The Geach's Christmas

Wow, Christmas has come and gone once again. What a magical year it was this year for our family. Colin added such a joy to our Christmas this year as he has done each year. This year was even more exciting to see the joy and magic of the season through his eyes. As he grows older and really begins to know the true meaning of Christmas ("It's Jesus' birthday" as he tells us) and to see the excitement of Santa Clause he is such a light in our lives. Here is a look at our week of Christmas and a few pictures of our trip up to Hurley after Christmas Day for the weekend.

We started our celebrations at Gramma and Grandpa's house on Sunday.

Our Cutie!


Daddy got the first gift of the night, this is also his 30th Birthday gift from Mommy and Colin. Wow, was he surprised!


Colin and his favorite cousin Brian. He can't get enough of him. It was so fun to celebrate Brian's first Christmas with him this year.

Colin says his favorite gift was his scooter. And we are pretty sure it was also his Arctic Cat jersey. He never took it off after opening the gift that night. Thanks EB and Mark!!

I think this was a snowmobile year. Colin in his first helmet.

Brian also got an Arctic Cat shirt. Colin said (with his thumb up) "We are Arctic Cat boys!"

On Tuesday my mom and I took Colin to see the Macy's 8th floor display and to sit on Santa's lap. It was a very fun day.

Wednesday we were off to church for Christmas Eve service and then to Nanny and Papa McGill's.

The boys

Isn't he so cute in his sweater and jacket!

I think he loves his gift! Auntie and Joe got him a farm gift with 3 semi trucks!

And a John Deere Dump Truck!

Look who came to Nanny and Papa's house! SANTA!!

And he brought in his bag the very asked for Bounce Back Racer and a marshmallow shooter! Colin was amazed!

Christmas morning, and look who came!

And look what was set-up downstairs for Colin... A Jump House!


We then packed up, headed to Aunt Cindy's for Christmas Day and then headed up north for snowmobiling for 3 days.

Our sweet Brian

More John Deere! Guess who loves John Deere??

And now a few pictures of our weekend up north.

Daddy's first ride on the new sled with Grandpa.

And then Colin's first ride ever going out on the trails. My little boy is growing up!

Daddy and Colin built a big snowman

The big event of the weekend was Colin got to go see the groomers that Daddy and Grandpa drive to groom the trails. This was the largest John Deere Colin had ever seen. He loved it. And he even got to take a ride in one of the groomers with Daddy and Grandpa.

And to end the trip, Daddy and Grandpa thought it would be fun to have Colin start learning to drive his sled on his own. He did good, but I think it will be a little while until he is off riding on his own!

Wow, what a Christmas we had. Now to find the room for all the gifts! Thank you to everyone we celebrated with. We had a wonderful Christmas with everyone. Hope you all had the same.

Happy New Year everyone!

Fun in the Snow

Thought I would share a few pictures of Colin's first ride back on the Z120 today. His first ride on it this season. He was able to ride around the yard in Hurley over Thanksgiving weekend with Grandpa, but we finally had enough snow at our house to take the snowmobile out. He was smiling from ear to ear as soon as he heard Daddy start it up in the garage today.

After riding around the yard and the grass was starting to show Daddy decided it was time to put the sled back in the garage. So Colin headed out into the snow to make prints (he loves seeing his tracks in the snow, just like Scott did when he was a little boy) and making snow angels. He couldn't quite understand why we couldn't make a snowman. I'm sure we will have the right kind of snow soon.

Enjoy the snow tonight and these pictures!

Halloween

A little late, yes, but here is Diego!! Those who know Colin best know that there is only one favorite character in his life, and that is Diego. Unfortunately, Colin came down with a fever on Halloween so trick-or-treating was shortened to a few houses in the neighborhood. He still had a blast dressing up as Diego and going trick-or-treating with his favorite neighbor Nessa (Vanessa, but he likes to call her Nessa). The two of them were adorable going house to house holding hands and saying trick-or-treat.

