Lots to Celebrate!!

Happy 1st Birthday Aiden John on January 2, 2011
Celebrating all three birthdays!

Yummy Cake!

We have lots to celebrate and honestly we have had so many parties that I cannot keep up with them all. It feels like we have been opening gifts for a few weeks now and honestly we have. We celebrated Christmas in Minnesota on Dec. 19th before leaving for Cincinnati on the 23rd. We told the boys that Santa would bring them a few gifts to open here and a few on our trip. Honestly, they still believe most anything we say so our "story" did not have to be that convincing or planned. We basically took the smaller toys to Cincy and the bigger toys we opened at home. We had a great time visiting Grandma, Grandpa, and all our aunts, uncles, and cousins. The boys had a party almost every night we were there just playing with their cousins. We enjoyed a trip to the Children's Museum, a Train place, lots of ice skating in the backyard, as well as playing with all of our cousins. We also celebrated Aiden's 1st birthday and Luke and Liam's 3rd birthdays with a special cake. Aiden will turn one on January 2 and the boys will turn three on the 11th. So, we opened not only Christmas gifts, but also some birthday gifts. We have lots to entertain us over the winter now and the boys are enjoying all the new toys, games, etc...We had one small accident on our trip. Liam was playing on some stairs and fell somehow on his arm and fractured a finger so we spent Christmas Day dinner in the ER getting x-rays. We were thankful to have so many family members to keep Luke and Aiden, however. We have taken three children to the ER before and it is not much fun. Liam is now in a cast for a few weeks. It is mostly precautionary so that he does not injure his fractured finger any further. He picked a bright green cast and is doing very well with it. Thankfully, there are no limits on his activity with the cast so we can still jump and run and play. We had a wonderful holiday and want to wish everyone a Happy 2011.

Liam with his new tools and goggles from Grandma and Grandpa

Luke and his tools

Lots of presents to open!!

Ho ho ho!!!

Christmas Morning in Cincy with cousins Ella and Caitlin

Checking out the trains at the Children's Museum with Grandpa

Riding the Train

Cousins (and babysitters) Caitlin and Ella

Silly AJ

That's John up there with Liam, not sure who was having more fun

Grandpa and AJ

Ice Skating

Skating in the backyard with Jacob, Caitlin, and Ella