visiting Great Grandpa Jim

Saturday we all headed down to Winterset to see Great Grandpa Jim.  The girls got some money and rainbow loom rubber bands.  YAY!! 

 

Jim with great-grand kids

 

 silly pose

 

Christmas with Grandma

Friday night Adam and family came into town. We all meet at Marcia's for Christmas with her.  The girls got another spoiling there.  It was fun and relaxed night. 

Grandma's 4 grandkids

 Haydn got tattoo kit

 Hannah got homemade lip gloss kit

 Owen opening his dinosaur egg

 Eliott got a new minion t-shirt

 Haydn has been wanting cowgirl boots for awhile now

Christmas Morning 2013

The girls woke up alittle before 7.  Not bad if I must say!!  The 4 of us had a VERY good Christmas! We were all truly blessed this year!!

 

Haydn opening her ipad mini

 

 Hannah was VERY surprised with her ipad mini

 girls got Wes an fryhawk glass

self portrait of me in my new head wrap

Christmas Eve 2013

The 4 of us went to church at 3:00 PM in Waukee. It was a beautiful service, one of my students even played a song on the piano. It was fun to hear her play.  I love the Christmas season at church.  Just the atmosphere (something about it).  We started the tradition 4 years ago that we go to church, come home and eat appetizers.  We either watch a Christmas movie or play a game. This year we bought Life. It is a fun game to play. 

 

 

 Wes and his girls

 girls and I

 silly pose

 playing Life

Wes made homemade pretzels for supper. They were really good, will be making them again. We also had pizza bites and buffalo wings!

Haydn's Christmas Party

I helped with Haydn's Christmas party this morning. With the 2 hr late start the party was within the 1st 45 minutes of school!  Might as well start the day with a sugar high, right?!  Each child brought in a book to exchange. Mrs Calease read "The Night Before Christmas".  Each time she said the word "the" the child would pass the book to the right. Forgot to mention the boys and girls were in separate circles. They brought in gender related books. It was a fun little game for the kids. After that they had a juice box and a treat!! 

 Kylie and Haydn (BFF's)

Christmas in Mt Ayr

We celebrated Christmas this weekend. It was a fun/busy weekend.

 

 

Haydn got a skateboard

 annual night before Christmas reading

 cousins always get matchng PJ's

 messing with Papa

 Haydn got some new Lalaloopsys

 Hannah got a horseshoe

 Haydn got a neckpillow

The Mystery House

story written by Hannah:

I knocked at the door.  "Hello," I called.
The door creaked as it opened. No one answered. I walked inside. The door closed as I walked in, it kept shut but the hinges fell off.  "oh, no." I whispered to myself. So I decided to walk further into the house. I could tell a little bit that the owner of the house either was very good at collecting cobwebs or wasn't a fan of cleaning. It was very dark inside but that didn't bother me, I'm not that scared of the dark. I walked some more until I got to the room. It was very creepy. I bet there were about 100 spiders crawling around. There was also a gate around a caskit. I was ready to leave that room. I was so terrified of that room I ran until I heard loud footsteps. I stopped and hid in a cabnit, in a kitchen. After I had been hiding in a cabnit for about 5 minutes I thought I was ok to get out. Turns out I was wrong. I head a loud groan. I chose to go back in the cabnit. After a bit the groaning stopped, so I got out of the cabnit. I tried to find the door so I ran super fast looking everywhere. Then I tripped over a pumpkin and fell down. I finally found the door after a little bit. Phew! I was 3 ft away from the door when the wind blew it down. Yay, I could escape. I ran so so fast out of the house I was never ever going back again!

the end!

Christmas tree

We decorated yesterday for Christmas.  Here is our tree downstairs. It pretty much is decorated with all the girls ornaments, between my mom making them one each year, Marcia buying them one each year and ornaments they have made at school it is pretty full! 

Thankful Thanksgiving

Girls (Hannah) set her alarm for 5:00 AM today to make these signs and hang around the downstairs.  I was very surprised to come downstairs and see what they had done.  If you remember they made signs and breakfast for us last year for our 11th anniversary.