Where is Brooks?

Brooks' kitchen is finally put together! Yeah! We were still shorted one piece, which was the piece to the back of the oven. Of course, Brooks figured that out in a hurry. Look closely and you might be able to spy him!

How can we not laugh? We (I) are so frustrated with the Company Store and their lack of service, BUT at the same time having no back on the oven has given us plenty of smiles and laughs.

Brooks loves rice. Can you tell? If you enlarge the picture you will really see what I mean!

This is Brooks' new facial expression. He is infatuated with his lips and can be found with this expression on his face much of every day. I don't really know what he is trying to do. I think he just likes the feel of his lips.

Christmas Photos!

We had Auntie Bean come over this week to take some pictures for our Christmas card. We had some done professionally, but none of them turned out very good. Auntie Bean is just about as good as a professional, so we were thankful she took time with us. These pictures below are NOT our Christmas card, that will remain a surprise. These are some really cute ones though.

Brooks loves to "rocky-rocky" on his horse. The other day no one was paying attention to him, so he decided to stand up on the back of the horse. I told him he was going to fall and hurt himself. He did fall, but not much pain (I don't think).

Brooks is obsessed with these animals on our porch as I mentioned before. Here he is kissing the Polar Bear.

Brooks got a whole bunch of snow in his face and didn't like that very much. I hate to take pictures of him crying, but it is just so cute.

I just love him so much.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Greg took me to a concert in St. Paul on Sunday! It was a perfect day. The music was fantastic, the light show was amazing and the musicians were incredible! I can't say enough good things about this band. I suggest everyone go to itunes and download Trans-Siberian Orchestra music for Christmas. I can't wait until next year. It was awesome.

This picture was all we got because they didn't allow cameras in the show. This was in a pretty little park on our way back to the car after the show. Ahhhh.....I love my husband.

Maggie Jo's Day!

Yesterday was Maggie Jo's 4th birthday! It really seems like yesterday that Greg and I were at the hospital welcoming her into our lives. Maggie is a very special girl. We call her our very own "Fancy Nancy"! She loves pretty and beautiful things and is 100% girl. Rumor has it that Maggie changed her outfit 3 or 4 times yesterday for her party.

Maggie's party was a tea party. We were all told to dress up very fancy for the party. (You can see, Maggie decided not to wear her fancy dress!). So, the whole family put on formals from events past and celebrated with miniature sandwiches and hot tea. We had a great time celebrating this special little girl.

Here is Mags and her mama. The dress Steph has on was from our wedding!

Opa showed up in a full tux in honor of Maggie! He looked very handsome.

Oma dressed up as some sort of Siberian princess...she forgot her pretty tiara at the office, so we had to do some improv. She looked so beautiful according to Maggie.

Kennedy (nice smile) was a ballerina princess and I was a beautiful princess from the 80's. I had some very big hair and a turquoise dress. Maggie thought we looked perfect.

We love you Maggie! Happy Birthday, Sweetheart.

6th Folder--6th Picture

Don't kill me, Steph! I was tagged by a fellow blogger! The task is to go to your sixth folder in your pictures on your computer and pick the sixth picture and describe it. This was it. I suppose it was in July because my pictures are organized by month backwards. That would make sense.

Here is the description: Steph showed up at my house on a Thursday night. We were going to tennis lessons at Northland. We decided to ride our bikes to the lesson (that's why I have my HELMET ON!). Steph asked me right before the picture "Heather, why do you have your stupid helmet on?" I obviously kept it on for some reason. I actually have a couple of these pictures that look pretty similar because I am sure we had to proof the picture before we were satisfied with the final outcome. I don't know if this was a proof or the one we liked.

Anyways, we had a lot of fun biking to the lesson. Steph did fall off her bike on the Lakewalk though. She wasn't even going forward, really. She just had her feet clipped in her bike, was almost completely stopped, and fell over. I was laughing so hard I almost wet my pants and she might have wet her pants. I can't imagine how funny we looked all tipped over on the Lakewalk! It is so fun having sisters!

Christmas!

We started to decorate for Christmas this last week. Brooks loves the animals we put on our front porch. He has become mighty obsessed with them and has small temper tantrums when we won't take him outside in the freezing weather to look at them. Of course his Daddy gave in and took Brooks out to look at the polar bear. Notice the matching outfits? That is what I came home to on Monday after work. Greg had taken Brooks shopping and got matching outfits. They were so cute. I love my men!

Greg had a great idea. He connected Brooks' water (juice, milk) to him by using our running belts. Brooks is super cute taking his sippy cup in and out of his holder. He stops, takes a sip, and puts the cup back in the holster.

Today we FINALLY got to see our cousins. We've had some illness in our household and have not hung out with them since last Friday! We really missed them and Brooks was overjoyed when they showed up this afternoon. Maggie and Brooks took a turn playing nice together. They don't always play nice. In fact, Maggie hits Brooks and Brooks hits Maggie. Maggie might not be doing anything and Brooks pulls her hair. Brooks might be minding his own business and Maggie pushes him. They are so funny. I know they love each other so much, but I think it is the ages of the two. Brooks really gets on Maggie's nerves when he "wrecks" her stuff. Brooks doesn't understand. Here they are though being buddies.

Opa took Brooks tonight for the entire evening! We needed to finish putting up our tree and decorating, so my dad was kind enough to take Brooks to dinner and shopping. Brooks came back a Minnesota Vikings fan, I guess! We don't follow sports in our household, but I sure think his little wind suit was adorable. Brooks loves his Opa to pieces.

We are going to Trans Siberian Orchestra this weekend! Yeah! We are so excited that Auntie Linda has volunteered to take Brooks overnight on Saturday and all day Sunday! It should be a great weekend to re-connect with my hubby and listen to some great Christmas music!