Christmas with Kratchas'

On Christmas Eve day we headed to Papa and Nana's house. 

 Opening our stocking

 Stringing popcorn

 Hanging popcorn for the birds

 Binoculars like Papa

 Nana wraps gifts in old dog bone boxes

 New swishy pants!

 New shirt

 Lincoln log set to build a house just like Papa and Nana's

 Ice fishing rod

 Doesn't Nana look beautiful!

 Building our log home

Jordan building a log home

Christmas with Erbes'

We started Christmas at Grandpa Dan and Grandma Cindy's house with Great Grandma O. and Kevin and Kathy on December 23rd. 

 Charlie helping Great Grandma O. open her gifts.

 Charlie giving Cooper kisses.

 Aaron playing with his new toy.

 Charlie with his new Bison sweatshirt. 

 Playing with his tank while wearing our new sweatshirt. Thank you Kevin and Kathy!

 Grandma Cindy yelling at Aaron because after 10 minutes he has already put a hole in his new toy.

 Charlie opening his new pajamas.

 Christmas Eve morning opening our stockings.

 Charlie opening gifts on Christmas Eve morning.

 Opening his new box of dinosaurs

 They had to be set up right away.

 New games from Uncle Josh and Auntie Kelsey.

 Playing with Grandpa Dan

 Finding the pickle on the tree

 Charlie's hidden pickle

Mommy and Charlie were the winners of the pickle this year.

Gifts from Mommy and Daddy

Charlie got to open his gifts from Mommy and Daddy on December 23rd. He has been going through a picking his own clothes phase so we have black swishy pants on. He also has a blue dinosaur shirt with a camouflage friends of the forest shirt over top.

 Standing by his presents

Opening his new train tracks 

Opening his Cooties game 

Playing Cooties with Daddy 

Playing with his new train tracks

Santa

 Talking with Santa. We told Santa we wanted a bike and a puppy. 

Santa was nice enough to inform Charlie he did not deliver live animals.

Giving Santa a big hug!

There was also many activities to do while waiting to see Santa:

Decorating a wreath

Frosting a cookie

Playing in the fake snow with our friend Aaron

Go Bison!

Saturday was the Bison Home opener. We met our good friends Kasey and Lisa there with their son Brooks. Charlie and Brooks were so looking forward to playing together. They ran the whole time we were tailgating.

Playing football

Running through the crowds

I got them to stand long enough to snap this picture.

Charlie and Brooks loved the Gold Star Marching Band. They would run to find them when they heard the drums.

Charlie kept pointing to Thundar the whole game.

Mowing the lawn

Charlie had to help Daddy mow the lawn on Sunday.

First Day of School

So this is only one week late, but here are some pictures from the first day of school.

Charlie all ready to head to Lori's. Don't you just love the hair. We also had to bring our dog AJ (Aaron Junior) along. 

Charlie and Mommy. What a beautiful smile!