Merry Christmas!!!

North Pole

We took the Polar Express to the North Pole to see Santa. It has become a fun tradition we do every year with the Goates. We have already made plans for next year to fly back from Colorado so we can keep the tradition alive.Highlights from our trip...

1. Sipping on hot chocolate and cookies while watching our little 80 year old "server" get her groove on to Christmas carols!!
2. Spending the night at the local HOJO after the train ride. Maycee keep asking why it was called that. We told her it was where the Hobo's sometimes stay! She was not amused

3. Seeing Santa, recieving bells, hanging in Pj's and making memories! Thanks Goateees

My date with Cannon

Britton, Cannon, Koen, Brekyn, Avery, Anna and Claire=pre-school buddies! Thanks Mrs. Jodi for the sweet gifts
Bridget and I (Mrs. Jodi's daughter)-LOVE this girl, just like I love her mom!

I'm gonna rant and rave (again!) how much I LOVE my kids pre-school teacher Mrs. Jodi. She takes the kids every year to a little play. This year it was Alladin. It was adorable-the Genie was a riot! Mrs. Jodi passed out presents for each kid-Jasmine dolls for the girls and "Cars 2" cars for the boys-she is SO thoughtful. The kids were in heaven with their new toys. Cannon was so cute on our date. He was so excited to have me all to himself. What a great little date with one of my favorite guys.

And another

-cause I can't stand the cuteness of these kiddos.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

We are counting down the days till Christmas!!!Thanks Gram-Z and Papa for the new Christmas jammies.

Thanksgiving

We had such a good time with Nate's mom and sister for Thanksgiving. We packed alot in with our 4 short days together. Thursday we started the day off right with our annual Turkey Bowl while the mommies slaved away in the kitchen! The kids had so much fun being together. They hadn't been together since the summer-so they were in hog heaven! Thanksgiving dinner was DELISH- I ate way too much but it was yummers. We took the kids to see Tangled later that day. The cutest movie-we all loved it. Friday we went to a petting zoo close to our house that has a ZONKEY! It looks just like you would think, a cross between a donkey and a zebra... pretty funny! Saturday we went fishing-the place Grandpa Thom took our kids when he'd come down to visit. Every kid caught a fish making everyone HAPPY. We had perfect weather the whole weekend which meant lots of bike riding around the circle. Oh we hope this becomes a new tradition with Budges coming for Thanksgiving cause it's a good one! We truly have so much to be grateful for this year. I'm especially grateful for 4 precious children -they are the smiles on my face each day. I love them and their Daddy Nate SOO much. Happy Thanksgiving 2010