Holiday Magic!

This blog is difficult to keep up now with 2 kids, being back to work and busy with holiday festivities! We have had a lot happen since the last time I posted. I am back to work, which is going pretty good. Our wonderful babysitter, April, is coming into our house which makes everything 100 times easier! Finn  got baptized and will be 3 months this coming Wednesday. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving visiting both sides of the family. We had our 2nd annual cutting of our Christmas tree with the boys on a cold wintery day.  And now we are settling in to our home with the winter coming fast upon us and enjoying the Christmas decorations, shopping, wrapping of gifts, and cooking baking.  I love the smell of the house at this time of year with the delicious cookies and the smell of the tree.

 Finn with his godparents, Aunt Andrea and Uncle Nick!

 My little turkeys!

 5th Annual Turkey Trot! Owen's first experience.

 We brought Owen to the Discovery Museum in Rockford and he loved the Tot Spot. Hopefully we will get back soon. He could have stayed there all day and played.

 No surprise that he especially liked the train. It was amazing that he actually wore a hat. I guess we may need to buy him a Train Conductor's hat to wear on cold days.

 Annual Christmas Tree hunt.  This year's tree was a little on the small side, but still looks great.

 Back in November we spotted a buck in our neighbor's yard behind us. We could not believe our eyes at how large it was in the middle of a neighborhood.

 Owen loves cleaning toilets thanks to Grandma Bogdonas for introducing him to it. Now I know that I can put him to work cleaning for me.

 A few old pictures from Halloween. Owen was a construction worker but did not want to wear his hard hat or tool belt. He definitely enjoyed the candy though! We was on a sugar high until he hit a wall at about 6:30 and passed out for the night.