We had also gone to our ECFE Halloween Party earlier in the week so Colin and his friend Jackson had fun running around there.

Enjoy!

October Highlights

Hello!!! We are back. Wow, this fall has flown by. Scott and I were just talking about how we think this fall has been busier than the summer was for use. So after a few harassment's from my sister-in-law, her sister and my mother-in-law I am really going to try and keep up with my postings. So here are a few updates from October.

On October 3rd we took Colin to the St. Michael Fire Department open house. We had so much fun. We saw the Monsrud's there (our daycare family) so Colin and Cooper were able to run around and play on the fire trucks together. Check out these two cuties, they might be trouble in a few years!!

I'm not sure who had more fun spraying water out of the hose, Colin or Daddy.

On October 12th we took Colin to the Apple Orchard and to pick out a pumpkin. We went to Deer Lake Orchard in Buffalo and had a great time. Colin was really excited that we got to go on a hay ride pulled by a John Deere Tractor.

They had a huge pile of hay bails that Colin climbed all over.

Then, the biggest news is that on October 15th Colin woke up and declared that he was a big boy now and does not wear diapers. So we went with it and put him into pull ups and he is now in big boy underwear!! We are so proud of him and are amazed that the training process has been much easier than we could have ever imagined. Not that we haven't had any accidents, but it's been much quicker and smoother than we thought it would have.

We headed up north for the weekend October 18-20. The weather was beautiful and the colors were amazing on the trees. Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

We headed into Camp for a while which was a lot of fun. Colin asked if he could just stay there. He wasn't real happy to leave, but feel asleep on the 4 wheeler on the way out. It was a great day!!

This was also Buster's first trip into camp. Can you believe how big he has gotten!!

Scott's working on developing Buster's hunting skills. He seems to be doing really well.

We were also able to spend a little time with Jason, Melissa and Brian. Brian keeps getting cuter each time we see him.

This past week Jason, Melissa and Brian were down for a few days and we were able to spend more time with them. We had the boys both put on there Halloween costumes. Colin loves telling us that baby cousin is going to be a pea in a pod for Halloween.

Yesterday we had our ECFE Halloween party. Colin's friend Jackson was also there. We had a great time playing game and doing crafts. Here is the monkey and Diego.

More pictures to come of Diego after Friday night Trick-or-Treating. Happy Halloween everyone!!

Fish Fry Anyone??

On Saturday our neighbor Shelly cooked a good old fashioned fish fry for all of the neighbors. It was delicious! I for one am not a fish fan, but I loved her fish fry's. Colin and all the kids ate every last bite. We had a great evening spending time with our neighbors and hanging out at the bonfire at Tony and Laura's house until after midnight. Once the kids were in bed it was adult time at the fire!



The best part of the evening was when Shelly decided to show the kids how to do the Peanuts Dance. Here is a video clip of them dancing.

Thanks for a great evening everyone!

Our Nephew has Arrived!!!

Brian Matthew Geach arrived on Friday, August 15th at 12:31 am. We were able to head up to Ashland, WI to see him first thing Friday morning. He is just adorable. Being an Auntie is wonderful! Colin is truly in love with him. When Brian would start to fuss Colin would say "It's OK Baby Cousin" or start singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to him and he would stop fussing. It was so cute. Jason and Melissa are doing great. Such a cute little family.

One cute thing... When Melissa was pregnant Colin started calling Baby Cousin Fred, so when we told him that Baby Cousin was born and that his name was Brian he said "No, I call him Fred." Until today he called him Fred and wouldn't call him anything else than that. Pretty cute.

Here are a few pictures from the last few days.

The happy family

Us with our new nephew/cousin

Brian Matthew Geach- Day 2

The cousins

Here is a video of Colin singing to Brian- "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"

After the hospital we enjoyed time back at the Hurley house 4 wheeling. Colin's favorite thing to do in Hurley.