Pictures

Today my friend Marietta took Kinslee's picture.

This is my favorite.

 

 I love her crinkly nose when she smiles.

 She thought she was hot stuff sitting on this stool kicking her feet.

Marietta got this new bloomer and needed someone to test it out for her. 

Lego Birthday Party

Eastons birthday was on a holiday so he didn't have school which was perfect to have his party on his actual birthday.

This picture has nothing to do with his party but since he was two or three I do this to his door every year and he loves it.

So the party was pretty last minute.  Last Monday he decided he wanted a party.

 I made this invitation.

Easton and a picture of the Lego brick cake before the party.

 At the party we played a bunch of Lego theme games.  I don't know who took this picture but this is one of the games we played.  Pin the hat on the Lego guy.  

 Easton while we are singing happy birthday

 Eating the cake and ice cream

 Opening presents.  We played heavy heavy hangover. 

After Chad got home from work Easton was able to open the presents from his mom and dad and Sisters.  He got to Lego ninjago sets and a ninjago Lego watch. 

My sister and kids came and helped me with the games and the party.  I am so very grateful for that.

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Easton turns 7 today!   Here is pictures of him from all his previous birthdays!

The day he was born!

 

 1st Birthday

 2nd Birthday

 3rd Birthday

 4th Birthday

 5th Birthday

6th Birthday!

Stay tuned for a Lego Birthday Party post.

Snowman

It finally snowed.  The kids were out in it as soon as it was light enough.  Here is the snowman.

Jr. Jazz

Easton started Jr. Jazz and he is loving it.  He was a little confused the beginning of his first game but by the end he had things figured out.  Gretchen took these pictures at his second game.  he is number 20.

New Years Eve

We started off our new years eve day buy taking down all our Christmas decorations.  Gretchen took a few pictures.

 Kinslee was a big help with unpacking all the ornaments. 

 She also helped with the lights. 

 Growing up my family always did fondue for new years.  My siblings even gave us a fondue pot for a wedding gift.  We had never used it until this year. 

 Cheese!

 Easton 

 Gretchen

This isn't the best picture but this is one of my favorite things, super salad.  So yummy.

We also had homemade Peach Pleasure Jamba Juice that tasty pretty close to the real thing. 

Traditions

I grew up in house where we had traditions for almost all holidays and I loved it.  Today as I was taking down my Christmas decorations I was thinking about traditions and how fun and important I think they are.  Each year we buy our kids a new ornament, so when they are grown up and move away they will have a few to start on there own tree.  This year I didn't help at all, Easton and Gretchen picked without any input from me. Here are this years ornaments.

 Kinslee's

 Gretchen's( I think it is totally cool)

 Easton's

 Another tradition we started 3 years ago was Elf on the shelf.  Our elf is named Chester.  My kids love looking for Chester every morning.   I love the magic and excitement for kids at Christmas time.

This is our manger for baby Jesus.  It starts out without any hay.  We read a story called the last straw and then every time we do something nice for someone else in our family we get to put a piece of hay in.  Easton really enjoyed this one this year.