Snow Bear

Hi everyone! Well, we had another good snow and Josie was ready to make another snow duck, but we convinced her to make another animal instead. Mommy and Josie decided to try their hand at a snow frog. . . but as you can see it evolved into a bear.

Literally seconds after taking the picture above, tragedy struck. . .

Here is what we could salvage.

We still had a blast! Josie was still convinced that it was a snow frog.
Here are some other pictures and events from our week.

Jackson started to take his first steps!! He did four shuffle steps!!
He just turned 10 months old. He also started saying words!
He says daddy, kitty, uh oh, and a rough version of thank you.
He has managed to evade the camera for both of these events so far.

Josie is reading us Brown Bear. She loves this book!


She says very still. . . so I take advantage of it.

Snow Duck

Some people like to make snowmen. . . Well, we like to make animals!
Here is Josie and her snow duck that she and daddy made in our backyard!

Kids look so funny when they are trying to run in the snow in there puffy snow gear and boots! Here is Josie trying to do just that!

After and hour in the snow, Josie was cold and ready to come in!

Christmas at the New House

We had Christmas this year in our new home - actually, our first real home, since we own it! We got a Christmas tree (a great deal) from a lot down the street (Steve carried it home), put up the lights, trimmed the tree, and all the rest of the little decorations somehow went up as well.

Steve took a couple days off of work, so he had about a week-and-a-half total to spend time with the family! The kids loved having daddy home...
as did Candi, and Daddy loved being home too!

Christmas Eve officially started with the reading of Luke 2,
performed via flannel board by Josie and Ben.

Jackson put his time to good use by exploring where dinner had previously taken place.

After unwrapping some gifts from cousins and Grandparents things got a little bit wild!

Christmas Morning was a blast! It is so fun with your own kids! Josie was so excited that Santa fulfilled his promise of bringing her a dolly. (She didn't like it at first, but after a few days "Lucy" began to grow on her! Thank goodness!)

She took a great liking to her Unicorn and carries it with her where ever she goes! Unfortunately it has become the new weapon of choice when attacking Jackson. She holds it by the horn and uses it like a whip. Don't let that angel face fool you. . .


Josie left her presents behind when she started playing with this toy! She went off on her own, didn't want to open any more presents and had fun learning her letters and phonics skills.

Jackson proudly displays his new jammies! Santa knew exactly what
he wanted (needed) for Christmas!

Here is Jackson, king of the present!


We had a really fun holiday being together as a family and with friends!
We hope yours was wonderful too!