Last but not Least

Saturday night we finished up our Christmas parties at my parents house, aka Nana & Papa's. The night started out with some rock band playing. Jake got that for Christmas from Cassie-and both Emma & Logan enjoyed playing the drums.

Emma was the only one who would sit for a picture infront of the tree. I think Logan had had it by now with the pictures.

Logan played on his new dump truck for the longest time. I think he even passed up opening some more presents to play!

Emma got Bitty Baby for Christmas. She even got a ballerina outfit for bitty and it matches the ballerina outfit Emma got herself. Emma & bitty sported these outfits for most of the night.

All in all, it was a busy few days, but tons of fun. The kids had a great time celebrating Jesus' birthday.

Christmas Day

On Christmas day we woke up and opened up stocking presents. I totally dropped the ball on this one, I didn't get the camera out. Emma opened up her Barbie clock. Actually a video camera is what I needed to catch her excitement with the clock. She loved it. After stockings we headed over to Grandpa & Grandma Czerkies house (my dad's family). We ate lunch, the great-grand kids opened presents and then us adults each bring a $10 gift card to wherever and we play a game for them. This year I got pier 1 and Jason got gander mountain. :)

Emma got the game Elefun. At the time, I don't think she was excited-as she'd never played it before. But after getting it up and running, its one of her favorites.



Logan got Thomas the Train tracks. He loves playing with his train set!

We headed home from G & G Czerkies around 2:30 so the kids could catch a little nap. As they were up until midnight wednesday night-and didn't really sleep in. We then went to Jason's parents house for a little party at 5. I think Logan enjoyed this one as it was smaller-I don't think he knew what to do with the bigger parties. But the kids made out well at G & G O'Connors too! Logan got more Thomas the Train, and Emma got a hair dresser set. She said she can do hair like Nana now. :) And she practiced all night long, she did both G & G O'Connor's hair & mommies hair, plus she spent lots of time beautifing herself. Maybe we have a future hair dresser on our hands?? It runs in the family!

And when we were done with the party, Emma and Logan got to sleep at G & G O'Connors house. I had to work on friday morning so we thought it'd be easiest for them just to sleep over. I have to admidt, it was kind of wierd coming home with no kids, I didn't really know what to do!

Christmas Eve

On Wednesday night we had our first Christmas party at my aunt & uncles house. We celebrated with my mom's family and its always a great party. Here is a picture of all the grandkids and great grand kids. Logan wanted nothing to do with having his picture taken with this bunch. But we were still able to get him in the picture!



Logan saw this chair had opened up when all the grand kids sat in front of the tree so he thought he better grab the chair while its open. :)



Here is a pic of my grandparents with their great-grand kids.



And thought this would be a good time to get a family picture for our family. Sunmi has been staying at my parents house this year while attending Holland Christian. She is from Korea and we've been enjoying getting to know her.



I couldn't resist...

Logan enjoying his favorite present of the night. He rocked out on this guitar all night long, this is when he thought he'd try laying down while playing. I think it worked pretty well for him!

And Emma opening up her ironing board. She was so excited to get this. 20 years from now she might wonder why the excitement! But when we got home around 11:30, she took ALL of her clothes out and started ironing!

Wishes for all...

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!



from, the O'Connors

The Barbie Clock

Emma has had her eye on a barbie clock since this summer. One night we were at Target. I had to get a few things-and since we didn't have much else to do, we just kind of wandered through the store looking at stuff. Jason ended up in the electronics-so the kids and I took a stroll through the isles-and Emma finds a Barbie clock. A barbie alarm clock to be exact. At the time we didn't need it. She had just gotten a Dora clock for her birthday-but to avoid her throwing a fit in the store I said lets just put the clock in the cart, and when check out time comes we'll tell the cashier that we don't want it yet-and to discretely put the clock behind the counter. And she kindly did so, however Emma saw. So we got to the car, without the clock and Emma starts throwing a huge fit. So we told her a little white lie. We told her the clock was broken and needed to get fixed. Thinking she was going to forget about it. Boy were we wrong. Ever since, any time we would go to Target, drive by Target she would ask if her Barbie clock was fixed. The answer was always 'no'. So we decided to get it for Christmas for her. We are at Target-and no Barbie Clock. I found it online-but there was no way to get it to our house in time. So today, while at Meijers I thought, lets just take a stroll through the electronics-maybe we'll find a Barbie clock. And we did!! Emma is finally getting her clock. She is going to be SO excited!



I have no idea why she wanted this clock, we've tried seeing if she would want a Disney Princess clock, but she told daddy: 'no, that isn't the barbie clock'. She knows what she wants.

Baby #3's first photo shoot

We had our ultra sound of Baby #3 last night. Emma & Logan came with, and that made the night even more special. They were both very excited to see the baby on the monitor. The tech said that all looks good-and moved our due date up 2 days. :) So the date is now April 17, and I expect the baby to arrive around April 25 with our track record. As for whether we will be having a football player or cheerleader....we'll find out come April!!

Silliness of the day

Ornaments = Baseballs?

We put up our tree last night, and got around to decorating it today. Logan thought he could throw the ornaments like a baseball. Well Logan, when you do that, this happens!! Yup, he did that to 3 ornaments today.