Christmas Lights

As we were driving around this Christmas season Abagayle was noticing all of the decorated houses for the season. Pretty much everytime she saw a house lit up she was say "we need to put lights on our house like that" Her brother promptly informed her that "we can't put lights on house because our houses are all squished together!"
Then our neighbors across the way put some outside lights up. Abagayle was sure to tell him "Look they have their lights up, so we can put them on our house."

I love their logic!

New Years Eve Fun!

How do we spend our New Years Eve?

Well Brandon crawled under our house to try and clean out the dryer pipe because it takes 2 plus hours to dry a load of laundry. Not much was there, so time to call the mgrs :)

Can you say gross!!

We had a nice round of Mickey bowling. Good times for everyone!

We are also carpet cleaning tonight, I didn't think anyone wanted to see pictures of that.

14 weeks old

She was in her seat this week. She LOVES to chew on her fists!!

Christmas morning

We had a great Christmas morning. Here is what the tree looked like before the opening began. We had a couple extra stockings under the tree this year for the missionaries and a couple of presents for them from Santa. Fun times. They kids came down to find the Santa gift under the tree, here is the video. Thanks grandma banana.

Sorry it is so dark, we opened presents for a bit with just the tree lights on. Jackson is saying a "venture suitcase", an adventure suitcase. It is a kid sized suit cased that has camo fabric and a water bottle on it. He really wanted this for Christmas, it is what he asked Santa for.

Lorelei really liked to chew on the wrapping, this was one of Brandon's tshirts wrapped up.
This was the kids at the end, with a pile of loot in the back. They loved everything.
After the presents were opened Lorelei took a nap, she had a long morning we woke her up early at 800am.
The kids spent the next hour or so watching their new movie, Mickeys Twice Upon a Christmas. They loved it. I don't think they moved from this position till it was over.
We had a great dinner with Rileys and the missionaries. It was our first Christmas in our own home. We loved it, it may become a tradition :)

More snow fun :)

Brandon built the kids a snow hill to slide down, they loved it! This was on Christmas eve and Christmas Day.

At the end I was repeating what Brandon said in the background. I think that he does a lot of the work.
Jackson tried to swing when the snow was practically covering the swing. He immediately fell off :)

Here you go mom, Lorelei laughing :)

Here is a quick video of her laughing, sorry it too so long mom. She really gets going right as the time is up. Enjoy grandma.

13 Weeks, and growin strong!

I cannot believe how quickly this is going by. She is almost has rolling over from back to the front down. She is about 90% there, just that pesky shoulder to get over :) She is talking more and more, letting you kow if she is happy or not.

I love her chubbiness!! The diaper even hides a couple extra rolls :)