Alexandra's 4th Birthday!

Alexandra turned 4 this past Friday!  She had three fun days of celebrating.  On Thursday she got to bring brownies to school to for her birthday. On Friday she got to go to Chuck E Cheese with Mommy, Baba and Johnny, choose her favorite dinner and open presents from us.  Then on Saturday she had a birthday party that all her friends got to come to.  She was soooooo excited to have her friends from school at her party.  Her two best girl friends at school are in the picture above. They are so cute together.   All the boys ran around and played while Alexandra opened her presents but these two cutie pies sat with Alexandra the entire time she opened her presents.    After three filled days Alexandra was beat last night, we've never seen her so tired!

I wanna be just like Grandpa!

As most people know my Dad does not like the Packers.  To harass my brother-in-law, Mackey, in particular my Dad made a Steeler sign out of paper and taped it to his shirt.  I took a picture of him with it on and he messaged it to Mackey.  He then kept this piece of paper taped to himself all day and throughout the entire football game.  Well, part way into the game Alexandra asked me for a piece of paper, a black marker and some tape.  She went and got to work with her supplies and came back with the piece of paper taped to her just like Grandpa!  It was too cute!!

Birthday Boy! - Johnny turned 2!

Johnny turned 2 yesterday! Where does the time go! I can't believe it was his second birthday. I just do not want my babies to grow up! I want them to stay little and silly!  We had a nice birthday party with just family.  He is in heaven right now with all his new boy toys.  He is ridiculously hard to get a picture of.  He thinks its hilarious to hide, look down or turn around when I try to take his picture as you can see in the first two pictures.  The pictures above that he is actually looking at the camera are the only two from his birthday party.  The video is of when we sang happy birthday to him. You'll notice he has his hands on his ears for quite a bit of it and he even put his fingers in his ears at one point.  I guess our singing wasn't very pretty! 

Trip to the Zoo

This weekend we went to the zoo with my friend Heather and her kids Noah and Kate. The kids had a blast. The zoo never gets old to them no matter how many times we go!

Happy New Year!

The snow bunnies! Alexandra LOVED the snow. Johnny hated it. He didn't even want it touching his boots.

Johnny and Donovan

Alexandra and Johnny on Christmas Eve. They were too cute! Alexandra sang her song so seriously and proud. Johnny danced around and pretended he was singing.

Johnny, Alexandra and Jaelynn at the Children's Museum in Madison.

All the Marco cousins.

Best buds and cousins.

We just got home from spending two weeks up in Wisconsin for Christmas and New Years. We had the best time like always. There was tons of snow while we were up there so we had a white Christmas and Alexandra got to play and sled in the snow just like she wanted. It was so nice to hang out with my family for two weeks, relaxing and eating A LOT of food. On our way home we declared that Johnny finally said his first word! Mama! He sounds so cute saying it and hopefully this is start of many more words to come out of his mouth!

Merry Christmas!

We have been very busy getting ready for Christmas! We decorated our tree and put up all of our Christmas decorations. The kids picked out new ornaments to add to the tree. We have made a gingerbread house and written a letter to Santa. We took the kids to see Santa, watched Alexandra in her first Christmas program at school and just hosted our first and now to be annual Christmas party! And now we are packing and counting down the days til we leave on Friday for Wisconsin! We can hardly wait. We will be spending both Christmas and New Years up in Wisconsin. To everyone we won't see or be spending the holidays with Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Jaime Oliver's Got Competition

We have the next Naked Chef on our hands! Jamie Oliver is going to have some competition!!