Ready, Set, Crash....

Well we are sliding into 2009! I am going to once again try and keep up with the POTD challenge or at least get the weekly challenge accomplished.

We went over to one of the local sledding hills a few days ago and the boys had a blast. We were able to walk away injury free which is a huge accomplishment!

I hope 2009 will be a great year for all of you and I am excited to try and share my year through my POTD.

Happy New Year!

My Little Snow Angels

After it warmed up a hair we went out and the boys made snow angels. A trip outside is not complete without hot choclate.

Gingerbread House Making

Tonight (12/14) we celebrated Advent by taking some special family time together to build and decorate a gingerbread house. The boys are amazed every year what we can make from the simple store bought gingerbread kits. This year we got smart and during the 15 minute frosting set up time instead of trying to keep them out of the frosting and devouring all of the candy decorations We are smart and pulled out one of our favorite holiday books to read to them. The story Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett is a favorite and the boys get such a kick out of the basset hound in the book. Then each boy decorated a Jan Brett gingerbread house online and printed it. By then the frosting was set and it was time for the true decorating to start but between Keaton coughing and farting, Cam burping and laughing at Keaton, Darcy laughing and taking pictures needless to say it took us a while and a few hand washing attempts before we got into the groove. So needless to say our annual gingerbread house making project turned out to be quite memorable but maybe for not quite the reasons I was hoping. Regardless they did a good job, had fun and ate way more sugar that any child should ingest before their bedtime.

Fresh Snow

The boys were dying to get out and play in the fresh snow. The one thing the boys did not realize was that it was -10 out with a windchill of -20. We did not spend a lot of time out there but long enough for them to have some fun. This is what a good Minnesota winter is suppose to be like.

I Got A Wii

Oh boy where do I start. Well I have been pestering my dear wife for the last week or so on what my Christmas present was. I was 100% convinced that she was getting me a snowmobile (I bet she still is :o). So I was trying to get hints and she had me going every direction on what I was getting.

Darcy was hiding my present at her parents house and she went to bring it home on Monday. While she was trying to hurry out of the house and hide it in the van (so the boys didn't see it) she got going a bit too quick on the ice and needless to say she crashed...HARD...while trying to curl her body around the wii to protect. She fell hard enough that she had to cancel the rest of my patients for the day because her left arm isn't working quite right...opps...at. Darc had me oopen it that night to make sure it wasn't broke, it works GREAT! So I guess we can say we have had our first Wii injury and it was not even out of the box.

I can not believe I got a Wii for Christmas, the last gaming system I had was the original Nintendo (which I still have). It is so cool, I would have never guessed in a million years that she got this for me. Thank You so much hun!

As you can see by the pics the boys have already taken a liking to it. Cameron bowled a 157 on his first time ever using it (oh and yes we do feed the kid, look at those ribs)!

Merry Christmas All

Merry Christmas

I can not take credit for these at all but Darcy made some great scrap booking pages that I wanted to share...

Some more of the boys

We decided to try taking a few more of the boys... Here they are :o)