Christmas Eve & Morning

The boys put Oreo cookies & milk out for Santa on Christmas Eve. He had already come to our house early, so was he really going to visit us again at Grandpa & Grandmas??!!

Cayden sprinkling the reindeer food on the porch that he had made at school.


Well, the boys weren't disappointed... he came again!! Here they are all dressed up to go to a Special Meeting near Grandpa & Grandma's.

Celebrating Bryce & Dylan's Birthdays!

This year Bryce & Dylan wanted a basketball cake for their party. They are both about to start their 2nd season of basketball. Bryce wanted a cookie cake and Dylan wanted a vanilla cake, so I put them together!


Bryce


Dylan


Kinda hard to get a picture with all of this silliness :)

Bryce Turns 10!!

Bryce turned 10 on December 11th. Wow- double digits! He had an exciting birthday this year! Papa & Nana were here and they went out hunting with Papa. Bryce shot a duck- what an excited boy! So, we have it at the taxidermist and he is very excited to hang it on his bedroom wall!


Bryce wanted a cookie cake on his birthday this year! He is very much into the outdoors-hunting, fishing... so camo was pretty appropriate for him!


A proud Bryce with his canvasback duck!


All 3 boys were pretty excited actually!


And Papa was also just as excited!!

Early Christmas

We were going to be gone over Christmas this year so we had an early Christmas with the boys the weekend before.

The boys loved their stocking gifts and their wrapped presents, but I think the favorite gifts were the ones Daddy brought home...


a go-cart and mini bike! They have had SOOOO much fun on these!

Thanksgiving 2011

This year at Thanksgiving, we rented an RV and met my Dad & Mom at a State Park. We really had a wonderful time! We even had a somewhat traditional thanksgiving dinner!

the RV we rented- quite an adventure for us, but we really had fun!


Cayden & Mommy swinging at the campground's playground.


Papa & Nana with Bryce


Dylan and Dave enjoying the campfire!


We did lots of bike riding on the paved roads and on the trails throughout the campground.

Getting ready to go fishing! I think it's just as fun getting everything together, as it is to actually go out there and fish!


Bryce fishing out in his kayak.


Dylan getting a turn fishing in the kayak and Cayden fishing on the dock.


Papa grilling his yummy steaks! We sure had some good meals on this trip!!

Fall!!

Grandpa & Grandma were here this year again at Halloween, so they helped the boys with their pumpkin carving. We went trick-or-treating that evening - Bryce as a pirate, Dylan as an army man/hunter and Cayden as a Texas Longhorn football player.


After we got home from trick-or-treating, we ate the pumpkin shaped chocolate cake that I had decorated that day.


This year our schedule didn't work out to where we could host another Halloween party, so our good friends, Dave & Rose had it! We had lots of fun-not everyone dressed up, but this was the crew that did! Bryce went as a pirate, Dylan as the Texas Longhorn football player, Cayden as a Motorcross guy & Dave as a curly-haired dude with big sunglasses!!