David, Melinda, and life with three boys!

Christmas Day 2011

Christmas Day the boys woke up and opened their stockings and Santa presents. We then had my side of the family over to our house. I didn't get very many good pictures. With 6 kids opening gifts all of the pictures looked pretty much the same.

Santa presents and stockings:

The little kiddos opening presents:

Brendin and Dillon waiting for presents:

The boys checking out their new cozy pumper:

Kaden likes it:

Pretty Lilly:

Christmas Day is also Brendin's birthday...He turned 10 this year:

And our group picture:

Here are a few pictures of the day after Christmas and the boys playing with some of their new toys:

The squirrel needed to mail something according to Nolan:

Nolan decided that stacking the wooden fridge food was better then playing in their kitchen:

Constructing the boys fire/police station:

And it is complete!

The boys got some new markers that are animal shaped and notebooks:

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we had David's side of the family over to our house. We had yummy fondue which has been tradition for as long as I can remember :) Then it was time to open presents!

We let the boys open the presents that were left on our doorstep by our secret Santa neighbors:

The presents from our secret Santa neighbors...they were perfect for our boys:

We also let them open one present from us before everyone got to our house:

Our present from Evan that he made at school...The BEST kind of present to receive in my opinion:

Evan all decked out and ready for Christmas (courtesy of Starbucks)

The boys got a train set from Uncle Dan and Auntie Andrea:

Lego Star Wars was a big hit this year:

Teamwork!

December 2011 (Christmas Eve and Christmas Day posts to follow)

Look at me go...and on to December! December started off by us going to the tree farm and cutting down our tree. We then had fun decorating it. Here are some tree pictures and random other December pictures:

Kaden and Nolan are ready to go find that perfect tree:

In the van and headed to the Christmas tree farm:

Our crew who helped us find and cut down our tree:

Family picture:

Evan wanted to help cut down the tree:

Nolan was excited about his Blues Clues ornament:

So was Kaden:

And Evan too:

The boys really liked decorating the tree:

The finished product:

Some brotherly love:

ARRGH!

Watching the street sweeper:

Making salt dough ornaments:

November update

I'm on a roll, so here I go with November's update.

I really don't remember much of what happened during November. There was Thanksgiving. David's parents flew down to Arizona to be with his Grandpa and we missed everyone that was unable to be with us. We had my parents over and Dan and Andrea and had a nice Thanksgiving. Of course, the day after Thanksgiving I went Black Friday shopping with my mom while David was nice enough to stay home with the boys :)

Here are some November pictures:

Kaden and Mommy having some fun with goofy glasses:

Nolan and Mommy having fun as well:

There has been lots of Star wars everything going on in our house lately:

We made a Lego Garbage Truck!

Two of my little artists:

My little animals:

Some of Evan's artwork from school:

Evan helped set the table for Thanksgiving:

Grandma and Papa Max at Thanksgiving:

We missed Grandma and Papa Moby and Great Papa:

First time we put up a tree in our family room:

October update

Once again....I am VERY behind on posts. So here are my monthly updates. Maybe one day I will get better about updating. Something about 3 boys seems to keep me quite busy :)

Here are some cute pictures from October of the boys:

Evan's Kindergarten picture (which I absolutely loved!)

Kaden working on becoming a chef:

The boys being goofy:

Nolan at the pumpkin patch:

The last time we were at the pumpkin patch, Kaden and Nolan were just wee little babies (We went to the apple orchard with Evan's preschool class, but not the pumpkin patch):