"cause when we see you, we find strength to face the day..

in your presence, all our fears are washed away..

Hosanna-

You are the God who saves us"

discovering the tent

On Christmas Eve Adam and my brothers went out and set up this tent for the boys for Christmas. We closed all the blinds so that they wouldn't see it right away in the morning and we could have the big reveal=) but William was running around first thing and somehow saw it out of the corner of the sliding glass door, "guys! there's a tent out there!" so at the crack of dawn we all went running outside in our pj's to check out the tent=) they were so excited!

random christmas morning pics

Gingerbread house competition

Over christmas we also started a new and awesome tradition, which was the gingerbread house decorating extravaganza=) we had all kinds of rules (mainly implemented and enforced by Adam, lets just say, at one point he was forced to eat a dry pinto bean to prove edibility of their cottage)... and we divided up into teams. Below is the winning team of my mom and Adam and their stone cottage, yes, that is blueberry pudding for the pond for those of you who were wondering.

My Dad and I were a team, the best team, even though our gingerbread cabin did not take first place. It was very quaint, check out the tootsie roll and pretzel fence in front!

and then there were these guys...

for the record, they did kind of get the shaft this year when they opened up their gingerbread kit to find that almost all of it was in tiny pieces=) excuses, excuses...

actually, I think they did pretty good with their tropical theme and fruit roll up cabana=)

visit from Grandma B.

the week before christmas Grandma B. came down for a visit and we got to do lots of fun things, one evening we went to our little downtown that was all decorated for Christmas and they had a ferris wheel and carriage rides!

Carriage Ride!

This was so much fun! I think it will be a new Christmas tradition! (yes, Adam and I have matching coats, we're very nerdy if you didn't already know=)

William absolutely loved getting to do this ride, his face was so sweet=)

sorry its been awhile! i'll let truman fill you in on what he has been up to=)

since we took this video he has really gotten the hang of rolling, most of his naps are on his tummy now!