I'm bad, I know!

I'm so bad at keeping up with this blog and it's not that it's hard to type something out every so often so there really is no excuse!

Things are going well around here.  Brady is loving school and Izabell can't wait to start school in the fall.  I don't think I've posted about Christmas but it was great!  The kids are both at the age where they really enjoyed everything about it :)  They did great opening their presents and loved playing with their toys and giving to others.

With all the snow we have had you would think we would have been outside more but it has been so cold!  We have been sledding a couple times and the kids LOVE that.  They are both very daring when it comes to sledding and don't seem to be as scared as mommy watching them go down the hill!  The kids do get to go outside at school and daycare so about three times a week for Izabell and every day for Brady!  Gotta love having to have boots, snowpants, hat, mittens and coat packed everyday!!!  I try to get Brady to leave his snowpants at school but he is afraid that then we will go outside at home and he won't have them :)  I'm getting really anxious for some warm weather, we finally have been able to see some sunshine these past couple of days.  We will be going to South Carolina soon and I can't wait, hopefully it's warm there :)

Here are some pics from the past what like three months since I've posted!!!


No you are not misreading anything, that is how long I have working on this post like three months!!  We have already went to South Carolina, Brady graduated from Kindergarten, and we are now almost into July!!!  Oh and during all of this, Mike and I found out we will be expecting another new little one!  I'm due in August so can't believe I have not posted anything this whole pregnancy!!!

Okay so now here are some pictures of the last like 7 months so sorry for the picture overload.  Hopefully I will now keep up with the blog, at least for a little bit :)

Almost Christmas???

Is it really almost Christmas?!?!  Brady and Izabell are super excited for Christmas this year!  We have been doing some fun Christmas traditions too, some old, some new!  Grandma Sandy picked up an advent calendar for the kids and everyday Brady has been opening the little windows and it tells us something to do for that day.  It has so many fun things and we have been doing pretty good with getting everyone of them done, maybe not on that day but in the next couple days after we open it.  Izabell has been taking a ring off her chain every night for a countdown to Santa and our Elf on the Shelf (Hoddle) of course made his yearly visit!

Finally a good picture for the Christmas card!

Making paper snowflakes, one of the calendar activities!

Watching Christmas movies!

They found Hoddle, his first visit back!

There you are Hoddle!

 We also have had fun making some fun Christmas treats!  These you just take mini donuts and use m & m's for the noses and mini chocolate chips for eyes, mouth and pretzels for the antlers.  I had to have something for the chocolate chips to stick and I had blue gel on hand so that is what me and Izabell used, Brady did not like that so just stuck the chocolate chips in the donut!

Snowmen and Reindeer :)

Then one day on our calendar we had to make marshmallow snowmen.  Now for those of you that don't know me well, I am not a big fan of marshmallows so even though this project makes me want to gag we had a lot of fun doing it!!!!  Since Brady doesn't like the gel stuff I have for this project we used peanut butter to make the things stick!  We also used mini chocolate chips and m & m's again and pretzels for the arms, again all stuff I just kind of had on hand!

The kids helped me wrap presents too.  We took them to the dollar store where they could get stuff for their grandparents and aunts.  They LOVED this and I think it will be fun for them to be able to give them those things and know that they picked them out :)

Concentrating so hard!!  He did really good :)

Izzy did good too!  Don't you love her yellow clip, she put that in herself :)

All the finished products!

One more cute thing from the calendar was you had to pick a friend and write them a letter.  We just did this one with Brady because he is really practicing this at school!  So here is Brady's letter to his friend Easton!  So proud of him!!!

"Easton, I like to play with you.  We

like to ride bikes"  The 4 & 5 are their ages then "Love Brady"  so cute right?!?!?!

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and Great New Year :)