Ho, Ho, Ho!!

A local Culver's has Santa at their restaurant on Tuesdays.  It's free and Santa looks great!  We never took Cole to see Santa last year, but I thought it would be fun this year because he's more aware.  When we ask him what Santa says, he says, "Ho, ho, ho!" And he'll point and say the same thing if he sees a Santa hat or picture.

Well, as expected, he thought Santa was cool from afar, but once I handed him over, the screaming and tears ensued!  But what's Christmas without a "Screaming-Kid-With-Santa" picture! :)  Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!!

Halloween, Hunting, Snow

You know it's bad when I'm writing about Halloween in December.  Instead of apologizing at the beginning of every post that I suck at doing this blog thing on a regular basis, just know that I am not good at doing this on a regular basis. :)


Halloween

Cole was a puppy for Halloween.  And a darn cute one at that!  Rather than trick-or-treating in the cold, we went to a local church who puts on a huge event.  They had everything there!!  Even live animals!  It was a ton of fun and afterward, Cole had the biggest sugar rush ever!  It was pretty hilarious.

Hunting

Ben went hunting several times this year and finally got the biggest deer he's ever gotten in his hunting career - a 10-point buck!  I always find it exciting to get the  breathless phone call and to hear the child-like excitement in Ben's voice.  And now we have ground meat to last us quite a while!

 I was a little nervous about Cole seeing the buck dead.  Ben has been showing him a lot of pictures of bucks, so he's come to really like looking at them.  Well, Cole was excited to see the buck and grabbed right on to the antlers and pet the fur!  However, he seems to have a little insight as he said, "Buck....uh, oh!" :)

Snow

And not that long ago, we got our first snow (today we got our third!).  We were excited to take Cole out because he never played in the snow last year and wouldn't remember it.  He wasn't to excited...he was annoyed because it was hard to move in his gear and in the snow.  And it was kind of windy, so he wasn't too happy that the snow was blowing in his face.  But in any even, we got some cute pictures and he now LOVES snowmen!

The next snow storm started with ice and when we went outside to run errands, Cole slipped and got his pants wet.  We were trying to hurry so we thought we could just do a quick change and we ended up laughing at our cute little skinny legged boy.  Love!

Fun at Papa and Nana's House

**Update - I meant to post this back in October, but I guess I never hit "Publish Post"....so here you go!**

This past weekend, Cole and I decided to take Friday off and head to Wisconsin Thursday night to hang out with my family.  Ben stayed behind and decided to go hunting for the early season.

We started out on Friday with my mom, Cole and I going to the Children's Museum in LaCrosse.  Cole had an absolute blast and I did too because I could just let him run around and he could touch anything and everything!! :) 

He especially loved the fire truck...

the swoosh vacuum thingy (don't know how else to describe it)...

and the boats in the water.

Saturday it rained and was pretty gloomy.  My brother and his family came over for dinner and we made our own fun while being cooped up inside. 

Back in Minnesota, Ben was sitting in a tree all day and getting soaking wet!  He didn't get anything, but saw two buck and is excited to see them again come hunting opener in two weeks.

Sunday we went to church and visited some more family before hitting the road to head home.


Thanks for a fun weekend Papa and Nana!!