GO CLONES!

We are ready to watch Iowa State in the insight.com bowl game tonight and will be cheering our cyclones on to a victory. Thanks Grandma Ryan, we love our new ISU sweatshirts!

Love it when...

I love it when they snuggle so nicely together and watch a Disney movie so I can make dinner.

Decorating the tree

A few pictures from the night we decorated our Christmas tree.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

My dear friend Caitlin spent Saturday afternoon decorating our house (she loves to do that kind of stuff and is so talented). Our house looks so festive now and smells like fresh evergreen. I love it!
Here are a few pictures of what she did in our Hearth room.

Hot cocoa

Jack and Elizabeth were outside with Matt on Sunday afternoon hanging lights on my Christmas trees by the front porch. They sure enjoyed the hot cocoa I had waiting for them when they came inside. It was Elizabeth's first taste of hot cocoa and she loved it!

Winter wonderland

Winter has finally arrived in Green Bay. So far at least a foot of snow has fallen, with up to 6 more inches today. We are under a blizzard warning since the winds are supposed to be around 45mph. This is the view out our front door this morning. I always think the first snow of the year is beautiful so I always take a picture, but by tomorrow I will be sick of the white stuff!

One more

Just one more cute picture of my little sweeties since it is so rare to get them to smile together. This was taken on Elizabeth's second birthday on Sunday. I have a lot more birthday pictures to add but my bed is calling my name tonight!

So very thankful

So very thankful for these two...

Peek-a- boo

Is there anything cuter than a little girl playing peek-a-boo by herself? I think not.

Dinosaurs

Matt and Jack were busy building with blocks this weekend. Here is one of their projects, a mommy and two baby dinosaurs. Later there were two more baby dinosaurs to add to the family, I missed getting the picture before they were destroyed.

Better off without a shirt

Elizabeth refused to let me help her to put on her shirt after lunch. After numerous tries, she finally decided it was more fun to run around without it (I wonder if she will think the same thing when it is -30 out!).

Terrible 2's

Can you tell from this picture that we are going through the terrible 2's?! Actually, Elizabeth is a delight most of the time with the exception of the no's and the tantrums when she doesn't get her way.

Lazy Friday

We love Friday mornings. Jack doesn't have school and I try not to plan anything so that we can enjoy one morning a week not having to rush to get out of the house and can instead enjoy a lazy morning in our jammies.

Future mama

Elizabeth has finally formed a bond with all of her babies. She loves to change their diapers and feed and rock them. Her favorite baby for awhile was her huge talking Elmo (this Elmo weighs a ton and she can hardly lift him). She would get so frustrated when she couldn't get him to open his mouth to feed him his bottle. It is so fun to watch her play mama and take care of all her babies.

Such a cutie

I couldn't resist posting this picture of our cutie...

Painting Pumpkins

We have been trying to spend as much time outdoors lately as possible since we have been having above normal temperatures and know that all too soon we will be spending a lot of time indoors. Elizabeth and Jack had so much fun painting their little pumpkins a few days before Halloween. I love how they are now both enjoying more of the same things and that they both love to paint (and kudos to whoever invented washable paint!).

Ta-da!

Trying to get caught up....Here's Elizabeth practicing her "ta-das" after a forward roll and showing her silliness.

Future Gymnast?

Our Little Gym is doing an advertising campaign and this is one of the pictures that they are using. Elizabeth loves her Little Gym class and especially loves to swing on the bars like a monkey.

Soccer

Jack absolutely loves soccer so we signed him up for a Saturday morning program at the Y. It has been fun to watch his team, the black Oreos, play each week. Jack is a little maniac on the field, trying to get and keep the ball from his opponents. Here are a few pictures from a game a few weeks ago (last week it was so cold I couldn't remove my mittens in order to take pictures!). The last picture is one of his goals...thanks super fast camera for capturing the goal!