Life Through Our Eyes...: 2011

1st "big" snow :)

So far this year there has basically been no snow in our area except for a few flurries. But that all changed Tuesday morning when we woke up to a snow covered ground! Maryn was soooo excited she could barely eat breakfast :) We bundled up and played in the snow for a little while before it melted away. She can't wait to make a snowman and her favorite, snow angels!

So excited for SNOW!!

Footprints :)

Making snowballs to throw at Mommy!

One happy little girl :)

Christmas Day with Rochelle's family

Usually Christmas afternoon/ evening we spend at my parent's house, but this year they came to us. It was actually pretty nice to not have to go anywhere :) We enjoyed a great meal together, more gifts, a little sports watching and some wii playing.

Gator Golf from Uncle Scott and Aunt Lindsey

A new lantern that lights up and plays music

Waiting to see what's next :)

Trying to get a picture of the two of them lately is quite a challenge as you can see below...
cup in the way...

At least we're both still...

Tongue out of course...his new thing

oh well...I give up on getting two smiles :)

Tinkerbell slippers!!

a new airplane!

Christmas Morning!!!!!

Look what Santa left!!!

Our tree

While he does not look that excited...Theo LOVES his new chari :)

Hooray for a big girl bike!!!

A stocking full of surprises :)

Santa left some cookie crumbs and guess who gobbled them up?!

Lots of fun inside!

New night lights for bedrooms that project stars...a ladybug for Maryn and a turtle for Theo

Trucks!

New shirt for Daddy

New sweater for Mommy

A Toy Story book with figurines

A new Wii!!

A new jacket for the cold Indiana winter yet to come

I love my new lens for the camera!

Hooray for Christmas!!

I think she agrees :)

Christmas Eve with Jeremy's family

Every year we spend Christmas Eve afternoon/evening with Jeremy's family. Between eating, gifts, and the Christmas Eve service, it's a busy couple of hours. Maryn and Theo love being with their cousins!!

We have a pianist in the family :)

A big truck with a work bench!
I think this may have been one of the only gifts he opened...not to into the gift opening this year :)

Puppets!!

A new backpack with her name!

Modeling her new pink sweatshirt :)

Just taking it all in :)

Relaxing while watching the Christmas Story before leaving for the Christmas Eve service

Our only family Christmas picture...so hard to get those these days :)
Believe it or not we took this at 9:30pm...meltdown shortly followed!

books & pjs on Christmas Eve

For the last several years we have kept up a little tradition of exchanging books and pjs on Christmas Eve. It's always fun to see the kids in new holiday pjs on Christmas morning :)

Maryn and her new snowman pjs

Theo and his "ho ho ho" dinosaur pjs

A little light reading for all the spare time I'm going to have soon :)

Is there a chapter in this book about letting your son play with a soap dispenser?
Maybe we should start there :)

a jolly good time at the Children's Museum

It had been way too long since our last visit to the museum! Maryn kept seeing the commercials on tv and asking when we were going to go :) We held out for when Jeremy was off work and had a great day!