christmas morning

Luke

Legos and Football uniform

Clark

Clark was only interested in the candy from the stockings.
He cried when we took the candy away so he could open his present.

The best of both worlds-Candy and present.


Gabe


Blocks, legos, police helmet, and Geo trax

Mom and Dad
Cookie scoop

New Slippers

"Thank you"

Christmas!

Party time with extended family

Ben organized a football game with all the boy cousins.

Christmas Eve night with Heather's Family

Christmas parade

Spying for gifts

My beautiful sister sporting the cutest hat.

Welcome Lunch Christmas Eve with the Hokies- Open face sandwiches Norwegian style & Traditional Norwegian Pancake Christmas morning

G&G Hokie's new tradition: Christmas pillow cases and a Christmas book. This year "The Mitten" The boys loved it.

Snowman Building with papa

FHE before Christmas

Gingerbread houses with Ben's sisters and their families.

Service Project
It was a fun blessing to take part in collecting donated presents and delivering them to families.

Yogurt/Present Craze

This is what happens when your

three year old tries to feed the baby yogurt.

This only took 2 unsupervised minutes.

Gabe was just trying to share his snack.

Yogurt Makeover

Three tries for a picture with the boys in their Christmas Outfits.

Present Obsession! That's all they talk about. We had a fun time this weekend trying to have the boys think beyond themselves a little. We took them to the store to pick out Christmas gifts for each other. Then we helped them wrap them and put them under the tree. So exciting. There has been a lot of shaking. They loved the sneakiness of the whole process. It's taking all the self control that Luke has not tell Gabe what he got him. Luckily, Gabe has a short memory because he can't keep a secret. And Clark just ruined his surprise this morning.

Clark broke into his present (with some help, i think ).

A new cousin-Coming Soon!

We are super excited to have another little cousin friend for Clark to play with!

The orignal announcement is at:

Holly's Blog

Boy Fun

Phone Fun

Luke has learned my cell phone number,

and likes to call my cell phone with the home phone.

Gabe and Clark like to play the game with him.

(excuse the red smoothie smiles)

Clark thinks the ring tone on my cell phone is hilarious, and he dances when he hears it.

SNOW

Clark's first experience with the snow.

Tastes good

He loved crawling around in the snow!

Luke thinks it's awesome

Gabe was the first one out the door.

The only difficult thing about the cold weather has been chapped faces for Clark and Luke.

Piano

I love to see the kids playing on the piano.

Clark is so excited to be able to reach the keys now.


Hall Football

Clark kicks off, Luke returns the ball, and Gabe & Clark tackle him.

There has also been a lot of soccer practice too.
The boys really look forward to this time with Dad.

Clark
I gave the update on Clark 2 weeks ago and then he did a ton of cute things the next day.

He does sign language for the word "more".

He is obsessed with my cell phone and says "ha" (hi).

He's dancing to music.