a favorite thing, christmas decorations

Thanks to addie and her creative photography, we got some good action shots plus pretty great shots of the final product this year.

crazy cute kids! We had so much fun putting the decorations and being together and drinking egg nog.

Rhen was very helpful putting the decorations on and very good at not pulling them off this year! Yay.

This last picture is our after thanksgiving family dinner. After we had a wonderful dinner at grandma's we had one again on sunday at home. Both were delightful.

The Rhen-man is three

Rhen had a fun birthday, cake, balloons, pizza and toys. What more could you ask for? Just look at that smile, that says it all. Here he is wearing our family birthday hat, each year we add a trinket to the hat and they get to sport it while we sing to them. For his birthday we are going to add a horse from his birthday cake.

It is very ironic, since Rhen is lactose intolerant, that he loves pizza. We take off the cheese then he eats the peporoni and bread and dips it into the ranch dressing. YUMMMM

He saw this little tractor and horses and "guys" as Rhen calls them. He wanted them on his cake. He was to anxious to wait to play with them so I got them out for him to play with them the day before I made the cake. The next day I made the cake and went to put the horses and guys on it and couldn't find them, he searched most the day for them. He wanted them on so bad and was so glad to find them and ran to me when he did and said, "put it on the cake!!"

ode to Jake

Since Jake wrote such sweet poetry to me, I thought I would reciprocate the guesture, although I am not nearly as poetic with the english language.

Jake is like the Patagonia Nano Puff Jacket

Durable, good looking, well worth the exta cash and always in style. Light weight, yet warm. It protects you from the wind and rain. In any element you just want to have it around. As unpredictable as the weather is, it wraps around you to make the storms bearable and comforts you to were you never want to take it off.

Love you Jake xxXOOooXxO