Valentine's Day Ode....

We feel so comfortable with our neighbors so much that we decided to spend Valentines Evening together at one of the neighbor's houses. There are three couples...each having one child that are all within 6 months of one another and one neighbor just made an addition to their family 6 weeks ago. So this is what we like to call fun!! Three or so times a month, we walk to one another's houses, eat our favorite pizza, snack, have a little wine, play games and laugh and laugh, while the kids play, fight, tattle and tear up the place. It really is fun. Here the little valentines are eating yummy cupcakes and lovin' it...

Here they are starting the festivities with heart shaped balloons to throw at and fight over...BUTThe best memory we will take from this Valentine's '09 was talking with the ladies, reading over the directions to this really fun game we were going to play, eating and feeding our kids and then all the sudden looking over to see our husbands on the couches as quiet as can be watching Top Gun together. Now if that ain't love!!!!!!!!!! HA HA!!! The best part was at the end when Tom Cruise became the Top Gun, without any provoking or practice they all yelled with fist in the air, leaping out of their chairs..."YES!!!!" The three of us girls, startled, looked at each other and said, "No they did not just do that!!!" Can it get any better than that!!! For our husbands, probably not ;). Well, we love our neighbors. We have the best memories and this by far will go down as one of the most humorous Valentine's Days of all!!!!

And we thought we had a lot of snow this year...

This is my Grandma Keller's house in North Dakota. Last year, they were having a drought at this time and needed snow bad for the spring crops. This year...not so much!!! So these are pictures from my cousin's blog!! AMAZING!!! Yes, this is the top of a swing set ;)!!
My cousin's "little boy" in this picture just turned 5 this month!

Happy Valentine's Day @ school!

Last Year
...and this Year too!! Yes, Mommy got away with having her wear the same outfit two years in a row. One Mom noticed at school today, and we just laughed about how big these clothes were on her last year. I have a feeling this will be the last time I will be able to get away with this ;)!!

Snow!!

We got our big snow and boy did the kids have fun. This is Nolan the neighbor friend across the street with the P having a ball!! They would have stayed out all day if we let them!!

Jay shoveled the driveway about 7am to go to work and by 11am we had 3 more inches and a mountain at the end of the drive way due to the street snow plows. So my wonderful neighbors were out with the snow blowers and shovels makin' a way out of our driveways and sidewalks. What a blessing they are!!

Can you see them?

Look to the right hand post of the deck and up a little lying on the ground, they are shaped differently than logs. We have had some company in our back yard these last two weeks. They come around when it snows and they are a family of 5. They are beautiful and so much prettier in person. Let me know of you see them. You can see 2 in this picture.

The "P" turns 3!!!!!!!!

The P had her 3rd Birthday on Friday and it started off with a tour at our local firestation!! The kids loved seeing the firetrucks and getting inside. They talked to the firemen and saw them all dressed up. It was such a cool experience and I know the P wants to go back!!! They told us we could come anytime!!! They were very helpful and showed us where they slept and how they get ready to go on a run. It was so much fun!! Then we went to our house for some cake and ice cream and gifts. This year all her friends brought their favorite books with a note inside. It was so sweet and she LOVES reading them at night before bed!!! We love our P and are so happy she has made it to 3 ;) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the sleeping ranks and the other b-day girl Jac...
Isn't this the cutest picture?

Shovelin' the snow before the party...

These girls just seem to know what each other is thinking just with their smiles!!! Papa's were there and helpin' the picture time!!

Aweee....Conno

Our future fire fighters...ready for the call today~

Cousins....

Cousins....

Neighbor Adam was really excited, I just didn't catch him smiling...I think he was saying cheese.

Then off to the family birthay with Jac who turned 2 on Sunday! It is so cool having cousins close in age!!

We are so amazed that 3 years has gone by so quickly and so excited for what's in store!! This was a really fun birthday and we loved celebrating it with all of you!!!

Okay...We're still here!!

We had a great Christmas and did lot of fun things too. So I can finally updating my blog with some new pictures!!

This is actually a smile...can you tell she's thrilled! She is wearing her Dora dress up clothes that she got for Christmas!!!!

Playin' at Barnes and Nobles with cousins!

Feeding her baby...
Playing at the Children's Museum with our neighbor!!

Ridin' Jac's new escalade!!! And yes she is in her PJ's because that is all she wants to wear these days...but the Esclade is Fun!!

Carousel and Train Ride with the neighbors!
Christmas-Conno giving me his presents!!

The Christmas Story time...
Oh and some of my favorite goofy pictures with Daddy out for lunch. One of our favorite things to do!!!

A Special Message From Santa

We got a special message for our little one this year and got the idea from our good friends blog. Check it out. I know your little ones would love it too!

O Christmas Tree and Santa

Here's a couple of pix of us visiting with Santa and putting up our tree... What does she want for Christmas? "A Diginal Camera"