Catching up on blogging

For New Years, we had a houseful of family (mainly kiddos) including Brandin, Shawna, the nieces (Paytin and Kenzie) and nephew (Colton), Blair (my step-sister) and Hayley. Since we were out of town for Christmas, we celebrated Christmas late with my family and then went to Chuck E. Cheese for a New Years Eve celebration - kids style (which turned out awesome because there were very few people there). After getting the kids sufficiently exhausted, we did some sparklers in the front yard and put the kiddos to bed well before midnight. The rest of us rang in the New Year with a game of Taboo (one of my favorite board games) and a glass of champagne. It was a good time--although I didn't take many pictures.

The second week of January we had our first snow!  It really wasn't much to speak of and only a little stuck to the ground in our tree-covered back yard, but that didn't stop David from going out to play. He really wanted to bring the snow in the house...

David's new thing is cleaning.. he really loves to hold and push the vacuum and the broom. I hope this trend continues, but I have a feeling that this will likely not be the case (at least if he is anything like his father!).

A couple of pictures of David playing on his dump truck (or, as he calls it, his duc-duc-duck truck).  This was a gift from Uncle "Big" Jake (Matt's best friend since he was a child) and Aunt Stacey and is David's favorite toy. Although he has learned to push the truck with his feet, he likes Daddy to do the work... notice the string tied to the front of the truck. This is Matt's solution to allow him to pull David around the house without bending over.