Catching Up

Holy Cow, I can't believe that it's already January 19th.  I'm not sure where the time has gone.  It's been a while since the last update so I'll try to fill everyone in on what's been happening in our family.

First, we had a great Christmas.  For the past few years we've been visiting family on Christmas day.  However, this year we decided that we wanted to stay home and spend the day with our own little family.  It was a lot of fun.  We had a nice Christmas Eve and left out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for his reindeer.  Christmas morning the kids were thrilled to see the gifts.  They each received some books, some toys, a soccer balls, a soccer ball and net, an indoor basketball hoop, and some Nerf guns.  Mom and Dad also received some nice gifts, but we had the most fun watching the boys.  It was a really fun day.  Lately K-Man's favorite gift seems to be the Nerf guns.  He loves to challenge others to play and he likes to sneak up on us with a loaded gun.  Amy did a lot of research to make sure it was an age appropriate gun and it seems to be working great for the kids so far.

 A few days after Christmas we loaded up the car and drove to Idaho to visit family.  We had a wonderful time.  We stayed with Amy's parents and some other siblings were staying there too so we got plenty of time with family.  K and Bear really enjoyed spending time with their cousins and it was great seeing everyone.  We stayed there for a few days, and sometime during our trip Amy and I snuck away to go skiing.  We spent some time with Kable's birthmom too, which was a lot of fun.  Unfortunately, we didn't get a good picture from that visit, but we have one of them playing on the toys at Burger King.



My parents traveled to meet us and we had a great day in Boise with them.  We went to a fun play house, had a great lunch, and finished the day at the aquarium.  The next day we hit the road back to Oregon.  The boys both did awesome traveling in the car and we were able to make good time both ways.

Since we've been back we're getting back into the swing of life on the coast.  The weather has been great and it hasn't been very wet like it usually is.  K-Man and Bear are doing great and enjoying life.  Bear is talking more and more every day, which we love.  K-Man is making more friends and this past weekend he got to go to a fun birthday party with a lot of friends his age.  He continues to love his pajamas and he's constantly encouraging Bear to also wear pajamas all the time.  We love spending time with our boys and we're so glad to have them in our lives.