February

February 2014...

The kids are growing, learning, and stealing just a little bit more of our hearts every day.

Month-to-Month Play-by-Play

Just playing catch-up...

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY COMING SOON...

A Little Bit of January

Our weekly grind has been quite busy, but good.

Here are a few highlights from January 2014.

Reading stories with Daddy.

Playing with Noah's Ark.

Probably one of the most-played-with toys at our house.

*DISCLAIMER: we don't generally dress liam in pink elephant jammies.  He borrowed these from a friend :)*

Liam LOVES books!

Ru's first ponytail.

There is something about this picture that makes me smile every time.

I think it's the way he looks so much like his Daddy here.

Look who is taking big girl baths now!

She LOVES it!

BRRRRRRR...

"Just painting some snow with my squirt bottle."

Playing a little Rockband.

Still just two teeth.

Liam playing with moon sand.  So fun!

I'll post some pictures from February soon.

Looking forward to it.

*Cheers*

Christmas with the Finlaysons

After out time in Glendive, we headed to Conrad.

I think we had a total of 5 Christmases and a birthday party on this trip.  

That's ALOT of celebrating.  

Many fun memories made.

Giving lovin's at the piano

What a hunk!

Liam and Grandpa Jim

Big Fin and Little Fin

Grandma Kit and Ru

Ruby just loved this little car she received from Grandma Kit and Grandpa Jim!

With three comes whiskers :)

Awww...

Mommy and Ru-Ru

Liam still LOVES to read.

I hope that never changes.

Christmas with the Kirschenmanns

We were fortunate to get to spend some time with my family over Christmas.

It's always fun to be with the crazy Kirschenmanns!

Liam loves having cousins to play with.

We had a great visit.

Papa and Ru

Grandma K making Gingerbread Men with the kids.

Sledding was probably Liam's favorite thing we did while we were in Glendive.

This was the first time he wanted to go alone.

The face may not tell it, but his FAVORITE part was crashing.

When he made it to the bottom of the hill still on the sled, it wasn't as fun.

Ruby eating her dress...because she can.

Kiddos excited to open gifts.

I love Addi's "mother-instinct" in this picture.

Sledding wound.

What a brave boy!

Yippy!

Papa and Fin

Jack and Liam

Liam and Addi

Roobs

Getting pulled behind the four wheeler was also a highlight.

He has been talking about going for a ride since this past summer!

Ready. Set. GO!

Christmas at Home

We had a simple Christmas at home before heading out on a two week trip to visit family.

It was really fun to see how excited Liam was about all of our Christmas adventures this year.

Of course he LOVED opening presents, 

but he also loved the Nativity Story.

We talked about the nativity every day in December.

He was seriously bummed that we took all of our decorations down when we got home...

He was especially sad to pack up Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus :)

We also had our first Advent Calendar this year.

Every day we talked about the meaning of Advent, and Jesus' birth before opening our special activity for that day.

I think that was my favorite Christmas memory this year.

Liam still asks at least a couple times a week when we can do Advent again.

I took that as a good sign :)

What an honor it is to teach our children who Jesus is.

Seriously...we couldn't get the kids to look, so we gave up.

Scrapbooks should be filled with real life, right?

I'll just keep the paper.

Liam got a LeapPad for Christmas.

We were holding out on introducing technology to him, but that didn't last very long.

It was pretty handy for the 9 hour trip to Glendive.

P.S.  

We never sent out our Christmas Cards this year.

They are still sitting on our counter.

How embarrassing.

Be expecting a random Merry Christmas from us at some point this year!