Lunch

Lunch with Sarah and landyn.

Christmas

We had a fun Christmas! It was a crazy, fun-filled morning and then we were home all day until we went to grandpa and grandma schinde's. Uncle Nate made pics of all of us...this was by far the funniest!

Christmas Eve night

We went to Nate and Steph's tonight and Santa stopped by!

Now we are ready for Santa to come to our house!

Church service

Ava did a great job signing at church and Sophia went up to dance too!

Beginning of Christmas

Mom and dad invited us over for an impromptu Christmas breakfast and to open presents on Sunday morning. We had the cutest pancakes! And we found a new elf on a shelf!

Christmas Eve

We had so much fun at Tim's mom and dad's today for Christmas with the Lucey family.

Play time

Trips had a friend come home from school with them yesterday. They had so much fun playing and were so excited to show him everything in the house! They all dressed up like ninjas when they got home. Sophia had to get in on the action too! They look like quads! Then we went to the cupcake store to pickup dessert for the team meal we had for Tim's team last night. The cupcakes were so yummy!

Random

Here's some random pics from the past few days.

Breakfast with Ava before school on Friday. Love these special moments!

Trips making cut out cookies with miss Chari. She's the best!

Santa at the chippewa game.

Soph rocking Josh's glasses.

Funfetti red and green pancakes for the kids on my first day off! I love being off for a few weeks!

Soph during her hearing test at the doctor. She failed her hearing test at school twice so we went to the doctor. Her one ear is below normal but the doctor didn't think there was anything we could do currently. She will get rechecked in 6 months.

Fun day

I could really get used to being at home! I got so much done this week and really enjoyed the time with the kids.

Today I helped make gingerbread houses in Ava's class. Then I stopped by the trips class and they were having snack. After I picked them up we ran down to Smucker's to pick something up and had lunch with my friend Lauren. They were a little wild when we stopped by my office so we headed out of there quickly!

Then tonight we made a gingerbread house at home that our sitter heather bought for us. It was a ton of fun!

Crazy mornings

I've mentioned it before but mornings at my parents house are crazy, they have 6 of the 8 grand kids there before school for breakfast! I love the pics and video my mom sends me of the craziness!

Weekend fun

Last weekend we went to landen's birthday party. He calls Sophia "Phia" and it's the cutest thing! Here's a pic of the eating dinner together!

This weekend Ava got to go meet cake boss with aunt Steph. She was so excited!!

Saturday I took the kids to make build a bears after church. They had fun!

We also took the kiddos to lake Anna to look at lights last night. They loved getting out and walking around.

Basketball

I got these pictures from a photographer who takes pictures at Chippewa games.  I just LOVE them!