Christmas Day!!!

Logan playing with all of his Thomas the train loot. He got Toby's windmill from my parents, The mine tunnel from us and the Sodor suspension bridge from Uncle Jase. Spoiled? He did play with it all day.


My dad

Kevin putting Logan's track together.

My brother in-laws Aaron (Leah's husband) Jason (Kevin's brother)

Logan playing trains

Alex playing his video game.

Leah and Emily

Kevin helping Logan open presents

The craziness

Christmas was really great. It was really low key this year because of the snow. My moms sister and her family couldn't make it because of the weather. Kevin and I spent the night in fear that we wouldn't make it back. My sister and Aaron picked up Jase and we all just hung out all day playing with the kids toys. Kevin and I spent another night there because we didn't want to shovel snow in the dark.

Christmas Eve 2008

It has been a tradition in our family for my dad to read Twas the night before Christmas. He read it to Leah and I until we got married and then started up again on Alex's first Christmas. Here he is reading to the grand kids.


Alex 6 3/4 Emily 5 Logan 2

Eating gingerbread cookies. I think Logan had about a dozen this day.

Judy and Kevin. Kevin was such a trooper. He was sick on Christmas Eve,but he still managed to go pick up his mom and grandma in the blizzard.

Logan asked Santa for two things: Duck-the train, and the Sodor suspension bridge. Well Uncle Jase bought him the bridge so Santa only had to bring Duck. Thanks uncle Jase

Uncle Jase, He hosted Christmas eve because we couldn't get everyone out to our house.

Logan playing with the Sodor suspension bridge.

Kevin's mom Judy

Great Grandma Grace aka three G, talking to Logan

Logan decorating gingerbread cookies. He calls them ginger bran cookies.

Over a foot of snow on Christmas eve.

Logan has been asking to use the potty. This was Christmas eve morning. He is in no way potty trained yet but it's a start.

Snow !!! Snow!!! and more...Snow!!!!

A doe outside our window. This is why we live in the sticks. It is such a beautiful site.

Cheese

Logan would only walk in the snow if he was holding our hands.

Logan on our homade sled. We drilled two holes in a Rubbermaid container lid and tied a rope to it. He loved it.

I really enjoyed the snow in the begining,but I am a little sick of it now. We have dug out our driveway and street more times than I can count. Our pipes froze. We woke up to no water one morning. Kevin and I looked up solutions to this problem on the internet. We got our answer. So at 4 am Kevin was under the house in 8 degree weather armed with my hairdryer and a walkie talkie. He found the un covered section of pipe and used the hairdryer to thaw it out. I used the walkie talkie to tell him when the water was running. High fives for us we worked as a team!!

Logan doesn't last long in the snow. He takes his mittens off when they get snow on them and within minutes he is saying "Want to go in Logan's house" .

All bundeled up

Logan sitting on the rock while we shovel the driveway.

Kevin clearing the driveway for the 100th time. This time it was dry snow so he thought that he would try the leaf blower. Yeah it didn't work so well.

Halloween

Logan loved Halloween this year. This was the year of Star Wars. Logan was Chewbacca, Alex was Anikan,and Emily was Anikans pad wan Ahsoka. Leah and Aaron also dressed up. Leah was Queen Amidala and Aaron was Darth Vader. We had a great time. We went trick or treating down town. Logan started out nice and polite saying trick or treat and remembering to say thank you,by the end he was trying to grab hand fulls of candy and would run to the next store. He had more candy yesterday than he has had in his whole life. Before yesterday the only candy he new existed was M&Ms now he knows there is much more out there. We then went to Leah and Aarons to have dinner. After dinner we went trick or treating in Leahs neighborhood. Logan didn't last long nor did we think he would. Alex and Emily went on and we took Logan to Uncle Jasons house and then to both grandparents house. It was a long day for Logan. He fell asleep on the way home. He had a great time though.

Leaves,Leaves and more Leaves

Could there be anymore leaves? Well yes there could. We still have two whole trees full. Kevin had cleaned up the leaves just two days before. They really are pretty though. I Love fall.

Happy Birthday Logan!!!! Wow 2 Years old!! Oct.27,2008

Logan is a very lucky little boy. He was born on my dads birthday so they get to spend there special day together. Pop Pop turned 55 and Logan turned 2. Logan picked the theme of the party. Thomas of course. My mom made the cake. This is really special because she has always made the kids cakes she used to make mine when I was a little girl. We have not found a character that she couldn't do. Logan really liked his cake. Thank you mom. We had a great evening. We started out the night with a dinner at Red Robin. Logan clapped along to the singing and was just so excited about the sundae. We then went to my parents house for cake and presents. Logan is set for quite a while.

Logan and pop pop blowing out there candles

Eating cake

Sundaes for birthday boys

Mom and dad they recently celebrated there 36th wedding anniversary

Leah and Emily. Emily what colorful hair you have!

Mommy and the birthday boy

Haggen Spooktacular October 25,2008

We made spiders out of oreo cookies and pretzels then made a ghost out of a tootsie roll pop and coffee filter. This was really fun. Logan really got into it, he even put the eyes on by himself. He really enjoyed eating them.