Another Christmas Gone!

Unbelievable...Christmas is come and gone again! We had a very low key Christmas this year. We were able to stay home and spend it as a family. Very relaxing!

The boys opened there gifts. Ethan got a Thomas Lego set

And Kaden got a batman lego set

I know what your thinking...where are these boys' shirts....well....normally they aren't wearing pants either...but we made them put some on for the picture

We were also able to spend time with Grama and Pops.

They came up and spent an evening with us.

Then we were off to Brian's parents for the Espenshade Christmas

Brian with some of the kiddos

And we also celebrated Uncle Sherwoods birthday...it was a great time!

Birthdays

As a child, December was always a busy month for birthdays. My mom's on the 13th, mine on the 17th and then my brother on the 27th. I can't remember a time when we didn't have a "shared" celebration, combining all of our birthdays and throwing one huge party. For the most part it was a lot of fun (as long as it wasn't combined with Christmas!) So it was really interesting when I met Brian and he said that his sisters birthday was the same day as mine.....now that's shared!

So today I want to wish my Mom a happy birthday from this past week

Happy Birthday to this young lady who celebrates with me today!

And then to my cute little brother who will celebrate later this month

My Baby Boy!

This weekend we will be celebrating Kaden's 5th birthday!!!!!

Where does time go.......

Hard to believe that 5 years ago tomorrow Kaden looked like this!!!!

And now...this! What a big boy!

Happy 5th Birthday K-bud!

We celebrated with some friends yesterday.

We had a lot of fun decorating sugar cookies.

Yum, Yum

Tonight we will go to the Etown parade and then tomorrow on his actual birthday celebrate with Grama and Pops and some family!