A Snowy Day

A little late posting these pictures, but I thought they were so cute that I'd post them a few days late.

Last Thursday we got about an inch of snow at our house. Closer into Minneapolis got nothing, funny how the weather works. That night, Scott went out to shovel the driveway and Colin really wanted to go with, so we all got dressed for the outdoors and went out to play and shovel. Colin has a sand shovel from this summer that he calls his "rake" so he went out to help Daddy. It was so cute. He would take the snow from one snowbank across the driveway, walk over to Scott and drop it all on the driveway next to Scott and say "Here Daddy." We also did a little sledding on the driveway too and filling up the sled with snow. I just love his imagination!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Season and is planning to have a great New Year. We had a wonderful 5 days of Christmas (yes, 5. Friday through Tuesday) with all of our family. The joy of Christmas is just amazing to see through a child's eyes. Colin had such joy on his face all week.

On Christmas Eve we attended the 2:30 church service, which thankfully was the children's service, so a little chatter from Colin wasn't a big deal. As we walked into the sanctuary the usher looked just like Santa with a beard and all. Colin says in a fairly loud voice "Merry Christmas Santa." Scott and I did all we could from laughing out loud. Then, just before the service started Colin shouted out "Happy Birthday Jesus!" Many people turned around and gave us a big smile. He certainly could have said something worst, so we just smiled at our little boy. Happy to see that he understands Christmas is more than just toys.

This is just one of the many stories and memories we have from this Christmas season. Here are a few pictures to share with you.

Friday night we celebrated Christmas with my cousins and there kids. Wow, has our family grown!


Saturday we were with the Geach side at Gramma and Grandpa's house.

Sunday we were at Aunt Cindy's house to celebrate with Gramma's side of the Geach Family. Colin loves "checking email" as he calls it on his new laptop computer.


Monday we were at Nanny and Papa McGill's house. Here Colin is opening a Diego doll. A big hit!

Christmas morning we woke up at home and look what Santa left in our stockings!

For the rest of the day we were at our house and the Grandparent's, Auntie Stacy, Cousin EB and Mark joined us. Santa stopped by both of the Grandparent's house and left stockings for us there too! Wow, is Colin spoiled or what?

And the greatest news of all..... Colin is going to have a new baby cousin this summer. We are so excited!!!

Thank you to everyone that celebrated this holiday season with us. We had such a wonderful time with everyone. And thank you to everyone who gave us so many presents! I think our house has turned into Toys R Us!! Where to put all of these new toys.

The Next American Idol winner?

Does Colin have a singing career in his future? Well, maybe not, but we thought these were pretty cute.

Jingle Bells

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

ABC's

The beeping in the background at the end was the oven buzzer going off, perfect timing :)

Correction Notice!!!!!

Apparently in my blog from yesterday I made an untrue statement about Daddy and the weather. Of course it was not to cold for him to go snowmobiling, it was too cold for Colin to go. My apologies to the Daddy of the household. I should have realized that it is never to cold for Scott to be on a snowmobile :)

Have a good day everyone!

Our Weekend in Review

Can you believe how cold it is outside? With that said, we had a great weekend indoors all weekend! Colin would have loved to have gone for a ride on the snowmobile but Daddy wasn't quite up for it with the "warm" temperatures we are having and I didn't want Colin's soft skin exposed to such cold weather.

So, here is our weekend in review.


Friday night I had the perfect vision in my head of having a family dinner (which we did and Colin ate 4 bites of green beans!! Big news for us with our picky eater). Then we headed downstairs to decorate the tree. One thing to note, the tree fell over last weekend when we put it up. So we got it all decorated and Colin loved helping hang the decorations.

We sat on the couch to read a Christmas story together when all of a sudden, crash!! Down came the tree once again, but this time with ornaments on. Lucky, we only lost one of them. Colin stood there going "Tree Broken, oh no."

So that was Friday night. Saturday Colin and I went to a Christmas party hosted by Erin our Daycare lady and her mom that also does daycare. We had a great time. Santa made a visit and Colin still wasn't real excited to get close to him.


Saturday evening we had a great night just being home together. One thing to note, Colin went on the potty for the third time on Saturday! He's doing great just telling us when he needs to go potty and after sitting down within a minute or so he goes. I can only hope this is a sign of potty training going well for us some day.


(Aimee- Seems to me like this will be great black mail with Colin and Carson when they go out on there first dates! I seem to remember seeing a very similar picture of Carson a few weeks ago:))

Sunday we tried a new church in downtown Hanover. Colin did great going to the nursery and Scott and I enjoyed the service.

After nap on Sunday we went to Grandma and Grandpa Geach's house to see Auntie and Uncle that were in town for the weekend. We ate pizza, Colin placed his hand print on our tree skirts (great Christmas idea I can share with anyone who is interested) and then we decided that Grandma should try cutting Colin's hair. She always cuts the boy's hair (Scott, Jason and Jim) so why not Colin's! He did wonderful. With the help of Auntie, Grandma, myself and a cartoon show on TV, it was a success. Grandma said that Colin was her best client yet. And she did a great job. Here is a picture of his new do.






Next weekend begins the rush of Christmas for us, so this was a well needed relaxing weekend for all of us.

Hope everyone had as wonderful of a weekend as we did.

Santa's little Elf's

Heather sent this to me today. Isn't she funny?

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1162913964

Happy Boys

I sure have two happy boys after the snowfall this weekend. Colin is following in his Daddy's footsteps of his love for the snow and winter. After getting home Sunday afternoon from shopping for a Christmas Tree Colin said to Scott "Ride please Daddy." How can you say no to that? Here are a few pictures of my happy boys riding in the snow.

Hope everyone else is enjoying the snow as much as these two are!!