Here comes Santa Claus!

Here is the traditional picture with Santa. Jade is a very smiley kid, but we have a hard time getting her to smile for the camera.

Can I just say, though, this was one of the best Santa's we have seen. His beard was real and so was his tummy.

2 already!

So even though I am a little late I just wanted to post about Jade's 2nd birthday. I can't believe she turned 2 already. Time flies when you're having fun. We celebrated with family several times and she is loving all her new stuff. We are so glad Jade is in our lives and feel very blessed because of it.

Jade around 3 weeks old.

Jade now at 2!

Thanksgiving

Cody's school had a Thanksgiving celebration today and he got to dress up like a Native American. They some songs to sing for the parents so I put a video of that on here too!





We can't have a post without mentioning Jade too. She has started to take some steps on her own. Unfortunately we never seem to be able to time it right to get a video, so this is the best we have gotten so far.

Halloween (a little late)

As always we are late with our blog entry, but hopefully our cute kids make up for it. Anyway, we had a great Halloween celebration. It included a party at Jade's therapist's office, a party at Cody's school, carving our pumpkin, Trunk or Treat at church, and Trick or Treating around our neighborhood.

Davey Crockett

Our little Penguino

Scott made us this great breakfast on Halloween morning including: blood juice, "finger" sausage links, brains (green eggs), and pumpkin pancakes.

Trick or Treating at Grandma and Poppy's!

Trunk or Treat

Trick or Treating in our own neighborhood for the first time!

The LOOT

Mmmm...

Now on to Thanksgiving!

Finished Product

So it was supposed to be a simple project. I went to Home Depot to order new counter tops for our kitchen. I was informed that because of the age of our stove top that if I didn't replace it now and it broke later the new stove top would not fit in the same spot with the new counter tops. So I decided to buy a new stove top. However, the cost of a new stove top was the same as the cost of buying a new range and oven unit. So, why not? We went with the new complete oven. Also with the new counter tops it was a must to have all appliances in place that we wanted. When we bought the house there was no dishwasher and that is definitely on our "must have" list. So the dishwasher was also purchased. In order to make room for the new stove and dishwasher we would need a new sink too. Now the question was what to do with the space where the old oven was. We originally thought that we would just use some of the old cabinet doors that we were losing to make that space into cabinets, but in the end we thought it would be a better use of space to have more counter top space. In comes my Dad (Jack) to the rescue. He saved us a bundle by doing our remodel for us. And after two weeks of hard labor we have a finished product with only minor cosmetic things left to do. Thank you so much DAD!

BEFORE

AFTER

We really feel it turned out beautiful and are so happy with our "new kitchen".

Milestones

Okay, so I know I'm really late posting this, but better late than never. Cody started preschool about 2 weeks ago. So far he loves it and is making lots of new friends.

Jade had her own milestone too! We got this pediatric treadmill for her about a month ago. She was scared of it at first, but now loves it. So this is Jade walking, yay!

On the Move!

Look out world here she comes! Jade has gotten really good at crawling now and she can even go up the stairs. Our next home improvement project is safety proofing our house.