New Years Eve

So we celebrated New Years Eve Haun Style again! We went to Grandma and Grandpa Haun's for some all night games, fun, and food! We danced the night away playing Just Dance 2, we played some hardcore games of poker, and we rang in the new year with lots of noise makers and streamers! What a great year we had! We stayed busy with sports, school, tumbling, piano, vacations, and all that other crazy stuff that keeps you busy! Hopefully this year I will find more motivation to keep this blog updated! We have lots of fun things planned this year, and still many blog posts to catch up on, so check back every once in a while and hopefully there just might be a new blog post!I had more pictures but for some reason it's not letting me add them right now, grrrrrr....

Christmas Morning

Moving on to Christmas morning. Sure enough Santa did visit us despite all the threats from mom and dad. Madi has been in love with Glee lately {mostly Finn} so for Christmas she got lots of fun Glee stuff. The entire first season of Glee on dvd.And from one of our favorite episodes the Grilled Cheesus shirt! She also got a new digital camera. She was in heaven, the face says it all!!Kaiden is growing up so quick. Gone are the days when he wanted Hot Wheels, Nerf guns, and Rescue Hereos. He really wasn't sure what he wanted this year, and his wish list was always changing. He never asked for it, but he sure was excited when he opened an Ipod touch!
Abby was lots of fun this year. She really didn't want much, but at the top of her list were Monster High dolls, a Lalaloopsy doll, and an Easy Bake oven!The kids took their time Christmas morning. It was nice we usually rush to get to another party, but this year we just said we will come when were ready, and it was by far one of my favorite Christmas mornings!Christmas afternoon we head out to to Grandma and Grandpa Haun's house for more presents and fun!Britt and her new camera, in her UgLy ChRiStMaS sweater!

Grandma Haun gave all the girls Just Dance 2 for Christmas. It is one of our favorite games, it is so fun to play and to watch! Christmas was so much fun this year. We spent time with family and friends. We spent time with our kids making sure they knew what Christmas was all about. We took toys to toys for tots. We celebrated Birthdays, went to lots of movies, looked at lots of lights, did way to much shopping and wrapping, went to many Christmas parties, and enjoyed lots of time at home with our little family! Merry Late Christmas everyone!

Christmas In April

I'm back.....again! I guess it's better late than never. Christmas this year was so much fun! We tried to maintain all our Christmas traditions, and even started some new ones! We made lots of Christmas crafts to keep the kids busy, and did lots of baking!
We made snow globes, Christmas socks, ornaments, angels out of hershey kisses, and of course we made our traditional gingerbread houses, {I forgot to take a picture of them before the kids started to eat them} but they were super cute!
Another tradition of ours is to go and visit Santa at the Kampers house. This year we could only convince Kaiden and Abby to go, but when we got there Kaiden would not get out of the car so it was just Abby and Dad in the picture!
We had so many Christmas party's this year but one of my favorites is the Christmas eve party with my mom's side of the family!
The classic Christmas eve pajama picture! Especially cute this year cause the girls and the boys matched!
Back at the home front, we watched my all time favorite movie A Christmas Story, and set out cookies and milk for Santa! Then it was off to bed.

It's finally time for the highly anticipated, long awaited, extremley over due..... Blog Update!

Life is busy but good! We have been having lots of fun, but haven't slowed down to tell you all about it. Because I'm so far behind things will be brief with lots of pictures. I will start all the way back at the first day of school. Here is the traditional first day of school picture! We decided to put Kaiden in football this year instead of soccer. I had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Over the summer he had practice 5 days a week for 2 hours a day, and then when school started it was 3 days a week practice, 1 day for chalk talk and then games on Saturdays! Ya it kept us all busy, and Kaiden dropped 15 pounds. He was an amazing first year player and his coaches loved him. He was a starting player for offense and defense. His team did amazing, they went to the play offs in 2nd position, but after a horrible game to the other Westlake team, they ended up taking 3rd place! It was such a great experience for him, and because of it we feel like we have gained a second family {our little football family}
This summer we decided we needed to get our yard done, the kids really wanted a place to play outside so we decided to do the front yard. Here are some before pictures of the house.
And after much digging, and rakeing, and sweat, and maybe even a little bit of tears, It looked like this! We still have some work and landscaping to do in the flower beds, but mission accomplished for now!
Now we are gonna skip to one of my favorite times of the year, Halloween! Here's a picture {not a very good one} of the pumpkins we carved.
And here is Abby with her pumpkin she carved all by herself!
Abby wanted to be Little Red Ridding Hood this year, and so we convinced Kaiden to be the Wolf dressed in Granny's clothing! I thought it turned out pretty cute, and Abby even took first place at her schools Halloween costume conteset!
We took the Kids to Tammy and Preston's house again this year for Trick or Treating! It was so cold and we got super wet, but they got tons of candy, about 4lbs for each kid!
We had a Halloween party on Sunday at Grandma and Grandpa Haun's house, and this is my little nerdy family all ready to go!
Kaiden and Madi both had Birthdays in November. Madi wanted to wait and have a big 16th Birthday party next year so we just celebrated with family on her Birthday. Kaiden had a huge party up at Classic skating with all his friends! This is the only picture I got of him by himself before he headed off to have some fun! We rented the rockstar party room, and it had lots of fog, loud music, crazy lights, and of course Rock Band!!The big group picture with most of his friends, it was so hard to round everyone up for a picture, but we tried! Happy Birthday Buddy!

So thats it for now hopefully I can try a little harder at this blogging thing, we shall see!