothes and hot chocolate with whip cream...ASAP!





Jess even tries to bring in a little of the snow indoors.

I found this cooler upstairs in her room.
Inside was full of ice and a bowl with her snowball in it. Silly girl.