Christmas 2011

Pete's parents surprised us with tickets to come home to Idaho for Christmas! It was so great to celebrate with family as we were in Cleveland the last two years.  The night we set up our tree at our home in Florida this cute little present was the first thing under. Made by Jackson of course.  He is so funny. 

Christmas eve, going to bed before Santa came.  We stayed with Pete's parents and had such a great time with them!

 Indiya loved Janie, and Janie didn't seem to mind her either. 

 Opening gifts at Lisa's house with my family.

 I don't have tons of pictures because I was pretty busy with the video camera :)

Things to remember

 Max used to line everything up.  He'd line up cars, these Christmas toys or anything that "went together" into a big line  I loved that he would do this, and am sad that he doesn't do it much anymore.  I think he's got some OCD in him :)

 He came home from preschool with these elephant ears and trunk on and I thought he was the cutest elephant ever!  He wore those ears for like a week straight every waking moment. 

 He and his friend Sam playing in the laundry basket. 

Jackson had a play at school, it was a hoe down.  How cute is he?!

Halloween 2011

 Yes I am trying to catch myself up real quick so I can get to some fun stuff we've been doing lately!  Jackson was a ninja, Janie was an Indian and Max was a dragon.  

 When we got to the ward party we saw Robby dressed as a dragon too.  Robby, and Ryan's (below as the knight) dad is in the Endo program with Pete, we sure will miss these guys!!

 Max with his favorite girl...Kolette.

 Janie was running a fever Halloween night so I stayed with her and Pete took the boys trick-or-treating with  his Endo friends.  Max was probably so hot in that costume!

Fall in Florida

 See the goat on the board in the tree?

We went to this little farm (like Patterson's... only not even half a great as Pattersons ) this fall.  Can you see the corn maze behind Jack's swing? Its so green, it was hard not to have the leaves change color and feel like a real fall in Ohio.  But we made the best of it :)

It's about time!

Catching up a little. I was just going to start off with where we are but looking back at pictures I want to remember lots of this stuff that I never blogged about. So here goes :) Jackson did soccer last fall. These are some of what soccer was all about. Here is his team. He was in a lot of trouble right before I took these pictures so he's trying his hardest to smile!

I cant remember the boy next to Jack. The front row is Talmage Jenkins (left), Max Mathie, and Kennedy (not sure his last name). Max is in Jacks kindergarten class, and super good friends! Joseph Lowry was also on the team but he missed this night we took pictures.

He's right there to defend the goal!

Max and Kolette are so cute and loved playing together.

We think Jackson was born to be a golly. He would try his hardest to get in the middle of the game but always ended up running back to defend the goal. I think he's a little shy like his mom.

Max loves soccer and loves getting the time to play with friends and dad. He LOVES soccer season.

This was Janie at most games, eating snacks in her stroller. She couldn't walk then so it was easy to keep her in the stroller!