O' Christmas Tree

We are totally in the Christmas Spirit! Our house has been ready for a few weeks already. Ross thinks I'm crazy, but I just love Christmas so much. Anyways...

Here are a few pictures of our tree. It's up on a table this year to keep our little guy away from the ornaments. Dane loves the lights.

We have to do our holiday photos still, but here is a picture of my little elf! (who by the way says "ho, ho, ho.") I don't know how to upload videos or I would have that and some Christmas music dancing, for you all to see and hear.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, for the most part, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! I was pretty sick so Ross and I didn't make it to the Turkey Run (we were totally bummed out about it) But I took some medicine and managed to have a fun, thankful day with the Greenwald's. We enjoyed great food and company. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Greenwald, Uncle Bryan, Great Grandma Jo, Great Uncle Scott, Great Aunt Dawn, and 2nd cousins Dan and Brad. Unfortunately, I was unable to capture a photo of this great group.

I did manage to get a few of Dane. Here he is riding his favorite toy and looking at Grandma Lynn.

Friday we celebrated the Danielson Thanksgiving. There are so many kids running around and I love every second of it. We had a great time at Grandma and Grandpa Danielson's. We also enjoyed our 2nd annual bowling outing. Thanks for the fun everyone! We missed you Aunt Lori, Uncle Dave, Megan and Hannah!

Dane playing with cousins Hunter and Ava

This is part of my side of the family-I'm really bad at taking pictures.

Checking out a ball with Grandma Tammy
He wanted to play like the big kids...pretty soon, you'll be big too, buddy!

Isabel, Mia, Emma (in back) and Jillian...so very cute!

Here's Dane driving the race car

My two handsome guys! Wow, I'm lucky!

Gobble Gobble!!

2 Days of Lounging at Home...

Dane and I have spent the last two days lounging at home-Ross was at the Vikings Game on Sunday and we didn't have our regular ECFE class yesterday. With that said, we had some bonding time.

Dane loves to wear his Daddy's hats. It's very cute, but so hard to get a picture of the little bugger.




So I thought I was being "super cool" and built a fort for Dane and I to play under. He thought it was hilarious and very fun-being on the outside of it. Even more fun for Dane...he tore it down almost immediately. Rats! I thought we would eat a snack and play legos under there. Clearly I was hoping for too much.

Troublesome Twosome

Erin and I took Dane and Celia to the Maple Grove Maze yesterday-we had a blast! The kids are so dang cute. They were running everywhere and keeping us on our toes! As Erin said on her blog, they wouldn't sit still for more than 2 seconds, so to try and take a cute picture was almost impossible. Almost. Check out our sweet little C-C and those beautiful eyes!

Dane looks petrified here-but he loved the ball pit!

After playtime, we went to lunch. The kids did wonderful and Erin and I had a fun time chatting. Of course trying to get everyone to look at me was quite trying, but Erin listened well!

Splish, Splash

One of Dane's most favorite things is tubby time. I ask him if he wants a tubby and he runs into the bathroom screaming. He loves it!! These photos don't truly show how much he enjoys it, but they are too cute not to share!

The big moon!

Happy Halloween!

"Trick or Treat?"

Trick or treating is hard work. So hard in fact, that I've worked up a thirst...

Dane really wasn't sure what was going on, but we had fun anyways. We made our way to Grandma and Grandpa Greenwald's for a treat, then it was off to Grandma and Grandpa Danielson's where we celebrated Grandma Tammy's 28th birthday with chinese food and Auntie Dana and Uncle Ben. Wow Mom...we are the same age now! Cool.
Thanks for the fun Halloween everyone. RROOOAARRR!

Weekend Getaway with the Girls!

I was lucky enough to be able to take a few days away with my girls this past weekend. It was very hard to leave my boys, but I knew they would have a great time together. Ross confirmed the fact that he is more than capable of taking on the tasks of daddy, playmate, work, and house-cleaning. Thanks for being so awesome, Ross! I had a great weekend!

I'm still waiting to get some more pictures from Kelli-the ones I have are sans Becky (sorry sweets!)

A beautiful Ft. Walton sunset! Thanks for all the fun and hospitality Gustafson's!

Truly A Big Boy

Dane got his first hair cut last week. Just looking at him sitting in the chair made me realize, yet again, that he truly is a big boy.

*This is the before shot*

*This is the after shot-Dane was given a sucker for a job well done*
And I was so excited to get a picture, that I forgot to keep a lock of hair-What a lame Mommy!

Call Him Pants Head...

So I put Dane's pajama pants on his head as I was getting him ready for bed-He walked around for a bit with them on, took them off, and head-butted me until I put them back on. Seriously.

After changing his diaper, he asked me to put his pants on his head. He is so funny!

Yahoo!

Dane had a blast on the slide!

Swinging with Mama!

Picking out Pumpkins

Dane is pointing to the "pump" (pumpkin) that he wants. Hey bud...I don't think it's quite big enough for Daddy to carve!

I had to take a moment for a shot at this perfect picture spot!

Such a hunnie pie!

"Look Mom... hay!"

Reminiscing

Oh my goodness...i just came across these pictures and I got to thinking back. Dane was brand spanking new in this one. Wow, how fast time passes us by.

This is one of my favorite pictures of our little Dane-Bug. He just looks so sweet and innocent. It melts my heart.
I still do this to his tummy when it's not dressed. I love, love, love the belly!

Rrrooarrr!

Dane wanted to try on his Halloween costume and practice his roar-see...he's going to be a lion this year, so he needs to get his part down perfect (hands and roar)! Man is he adorable!

This little piggy went...

Dane is the biggest piggy ever! Just look at how dirty he gets in one car ride...I think he was saying, "oh well, mom. That's what we do."

He's so dang adorable, but such a dirtball. Even his mouth has food still in it.

And last, but not least, is mama's little piggy (look at that shirt) doing something new-Dane figured out how to climb into a new drawer. How lucky are we?

Fun, Fun

My mom and I took Dane and my neice Mia, to the Maple Grove Maze. They have a toddler area, as well as a big kid area. They had a blast playing with everything. As you can tell, Dane thought the ball pit was so fun!


Mia stopped playing long enough for Auntie to take a quick picture! Isn't she a doll?


This is the first time Dane crawled through a tunnel. He was so focused that he wouldn't look at me to take his picture.

All Boy?!! Of course :o)

Ok...so Dane is 100% boy, but this picture shows his softer, feminine side. He wanted to wear Mom's headband and was very excited when he put it on himself. I'm sorry buddy-we've got to get you some more boys to hang out with.