Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! Ryan actually had 4 days off. Spent Thursday in Marcus at my parent's house. Lots of good food. The kids loved the sweet potatoes and green bean casserole and of course, snicker salad!

The kids got their 1 year pictures taken on Friday. Not impressed. It's getting harder and harder to get them all to look. They were too busy running off and getting into things. Addie's tooth popped through on Saturday so Friday pictures weren't so great for her especially. They looked so cute in their outfits too...we'll see how they turn out I guess.

Got to finish my Christmas shopping on Saturday. Couldn't believe how pleasant the mall was. No lines and it wasn't packed at all. Everyone must have been out and about on Friday.

Didn't take any pictures the whole weekend. What kind of mother am I!?

11 months!

We are 11 months old! 1 month until the BIG FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY! We've decided to have their party on their actual birthday---Tuesday, December 21st. Hope the weather is much nicer than the day they were born! If you don't remember, they were born in an awful snowstorm. It snowed and was nasty from the 21st until the 26th. I can't remember how much snow we got but it was a TON.

Nothing exciting going on really....Colin is walking everywhere finally! They are starting to fight with each other. They chase after each other if someone takes a toy that they want to play with. The boys like to pull hair and Brady bites. HARD. Not when he's mad or anything..just all of the time! We started adding Vitamin D milk in with their formula...Can't wait to be done buying formula! Only a few more weeks left of that I hope!!!! Goodbye $24 cans of formula.......hello $3 gallons of milk!!!!

 I put up the Christmas tree and am anxious to see how it goes! They spend a lot of time staring at it. Colin touches the lights and gets mad when we say NO. I wrapped a bunch of presents (almost done Christmas shopping!!) and will put them underneath it soon. We'll see how that goes too!!!!!!!

I haven't been taking a lot of pictures lately...here are a few new ones. We got new hats and they aren't fond of wearing them.

Brady and his new hat!

Presents from Cousin Krista!

Colin-11 months

Addie--11 months

I could hear Addie cryin...and this is where I found her...

Silly Addie

Brady--11 months

GO COLIN GO!

He's getting it figured out finally! We're up to about 15 steps or so. I think we'll have 3 walkers by Thanksgiving?!? When the other 2 kids were learning to walk...we'd say  (and clap) "GO BRADY GO or GO ADDIE GO" and they would often clap while they were walking. I've caught (and so has my mom) Addie clapping for Colin lately when we say "GO COLIN GO!" She's very encouraging!

Our Family is Growing!!

Our family will be growing by one in September!!!!!!

HA...you didn't really think I was pregnant, did you?!?!

What I mean is...my brother got engaged this week to Sarah!!! The wedding will be in Spencer (1 hr from my hometown) sometime in September most likely!! We are VERY excited!!!!!



My mom is famous for her snowmen...She had them made before Sarah and Jake got here this weekend!




The happy couple!!!



Congratulations Jake and Sarah!! We can't wait for the big day!!!

Shots & Weight Checks..

The kiddos had their 2nd round of flu shots today. I can't believe how well they do with shots. Seriously, Ryan fusses more about getting a flu shot for himself than the kids fuss when they get one. Brady cried for about 4 seconds, Colin for about 2 seconds and Addie just whimpered once! Rockstars! I'm always curious about their weights...I feel like Colin is huge so my guess was that he was pushing like 25 pounds!! HA! I was also curious to see how much the other 2 gained. They walk so much that I assumed they hadn't put on much weight since their 9 month appt.  At 10.5 months, they weighed:

Addison: 19 lbs 13 oz
Brady:  20 lbs. 12 oz
Colin: 22 lbs. 7 oz

And just some pics from grannie's camera!


Check out her pants...these were her Aunt Samantha's from 1990!




This is what gram lets us do when you're at work, mom!!!



Colin is trying to weasel his way onto the chair. Addie's face says it all..."OH NO YOU DON'T COLIN!"



The kiddos with their favorite lady!



I CAN DO IT TOO!!

We have another walker! Addie is walking everywhere! Just in the last day, she has really taken off. I've been home from work for about 4 hours and I haven't even seen her crawl more than a few times!  GO ADDISON!

I'd say Brady walks 80% of the time and crawls 20%. It's so cute to watch him go! I think they both learned to walk so early because they want to get away from Colin. He is such a BULLY! But the second someone does something to him, he cries like a girl!!!!!!

And Colin...well, still not much progress! He'll get it soon! Someone has to be last!