A Visit to the Winter Wonderland

Last weekend we went with some friends to downtown Rochester's Winter Wonderland. It was a bit cold, but a really fun night!! Will be even funner when the kids get older as there was sleigh rides, an outside movie, and many other activities! Here are some pictures that we took. I know - we take a lot of pictures. Happy Holidays!

Kyle - some of these pics are for you! We missed you and wished you could have been there. We made Steve & Eric pose for pics for you!! Enjoy & stay safe, we all love you!


Kailee & Kayden looking at the reindeer and wondering what the hell their mom's have done to them! :)


Kayden LOVES chooo chooo's


Kayden and the Mrs. Claus...is she not one scary looking lady!?!? AHHH



Mommy & Kayden!

Family Picture in the Winter Wonderland!

Kayden and SANTA

Picture posing for Uncle Kyle!

More pictures for Kyle!

Boys will be Boys...Kyle - can you imagine if you were there with them?? :) lol

Some body is getting tired!

Caught trying to be a little thief on the fancy tree!

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!