Our Dancin' Princess Bayleann!

Last Saturday the 18th was Bayleann's Christmas Dance Show-she dancin' wonderfully! We are so proud of her...she gets up on that stage-does all the steps and loves every minute of it.  Here is her in her costume before we left in the morning.  I had to braid her hair in 6 individual braids the night b4 after her bath to get her hair curly for the show.  But she was a trooper and didn't complain once! I'll have some more pictures of her performance after xmas..

And she was a lucky little girl for the finale of the show they have all the dancers come up on the stage and then they bring out Santa in a Sleigh...and one or two dancers get to ride in the sleigh with him...Well this year it was just Bayleann! He asked her how old she was and if she had been good this year. Of course she said YES! :o) And according to her he is the REAL SANTA and he took time out of his busy schedule to come and dance with them! Pretty Special!

Our little dancer! Look at that attitude!

Family Picture :o)

We kept saying we were going to do a kinda different family picture this year and we never found the time to-so I set up the tripod in the living room told the family to gather around the tree set the timer ran to my spot and SNAP we got ourselves a picture!

We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  We love you all!!!



Austin just turned 9 & Bayleann will be 5 in January





Smiles that melt our hearts!!



Little Princess Bayleann

I had to post this picture I took of Bayleann...Andy had just gotten some new used tires for his stack truck and it was a nice warm afternoon and he was putting them on. Well peanut was dressing up in her dance costumes and coming out to show Daddy. Then she noticed Dad had a shop rag and was polishing the rims so she started doing the same!  It is such a cute picture! Andy has a big one as a magnet on his tool box showing off his little princess! We also sent it into a photo contest for a Big Truck magazine.  Who knows Bayleann might be famous! :o)

Getting the perfect Moen Christmas Tree!

Ever since our fake Christmas tree went to the tree "retirement home" we have been going out the Saturday after Thanksgiving and cutting down our own.  We went to a wonderful tree farm this year by Long Prairie and they drove us out into the fields of pine trees and we went in search of the perfect tree.  This year mom and the kids got to do the cutting and dad got to supervise (he was still pretty sore from his surgery).  Well we got the best tree in the whole field! After got the tree all set up in the house we decided to camp out in the living room. We all slept around the new Christmas tree....the kids had a blast in their little tent. :o)


Quick take the picture...the tree is falling!

Don't they just look like little angels!!!!!



It's the Great Pumpkin...or just 4 great looking ones!

Halloween is a favorite time around our house each year...Andy decorates outside with lights and scary stuff...puts up his halloween village in the living room and we carve pumpkins.  This year we all got into the action and craved....the best part was getting the pumpkin guts out of the pumkins! We had a huge bowl full.



Our wonderful pumpkin creations!
From left to right: Bayleann, Moms, Dads, Austins

 

They were very proud of their pumpkin creations!

We have Bayleann the princess witch & Austin is Megatron from Transformers!
They had blast trick-or-treatin! They also got to go to a Halloween party at the elementary school-which is awesome.  They do a wonderful job with games, prizes, decorations etc. WAY TO GO PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY!



Ducks!

In mid October Andy went to South Dakota Duck Hunting...  he not only came back with his limit of feathered friends but with a fractured shin too. Not sure exactly how he did that but he ended up in a walking boot/case for about 3 weeks!  He was happy!


Austin can't wait til he gets to go out there with dad!Maybe next year:)





Bayleann doesn't mind getting her hands dirty with cleaning ducks...Dad is so proud!

Getting all the feathers off!