Christmas at with Grandma Dierking

We celebrated Christmas with Michael's family on the 26th. We all had a great time visiting and enjoying everyone. It is so much fun to give gifts. This year we had a board game theme for the adults and I had a blast researching "new" types of games. It was also fun to see the kiddos open their gifts! OK, we had fun opening gifts as well!

Jacob with his new bouncing rumbling tractor truck!

Jacob waiting patiently for his turn to open his present from Grandma Dierking. He stood there just chilling next to his present for a while!

At last...geotrax train. He was beyond excited!

He stared at it the rest of the time...and begged to get it out of the box!

Emily also had fun tearing open the paper!

Megan is looking so sophisticated in this picture!

More Emily!

She really seemed to like the dolls she got for Christmas!

Group cousin picture!

Christmas Pics in front of the tree!

Emily Learning to Crawl!

Here is a video of Emily learning to crawl! She loved the lights spread throughout the living room. It's a little dark with lots of blinks!

Christmas Tree Goes Up!

We had a great time putting the Christmas tree up this year! The lights were a big hit with Emily. She learned how to crawl trying to get to the lights. The older 2 had fun trying to show her how to crawl too!

Success!

It's easy Emmie...see just like this!

Random!

Megan posing with Emily!

"Ems" or "EmmE" looking cute in the jumperoo!

Megan and Jacob played so good together this day. They set up the train track first and then added all of the animals to make a zoo!

Grammy with the kiddos reading books!

Ahh, the younger two sharing a sweet moment in the bathtub. This was probably the only bath together because Jacob wanted to splash all over her and then he got upset when she splashed him by whamming her legs down fast when she was laying down! But you don't know all of that, you just see the sweet exchange in the smiles!

Bonkers!!!

In early November we went to Bonkers with the kiddos! They had a great time. It's basically a huge jungle gym for kids but the adults can go in there too. Megan went off on her own for most of the time and then helped Jacob navigate to the higher places.

Here goes Jacob and Michael down the slide!

Emily posing for a picture in the car!

Both times we've went here Jacob stays in this car for at least 30 minutes! Luckily he didn't see what happens when money goes in!

Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Megan's Tinkerbell this year!

Jacob is Lightening McQueen!

Group photo with their pumpkins!

Emily is a ballerina!

Way Overdue October Pics!!

Busy Busy Busy!!! It's been 3 months since these photos were taken and I'm finally getting them onto the blog. I have a lot of catching up to do! I hope to "catch" up on the blog several times this week!

These pictures are from a wonderful day we spent with Dad & Susie. They were visiting and we decided to go out and have some fun! We took them to Central Dairy, the train tracks, and the pumpkin patch! It was a beautiful day and we all had a great time!

Dad and Emily posing for a picture!

All three kiddos with our pumpkin loot!

Pop Pop helping Jacob cut his pumpkin from the vine!

Pop Pop helping Megan cut her pumpkin from the vine!

Jacob is so strong pulling the wagon!

I love this picture of Megan! It looks like she could just walk in the pumpkins forever!

Megan playing in the corn field!

Our first real family photo!

Cheese!

Jacob loving his tractor!

This is a family favorite...the corn box! Luckily Emily wasn't in the "put everything in my mouth" stage yet!

Look at me!

Another goofy cheese!

Jacob is crazy crazy about trains. He waited and waited for more trains to come. We were treated with an Amtrak train conductor coming over to talk with Jacob and of course he played up the "All Aboard!" Now he's just waiting for the chance to get on a train! He's going to love it!

Dad, Susie, Megan, & Emily posing for a picture at Central Dairy...yum yum!