December 2016

We went to visit Santa on Nora's actual birthday.  We stuck with our usual spot: Bass Pro Shops, and it didn't disappoint.

We kicked off our December with a bang - a few days after Nora's first birthday, we left for our first trip to Disney World.  We took both grandmas with us to help out, and we had the BEST trip!!  I made a whole separate book covering our trip, so I won't talk much about it here.  We can't wait to go back!!

Jack had a 1st grade musical, which was so cute!

He's hard to see, but top row, second from left with his arms around the bar behind him

 We made gingerbread houses one day and the Lang family Christmas tree cookies another day.  I realized after the fact that I accidentally gave the boys gel food coloring instead of icing to decorate with.  The result was VERY blue mouths.  Whoops!!

Nora was NOT happy when I took away the icing food coloring

Some other fun in December...

We also had a really great Christmas.  Nora didn't quite get into opening presents, but she did love her new kitchen.

After Christmas we had some fun too...lots of Legos to assemble..

A play date with the Pressons at Sky Zone...

And we had a fun New Year's Eve with the neighbors at the Minchers' house.

Lake of the Ozarks 2016

In mid-July we took our annual trip to the Lake of the Ozarks  My friend Jules missed it for the first time ever because she was pregnant and they are currently living in Singapore, and my sister and her family couldn't make it this year either.  We missed them, but we still had a good trip.

Gretchen loved Nora!

Trying out the hook-on seat for the first time - worked great!

Jack and Charlie got to go tubing with Dylan and Amelia.  They had so much fun - Dylan is a daredevil!

Some videos of the tubing action:

Nora had a kitchen sink bath!

The boys and Grandpa did LOTS of fishing.  Like every waking moment they wanted to fish.  Grandpa probably needed a vacation from his vacation when he got back.  :)

Swimming from dock to dock with Daddy!

The boys had fun jumping off the front our friends' boat:

You know it's been a busy day if this guy falls asleep!

Drew's friend's drone took a picture of them.  Cool!

Laura was the big dice game winner!!

Just missing Jules and Steve in this picture!

Jack entertained his baby sister on the drive back home.

Once again, another great trip!