Minneapolis for the Day

My mom and I took the kids to Minneapolis last Friday to Macy's in downtown for Santa's Workshop. The kids love it and we always get there early enough to avoid any crowds. This year we also were able to go to the puppet show. Next we headed out to the Mall of America to Nickelodeon theme park. The mall was a zoo but the park was so quiet we didn't have to wait in any lines. All in all a fun and successful trip! As you can see he prefers the big kid rides now!

Prepping for Christmas

The weekend after thanksgiving we got to spend some time getting ready for Christmas and Skylar even got to spend part of the weekend with us as her mom worked and her dad and brother were in Chicago for the Vikes game. We picked out a Christmas tree (and Ryan subsequently tried to saw his own hand off, though sad for him, it made the kids incredibly scared of the tree - they thought the tree might have the same effects on their precious little sticky fingers. Lose-win perhaps?!)

We also made yummy cookies. Well mostly Skylar did with help from Teague and even less "help" from Lola.  I think I ate all of the frosted cookies in about 2 days.

Teague really understands his Avent calendar this year. We buy them from a student in German at school. It's their fundraiser for their German trip in the summer. This year Ryan bought 3...one year too early, we only need 2 this year! Well in years past Teague just wants to eat all of the chocolates at once. Most years I just give up on the fight and let him eat them all in one sitting when I realize he had no idea what this concept was. This year he gets it and loves the idea. Lola....yep ate all of her's last week...and wants the rest of Teague's.

We love this time of the year!

Gender Reveal

Yes, I know you all know we are having a boy. But I wanted to show off my mad "Cake Boss" skills that I used to show the Dusha family the gender of 3.0.

Date Day with Teague

Two weeks ago my parrnts took lola for a night so we could spend some one on one time with him.  Unfortunately he woke up feeling crummy. I drugged him up and we were on our way to have breakfast at Charlie's in Freeport. After that we headed to St Cloud and did some groceery shopping. Then we were off to the movie teague had talked about for a month, "Wreck it Ralph"...he loved it and then we took him out to lunch at  Fuji Steakhouse.  While he loved all the fun things they do there to show off their cooking skils, he wasnt crazy about the food. Go figure!

After that we headed home, picked up Lola and hunkered down for the snow storm that enabled us to have a 2 hour late start the next Monday!

No Longer...

SOON we will no longer be a table of 4.  BUT, we are so excited about that!  Don't worry, our blog address won't change, but the name "table of 4" won't make much sense after May 8, 2013...