New beds

The kids are all tucked into their new air beds...that also double as trampolines. Nobody tell our homeowner's insurance agent.

And now for the more angelic part of the family...

Merry Christmas

...from the Red-eyed Devil family and "Squinty". Micah likes to close his eyes everytime he says, "Cheese".

Terrible Twos

Do kids really know that they need to start being "terrible" when they turn two? If so, Micah is very smart for his age. This morning Micah was naughty and had to sit on his bed. Instead, he buried his head in toys and whined. Seems very appropriate for his age.

Happy 2nd Birthday Micah!

Micah had his first of two birthday parties yesterday. As you can see from the pictures, he likes the cake this year! The second picture is of the kids table, with Miles, Calvin and Micah.

Christmas isn't Christmas without a trip to see Santa

My cousins

Last weekend we went to watch "Janna baball". Now, Micah says "Janna baball" about 1,000 times per day. Anyway, in this picture (l to r) are: (2nd cousin) Steven, (cousin) Janna, Micah and (2nd cousin) Jeremy. We all had lots of fun and Janna played awesome! :)

Christmas Parade

We were late, but we still made it to the Appleton Christmas parade last Tuesday. Not only were Joe and Jodi nice enough to save us a front row curb, but Jodi took these great pics. Thanks Jodi!

The many hairs of Calvin.

Cal's recent hairdos include a coloring from a Halloween party....














...and his famous winter hat head.

Halloween

Like my brother

Even though Calvin and Micah fight like brothers, Micah loves to imitate Calvin doing just about anything. Here, I caught him putting on Calvin's "undies".

Another new train

Last weekend cousin Janna had a basketball tournament in Kimberly, so the family headed over to visit. We had lots of fun. Calvin and Tricia busied themselves one morning with making Calvin another train. It's a good thing because he doesn't have many trains! :)

Not quite Christmas card worthy

but still cute! Here are a couple of shots from this weekend when we were trying to get a shot in the fields behind our house (for our Christmas cards). They both cooperated, but never at the same time. We'll try again this weekend.

Prize winning Puddy

I never thought I would use "prize-winning" and "Puddy" in the same sentence, but I had to after he placed at a dog grooming show. Here is a picture of Puddy at his best; he is styling in the latest dog hairstyle.

Sunflowers

Last weekend we went to a Fall/Halloween Art festival. The kids made lots of interesting "art pieces". One of the things they put together (with a lot of help from Dad and Mom) was a sunflower necklace. We decided to plant the sunflower seeds in the backyard and hope we will have two sunflowers in our backyard each year. I thought it would be a nice way to watch the kids grow - I will take a picture of them next to their sunflowers each year. This year, all you see is them holding their sunflower necklaces in the back yard. The picture is actually really funny though, because they wanted to take the picture facing the house (which also had them facing the sun). Their faces are priceless.