The Newbies

Welcome to the World!

Two new buddies... Leo and Cooper

Coops thought he would throw the first punch =)

Uncle Jack is Funny...Looking

Check out these rolls!!

But what is he smiling about?!

Uncle Jack, of course!

Grandpa Larry comes over to snuggle with Coops

Day with the Kasell-Kennedy's

We spent the whole day at the Kennedy's today and we had so much darn fun!!

We also talked Chadly and Sherry into coming over to play.

Most importantly Grace, Ava and Jackson had lots of fun playing with cousin Sawyer and snuggling new baby Cooper.

Chad looks like a natural!

The perfect profile

Sawyer really loved all of Jackson's cool toys

The foam in chads beer looked just like a sailfish - how about that?! Cool.

At this point Dawnie lost all control and the kids covered themselves in stickers

Christmas Day

Santa found us!!

Sawyer was so pleased with the apple in his stocking!

We had our traditional Christmas morning with Mom and Jon..... presents, brunch, playing, and more eating.

Signe with her Electric Guitar Shirt from the Slonims

Yep - the Slonim's were all in matching footie pajamas =)

Coopy and Daddy

I with my breakfast

Many of our extended family joined us in the afternoon - we finally got to meet cousin Isabelle!

And they all got to meet Cooper -- with cousin Brett

And the MacNally Four

Christmas Eve

We certainly had the iconic "White Christmas" in Minnesota.

We generally like the temperature to be 65 degrees WARMER we couldn't deny that it was pretty!

We spent Christmas Eve with Curt's family.

We had a holiday lunch with Grandpa Al and Uncle Reid, Happy Hour with Grandma Kim and several cousins and then Christmas Dinner with GM and DJ. It was such a nice day.

This was my very favorite Christmas gift to give this year... Last Christmas DJ had asked me to make him a Christmas stocking -- and I knew he would forget all about it!

This was the result of many hours, all of which were outside my comfort zone as I had never done counted cross-stitch before. I was pleased with the end result and DJ really liked it!

Sawyer and 2nd cousin Emma

TJ and those enviable curls

The Dunlap Brothers teach Sawyer his "Go Fish" game

Emily, Ava and Emma

Hudson and Baby Cooper

Sophi Turns 8

These pictures are in reverse order... oops!!

We spent the afternoon at the MOA with the Bird -- Underwater World and some very fun rides followed by lunch at Bubba Gumps. We then had dinner and dessert at Grandma and Grandpas.

Christmas with Grandpa Larry

After Cooper's Baptism this evening we all went to Kori and Neil's to celebrate Christmas with Dad / Grandpa Larry.


Per usual he made some FABULOUS gifts!!


(Love Kori representing the holidays in this picture - HA! And I do realize she will want to kill me for this...But Sophi looks awesome and her Shark is super cool!)


Uncle Neil gets some time with Coops

Sophi is laughing pretty hard at the bacon she received