Happy Birthday Kaylynn

Kaylynn  turned 4 and invited us to her party at the Inflatable Fun Factory. We always have fun there. Thanks Kaylynn for including us. We had a great time.

 

Conner, Sidney Ellard, Kaylynn Ricketts, Jakob Ellard

Abby Turns 4!

Sunday, was Abby's 4th Birthday party at the Ferdinand YMCA. The kids go to play in the gym and activity room. We were so happy to be included in her special party. Happy 4th Birthday Abby. We love you so much!

 

Conner made this for Abby

Incubator Experiment #1

Conner and Steve hatched some chickens with the incubator Steve got for Christmas.

They got 19 eggs from Zach and Jenny's. Only 12 had been fertilized. Twenty one days later, 7 hatched. The hatching occurred on the weekend we had a Haubstadt friends party and an open house. Oh well, more excitement.

 

Christmas with the Kelfreichs

Yesterday, we celebrated Christmas with the Koesters and exchanged gifts.

Conner got money to buy himself something fun.

Thanks to the Koesters.

 

Christmas with the Broekers

We had the Broekers over New Years Day for Lunch to celebrate Christmas.

Christmas at the Payne's

Saturday, we celebrated Christmas with my family at mom and dad's. We all pitched in on dinner and dad made fried chicken and ham. We opened presents and had a gift exchange between adults.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conner has been wanting a crane for over a year. MeMaw and Granddad gave him this.

Christmas Night with the Elfreichs

 Christmas night, we went to Nanny and PaPaws to celebrate with them. They made a delicious meal and we opened presents. It was a nice night. Thanks to them for everything.

 

 

Christmas Morning

On Christmas Eve, Conner was so tired. He started crying in bed. He was so scared he wouldn't be able to fall asleep and Santa would pass him up when he saw he was still awake. So, Finally he fell asleep. At 1:30 a.m., Conner comes running into our room, he wakes me up and says

"Mommy, he came, Santa has been here. I guess I was good this year."

"Can we go open them?" I told him that we needed to sleep and to crawl in bed with us. He was thirsty so I went to the kitchen to get him a drink and when I got back to bed he said

"Was I right?, was that his stuff? Has he really been here?"

I assured him that all the stuff in the living room was indeed from Santa.

He then whispered "Did you see a really big one, cause I asked him for a big combine."

I assured him that I spotted a really big box and I thought he'd be OK!

 

 

He awoke again at 7. We waited around for Memaw and granddad, Papaw, and Nanny to get there before he opened his gifts. I made a breakfast and we all enjoyed watching Conner rip through the gifts.

 

 

 

Conner asked for a crucifix.  This is from Mommy and Daddy.

We had already bought him this Snow plow a few weeks before he shopped for toys for tots.
This is the gift he really wanted to by himself at Rural king the day we went to buy the Toys for Tots gifts but instead bought one and donated it hoping to make another little boy real happy. He was going to start saving his allowance to buy himself one.

 

Waiting on the grandparents to arrive to dig in.

 

Hoping for a Combine

He asked Santa for a big combine. He saved the biggest gift to open last, hoping he got it.