Christmas Take 2 – Kole Christmas

 

We celebrated the Kole Christmas at the ‘Clubhouse’ with Great Gma and Gpa and all the Kole Clan….

Kiddos having a blast with balloons

syd with her new backback from cousin kenz

listening to a story read by aunt jen…

snowman craft…

marshmallow race…the kids had to race across the room with marshmallows on a spoon and fill their buckets as full as they could

the highlight of the even was the human snowman competition…all three families got to dress the dads up and great gma and great gpa were the judges of who did the best job decorating….

the rules….only use toilet paper and anything else you can find in the room to decorate…

Grappy with syds hat, a blanket for a scarf a flower for a little oomph, a clothes pin for a nose and chocolate truffles for buttons… uncle richard …

and uncle chuck…

great gma and gpa deemed us all winners….

fun times with family :)

Christmas Take 1 – Jesse Tree

My mom’s group decided this year to do a Jesse Tree craft exchange for Christmas.  Each of us put together a bag of three different days of December with a craft ornament for the kids to complete, a story to go along with the ornament, and short prayer.  We made multiples of each and all exchanged so we all ended up with each of the 25 days of ornaments to put on our trees….

The kids loved making their craft each day and listening to their story….

So proud of his ‘earth’ ornament and the story of the creation of  heaven and earth  :)

We made our tree from branches the kids collected out at grappys house and just put them in the bottom of a big pot I wasn’t using – then filled it with rocks….

Random Fun

 

So, since I’ve been such an incredible blog slacker lately…I’ve got a fun post in store for you here…a montage of randomness from the past few months!!

Lets start it out with a little dance from owen…’shake your booty, buddy’  HIL.AR.IOUS!

Playin some baseball with uncles…

so excited about their postcards from Gran while she was in Vegas (baby)….

sound asleep…on the way home from the cottage, maybe?

feedin the chickens at vicki’s

jonah and the ‘mini-horse’…

the kiddos checkin out the horses…

owen just chillin out waitin for a bon fire???

for a while syd’s thing was taking her pj pants off…one time she took her diaper off too – but thankfully she was only wet! 

i always peek at both kiddos each night and one night this is how i found her….so comfy!  

date night with mom and dad..we went to spring lake for dinner, then to watch the musical fountain in GH afterward…notice the lip from his zoo mishap? poor kid, hopefully it only looked worse than it felt, it got really dark purple!

enjoying the musical fountain…and some popcorn

my two little goobers…

playing with water balloons…and murphy’s food/water dishes….

checkin out papa’s big fish!!

swingin with aunt katy!

summer cookout fun… 

showin off more of his dance moves…in napoleon boots

tubber in the sink! she was *slightly* excited about it…

so one day owen disappeared to use the bathroom and syd disappeared too…i got curious where she went and walked in the bathroom and found this…owen on the potty…syd sitting on the stool and reading to owen….beyond cuteness. (I’m sure they’ll love me some day for posting this, too!)

and last but not least…little miss and her ‘pilgrim hat’ that she made for thanksgiving…she wore it all night when we brought it hoe from school….. :)

Happy Turkey Day

….from these little turkeys

Fall.Autumn.Harvest Time.Leaves.

Just a conglomeration of fun fall photos…
O & S jumpin on mama and papas bed and just havin a fun time! 

So cute…

Teusinks farm for a halloween-themed birthday party for Summer and Chloe.  Feeding the animals was a definite hit!  
hayride and baby bunnies!
decked out in their shades…
Fun at the playground
What happens when gran has the kiddos!  She’s got them under control!
 
Giant pumpkins @ Vandermill
mmmm…nothin says fall like some frozen cider! 
oh…and some cider doughnuts!
Quite time before bed…owen insisted on rocking syd a little bit!     
out like a light one night! 
papa pile up! (and a VERY messy living room!!!)
a great way to pass the time…watching the royal wedding and eating some popcorn!
This fall also marked the arrival of sweet little Fiona to the Reifsnyder family!! Owen giving her a high five…
Syd checking her out…she was in awe!
And of course no fall post would be complete without lots of leaves!!!
and a family shot (murph included)