Christmas Break in Wisconsin

We spent part of our Christmas break in Oshkosh with Joe's side of the family. Here we are taking a horse drawn carriage ride through Menominee Park to see their fabulous Christmas lights.

Here are Sawyer and Peter (Sawyer's uncle) in the lower bunk of Peter's bunk beds. They hung blankets over the sides to make it a "tunnel", as Sawyer called it. He also loved to jump in it!

Sawyer and Joe, opening the last door on the advent calendar Christmas Eve day.

Snowmobiling Fun!

Joe went snowmobiling for the very first time yesterday. Here is my dad teaching Joe how it works, and then Joe flying through the fields outside my parents house. Next, Carrie and Joe went together. After much persuasion, Joe finally convinced Carrie to take Sawyer out on a slooooooow ride as well.

During the big snowstorm last week, Joe took Sawyer out for his first "snowventure". Sawyer was bundled up for the first time this season. They trekked through the snow on the playground and neighboring forest. Joe says Sawyer was really tough, even when he would trip over things in the forest he would get himself back up saying "ok, ok, ok..." (I'm ok). Here they are heading out, and when they came back in with red cheeks.

Sorry it's been so long since I've done any posts. Our internet hasn't been working, but now we're at my parents' house for Christmas break and have some time. Here are a few pics of the gorgeous tree in the main building at Notre Dame.

Sawyer's Oreo

This is what he did with just one half of an oreo... maybe he should've gone in his high chair?

Baby Sawyer Video

I found these old clips of baby Sawyer & wanted to share them. Enjoy! I didn't have an exact date on this one, but it came from the disc labeled "6-9 months old".

Mini Home Photo Shoot

Just took a few pics of Sawyer myself for fun! He didn't last very long, though, so only got a few good ones.

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Kids Museum Visit

I'm in charge of our church's winter play group, so for our first date we went to the HealthWorks children's museum. It was "free admission" day, and we had a great turnout. Here's Sawyer playing "dentist", reaching for the falling planet Earth on the virtual reality wall, and a video of playing "grocery shopping".

Halloween Day

On Halloween Day, the three of us went over to campus for a little Fall Family Festival. They had dinner, candy, an inflated bounce room, a haunted house, and some other little activities. Here's Sawyer in the bounce room, then some pictures we took of eachother on the beautiful walk across campus to head back home.

Halloween!

We had a church Halloween party on Tuesday the 30th. Here is Sawyer playing a 'fishing' game, and checking out the prize he won (a sparkling plastic orange and diamond costume ring- maybe they should've asked if the player was a boy or girl first). There was also a Trunk-or-treat out in the parking lot, where Sawyer had his first trick-or-treating experience. He had his "chickacheet" down by the end of the night! He refused to put his bear costume on a second time. If you even tried bringing it up to him, he gave a worried: "No... no... no... no..." while shaking his head! So, of course, we didn't force him!