Bensen

Bensen turned 8! This is a big one. On the Bailey's side of the family this is the last year he will get a party, he also gets to get baptized! He has to wait until March because Jaycee has a soccer tournament the first week in February.

First he got to celebrate with the Borgstroms. Aunt Sarah made him a fruit pizza cake. He loved it. Elsie's birthday is two days before his so they get to celebrate together.

On his birthday he got waffles for breakfast, then he opened presents before everyone headed off to school.

After school we went to Urban Air. The kids love this place. Again a place on the Get Out pass so we usually only go once a year.

After Urban Air we ended up at Pizza Pie Cafe. 

Bensen loves Legos. These Mario Legos and pretty fun. He was pretty excited to get Bowsers ship.

The Sunday after his birthday we celebrated with the Baileys. He wanted a Link cake but I couldn't find any Link toys to put on top, so I made this bigfoot cake topper. When I was finished I realized I could have just made him a Link cake topper...oh well, maybe next year.

Happy Birthday Bensen! We sure love you. 

 

December

The teenagers got to see Santa at the mall!

I tried a Wasjig puzzle for the first time, I really liked it. The puzzle is different then the picture on the box.

Bensen lost another front tooth. My favorite thing is that when he smiles you can't even tell they are missing. 

Sunday Best

The kids are all busy (except Viv) with basketball. I am not very good at taking pictures during the games. They are all loving playing! Grandma and Grandpa are their number 1 fans! They hardly ever miss a game.

Viv got creative with Mikes hair!

The kids finally got to hold Bea. It seems like they had to wait forever because one person or the other was sick.

I got braces! Man, they are the worst! Had I known how terrible they were I probably would not have got them. My teeth were fairly straight. I had a pretty bad overbite, and jaw problems. I am hoping they help with that.

We love our Borgstrom traditions. Getting together on Christmas Eve eating too much food, playing games and of course the Nativity. Every year the kids take turns being in charge. 

Cousin Josh who is serving a mission in California (Spanish speaking) drew Wesley name he sent him Mexican candy, socks, a hat, and a blanket. They kids tried the candy, they were not fans.

We have a pretty good sledding hill up in Deer Run. It's not too big or small, it is fun for all the kids.

They made some snowbuddies at the sledding hill.

We also have a pretty good hill right in our front yard! This took me all morning to build. We mostly had fun and we only had on kid (Viv) fly over the little wall.

While I worked on the hill the kids worked on this!

Wesley created the perfect chair to eat lunch.

We started New Years Eve with the Borgstrom's eating, playing games, and holding Bea.

And ended the night at Trevor and Katie's house.

This year has been great! I love to see everyone grow and I am excited to see what next year brings!

 

Christmas!

Merry Christmas! I love this family of mine! The kids favorite thing to do is buy each other gifts. We usually take them to the dollar store and let them get each other one thing. This year we upped it a little and let the kids spend five to ten dollars on each other. It is always fun to see what the kids come up with.

We spend a good portion of the season trying to teach the kids why we celebrate Christmas! We usually do some sort of 12 Days of Christmas. I pray that some part of it is sinking in.