October 15, 2011

Leif celebrated his 6th birthday with a big group of friends at Pump It Up near our house. It was pretty chaotic with 14 boys and 3 girls, but Leif had a great time!

Leif's flag football season is coming to an end today with his last game. At his game on Wednesday, which was in the rain, he ran the ball down the field on the second play of the game to score a touchdown. That was fun! Shortly after his game is over today, on to hockey:)

Cade is doing well and enjoying preschool at Christ Lutheran Preschool. The picture above is from his class field trip to the Eveland Family Farm in Andover, MN. It was beautiful and sunny, as it has been several days here in October.

Cade was a bit undecided on whether to play hockey this year so we're going to hold off until next year. He hasn't shown as much interest in sports as Leif, but we'll see what happens!

Justin and I took the boys to Anoka County Farms last Sunday for the boys to pick out pumpkins, jump in the castle and get a pony ride. Again, it was another beautiful, sunny day!

December 2009...not quite as long as I thought it had been since the last update to this blog. Who knows who is even following it anymore:) Well, here's a quick snapshot until I have more time to write. Leif just turned 6 years old and started Kindergarten this fall. He's busy with sports year round. Currently, he's playing football with hockey to start up again in a few weeks. Cade is in preschool this year and turned 4 years old in July. He's been a bit undecided on whether to start hockey this year though we are not pressuring him!

I just started to do a family photo album and looking back at all those pictures is so amazing. I think of the boys being so big now and it's amazing that it really wasn't that long ago that they were babies!! I hope to get some pictures uploaded soon. Stay tuned...hopefully it won't be another 2 years before I'm back!

Merry Christmas

Movies of Leif's Christmas program at his pre-school. Sorry for the shakey camera work but it is hard to keep the camera still when you have a 2 year old hanging on you.

Some recent pictures of the boys:

We are leaving for our Caribbean cruise (7 days) on the 26th! We are all very excited to get into some warm weather!

ABCs

Leif (soon to be 4) and Cade (just turned 2) performing the ABCs for your viewing pleaure.

Some pictures of Aunt Sarah and Uncle Chris's recent visit to MN...

It's been a long time!

Well it has been a long time since I have update this thing...Just wanted to give a quick update because it seems like that is all I have time for. Over the last couple of months we have been busy. We took a little vacation to coordinate with Justin's work trip to Boston, MA. Then Krista and the boys flew out to spend a week in the NH with Grandma Judy and Grandpa Ken. The boys had a great time visiting G&G.

Cade (aka Cadders) is really talking a lot now! There are somethings that he says that you still cannot understand, but he does very well getting his point across. He is also a very good listener, which is quite refreshing when you have a rebellious 3 year in the house. Cade is usually very sweet but with all of his talking he has quickly learned that "No" is his favorite word! He must use "Noooo" at least 1000 times a day. It is kind of funny though because a lot of times he will say "No" and then do what you asked him to do. Watch the video of Cade talking...isn't he cute?

Leif is a great kid. He, like all other 3 years, has copious amounts of energy. Only about 1/10th of his energy can be burned by playing inside and then he just starts pushing his brother over and bouncing off the walls. We are all really looking forward to spring! Leif has started the new hobby of Lady Beetle collecting. Pretty much every house in MN has a ton of these Lady Beetles that get in through the cracks this time of year. Leif considers the Beetles his pets and insists on taking them everywhere, including to bed! Leif is also in floor hockey and really enjoys it, he leaves the hour long session with the biggest smile on his face, it is very cute. Next month we are going to start outdoor soccer with Leif,and he is really looking forward to that! Watch Leif in action in the video below....

Here are some other recent photos of the boys. Enjoy!

Christmas 2008

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Well, we had a very busy Christmas week. Christmas eve day Krista, Rebecca, Katherine, Leif and Cade baked Christmas cookies. The boys were really getting into decorating the cookies and eating them too! The parties started on Christmas eve when we went to Krista's cousins house in Edina, MN. There were about 40 of us in all, the boys had a lot of fun running around with all the kids. Leif is now known among the family as "the pinball wizard" since he spent about 45 minutes playing a real full size pinball game. He was really racking up the points too! There was so much good food we all came how with stomach aches! Christmas eve night Leif and Cade left out cookies and milk for Santa as well as special Reindeer food out in the snow for all the reindeer. Christmas morning was great fun. Leif came running in our bedroom and yelled out "Merry Christmas, Santa came last night!". He was very excited to go downstairs and rip open presents. Cade, was not much into opening up presents he preferred to just go and play with all his old toys. Although, Cade did open a couple of his own gifts, Leif tore through 90% of them. The boys got trucks, trucks and more trucks...which is just what they wanted! The boys got so much stuff, we may need to get a bigger house (just kidding!).

Later in the afternoon Krista's immediate family came to our house and we opened more presents, Leif was so excited he was opening everyone else's presents too! After Christmas dinner we were all playing board games...which eventually turned into stupid human tricks...did you know that Leif can role his stomach? On 12/27 we had yet another family party to attend, it was a couples wedding shower for Krista's cousin. On 12/28 Leif and Justin went downhill skiing. I think that Leif really liked going down the hill, however he did not like going up the "magic carpet" since he wiped out on it a couple of times. Justin plans to get Leif out skiing at least 2 more times this year.


We are not yet sure what we are doing for New Years Eve this year (even though it is only two days away). We have talked about either going up to the cabin or having some friends over.