Blessings through this Holiday Season...

Tis' the Season...

Thanksgiving with my family! We spent the day at my Mom's house (rental) with my brother and his family. Mom's new house is being built and she should be in by summer. We are extremely grateful that God provided a rental house big enough to house all of us.

My niece, Ellie, organized, directed and was costume designer to a wonderful Thanksgiving play.

We even had an entire family horseback riding day. The little guys rode with Heather and I on the four wheeler while we followed closely behind the other guys. Jud and Tripp started out on the horses with their Daddy's, but eventually caught a ride with us.

Next came Christmas and we started the month off with non other than a Christmas tree from Costco!

I think all of the Christmas pictures speak for themselves. My little peanuts had a wonderful Christmas as we celebrated Jesus' Birthday.

Halloween 2011

Let the festivities begin!

We carved pumpkins with friends.

Our scary pumpkins with our great friends, Ruth and Elias!

Terrible picture quality, but you get the idea...fun times with our great friends around the fire pit.

I'm usually anti-scary costumes on Halloween, but when I saw these "PJ's" at Wally World for $6 bucks, I gave into Tripp's request to be a skeleton.

We had an awesome "front yard party" in a friends yard for Halloween. Everyone brought food and beverages. The perfect way to celebrate!

Cullen was a little confused about how this whole Halloween thing works. We gave candy to the elderly at the nursing home, but we are supposed to take candy from these people?? He wanted to give all his candy away...fine by me :)

We visited the nursing home near our home to hand out candy to the "sweet people". Tripp was so precious to all the men and women there. He loved handing out candy and dancing for them!

My brother even snuck in town for a quick visit. He took us to a yummy dinner at Fox Brother's BBQ. We missed the rest of the Sachs clan, but we'll take what we can get.

Fall

Maybe I should just blog seasonally. Why do I even put this pressure on myself? Oh yeah, because I refuse to scrap book :)

Tripp started Pre-K this year and Cullen has been sad to see him go each morning!

Watching tractors with Daddy is the best!

Loved the pumpkin patch with my family...we joined my brother and his family for a fun Fall day!

Have you ever seen such sweet angels? I love these babies...every single one of them!

In September we celebrated 10 years of marriage. I love doing life with this man. He is my BEST friend and the LOVE of my life!

Summertime!

Since I am a self-proclaimed "worst blogger ever", I will go ahead and once again let this post be a free for all catch up post.

My baby is growing up...18 months old now. He's saying new words everyday and trying his hardest to keep up with his big brother.
We celebrated Dave's birthday. The boys and I decided to decorate the house before Daddy came home from work. We blew up (or I did) a whole bag of balloons and put them all over the house with a big Happy Birthday Banner. T was so excited for him to get home. Tripp picked out hand cuffs and a police badge from the dollar store for his birthday gift to Dad.

No cake for this Daddy, he's a cobbler man...this particular night was peach.

We met my brother and his family and one of Dave's sisters and her family at the lake for 4th of July. We had pool time and lake time and TONS of fun!
Judson, Corrie, Ellie, and Tripp.
Cullen , Chapman, and Josiah having a pool snack.
Jud and Trip are still BFF and cousins :)
The Sachs/Corrie clan on the Fourth!

My little chunky monkey! It was HOT and he miserable! Maybe just maybe I'll get my act together and post some more summer fun before Fall ;)

This and That

We've been busy since the Tornado...but thankfully with fun things!

Tripp turned four and we celebrated with a splash party in the backyard complete with a huge water slide and baby pools for splashing.

It got a bit muddy in our backyard that struggles to grow grass :)

AND I got to go to the beach with one of my very best friends and all of her best friends for her birthday!

Me and the birthday girl, Georgi!

And I saved the best for last...we celebrated the most special man in our lives with his favorite breakfast. My husband is THE best daddy and the most selfless, loving husband. Happy Father's Day Dave...my Daddy would be so proud :) We love you!