I know, I know...

 it's been a while.  Between being busy, lazy, or so sick I wanted to die I just haven't done anything with the blog.  It's been so long I don't really even know what to say.  Here is a plethora of pictures from the last two and a half months.  Most of the pictures are taken with my phone, because I was terrible about remembering my camera.

Preschool field trip to the fire station.

Santa singing at the library.  His guitar had Felix the Cat on it.  His costume was dirty.  Also he smelt a little funny.  I don't think the library had much in their budget by the end of the year.

The kid were still happy to tell Santa they both wanted computers for Christmas.  Yeah that didn't happen.

We went ice skating.  I brought my big fancy camera hoping for some great shots of the night, but I didn't take into account that there were only two adults and three children.  There just wasn't enough hands for the camera.  (Sigh)

We went and had ice cream afterwards.

 Kaitlynn and her teacher Mrs. Kimball

Christmas Eve, wrapping up the presents.  I really don't have ton of pictures from Christmas morning, mostly video.

First lost tooth!

Ray and Ann came to visit at the end of January.  Ray was absolutely wonderful and built new shelves  for us.  It was much needed.  The shelve before were not of the best quality.  I feel like I have so much more room now!  I should have taken a before and after picture so you could see how bad they were.

Kaitlynn was sick on the 100th day of school.  It was quite sad.  But we made up for it.  We had our own 100th day celebration.  Hard to see but they made a sign and are wearing 100 cheerio necklaces.

Ann had to do this quite a bit while visiting.  That little girl loves a good story.

I love our neighborhood!  This was an impromptu smore party.  Living so close to your neighbors can have its draw backs but it also has some wonderful rewards like this.

Working on Valentine cards.

This was Olivia's turn to be sick.

This is how I found Kaitlynn one morning.  She was making her own lunch.  I was quite proud of her; peanut butter sandwich, blueberries and carrot sticks.  Lately she has been waking up before us and getting herself and Jack breakfast then gets herself ready for the day.  I do have to roll my lazy bones out of bed to do her hair. 

This was from today we went to HyVee bakery for Jacks preschool.  He is on the right without a hat.  He thought they looked too silly.

After the tour the kids got to decorate sugar cookies.  It was a lot fun.

Also we did get family pictures taken.  Our neighbors took ours and we took theirs.

It takes this.

To get this.

She didn't want to have her picture taken.

She was kind of a sad about the whole thing.

All the kids wanted to do was play in the dirt in their nice clothes.

This is my favorite picture of me and Ryan.  Our neighbors were trying to pose us and be all loving for the picture but it was just getting awkward!  Finally we had to tell them to stop posing us because it wasn't going to get any better.  We are not photogenic.