Thursday, December 24, 2015

Hunting Our First Christmas Tree!

The Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend, we went off in search of the perfect Christmas tree!  I have been wanting to do this for a long time, but have been waiting to get a real tree until I thought Ike wouldn't attack it  :)  We found this monstrosity at Jalapa Pines, which is only about 10 minutes from our house.  Josh chopped it down and we stuck it in our van (it was raining...great weather for tree hunting!).  Once we got home, he had to cut off quite a bit of it to fit it in the house, but it ended up being the perfect size!








Josh and Dave before the cutting.


















I had lots of help decorating!  The boys' friend Kyson even joined in on the fun :)

















Love their crazy expressions all the time.














So that's our tree!  Still smells awesome and hasn't lost any needles (except for those the kids have pulled off of course).  Excited to continue this tradition in the years to come!







Monday, December 7, 2015

Dave's 6th Birthday!

Our little boy is growing up so fast!  He is such a cool kid and is so much fun to hang out with (most of the time at least!).  This year for his birthday, he asked for a Mario themed cake since he is obsessed with everything related to Nintendo.







Dave with his cake-a pixelated Mario made from M&Ms.













His other interests lately include:  reading books (he has gotten really good at this lately!), playing video games of course, playing outside with his buddies on campus, watching videos on Youtube, and playing with his Legos.   He already acts like a preteen half of the time-just with his attitude and occasional glares at us.  Hoping he gets all that out of his system before he is an actual teenager!!  So far, he has really loved school and has done extremely well this year.  He does wish for "fog delays" pretty much every day and is very much looking forward to those coveted snow days!









His school picture from this year.  Such a natural smile, haha!


















Dave and his buds at his party (plus Ike).  I re-purposed the backdrop I made for trunk-or-treat this year :)




Instead of playing video games, they all wanted to play with this art set!




Opening up presents.




I think they were doing the Mario arm pose?










Since his birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year, we celebrated early.  On Thanksgiving, we hung out in Logansport with the Bowyers and the kids had a blast with their cousins and it was really nice to chat with all the aunts and uncles.






Such cuties!







Did I mention they can also be little stinkers?