Christmas 2

We had one last surprise for the kids.

Alana has been asking for the Rose Petal Cottage for months

and we had it all set up in our family room for her,

She was very surprised and happy that she got it!

You can tell she was surprised about it in her first picture!

We weren't able to get her everything for it since most stores were sold out.

We surprised Tyler with a ride on Thomas the Tank engine. Though he looks

very serious in these pictures he was pretty excited about it.

He had to go right up to it and get face to face with it!

He also figured out how to push it around pretty well.

'Thanksmas'

We celebrated our "Thanksmas" in Ohio this past weekend

The kids had a great time together. It was pretty cold there

and with them living right by the lake we had the crazy winds

and even some snow.

Tyler making his silly face.

Junior saying "CHEESE" for the camera

Elizabeth playing with Santa's bell on the tree.

Alana and Elizabeth having fun together.

Thanksmas 2

Tyler Cheesing it up for the camera

It's pretty hard to get all 4 of the kids in the same picture

and have them all looking at the camera!

Alana Checking out the cool horses that she got

Tyler was pretty hooked on all of his new Thomas toys

Still hanging on to his Thomas.

Tree farm 2

Kate just being cute!



Alana was pretty excited to find these cool sticks!



We have our trees!



Silly Uncle Mike running in and out of the trees...and the girls trying to keep up.



We had a great day at the tree farm. And now it's time to go home and decorate.

The tree farm

We met Grandma and Grandpa Olson, Aunty Virginia, Uncle Mike, and Kate at the tree farm this year. Kate and Alana had such a great time together. They were pretty much stuck together the whole time. Tyler enjoyed the fact that he could just run. He did pretty good at following the rest of us, but every once in a while he wanted to go his own way.






The 2 crazy girls!







Tyler trying to find the perfect tree....or maybe a way to escape!

Holiday Parade

We went to the Annual Chambersburg Holiday parade this evening. It was pretty cold out, but the kids seemed to have a lot of fun. Alana's friend Chase came with us, along with his mom. Tyler didn't really care for the waiting part of the evening, but once the parade started he was hooked. Alana and Chase were very excited about everything and kept waiting for Santa to arrive!

Here comes Santa!!!




Santa took too long I guess.

Hmmm...What do I want?!

We have been bombarded with catalogs for anything and everything (Tis the season). So we have decided to give some of the toy catalogs to the kids so they can pick out what to ask Santa for. They really seem to enjoy looking at them. Alana is a little more into it then Tyler, though Tyler seems to be concentrating pretty hard! Alana has begun to circle items that she likes, she circles mostly animals and princess things, but here and there she circles a truck..."for Tyler, but we'll share"