Little bit of Christmas

Christmas Sunday I put this dress on Emma

 my neice wore it when Mike and I got married! I thought it would be fun for my Emma to wear it.

(She's had a runny nose for a few days and it was buging her and making her face red, but I think she's still the prettiest 3 year old I know!)

I tried to get a picture of all my kids together, looking cute, smiling and most importantly LOOKING AT THE CAMERA!

 it didn't work completely. They're all cute and smiling, but Emma is obsessed with looking at Jackson instead of the camera. I guess she really does love him!

I asked Ethan to take my and Emma's picture together. I had to re-teach him how to work the camera, so I took his picture.

 WOW! Look at that big mouth! Can you see his tonsils?

He did get some cute pictures.

This was after church, after Emma had spent time coloring a picture for me in nursery but misplaced it on the way home and we couldn't find it. She was sad :(

(the picture turned up the next day!) 

Christmas day, I only took one picture! At my parents' house of Jackson getting into the cookie drawer!

 Emma got her doll house! She LOVES it! She can't stop playing with it.

Ethan likes it too. He plays with it with his cool Star Wars action figures!

I may have to keep this picture to show his wife!!

Too cute to not post!

Merry Christmas, Tati

from Baby Jackson!

Oh boy did we have fun in Minnesota at Thanksgiving!!

Now that Christmas is next week, I thought I'd post about Thanksgiving.

We went to Minnesota and...well...we got there...eventually! But once our plane took off, 23 hours late, we had a BLAST!

Emma and Ethan were rip roarin' to go celebrate!

I didn't get many pictures with cousins but I did get some of my kids the day we went to the Mall of America with my mother-in-law. It was super fun!

We just had to go to the LEGO store!

Emma loved the LEGO friends girl and dog all made of LEGOs!

I thought this was cool!

And the dragon peeping out from around the corner...awesome!

Then we hit Nickelodeon Universe!

Ethan helped Emma drive the kiddy bumper cars.

 Mike and I went on this awesome ride. Sponge Bob is NOT awesome and not allowed in my house, but the ride was fun!

Straight yup, straight down, upside down, curly q's all over the place. It was fun, I wanted to go again, but my old body couldn't take it. I was still nauseous 9 hours later and sleep was the only thing that got rid of it!

I would go on the ride again...next time!

Ethan's favorite ride from last year was Swiper's Sweeper so we had to go there.

Mike helped Emma drive and she loved it!

 Ethan on his FAVORITE ride!

 My E's on blue's Skidoo. Very similar to the Dumbo ride at Disneyland.

 Jackson had a good time, not riding rides, but walking around with Grandma, she even got him to sleep which is hard to do when he's not in a bed.

After all the fun LEGOing and Nickelodeon Universeing, we went to the Nestle Toll House shop...my choice. We ate cooking and since we only had a few minutes until Santa returned from his break, we hung out eating our cookies and being the first ones in line to see Santa.

Jackson loved his cookie!!

Ethan asked for the Death Star ($400) LEGO set

Emma asked for a big, pink doll house ($reasonably priced)

Jackson yelled (priceless)

The best thing I saw while waiting in line to see Santa...a sign that read "When you stop believing in Santa, you get underwear!" If you see a sign like this, know where to get one, let me know. I may just have to make one, but I need one cause we believe in Santa around here!