The 12 days of Christmas

We are having fun getting ready for Christmas around here. Even with no snow and warm temperatures we are getting ready for a white Christmas in Minnesota! It has been a very fun season because of the girls. They love learning about why we celebrate Christmas, baby Jesus birth, Santa Claus coming and Emily our elf on the shelf! We have things we do everyday to countdown the days - our advent calendar - we get to open a door a day, their chocolate advent calendars, and adding cotton balls to our snowmen. Kyndle has fun pointing out Santas everywhere and finding Emily our Elf every morning. Mckinley loves all the Christmas carols and always wants to know who sings the songs on the radio! Such a fun season around here! Here are a few pictures from the last few days!

December

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! Mommy started the weekend off with running the Turkey trot 5k. Next, the Henderson's arrived and we could officially celebrate Thanksgiving! We had a wonderful relaxing day filled with all the yummy foods of Thanksgiving. The girls had so much fun playing together and even had fun in the bathtub!
We have so much to be thankful for!

Happy Halloween

What a fun Halloween weekend we had! We started out the weekend doing the Halloween 5k! We had so much fun and dressed up as Cat in the Hat and Thing one and Thing two!
I ran the whole thing in 32 minutes and and feel like I might have the running 5k bug. We are excited to do the turkey trot in November!
On Sunday, we went to Boo at the Zoo and had fun seeing all of the animals and going down the treat trail! The girls dressed up as Rapunzel and a cupcake. It was a very fun day.
On Monday, Kyndle and I joined Mckinley at school for her Halloween party! It was fun to do a craft with her, enjoy a Halloween snack, and go to the Halloween carnival. After an afternoon of naps, we dressed the girls up and went trick or treating around the neighborhood! Kyndle was excited and wanted to walk the whole way, Mckinley didn't know what to think and was trying to take it all in. The people around here don't mess around - they had some of the scariest costumes and decorations I have ever seen. What a fun time! It was fun to wear costumes without having to wear snowsuits! We are ready for November in Florida now!

Pumpkin Patch

We had so much fun going to the pumpkin patch! It was fun to pick out pumpkins outside this year! Mckinley was very excited about turning the pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns! Daddy was very excited to cook a pumpkin and see if we could make pumpkin bread from a pumpkin!! We did it all! Mckinley told us the shapes that she wanted us to use for the faces of the jack-o-lanterns. It was so fun to have her be such a big part of it! She was all about it until we had to take the guts out of the pumpkins - no one helped me! Maybe next year! We had fun lighting them up and we hope they last until Halloween!

Floridians

Wow - it has been about a half of a year since I updated our blog and so much has changed~
We moved from Alaska to Florida with a quick stop in Minnesota. We lived in Florida for awhile, tlf, friends house, hotel, and then house. We went to Boston for Paul Paquette's wedding, Minnesota for Alyssa's wedding and finally back to Florida to stay for awhile!
We are all moved into our house now. We still have a few boxes of pictures, dvd cases and books to go through. We finally bought a desk and bedroom set in the last few days! Yeah! Pictures to come when the house is complete! We are loving it here! The fall is a little crazy because it is still so warm! I want to do a better job of updating our blog on our crazy wonderful life!
Denis - is doing great! Loves learning at his new job and has met so many wonderful people! He is still taking Master's classes online and has started an investing company "Soaring Investment Management!
Jessie - I am donig great too! I love being a stay at home mom and wife! It is crazy busy and hectic sometime but when I fall asleep at night I truly thank God and my lucky stars that this is my life! I am still trying to loose my baby weight from Kyndle and have signed up for a Halloween 5K coming up on the 29th! Updates to come!
Mckinley - She is our little 3 year old, who will be 4 and then she will be 5 as she says it! She is going to preschool 3 mornings a week! It has been quite the process convincing her that I will come back and get her everyday! She loves school and has a blast while she is there but she never wants me to leave!! :) She is also loving her birthday gift of a strider bike! We have been enjoying our little bike rides to the playground! She is getting so good at balancing and will be riding a real bike in no time!!
Kyndle - is talking so much! She repeats everything we say and walks around the house telling us the name of everything! We plan to videotape her this weekend because she is so cute with her words right now!
I really want to do a better job of this so plan on posting a couple of times a week! I read so many of my friends blogs and they are so poinent and I love reading about their lives! I know this blog is mostly for my family and any friends who also share the love of blogging! Love you all and miss you too!

Update

Our blog - well at first we were out of commition with moving to Florida and then our blog was out of commition so I hope to get back on track now!

Hoping for an eventful week

A picture of the Paquettes from our Boston trip! So fun!



This is a picture of our new house from the inside!

We are hoping to move into it this week! It has been a crazy ride and we look forward to moving in. Right now we are currently "housesitting" for some friends. God truly provides in a time of need and we needed a place to live for a few weeks and God provided. We ran into some friends at church and they offered up their house to us because they were going to be gone most of the time we needed a place to stay! Very sweet and generous! We are lucky to be staying at their beautiful home in this time of transition!

Moving

I apologize for not updating our little blog here sooner but we have been a little busy with moving. We are in MN right now on our way to Florida! We left Alaska on the 1st of June and will leave MN on the 22nd of June! It was hard to leave such a wonderful places with so many wonderful people and memories but we are excited for Florida and new adventures! I will add some pictures of the girls soon! Hang with us as we are now in vacation mode and soon will be living in the sunshine state!

Dance Party

We do a lot of dancing in this house! We bounce around to all our favorite songs! Kyndle has some great dance moves! Enjoy!

Kyndle on the stairs

Kyndle has been learning so much lately! She is getting to be such a big girl! She has started crawling up the stairs now! Here she is with a cute little heart on her bottom!

Mckinley and Mommy time

While Daddy and Kyndle were at home - Mckinley and Mommy went out on the town. We had a few errands to run and it was very fun to have time one on one with her again. We went to target and got some hot chocolates and we also got some new sunglasses for her! We have so much fun together!

Kyndle is 10 months old

Our little Kyndle has become quite the triple threat! She learned to pull herself up, crawl and walk - all within a matter of a few days! Most of this she picked up while we were in Minnesota! All of her aunts and uncles and grandparents were more than willing to "help" her learn all of those skills!! It has been interesting being back in Alaska with all these new skills! Two kids moving around constantly means I don't have to schedule a workout anymore! :)

Singing with Grandma Karen

One of Mckinley's favorite Christmas gifts is her tape player. She has a lot of tapes that match books so she can sing and read with them. Grandma Karen even sent a tape for Christmas! Very special and fun!

Happy New Year

We want to wish everyone a happy 2011! We are so blessed and lucky to have you all in our lives! One of my new year's resolutions is to do a better job on our blog! Even though we are not close physically I want to keep you all close through the technology we share! Love you all!