Happy 6th Birthday Luke & Noah

 It is hard for me to believe these guys are 6! It doesn't seem like that many years ago that they were my tiny baby boys, just born and so sweet.

 

These guns been played with almost constantly since the birthday party. Add some nerf guns that shoot darts and a basket ball hoop  outside and you have some happy and busy boys. When others call his gun a rifle Noah corrects them and says it is a civil war replica musket!

What joy these boys bring to our lives. I am so grateful for them.

Christmas 2012

 Christmas Eve

 This is the "Feeding Station" the kids made for Santa's Reindeer. They even came back out and put name tags so each deer would know which snack was theirs.

 

Putting out the magic Christmas key.Santa needs it because our house does not have a chimney.

 Christmas Day 2012

 Stocking treasures

I over heard the girls telling a friend last week that on Christmas day they could eat whatever they wanted all day long. Today was FULL of chocolate. I am not sure anyone ate much else, even the delicious ham dinner I cooked.

Santa brought every one bikes this year.  It was beautiful today, warm and sunny. Not very Christmas like, but we had fun riding bikes outside for a long time.

Christmas Best plus One

Poor Luke is sick again. He woke up with a fever of 102. So these are the kids who went to church today, plus Luke. He is feeling a bit better after sleeping all day.

Contentment

This is what I see most mornings now when I take Molly for a walk. It is not snow, or majestic mountains, but it is beautiful. I am working on choosing to be more content in life. But seriously, I miss the snow.

Update

 This is our bedraggled Christmas wreath. I loved it when I got it 10 years ago. I tried to spruce it up when we moved here by adding some metallic flowers and leaves. It looks so ugly to me I didn't even put it up last year.

This is my made-over wreath. Makes me happy when projects actually turn out! Yay to Target for cheap and fun Christmas things and for my reunion with my long forgotten hot glue gun.