It's beginning to look like Christmas!

The tree is up and the stockings are hung! We have had a week of very cold weather and lots of snow.  It has been in the negatives at night and 4 degrees during the day.  With all the snow, Thad got 2 snow days and he was thrilled! Adam even got a day off of work so it was fun to all hang out.  

We always save the tree topper for Thad.  He likes putting it up each year.  

I was a little worried about Andrew and the tree but he's been pretty good so far.  He likes to flick the ornaments at the bottom and then look at me and shake his head no with a big smile on his face.  Ollie is the one that put most of the ornaments on the tree.  He loved it!

I finally got new stockings this year! I have wanted nice ones with our names embroidered for a few years and finally broke down and got them.  They turned out so cute! (several people have wondered where we got them- online at Walmart)

Happy boy for a snow day! 

We did a few crafts.  Thanks to Pinterest we came up with these.

This is Thad's snowman hand

Oliver's

Andrew's

They turned out really cute and the boys had fun painting their hands and the faces.

We also did reindeer foot prints.  

It was a fun to have Thad home during the week.  I miss him during the day and he is such a big helper. 

Thanksgiving

We have much to be thankful for.  We headed to Kansas for turkey day.  Matt and Jena were brave to have everyone over for lunch.  It was great food and fun to be with family.

This little guy turned 9 months old on Thanksgiving.  

Andrew is growing up.  He is crawling all over the place, puts everything he sees into his mouth and is saying momma and dada.  He watches his brothers every move and you can tell he wants to do everything they are doing.  

Thad loves playing with his cousins.  Josh, Maddix and Josh are all about the same age and have fun playing together.  

Zekke and Andrew :)

Grandma Kathy and Papa Wayne

With all those kids and the energy they had they needed something fun to do.  Jena has this bouncy house and it was perfect for them.  It was cold but they had fun jumping and burning off energy.

Then there is this! Matt and his dad built this insanely big fort.  

The kids had fun playing on it but not as much as they wanted because it was so cold.

We did manage to get a picture of the siblings (minus Jason) and all the cousins.  I think we took 30 pictures and not one picture has everyone looking! It was cold and kids were crying! 

We spent a few days in Goodland and then headed to Tribune for a few days.  

Ollie and Jude playing games on the iPad.  

Poor Tatum with all these boy cousins around her age! They all like to chase her and Thad really likes to try to kiss her while he's chasing her around.  

Beth- he even told me when we got home he wants to marry Tatum! 

Thanks to Matt and Jena for hosting Thanksgiving dinner!