COMING SOON...Ben's Movie Blog.

Happy New Year 2008

One of Ben's traditions on New Year's Eve is to beat pots and pans. It was so fun...and loud! Luke thought it was incredibly FUN! We couldn't get him to come back in the house. It was so cute to hear his sweet little voice yelling, "Happy New Year". The spoon Luke is holding eventually broke in half from all the beating!

Ben had just had his Lasik surgery so we tried to stay close to home. Our new friends and neighbors, Mark and Dorothy had us over to their home for a little party. Ben came along too wearing his sunglasses. We had a lot of fun.

Ben's Lasik surgery

Before...
and after!!! Bye-Bye Glasses!!! Ben is doing well and is loving not having to search for his glasses in the morning. Now I need to muster up the courage to do the same thing. Scary!!

More Christmas Pics

Here is a picture of Ashlynn wearing the sweater that her Aunt Jaime gave her. I think she looks so pretty in it. I will be sad when she outgrows it.
Ashlynn was obsessed with Grandma Fern's handmade scarves and hats. She kept stealing everyone else's and wanted to wear all of them at once. Ashlynn refused to take the hat off for several days and she even slept in it.
Loving up Grandma Carolyn before she leaves!
Here is the wonderful Nativity scene Grandma Carolyn made. We are sad to report that baby Jesus is no longer in the Nativity. Ashlynn took him out of his bed and said, "Jesus, night-night." She then stuffed him in the hole of our radio speaker. We have to break open the speaker in order to get him out:( I am thinking we will find other missing items there as well.

Luke's Toy Story scene is almost complete and he is HAPPY about that!

Ashlynn and Luke visiting Aunt Danielle and Uncle Michael's house. David and Jared are in the back row and little Joshua is standing in front of them. New sister Rachel (8 wks old) was taking a nap. Ashlynn did NOT want to be in the picture-but we made her do it anyway. We are such nice parents.

Ashlynn was hoarding the caramel corn that Aunt Dani made-Yummy! It was the best I have ever had-Ashlynn apparently thought so too.

Christmas Gifts

Grandma Fern made everyone hats and scarves. The kids loved them!
Here is Luke enjoying two of his Christmas gifts- a visit from Grandma Carolyn (from Tennessee) and her handmade Nativity scene. This was an awesome gift! All of us love it. What a great idea! Luke loves having his own Nativity scene.

Christmas towels! Luke is a bear and since Ashlynn was born on Easter she had to have a bunny towel. The kids love them and want to wear them all day.

Luke loves his new bed-can you tell? I think this was a gift for Ben too. I heard him say MANY times, "I always wanted a race car bed!". Ben really enjoyed putting this together for Luke. We found it at a second hand store-it was only $50!

This is a photo Luke took of his favorite gift.

A puppet theatre! Ben said this was a lame gift that would end up in a garage sale in a few months. Well, a few days before Christmas, Luke said, "I want Santa to bring me a puppet show!" Do mommies know their babies or what???!! Luke has a great imagination that needs to be put to good use before it gets him in trouble.

Christmas Cookies

At first I thought we were insane allowing a 1 yr.old and a 3 yr.old to make and decorate cookies. Surprisingly they both did a good job.
Ben thought the cookie gun was pretty cool.

'O' Christmas Tree

I really need to update this thing-but I don't have time right now. In the meantime I thought I would post a picture that would give everyone a chuckle. Here is Luke being a Christmas Tree...see the little bulb (actually a "yo-yo") hanging around his waist? He couldn't understand why we all busted up laughing after he showed this to us. How cute. I would love to have his imagination for just a day. What a fun experience that would be.

I will post more tomorrow... I really need to go to bed.