Thursday, December 25, 2008

R2's birthday

R2's birthday fell on a Wednesday this year so he had to go to school on his birthday. He told me the night before that he was going to be sick the next day and wouldn't be able to go to school. I explained that it would be much better if he went to school. So R2 went to school and waited until he got home to celebrate his birthday. Dad got home from work in time for R2 to get home from school and he just wouldn't wait any longer to open his presents. Lego's were a big part of his presents and he is learning to put them together by himself. His brother's were right there helping him, though.



It is fun to see them with their heads together working on something.
This was the thing that was most wanted. It is a lego bionicle and he was really excited to get it.

R2 wanted a snake cake and we had snakes (ramen noodles) for supper.

All in all it was a really fun day.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Gingerbread Houses


Bob's house was hit by archers.

Spike (our minimalist) took great care in everything that was put on.

R2 did a great job with designs this year. He stuffed his mouth with candy right before the picture. Notice his squirrel cheeks!

Our cousin and his mom had lots of fun with this house.


The youngest got to do a gingerbread boy.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving was shared with my brother's family at our house. We had lots of food and games and more food and more visiting and games then more food. My brother's family has a new boxer puppy that the kids had a lot of fun with. She was a very patient puppy. We ended the evening with a game of Apples to Apples and Whoonu. It was tons of fun. Here are pictures.