Downtown Christmas Parade 2011!

Kade and Brady were both in the Downtown Christmas parade this past December.  Brady rode on one of the St. Paul's floats.  The theme this year was "Christmas Movies" for St. Paul's.  I was on the decorating team for Brady's float.  We decided to do "Home Alone."  We decorated the float to look like the center of Time Square in New York.  It turned out great.  Kade rode on our church float.  They did a "Country Christmas" theme.  It turned out to be a great evening for a parade.  What a great way to get into the Christmas spirit!

Kade getting ready to ride on the church float!

Kade and Leah riding together on the float!

Brady with buddies Brody, Gene, & Blaine!

Getting ready for take off!

Brady next to the Christmas tree in Time Square!

Our New York Time Square float.

Famiy Christmas Pictures!

The Boys with Nana & Papa Rau

Nana & Papa Rau with all the grandkids!

Nate's First Haircut!

Way back in November around Thanksgiving, Nate got his first haircut with Sherry over at Cuts Unlimited.  He was excited about it until we put him up in the chair by himself.  A few tears were shed until Mommy sat him on her lap and gave him a sucker to occupy him.  Then all was well.  He did great the rest of the time.  There is something about getting that first haircut; they start out looking like your little baby, and by the time they are finished, they look like a little boy all grown up.  Now he loves getting his hair cut.  He fights with his two older brothers about who gets to go first.

Thanksgiving 2011!

This past Thanksgiving was spent with family. We celebrated Thanksgiving a little early with my Granny Loewe. We brought her home from the nursing home to spend the day with all of her grandchildren and great grandchildren. All moments spent with Granny are very special because we never know how much time we may have left on this earth with her. It was a great day! On Thanksgiving day, Dane and I had family over to our house to celebrate all the thankful blessings in our lives.

Soccer Season 2011!

Brady's 1st Soccer Season!

Kade's Soccer Season!

Happy Halloween 2011!

This past Halloween, Kade and Brady decided they wanted to be a policeman and a jailbird. Brady ended up being the policeman, and Kade was the jailbird; so should have been the other way around based on their personalities, but whatever. For the last few years, I have been trying to get Kade to dress up as Alfalfa from "The Little Rascals." He has always refused to do it. I figured I would make Nate my guinea pig before he got too old to tell me "no" as well. I think he looked adorable and made a great Alfalfa. We did a little trick or treating with family and friends. It was a school night, so we didn't stay out too late. We still ended up with way more candy than we needed.

E veryone Meet Harry!

One of Kade's projects for school this year was to make a "friendly monster" around Halloween. We came up with "Harry, the Green Gumdrop Monster" from Candy Land. He flies around Candy Land all day dropping gumdrops to all friendly monsters who live there. Welcome to the family Harry.