Christmas

Cute Erica.

Here are our Christmas pictures. Sometimes we think we should just give Erica a box for Christmas, she seems to love it more than toys.

Happy Kory.

What a mess.

We loved having Mom and Dad with us for Christmas this year.

My gift from Kory, a KitchenAide mixer.

Playing with presents.

Thanks Mike and Melissa for the baby crib. Erica got lots of baby stuff for Christmas.

McKay got lots of hands on stuff like K'nex, Legos, puzzles, coloring stuff.

We got the gift of snow for Christmas also. We liked driving around and sliding everywhere and going with McKay across the street to the park to sled. I thought Kory looked cute in his snow gear.

We decided to give out sugar cookies to our friends and neighbors for Christmas. With Mom's huge help, we make I think 200 cookies.

After the cookie making.

Even the kids helped make the cookies.

Erica one day decided to get out my silicone bread pans and tried to sit in them and walk in them and here she is using it as a pillow.

Our beautiful snow we got for weeks around Christmas.

Pictures from Thanksgiving (behind a bit here)

We had a great time going back home for Thanksgiving. It was so much fun with other siblings and family there. The majority of the things we did were play games, computers, movies, guitar hero, and EAT!!! It did not even feel crowded at all and filled Mom and Dad's home with love and excitement. While there Kory, of course, was put to work for his room and board. He dug holes, laid pipe, cut and gathered firewood for his dad, and gathered more rocks for us to take home. He had fun. All the kids played really well together and stayed entertained. Thanks Mom and Dad for your home and food and thank you to everyone else we were able to come and join in the fun. Michael, you guys will have to come next time, weather permitting. We want to take a big family picture next time we can all get together.