...a very good place to start...

I guess we shall start at the very beginning! Get ready gang.

The week before Christmas James had a Holiday program at school. I just love these things and watching all of these kids. The boy and the two girls next to him are his best friends he says. :)

After the program, we all did a few crafts and left to start Christmas vacation!!

The next day we went to my family's Christmas celebration of Christmas Camp. Our family is huge, as you can see in the pic above, so we rent out a camp for the weekend. The kids had a blast.

Santa comes and everyone gets a gift. You can see the kids waiting for Santa below.

The week of Christmas we did a lot of hanging around and cuddling on the couch. My fav. We can't forget about Georgie!! Our little elf friends made a visit every night. The kids woke up on xmas eve morn to a present from Georgie. He gave them each new jammies to wear when Santa came. This has actually been a tradition since James was born.

Oh Christmas morning, how I love thee. Pretty sure I had a hard time sleeping because I was so excited. :)

They got some stuff they really wanted which is super fun to see them get so excited about.

Caleb made us a YUMMY breakfast...

My dad and Vicki came over and hung out the rest of the day. My dad made us some more delicious food and we all sat around with expanding waistlines.

We have had amazing weather for a Minnesota winter. Temps mostly in the 40s, when it should be well below zero. I am not complaining!

Ada turned TWO on the 5th!! Happy Birthday my sweet! She looks so old in these two pics. *tear*

We had a little shindig for her this last Sunday. She is in love with Dora right now, so appropriately we decked the house in Dora. It's funny though. I never thought I would fall into the kind of tacky licensed character birthday parties. I always thought I would have these super cute, crafty parties. I am not going to lie, I tried to pressure Ada into an owl party. She wasn't into it at all. But then realizing, who am I to deny her of her favorite things? She likes Dora? Damn it, I will give her Dora!

This is what we are up to these days...

Big girl undies!!

Our Morning- A Movie

James' fishing how-to

Caleb took James fishing yesterday(see post below), here is a little video I took today.

Ada

talking up a storm

goofy boy with one of my head bands on

waking up from nap time

boogie oogie oogie

I totally jacked this idea from a blog I read often My Life With Ethan, check it out... hot mama and a super cute baby child! I LOVE A DANCIN' BABE!

a boy with his stick

Wow, can't tell I'm from Minnesota or anything!

A short video from our walk

Goll, I hate listening to myself talk. GAG! My voice sounds extra weird on this video for some reason.

A little excited

My mommy, Bruce, Erika (my sis), and Dean are coming from AZ in a couple weeks for James' birthday! I am really flippin excited...I guess James is too :)

My golly he cracks me up all day!

I was doing the dishes and went to check on James and this is how I found him. I guess you can say that he is really INTO his toys. I am sorry I say such lame things sometimes, but I just can't help it!

Here is a little video of... you guessed it in his highchair. Oh my gosh, I was laughing so extremely hard at his mouth for some reason. He wasn't doing it as funny when I had the camera in front of him, but you still get the idea. Please excuse the off center camera shot, I wasn't paying any attention.

wabble wabble kurblunk

This was actually taken over a week ago, but for some reason I couldn't seam to get it to go on my computer. Here is James doing a little walking. He seems to be a little more sturdy just since this video was taken. He is such a little rascal!

a couple videos

Above is James doing a little walking...and me bribing him with treats of course :)

James saying ball

so big!

a little slideshow

Here is just a little slideshow I put together of pics of James from birth til now...i like the song :)

my little dancer boy being silly

please ignore my geekyness! Thank you!

no shirt + Spaghetti = silly boy

here is my goofball!

a little old

ok this is a little old, but before my videos wouldn't work. Please please please ignore my breathing!?! I don't really know what is going on with that! must have just ran up and down the stairs 50 times or something :) ish

walk walk walk walkin

Unfortunately, I don't have a video camera. This was taken with my digital camera and it is just a bunch of pictures taken in a row. He started to do this the other day, it kind of scared me the first time I saw it. I was standing in the kitchen and all of the sudden he came walking in!

goofy boy

here is James today!