New couch

Ken has a very generous sister who gave us her old couch when she recently bought a new one. Its nice for us to have a "new to us" couch that is quite comfortable. Isabella has decided to claim every seat on the couch and frequently tells us to move. Yes, she's a very bossy 2 year old.




Here are the kids Christmas outfits. I didn't want them to have only one Sunday to wear them, so they started wearing them this last Sunday. They also aren't super Christmas-y so they can wear them for a while.

Making Cookies

Aunt Linda made some sugar cookie dough to cut out for Christmas cookies. She invited us over to help. Isabella had a lot of fun. She liked to help push the cookie cutters into the dough. Each time she pushes down, she has to say "squiiiiiiiish." Its quite funny. Here are some pictures from the cookie making.

Its Christmas Time!

We put our Christmas tree up on Thanksgiving Day this year so that Ken could be around to help put it up. It was fun. Isabella kept jumping around saying, "A Christmas Tree, A Christmas Tree, A Christmas Tree." It was fun to see her excitement. She still is excited about the tree and always has to point it out when we come down the stairs. She loves to lay under the tree and "count" the lights. She really likes when Ken or I lay there with her but she was okay with Bryce laying there too.



And no those aren't yellow presents under the tree, they're some of Isabella's blocks.



This is what she likes to do when she's watching Dora or Max and Ruby.


Are you taking my picture again?


So today is December 5 and we're getting our first snow of the season. We're in the 3-5 inch range. We probably have about 2 inches while I'm entering this blog post. Ken and Isabella went out and played in the snow and built a snowman. Well, I think Ken really built the snowman because Isabella wouldn't have anything to do with it.

She wouldn't stand up so Ken could take a picture of her in all her snow gear.


I took Bryce out for a short little while so we had to bundle him up in his cute little snowsuit. He was too darn adorable.



Playing in the snow.


Bryce sitting on the snowman


Adorable!


Ken's snowman


Isabella not going near Ken's snowman

Too stinkin' cute!!

Some co-workers of Ken's gave us this really cute outfit. He wore it to church on Sunday and it was just too stinkin' cute. We got lots of comments about how adorable the hat was.

Trying to be a big boy

Bryce has decided that he likes to sit up and see the world going on around him. Usually I'll just prop him up in the corner of the couch or with pillows in the middle of the couch. But I decided to bring out the Bumpo to see how he did. He got a huge grin on his face when I put him in. Unfortunately he still doesn't hold his head up well enough so I had to put a pillow behind his head. Isabella thinks the Bumpo is great too and has put her bear and a couple dolls into it since Bryce isn't in there at the moment.