Supper Club Thanksgiving

Cohen and I made special turkey pops for his school Thanksgiving party and made some extras for our Thanksgiving celebration with our supper club

Cohen REALLY loved the candy corn

some meal prep with Brittni

Catherine entertaining the masses

Bri and Eli

getting the turkey platter ready

the boys at their table, they are growing up so fast!

Christmas Lights

Cohen had been having serious neighborhood light envy, so now that dad was home it was time to put up the lights!

too bad I didn't get an actual picture of the tree of lights! it was covered and very fun...maybe next year!

Welcome home daddy!

Well if my cell phone did not get taken I would have a cute little video to include here as well, but alas you only get photos.

Cohen was very excited to see daddy after his long trip

he was jumping around and dancing and saying "daddy, where are you" everyone around us was laughing it was very cute

then he found daddy and screamed then shoved his sign at him

Winter Welcome

Our town center puts on a "Winter Welcome" that has all kinds of fun stuff for the kids and a tree lighting ceremony.

my little man and me

we roasted some marshmallows to make smores

Cohen was pretty excited about it

and his smore, which mostly melted in his hot little hands instead of his mouth

we saw Santa and there was even a smile but FOR SURE no sitting on his lap!

then he found the trains and it was all over, this is one train loving little boy!

New fun...

dad left for a long trip to India so we filled our time with new fun things

like going to see the cats at Petsmart

and transforming our water table into a bean table for the basement

a fun idea from aunt Sarah and her boys

27 months with frog guy

Our little man is 27 months old...my how the time flies!

he is growing, but still pretty small which is just fine with me!

he likes to do "all by myself"

he is great about trying new foods

he has lots of fun with his friends

he loves soccer, both playing and watching

he gives great hugs

he is one special little guy!

Boots

Cohen loves to try on whatever shoes he can find, these are pretty stinking cute on!

but very hard to walk in!

Griffin's 3rd Birthday

Griffin turned 3 and had a fun party, complete with a bouncy house in the living room!

Cohen had fun bouncing

Brittni's super cute cake

the birthday boy watching the candles

so excited for his cake and candles!

Happy birthday FRIEND!

big boy dresser

Cohen outgrew his changing table so we cleared it out, moved it downstairs and...

 painted some old dark wood dressers to fit right in

Happy Birthday Candles

Cohen found these little tea lights and started lighting them all up then started singing happy birthday, it was so cute...

Fun with grandpa

Raking leaves with grandpa is fun! 

quite a bit has changed in a year...here are a few from last year with grandpa

 last year 

Sam's Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Sam's birthday up in Loveland with the Russell side of the family

Cohen loves to help with the candles

maybe a future BUFF