Thanksgiving in Raymond

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving Celebration in Raymond today!  The boys had a blast and we ate some really good food, again!

Caysen and Aunty Christie sharing lefse with Great-Great Grandma Elaine!  He love licking the sugar and butter off his fingers!

Playing with Grandma Elaine's Walker...It was put on time out!

Caysen with his Grandma Cindy and the puppy, "arf arf"

Having a blast playing with Grandma Elaine and the puppy! 

Derrick and Grandma Elaine....I think I forgot to tell Grandma to smile!

I'm Nolan...and I didn't do it! ha

No time for pictures....I'm having Chicken in a Biskit! ha ha

Caysen playing with the ball...one of the few words he says very clear!

Caysen letting Matt and Kim's puppy, Mia, lick his fingers....and then trying to stick them in Brian's mouth!  Hillarious!  He then tried this on Grandma!

Thanksgiving in Blaine

For Thanksgiving Day we went to visit Granny Dude and Grandpa Doug in Blaine.  Caysen and Derrick spent Wednesday night with Grandma and Grandpa while Kelli and Brian went to the WILD game.  They had a lot of fun and stayed up late! 

The boys got to visit and play with Great-Grandma Iskierka, Great Uncles Ron and Rick, Uncle Jeff, Aunt Mandy, and Cousins Hannah and Tyson!

We had a friendly fox in the front yard....until we realize maybe it wasn't friendly...but sick instead!  Derrick enjoyed keeping tabs on the fox and where it was and what it was doing.  Mandy enjoyed having "widdle dog" play with the fox also.  :)

Granny Dude made an awesome turkey and dinner!  Yummy Yummy! 

We did not partake (sp?) in any Black Friday shopping, but today I pretty much finished up my Christmas shopping in Sioux Falls with friends Marcy and Marci!

Tomorrow we will celebrate Thanksgiving in Raymond with Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Marvin and my siblings.  Probably more pictures later!

Caysen didn't have a nap and was a little over exhausted by the time we headed home at 3 PM.  We have a few videos of Caysen playing and pictures of the fun all three boys had! :) 

We finished up making our Christmas Cards and they are on their way to our house!

Caysen playing in the kitchen and trying to join in on the game of cards Grandmas and Grandpa were playing!

Caysen having a blast playing with the kitchen and making a mess after it was all cleaned up!

Caysen eating his yummy yogurt puffs for Breakfast!

Caysen wearing Derrick's shirt and Derrick wearing no shirt...note Derrick is a little more excited for this picture!

Fox with the Onion I saved for him!

Note how very close Brian was able to get to the fox.  He doesn't look ill in the picture...but something was definately wrong with him!

My Two Lil Boys!  Again...Caysen is now more interested in Derrick than he is in the picture!

Caysen playing with Great Grandma!  Later Derrick was taking our orders and serving us food....However he didn't have any lemonaid...so i had to have orange juice!

Caysen eating so good with Hannah!

Caysen all ready for a ride in the Toy Stroller...He looks Huge sitting in the doll stroller!

Caysen cuddling with Uncle Jeff...He was cuddling the exact same with Uncle Rick a couple hours earlier...still very exhausted and no nap!

Caysen was jumping up and down and all excited...he must have gotten an extra burst of energy!

The boys having tons of fun playing after supper....Not Derrick and Tyson or Caysen...but their fathers!  They were been given wrestling coaching by their father! ha ha

The End (from Derrick)

All for now! 

Love,

Kelli with Derrick's assistance of reading every word I typed!

Day off!

Today I get to spend the day with the boys and take the day off because daycare is on Vacation!  On Friday, Brian and I will go back to work and the boys will get to spend Friday with Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Marvin!  Next week Brian will take Monday-Wednesday off also and I will be home again next Thursday and Friday! 

We are going to spend the day by going grocery shopping for Thanksgiving and going to try to visit my cousin Dawn's new baby girl, Tori!

Brian and I get to go to the WILD game tonight and the boys will be hanging out with Granny Dude and Grandpa Doug.  We will be celebrating Thanksgiving in the Cities with them on Thursday!  I hope to have lots of fun pitures!

Caysen really enjoys feeding himself....he has a lot of fun doing it too!

Christmas Decorating!

Today we put up our tree and decorated for Christmas!  Caysen found this very exciting and couldn't keep from getting into everything!  Derrick enjoyed examining every Christmas Tree Ornament....My favorite line of his was "Wow, this one is from 2005, that's not that long ago!"  I think that 6 years for a 7 year old is kind of a long time ago...but I guess not!  Brian spent a lot of time running from the Christmas Tree up to the Living Room to watch Football! :)  We had to find a new place for our tree this year since up in the living room would be pretty hard to keep Caysen away from it!  I think if it was easily in his reach he would have every present unwrapped and all the ornaments on the ground!  So down in the family room is probably a safe place for it this year....and maybe next!  We have a few pictures of decorating the tree and putting up the stockings!

Caysen is talking more and more!  Today he was playing with his Tiger and I told him it says "Grrrrr" and he made the Gr sound!  As I finish typing this he brings his lap top over to the table I'm typing on and pats on the chair saying "Uuuup".  I get him up on the table and he starts working on his computer!  Such a sweet, funny copy cat!  Love him!

I'm working on the computer, just like Mommy!

This is so Frustrating! Too many letters, Too many numbers!

Derrick putting the Angel on top of the Tree!

Caysen putting his Ornament on the tree....one of the very few he was able to concentrate enough on to get them on the tree!

Derrick putting one of his million ornaments on the tree.

Derrick hanging his stocking on the fireplace!

Caysen attempting to put his ornament on the hook!

Our completely decorated tree with Derrick posing! :)

Love,

Kelli

Caysen's First Hair Cut!

Before my Hair Cut....Not too Happy About this!

Sitting in the Chair, wondering what we are doing!

This is about the time Mommy was about in tears when the lady cut my curls in the back off!

I look like such a BIG BOY now!  My hair cut is pretty choppy and uneven...but I was pretty squirmy and screamy for her!

First Post EVER!

So as it was pointed out to me tonight by my lovely little sister in law (Katie (cough) (cough))....I have yet to "create" this blog I have been planning to do for over a year....It was actually a year in September that I created this account, I just did not ever do anything with it!  So here it is!  Here is my first post on our family blog!  :)  I will try my very hardest to keep this updated as often as possible!  However...with this taking me 14 months to post one thing....you don't have to have too high of expectations!  Update on all of us here...Caysen got his first hair cut the other week and seems to be a totally different "kid".  I will post some before and after pictures of this.  We all just got over the stomach flu!  It took 2 weeks to travel from Brian to Caysen to Kelli to Derrick!  So there were quite a few missed work days for me!  We are all on the healthy side now and looking forward to some FUN days off these next two weeks with our Daycare family going to Disney World!
That is all for this first post ever....I know I have a lot of work ahead of me!
Love,
KELLI