Thanksgiving 2012

My brother came for Thanksgiving this year and, as usual, we had an awesome feast. The highlight was a to-die-for coconut cream pie that David made. The leftovers didn't make it to the end of the day Friday. :-)

From 2012-11-22

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Here's Maddie playing "doctor" with Uncle David:

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From 2012-11-22

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, we put up the Christmas tree. Maddie helped me with the ornaments -- and boy was she proud! Ben was napping during most of that and even when he woke up, he didn't want to help.

From 2012-11-22

My little band (in costume, of course)

Ben & Maddie put on a little show for me tonight...

New photos...

New photos!

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Jamey's birthday

Here are some very belated pictures from Jamey's birthday last week. He's wearing two "birthday hats" that Ben & Maddie made for him. Gifts were a pair of Crocs and his favorite river shorts (and he bought himself a new leaf blower)

From 2012-09-19

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Summer pics from the phone

I finally unloaded all the pictures from my iphone so I can order prints and post them here. There are sooo many from this summer that I put them into a slideshow, here....

Vacation time at the cabin

We came up to the cabin Thursday morning for a 4-day weekend during our "vacation" week. The weather is chilly (50 degrees at night!), so we haven't been out swimming. But that means there's been more time for riding the Power Wheels jeep, blowing bubbles and collecting acorns (there are LOTS of them!). Here are some pics...

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Como Town fun

Yesterday we took Ben & Maddie to Como Town, which has rides that are mainly geared toward littler kids plus a splash pad and play area. They had such a fantastic time. Here are some pics....

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Big kid week!

In addition to bunk beds, we also introduced Ben & Maddie to regular bikes -- with training wheels -- yesterday. They are over the moon about them and want to ride them all the time.

Big kid beds!

Ben & Maddie got their first bed today -- bunk beds -- and they are both sleeping in the top bunk (at least that's the plan...still waiting for them to fall asleep!). Amazing that we made it to 3 1/2 with cribs.

From 2012-08-13

Summer swimming!

Boy, I've been lax about posting to my blog this summer! part of it is that we haven't been using our big camera - just the iphone cameras and those are hard to upload to this blog. But today I took the big camera out to the lake and got the kids to pose for a picture before we went to the beach. Here they are...

From 2012-08-04