Kansas Christmas

We spent last weekend in Kansas for Grandpa Doug's 50th birthday party and to celebrate christmas since we were all there.  We also did some deer hunting, with no luck, our freezer is looking pretty bare compared to year's past as of right now.  Hopefully Matt has some luck muzzloader hunting this next week.  We had a wonderful weekend and came home with a truck loaded with toys and presents.

Owen never cooperates for a picture.  He was either looking the other way or covering his face somehow.

Trying out his new harmonica.  He got several noisy toys for christmas this year, Daddy is so excited :)

Package of 100 plastic balls to go in his new play tent.  Of course he had to open and dump them all of the floor amongst the many presents and gift wrapping paper.  Then we all helped pick them up and put them in a bag, just so he could dump it back out again, over and over.  So much fun!

His new Elmo backpack.  He looks like such a big kid with it on.

Reading a book.

Daddy's new gloves.

Aunt Dacey got Owen a toy machine gun that lights up, vibrates, and makes noise.  He loves it, and daddy does not mind the noise so much I don't think.  At least it's a manly noisy toy :)

Sighting in the scope.

Shooting the deer on the wall.  First thing he did when he got it was say deer and shoot it.

When we got home on Sunday he got his stuffed deer out to shoot at.  Daddy made it run across the floor, he aims, he shoot, and throws his hands in the air and yells "Got it!"  It was hilarious.  First deer kill photo.

New car track town.  He had to help me put it together.



Snow has arrived...

 Hard at work

 Owen helping daddy put together his work bench.

 Such a good helper.

 He really enjoys his new tools.

 He sometimes disappears and I will find him upstairs using his drill.

 "Ooo-ha" he says

 Decided he wanted to walk through the snow.  He only had his tennis shoes on at this point.

 Thought I would let him walk around for a short amount of time before taking him inside.  Then he fell down and got snow all over his hands and pants.  I made him go inside right after this.  He was not happy with me at all, so I told him we could go back out if he put his snow pants and boots on.

So it takes us ten minutes to get all bundled up, he can barely walk, and wants me to carry him around once we are outside.  I had to hold him up while walking through the snow with his boots on and just ended up making him madder by going inside after about ten minutes because I could not carry him around all bundled up for very long.  Plus I am not too excited about playing in the snow, I'll make daddy do it next time.

Christmas Begins

We began our holiday season last week with putting up the christmas tree.  Owen enjoyed helping and tried putting on garland and ornaments. 

He was very excited this evening, maybe the holiday spirit is getting him.

I had Owen help me make sugar cookies for christmas with Matt's mom's side of the family.   He enjoyed hitting the dough with the cookie cutter at least.

We spent Sunday afternoon at Wade, Steph, and Whitney's house for Matt's mom's side christmas. We love having everyone so close this year. Thanks for hosting you three. It was a great afternoon/evening with lots of good food, presents, and fun.

Owen was so excited for his trucks, and this one talked, it was priceless to see his face when he opened it.  I wish I had the video camera.

 Owen and Whitney have become great friends.  Whitney got a play kitchen that Owen enjoyed trying out with her.  They also ran around together the night before at a friends wedding.  It is so fun to see them interacting.

Owen got a workbench playset from Grandma Cathy and Roger.  We put it together last night, he loved it and was very mad that I made him quit playing to take a bath and get ready for bed.  Pictures to post later.

We forgot to get a group picture before Wade left for a meeting.  So we got a picture of all the moms and babies.  They are all getting so big.

Grandma Cathy picked up [noisy] laser guns for all grandkids :)  Owen really enjoys it.  We have not had it out when Matt is home, but he plays with it when it is just me home.  Guess I am trained to tune out annoying noises considering the profession I have.  He likes to point it at his belly to see the lights and feel it vibrate.

His new tonka truck. 

We had a great afternoon and thank Great-Grandma Audrey, Grandma Cathy, and Roger for all the great gifts.



Thanksgiving

I know thanksgiving was over a week ago and I am just now posting.  Better late than never right.

Papa, Granny and Grandpa Simpson, and Aunt Dacey were there for thanksgiving dinner Thursday evening.  Granny, Dacey and I got up at 3:00 Friday morning to go power shopping.  I enjoy it, though usually pretty crazy, except this year we did not realize Wal-Mart opened at midnight so we missed most of the good stuff.  Though we did end up with a lot of what we were after.  Thanks so much to Grandpa for staying with Owen, I know they had a blast looking at tractor books and hanging out that morning.  We had a good weekend relaxing around the house and got lots of play time in with Owen.  Cannot wait to see everyone again.

We tried building a fort, not too shabby, but a little flimsy for Owen, he succeeded in tearing it down pretty quickly.  He insisted on walking under it most of the time so the blanket would not stay up.

All bundled up!  He could hardly walk, poor little man.  And he could not even get up when he fell down, which was several times.  He resorted to wanting me to carry him around the yard because he was mad that he kept falling.  This did not last long, but he got a short time outside this way.   

Bedtime story:  Time for Bed Sleepyheads

 Come on Aunt Dacey, isn't this fun first thing in the morning??

 Granny and Grandpa Simpson bought a big screen tv Black Friday.  Owen has gotten a lot of entertainment out of the box the last few days.

 Climbing across and sliding down Daddy.