Happy Birthday Daddy!

Happy Birthday Daddy! Hope you have a great day, and we love you!

Love, Kayden & Mommy

Happy 1st Birthday Mackenzie!

Happy 1st Birthday to our niece, Mackenzie! Already the Big 0-1! Saturday was her birthday party - here are a couple of pictures!


Really...I get to eat this whole cupcake?? And that she did! It was yummy!

Kayden LOVED Kenzie's balloons!

Present time!

Kayden & Kenzie checking out her presents, poor girl was ready for a napper!

Vikings vs Bears

Last Sunday I surprised Eric w/ tickets to the Vikings game and a Farve jersey. I don't think he was as excited about the jersey as he was the tickets, but we still went and had fun. Of course, drunks next to us - that's always a give in at a football game, and it is my luck. Here are some shots of the game!


Vikings are #1


Here comes #4...in PURPLE, Brandon!


Waiting for the team to run out

The 2009 MN Vikings! (from the nose bleed seats!)

#4 takes the first snap!

Farve throwing it in

Cheerleaders, their head coach used to work for JFK and actually coached me a couple years at camp!

Drunk guy sitting next to us insisted on taking a picture and then telling us we were for sure "going to get lucky tonight." YEA - he was fun.

Farve for the touchdown...

...and the extra point is good!

We did better w/ the self shot then the drunk guy did.

Farve taking a breather to let T Jax play!

Gobble Gobble

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here are just few pics (we took all our family Xmas card pics, so there are HUNDREDS, so these are all I am putting up for now - lol). We had my parents and Jodi & Mike & the kids & Grandma out. It was the first Thanksgiving Eric and I ever put on for everyone - and I think we did pretty good. Eric did AWESOME on the Turkey - it was YUMMY and LOTS left over......we love left over turkey!! :)

We are also loving K's new daycare more and more...activities, friends, he does awesome, and has to say buh bye to all his friends everyday! Here is a pic of him in his turkey hat the kids all made. When Eric picked him up he and all the kids were walking around gobbling. SO yep - our little turkey is an official gobbler, and the cutest!! Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday!


Hmm...Thanksgiving you say...


Gobble Gobble!


Eric's yummy turkey!


Did someone see a Turkey running around here??

From the Mouth of Babes

So I coach roughly 125 dancers. You know the saying...kids say the darnedest things?? Well - it was proven last night. And the best part is, this particular girl is quite "outspoken," not shy, and really somewhat of a pain some days. She is in KINDERGARTEN mind you. My assistant, Erin, and I were chatting while the kids were doing stretches, and cute lil' dancer says "YOUR BELLY IS FAT, ARE YOU HAVING A BABY AGAIN?" I just looked at Erin - b/c ironically Erin and I had discussed who would be the first to ask and she was who we both said. :) LOL I replied to cute lil' dancer, "Yes, actually I am." Only to have 2 other dancers scream NO YOU AREN'T. B/c yes - they would know. Yep - so many reasons I love my job!

So in 4 short months this FAT BELLY will produce a cute lil' baby girl that will (with my luck) probably ask the same question to some poor soul some day.

What a Mouthful!

Guess what we did this week? We got a mouthful of teeth! Tuesday - the 8th tooth popped through. No molar, we were still waiting for molars until I checked on Friday - boom, Molar #1, tooth #9, thought for the fun of it I'd check yesterday - bang, Molar #2, tooth #10. He now has 2 molars, both on top - one on each side. Some one's got his name on a turkey leg for Thursday! Here are some pics from this week! Enjoy!


OUCH - molars hurt!


Just doing a little playing

AH MAN - look Mom, I put them all together!

My favorite lil' boy! Could he be any cuter? I am bias :)

Hmmm...someone's up to something!

We love to play with blocks...

And to play w/ our Mommy! I love you Kayden!

Bumps & Bruises

So Kayden has had an eventful last 24 hours. Here they are in a nutshell.

6:00 last night - Kayden decides he's a hot shot and stands up on his 4-wheeler, Daddy tells Kayden NO and walks over to get him. Kayden laughs and lets go. He falls backwards onto the entertainment center.....Owie #1 = scratch and goose egg on the back of his head

7:45 last night - Daddy and K get home from K's haircut and Kayden walks into the car door. Owies #2 & #3 = bumps on our forehead. And where does Kayden insist to make sure he always hits his head? Right on the scar from his stitches.

10:00 this morning - Mommy tells K to grab his "B" (blanket) and nuk so we can have a nap. He thinks this is funny and throws the blanket over his head, AND WALKS into the corner of the cupboard. Owie #4 = goose egg on his forehead, yep SAME SPOT.

Poor guy. He's fine, don't think he cried any of these times. But guess we'll wait a day or two before trying to take Christmas card pictures!