Captain Conner

Conner decided that he wanted to have a little fun at the end of dinner one night - what a character.

It's finally winter!!!

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Last week
It finally feels like winter here, it snowed last night! For the last couple of weeks the weather has been crazy just ask the roses in the front yard :)

While we were at a Christmas party last night it was snowing, but not too much that I couldn't drive there (for any of you that know me I hate the snow) but on the way home Russ got the pleasure to drive us home. The kids were in awe that it was snowing so we had a snow fight in the parking lot, and of course Conner didn't listen and fell into the grass and got soaked - poor little guy was crying the whole way home.
Today should be very interesting as the kids just want to go and play outside, and let me tell you it's freezing out there. I don't remember ever wanting to go outside and play when it was this cold, but what ever make's them happy and tired I'm fine with.

Football Fun

This past Saturday Russ played the final game of football for his reach team, so this kids and I decide to go and watch him play.

The kids were only interested for all of 5seconds, so I watched him play and let the kids run around and play at the park.

Oh, if you are wondering who won, Russ's team did, Way to go guys!

Playing until I fell a Sleep

So I left little P out in the living room to play on the floor while I ran around the house this afternoon. I heard him talking to himself and playing with Izaiah's book bag, and then all of a sudden I didn't hear him - so of course I was a little concerned well to my amazement he put him self to sleep playing on the floor.



I guess he was ready for his afternoon nap, lucky little fellow (I could use one right about now).

Preston

I love all the new things that little P can do. He has been sitting by himself for about a week now, and he is really working on the crawling thing to.

As you can tell little P is getting a little too big to be taking his bath in the kitchen sink, boy does he love to splash and get everything all wet - he thinks it's funny to do that.


And I can't help but snap the pics of him sleeping, my favorite one is of him holding his toy in the bassinet.

Fun Times

Fun times at the deJong house!

Thanksgiving

This year it was our turn to have Thanksgiving at our house, and I was super excited to host it but there were a few bumps in the road this year so we went over to Russ's parents this year. The trip over was great, Preston slept the whole time, the big kids watched Shrek 3 and Russ and I talked the whole way - it was prefect drive, plus we got to see some awesome scenery the sun setting on the mountains was so beautiful.
So with Russ's mom out of commission Amanda and I were left to cook the dinner. We planned to eat at 5 o'clock since Steve(Russ's dad) had to go to work, so we took the turkey out of the fridge at about 12:45 and of course it was still a little frozen (come on we have all had this happen to us at least once) so we gave the turkey a warm bath - because we needed to eat by 5, all five of the kids were going to be starving by that time and we needed to get Steve off to work with a full belly. So while Amanda attended to all the other fixings (potatoes, yams etc...) I got to attend to the bird, so I let him soak for about half an hour and much to my surprise he was ready to go. At this point we are about an hour behind schedule getting him into the roaster (the roaster is the best invention ever) so I got the bird all ready to go, made up a special seasoning recipe and put that bird in the roaster at 2:05 and much to everyone's amazement he was done at 4:45 -yes I said the bird was done (fully cooked we checked it 3 times before we took it out) before 5 o'clock (that is why I love my roaster) I'm sure record time for anyone. The food was amazing and the dessert spread was even better.

Happy Thanksgiving!