Christmas Eve Service

 Christmas Eve service was nice like always.  The kids were tired but good the whole time.  Our favorite part is the end where we shut the lights off and have candles and sing "Silent Night".  After church it was home to put out milk & cookies and watch Prep & Landing before bedtime.



Lexi & Hunter (Hunter was not thrilled to be at church at 9pm or to have his picture taken)



Snow fun

It was finally warm enough for the kids to go outside and enjoy the snow.  I don't know who had more fun the kids or Daddy playing on the 4-wheeler :)

Sunday School church program

 Sunday school program at church was cute this year.  I can't believe how much all the kids have grown!

Lexi & Hunter in front of the tree at church

Lexi, Hunter, Addysen, & Ainsley

Lexi, Addysen, & Addy Courtright

School Winter Programs

 This year the kids school winter programs were not really based on Christmas or Winter.  Lexi's grade did the "Blues" and Hunter's was about Veterans.  Although they were cute it would have been nice to have a winter themed program.

Lexi before her program

Hunter before his program.  Since it was a "Veterans" themed program they were suggested to wear red,white,& blue.  He looked like a little politician :)

Lexi & Addysen at their program

New ROWVA school

The new ROWVA school is finally finished and the kids were so excited for their first day.  I tried to snap a couple pictures with my phone.

view of the new school

kids arriving at school excited (again crappy pic with phone because they wouldn't stay still)

front door (notice the news channel 8 car )

The Baker's Visit

The Baker's came for a visit!!!  The kids were so excited to see their cousins.  We all got together at Katie and Aaron's house for dinner and family time.  Let me tell you we have some cute and crazy kids!  The only picture I didn't get was the big group shot of all the kids.



playing some air hockey



Lexi & Addysen being crazy!!

more crazy kids

Ainsley being cute and eating as usual :)

(not a great pic with phone)

Aubrie & Lexi

Girl Scouts visit the Vet

For Girl Scouts the girls took a trip to the local Vets office.  It was also a special treat because Lexi got to see her cousin Aubrie visiting from Washington!!

The girls got to see all kinds of machines, animal teeth, and learn interesting things about what a vet does.

Aubrie, Addysen, & Lexi (these girls are all within months of each other but you can't tell by their height)

The girls next to a BIG dog, OSO.

Homemade dog treats for the local shelter

Lexi and I made homemade dog treats to donate to a local shelter.  We made chicken and beef flavored.  She had so much fun and it was a good way for her to do something for someone else.

she attempted this then I had to take over.  The dough was pretty tough to roll.

such a hard worker making those

so proud of our dog treats

More horse riding lessons

More horse riding lesson photos.  Lexi is loving this.  We are taking some time off over the Holidays but she is excited to start back up in January. 

Lexi had to stop and visit Bailey.  She is the Johnson's horse and Lexi just loves her.

Annie

Lexi and her coach :)

going around the cones all by herself

I just thought this was a pretty picture in the barn

Hunting Season

The kids love hunting season..especially Hunter.  He enjoys spending quality time with Dad in the woods plus usually Grandpa Carl is out there too.  It makes him feel like one of the guys.



Lexi, Daddy, & Hunter with the deer



where's Peanut???

Grandpa Carl riding on the 4-wheeler with Hunter and Lexi

Daddy and Hunter loading the deer

Grandpa and Lexi walking so Grandpa could show her a set of antlers

visiting Uncle Ben after he got home from hunting

Trick or Treat

Our pumpkins this year we kept very simple.  In the years past they stop halfway thru and this mom gets tired of carving for hours lol. 

This year we had a karate kid and a witch.  Because it was rainy and crappy on Halloween Tina and I took the kids around in the van and pretty muched gave the kids door to door service :)  Hope next year is nice and warm.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

This past weekend Tina and I took the kids to a movie.  They had so much fun.  I on the other hand will have to say the movie wasn't as cute as the first one.  Oh well more memories were made :)

Fall Pictures 2013

I wanted to get fall family pictures again this year.  Well that hasn't worked because my two boys want to go hunting all of the time :)  So Tina and I took Lexi out for pictures and even got some of her and Emma together.  I played around with photo editing but need to do more work.  Some of them the coloring looks off.  I had such a fun day with my Peanut who is growing so fast!