Christmas Fun

Alvin, our elf, was pretty silly again this year….

The first night we put our Christmas tree up, we didn't decorate it, so he decided to.  He used toilet paper and the boys underwear and socks!

 He packed Landon a lunch one day...

 He went zip lining

 He brought the boys sugar cookie flavored cereal.

 He also played Aggravation with all his friends.

At Crocker Park this year, they had a giant snow globe that was awesome!  The boys loved it!  All 4 of us went in it first and then just the boys.  Here is the pic of the boys...

Landon playing with the snow in the snow globe.

 Both boys playing in the snow.

 The boys in front of some Christmas decorations.

 A family pic in front of the big Christmas tree.  Crocker is so pretty during the Holidays.

 Landon sang two times during Christmas at church in the children's choir.

Keegan (looking like Santa) in front of the tree.

 Matt and I in our ugly Christmas sweaters for my staff holiday party.

 Landon lost his second tooth at school right before Christmas. He brought his tooth home in a tooth shaped necklace. The tooth fairy brought him a dollar with fairy dust, a coin and another tooth receipt.

 That night, Alvin went to Landon's room, put on his tooth necklace and made a tooth mask!

Matt helped at Landon's holiday party and the kids got to wear their pajamas that day.  This is Landon's group.

 Landon with his wonderful teacher, Mrs. Schenkelberg.

One of the gifts Landon wanted to give to Mrs. Schenkelberg was a crayon frame with a picture of her and the class on her birthday.

We made several different kinds of Christmas cookies this year and the boys had a blast helping!  Here are some pics from our cooking making:

There will be more posts coming soon to get caught up so stay tuned!!

Thanksgiving

We go to Illinois every year for Thanksgiving.  I always see my high school friends on the Wednesday night before, as well as their families, and it is one of my favorite nights of the year.  We all live in different places and have a lot going on in our lives, so it is great to know that I will see everyone at least once a year to catch up.  I feel like the adults got to talk a little more this year because our kids are  big enough now to play with each other on their own, without us having to entertain them!  This year Autumn's parents hosted so a big thanks to the Feldman's!!  

Here is the best pic I have of all the kids (minus Grant who didn't want his picture taken).

Here are my girls….Ashleigh, Autumn, Meghan, Michelle, Me and Brittany.  

I did get to see Angie and Kim and their kids earlier in the day as well, but we were too busy talking and forgot to take any pictures :(  It was great seeing everyone….love and miss you all!

Here are the boys on Thanksgiving morning, watching some TV with Grandma & Papa Bruce.

 We usually are traveling on Thanksgiving and eating on the way, but this year we got to stay put so we made the boys a fun Thanksgiving breakfast….a cinnamon roll turkey!!!

 Our little turkey in his "Gobble" shirt

Landon and Adelin putting on one of their many shows for us.

 We tried to take family pics at my parents this year.  Here is a pic of all the "big" kids…Cindy, Jeremy, me and Matt!

 And here is a pic of all our kids….Landon, Adelin, Chloe and Keegan

 Another cute pic of the grandkids

 Grandma & Papa with the grandkids

 A silly pic

 Just the 10 of us!

Thanksgiving night, Ade and Chloe had a sleepover at my parents as well as us, so the four grandkids slept in the back room….Landon, Ade and Chloe on the bed and Keegan on a little bed on the floor!

 The four kids the next morning

We left Lincoln on Friday morning and headed to Sherman for the rest of the weekend.  During the day on Friday, we went to Mattoon to see Matt's family.  We took family pics there as well!

Grandma & Grandpa Sherline with most of the younger grandkids and great grandkids…Keegan, Sophia, Nathan, James and Landon. (We were missing Tyler.)

 Cara, Matt and I joined this picture with everyone.

 The whole family (minus Tim and Tyler….we missed you guys!)

 On Saturday we went to the Festival of Trees in Springfield.  The boys had gingerbread cookies, looked at trees, rode the train and saw Santa.  Last year Keegan was terrified of Santa, but he loves him this year so it was a lot of fun.

The boys with Santa

Keegan & Santa

Landon & Santa

A family pic

Here is our traditional pic at Matt's parents house…this year, Nathaniel joined us as well!!

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and are as blessed as we are.  So thankful for wonderful family and friends!!

Catch Up

The fall went by really fast for us.  We were really busy and had a lot of fun.  Here are some random pictures between Halloween and Thanksgiving to get you all caught up a little bit.  I will do the Thanksgiving post next!

This is Keegan sitting in the car with me during Landon's first piano lesson.  He told me that he was having a movie night in the car!

 The boys in their Bears jerseys one Sunday (We have since switched to Browns jerseys on Sundays)!

 Keegan shopping with Matt one day at Crocker Park.

 Cute pic of Keegan in the car one day.

 We got a few inches of snow in the beginning of November and the boys had fun playing it in a little bit.

We always go to Crocker Park the weekend before Thanksgiving to see Santa light the Christmas tree.  This year, Santa got shot out of a cannon before he lit the tree.  It was crazy and I was terrified, but it all worked out.  The weather was great that night and the boys had fun watching everything.  Here are a few selflies from the night!

 Love this pic of the boys in their Santa hats and Pj's!

 Have a great week everyone and stay tuned for the Thanksgiving post coming soon!

Happy Halloween?!?! (October Wrap Up)

This is a little late, but here are some pictures from our Halloween.  The boys loved carving their pumpkins.

Landon's Olaf pumpkin

 Keegan's puppy pumpkin (turned out a little scary)

 We made stuffed jack-o-lanterns for dinner for Halloween

 Olaf & Handy Manny ready to Trick or Treat, they got tons of candy!!

The boys ready to Trick or Treat w/ Lilli

                                     

In a Suite at the Brown's game the Sunday after Halloween.  

Hopefully now we can move on to November pics!!! hah