First Snow

We got our first snow of the winter in the beginning of December and of course Jensen had to go out and play in it. Here are a few pictures of that.

Falling Behind Again

I know I am really behind in my blogging. I have been really busy lately but I guess that is always the case so I will attempt to catch everyone up with what we have been doing this past month or so.

Christmas was a little different for us this year and this was the first year that Jensen really understood what was going on so we decided rather than stay at my parents house, as we normally do, we would stay the night at our house on Christmas Eve so that Santa could visit us there. We also decided we would start a new tradition and we had Brian's mom, Janet, stay over with us as well. I think Brian and I were more excited about Christmas morning than Jensen was, and of course Peyton was still too young to understand what was going on. Lynnette called us at 6 am and I thought it was an alarm clock going off instead of my phone so I woke up and ran upstairs to wake up Jensen! I was expecting him to be so excited to get up but he said "Mom, why are you waking me up? The sun isn't up yet" Ok, so I guess maybe he still doesn't get the whole excitement of Christmas yet! Anyways, he did wake up and we had a nice Christmas morning together and then we went from there over to my parents house where we would stay for the next few days. Lynnette and Dave came for a few days which was great! They were there to celebrate a few days after Christmas and through New Years! We also had our extended family Mowat Christmas as well which was really fun.

Here are some pictures from over the holidays:

Our Family Christmas 2006

I had to zoom in on this gummy grin!

Leah, Lynnette and Lara

Spike, I mean Peyton

Aunt Net gave him a mohawk!

Great Grandma ( Mowat) Wheeler with Jensen, Titus and Peyton

The Vic Mowat Family at the Mowat Christmas

Grandma and her kids: Vic, Neil, Darwin, Dan and Ilene

Jensen helped Aunt Lara make Christmas cookies and he was really proud of them

Net took this picture of Peyton which I think is adorable ( I know I am biased but look at those blue eyes)
Aunt Net and Jensen

Aunt Net with Jensen and Peyton

Peyton and Jensen

Jensen opening a gift from Aunt Net and Uncle Dave

He loved it!!

Grandpa and Jensen both got matching Farmall shirts!

Peyton and his new truck

New Year's Party at our house

Leah, Lara, Net, Dave, Brian and Ben

Toasting the New Year 2007

Richardson Family Christmas

As we do every year we had a gathering of Brian's side of the family, The Richardsons, to celebrate Christmas. This year it was held at Brian's mom's house and she did a great job decorating and getting everything ready for the party. We have lots of young kids on that side of the family now which always makes parties more fun. It was a really great time and we were happy with how many people were able to make it this year!

Uncle Ralph, Aunt Norma, Aunt Violet, Uncle Ken, Janet, Uncle Melvin, Aunt Pat and Grandma

Eric, Natalie, Pat, Melvin, Grandma and Nicolette

Natalie ( and baby to be), Eric and Nicolette

Our family ( how fun to get a picture with everyone cooperating)

Grandma Jan with Jensen

Grandma Jan with Peyton

Seeing Santa Claus

Well, as most people we were pretty busy between Thanksgiving and Christmas with lots of various activities and excitment going on. We were really looking forward to Christmas this year with both boys. This would be Peyton's first Christmas and this would be the first Christmas that Jensen would really understand what was going on. Of course we took them both to see Santa Claus. We went to the Santa House in Midland which is amazing. The wait was long but there is so much to look at while you are waiting. Jensen was so excited which was fun. He couldn't wait to get up to the front of the line to see Santa. Here are some pictures from that experience ( the lighting in the building was red and green and we had just gotten a new camera so we didn't really know what we were doing with it so the pictures didn't turn out the greatest):

Jensen very excited to see Santa

Waiting

Still Waiting.....

Playing with trains while waiting

Peyton checking everything out

Jensen on Santa's sleigh

The boys with Santa finally!