Knock Knock Joke

So LJ is very big into telling knock knock jokes these days. None of them really make sense, but they can be quite entertaining. The joke of the day came this morning and she was playing in bed with Mommy and Daddy. It goes as follows:

"Knock knock...who's there...dog...dog who?...dog go out the front door and make a woof sound!" This was followed by hilarious laughter at herself thinking she is just oh so funny.

Oh the joys of a almost 3 year old.:-)

On another note, Bubbs and I were cuddling the other day after his nap and I snapped a few pics...here is my favorite. And yes, his hair is getting a little red in it...crazy kid!:-)

Christmas in Chicago

My parents moved to the Chicago area in October of this past year. Yes thanks mom for moving to our City...you are just 5 months late since our city is Indy now! No, we are extremely happy they are there and so close to Steve and Kori's family, who they are blessed to spend time with. But since they were there we decided to travel back to Chicago for Christmas. Unfortunately Lynette's family couldn't make it since it is quite a trip from Idaho:-( We had a wonderful few days though, staying with my parents then spending the days at Steve's house. On Christmas Eve we had a super tasty dinner with a huge buffet of yummy appetizers then we got the kids all dressed up and Steve read the Christmas story from the Bible while the kids acted it out. Lorilyn couldn't stop talking about how she wanted to be a butterfly, so naturally she got to be an angel:-) Danny kept his shepherds hat on for all of about 45 second, but luckily a got a couple pictures snapped in time.

The littlest shepherd:-)

Getting ready to be the pretty angel...AKA butterfly:-)

Grandma got to hold the star

Ryan was the Angel letting Mary and Joseph know that she would be having Baby Jesus

They are in a serious discussion...


Lizzie made an adorable Elizabeth, the cousin of Mary and mother of John the Baptist


Lorilyn patiently watching and waiting for her turn.

Emma made a wonderful Mary with Carter as Joseph by her side

Grandpa and the wonderful missionary brother that was visiting for Christmas Eve also made 2 oh so very wise men:-)

Presenting the gifts to the babe...

Tada! We are finished!

After the nativity was done we all got to choose our favorite Christmas song for us all to sing while the talented Aunt Kori accompanied. This was LJ's FAVORITE part. She waved her arms in excited conducting the entire time and sang at the top of her lungs.

Danny observing the sights...hopefully he'll be a little more apt to participate next year:-)

Christmas morning came around 7am as Lorilyn awoke to find the presents Santa had left under the tree for she and Danny...

She was so excited and couldn't believe Santa made it in Grandma's house even without a chimney! Santa is one sneaky guy!

She is a little excited to see the balance bike Santa brought her:-)

Enjoying her spoils from Santa:-)

After Church we went back to Steve and Kori's to open the rest of the family gifts. We were very spoiled and got some wonderful things from everyone. It was so fun to watch Lorilyn begin to grasp the Christmas Spirit and not only be excited about Santa and presents but love talking about Baby Jesus and His birthday. Can't wait for next year for Danny to join in too! Thank you Chicago family for such a wonderful Christmas!

What Will She Say Next?:-)

I am really bad at recording the cute things Lorilyn says but there were a couple fun ones this morning I wanted to get down.

We were all having a lazy morning and the kids were playing in our bed when Ryan laid back down on top of LJ and I to give "big loves" as we call them. She started freaking out because she couldn't move, so Ryan sarcastically said "Where did you ever get your claustrophobia?" because there is no doubt she got it from me. Lorilyn laughed and answered "At the grocery store dad!"

Later I was changing Danny's 3rd dirty diaper of the morning so I said "Dude where does all this poop come from?!" Lorilyn then chimed it "You silly, it comes from his bum!"
Thank you honey, you did in fact answer my question:-)

We love you crazy girl:-)