16 mile with the Steer boys

We had a blast with the Steer boys during Christmas vacation.

Cousin Bowling and Fondue

Grammy Kroon's glasses live on at our Cousin Bowling tradition!  Good times!  Dolly, Betty, Jungle P. and Sally most definitely got creamed by McBacon, McSausage, McWaffle and McNugget!

perfect backcountry SKI with TILLS!

Christmas morning

We had a sweet Christmas morning with these three, Christmas story, stockings and cinnamon rolls!

Christmas Eve light drama

 Who knew this light would cause such drama!  All the youngsters were downstairs playing in Aunt Marlene's house when suddenly this light came flying down and injured poor Miss Ella right above the knee.  For some crazy reason… Noah tossed an exercise ball UP and the light came DOWN and pierced through two pairs of leggings to cut Ella's leg.  Fortunately, all the family members were super gracious to our "bummed out Noah" and Ella was tough as can be!

 AND who knew you could have an orange Christmas TREE!?! yum!

Santa SKI 2016

 Santa Ski was extra yummy this year with the addition of Krispy Kreme!

 Yes- I'm the GRINCH!  I bought our Santa PJs at 50% off last January in prep for the Santa Ski… skiing for FREE!  I thought one of my jokester sons would prefer wearing a Grinch costume, so I bought one!  Parker was all pumped to wear the Grinch until we were on our way to Alyeska.  Joke was totally on me… I got to be Grinch! Haha!

 We had a blast with our Novak Santas on this gorgeous and freezing day!

PBBs and snowman!

 These boys are PBB monsters so they "got" to help me make the second double batch!

 Noah dabbin' with his new Seahawk buddy!

And our PBB snowman!  He might be too cute to eat!

Genesis!

 GO Genesis!

 It's awesome having the boys on the same team for practical scheduling and it's super sweet to watch the brothers play ball together!

Christmas tree 2016

 Our Christmas tree hunt was super easy and short this year.  We walked across the backyard and topped a Spruce for our silly Charlie Brown tree.

 Every year I debate about whether I should setup Grandma Hogan's Christmas houses.  This year, Savannah insisted and helped me create our little Christmas village.  I love that she cared!

She also loves her ornaments!

Noah turns 10!!!

 Noah- it's hard to believe you are 10 but we couldn't be prouder of you.  You have the biggest heart and your constantly teaching us lessons on how to serve others better.  Love you DUDE!

 Snowy broom ball fun with Thomas, Talyn, Nano, Max and family!

hiking led to hay bails

basketball girl

We love to watch our Savannah girl play ball.  She is... so speedy, dribbles with both hands, shoots awesome jumpshots, scores mean layups passes galore and does it all with a huge smile on her face.  89- you are the best!

Halloween 2016

cross country

Parker had another successful XC season at TMS.  He raced hard every meet- we are proud of you Parker!