Tidbits of January!

Countdown has begun! 5 weeks left!

Big, Huge, Gigantic belly at 35 weeks!

That's all I have to say is I'm HUGE!

Little Luke is getting big!

So we are on Night #1 of putting Luke in a Toddler bed. I've been procrastinating on making this change over the whole Christmas break. The plan is to put the baby in the crib Luke was sleeping in and move Luke to the Toddler bed. We bought this bed set awhile ago to help with the transition. Luke loves it! When I tucked him in tonight and sang his prayer with him he laid there pretty still with huge eyes not sure what to think. I didn't know what to expect but it's been a few hours already and not a peep. Let's hope it continues this way.

Family Gathering. Part 2.

So the family has grown out of Grandpa and Grandma's house. We now rent the school kitchen/gym for Christmas dinner and activities. It works out great. We set up buffet style and dig in. We also made snowman crafts, played in the gym and had a gift exchange. All 30 of us! It was a very Merry Christmas for all of us!

Family Gathering. Part 1

Baby Shawna (Mel and Pete's) She is the newest addition to the family which makes 17 grandchildren for Ken's Mom and Dad. Sam keeps saying "she's so little, and Mommy's baby is really, really big!" Thanks Sam!

Here's Shawna's big sister Simone.

My sister in law Trixie and baby Skyla.

Luke happy as can be playing hockey with his Daddy and brothers.

Andrew being the goalie with only one hockey pad on. It was hilarious watching him.

Houseguests.

We had a house full of guests over Christmas and what fun did we have. And girls....well I very happily had 6 girls join me in this house of boys for a few days. What a treat! Ken's brother Dwayne and his wife Trixie and their six kids came to stay with us. It works out great, they have the whole basement to themselves. I premade all of our meals so I only had to throw them in the oven. I was so thankful for the early Christmas present we got from my parents in September...my dishwasher. I think we ran it 3-4 times a day. The kids had so much fun with their cousins and my nieces were a great help entertaining all the little ones so us parents could visit.

Opening presents.

Daddy has had a busy holiday building and assembling lots of toys. All three boys were thrilled to get this tool bench and set of tools from Nana and Papa. I'm very happy with it, all three boys can play with it at the same time, there are plenty of tools to go around. They spent the whole day playing with it once Daddy put it together.

Luke was thrilled with his new guitar. He's our little dancer and is always sharing some of his moves with us.

Okay, I guess I'm officially a hockey mom now. We got the boys a huge hockey net and they have been burning lots of energy with Daddy playing hockey and soccer in the basement. I stay clear, everytime I enter that room I get hurt!

I'm happy to say that our boys are just as excited over new books as they are over toys. I went to a Usborne book party before Christmas and ordered some really cute books. We are having fun reading them.

Opening stockings first thing.