Christmas on the Square

At the beginning of December, we brought the kids to Christmas on the Square in Brodhead. It was really fun! We got to meet Santa, eat kettle corn, decorate cookies and take a carriage ride through town. Just as I expected, Kennedy didn't really like Santa, but Will loved his lap. Kennedy saw that Santa had a huge teddy bear in his sack, now she keeps telling us that he is bringing her a teddy bear for Christmas...we'll see if she's right?! :-)

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star!!

A great performance by Kennedy! A mix of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Inside Voice by Yo Gabba Gabba :-).

Thanksgiving (and a few before/after house pictures)

Last year we spent Thanksgiving by ourselves, just the 3 of us: Paul, Kennedy and myself. It was our first holiday away from home and it was VERY quiet and pretty sad. This year my mom, dad and sister Caitlin came out to Wisconsin and made it a MUCH happier holiday for us!! We had a wonderful time shopping, celebrating Thanksgiving and getting ready for Christmas! Since we are leaving for 10 days beginning December 23rd, I wanted to get our tree and decorations up as soon as possible. My mom and Caitlin helped make this happen...we went out into the trenches the day after Thanksgiving, fought the masses and bought a Christmas tree, some decorations and got to work. My mom has such a talent when it comes to decorating, I am so lucky that I had her help this year.

Thank you to my family for coming out this year! I want to make it an annual thing...Thanksgiving in Wisconsin, but Caitlin is not down :-).

While writing this post, I realized I haven't posted the "after" pictures of our Wisconsin house...I will post a few "before" pictures along with the ones from Thanksgiving, so you can at least see how the kitchen and living room have changed.

The kitchen before...April '09

The kitchen after...preparing the meal...

The table is set...

The living room before...April '09

The living room after...

Kennedy LOVED Thanksgiving and her big-girl place setting

Me & Will

Kennedy liked the butter by itself too...I can still remember doing that as a kid :-)

Opa & Will

Only got one shot of the Christmas tree (more to come...).

Will's 1st Rice Cereal

Will has been MORE than interested in what we have been eating, but I have been putting off starting him on solids for two reasons; one, nursing is so much easier and two, rice cereal is very messy! Will really seemed to enjoy his first rice cereal, but man, he is messy!!

Will's Baptism

While we were home in November, we also had Will baptized in Tulare. We were so happy everyone could celebrate this special day with us. Here are few pictures from the day.

Our little sailor :-)

Will with his family, Msgr. Rick and Godparents, Mark Sanchietti and Jillian Murray

The Zimmermans

The Kasbergens

The entire crew...Will-Will is very loved!

The Lindbergs - Est. 11.12.11

I know I have a TON of catching up to do, but while I am on the computer I want to at least post one thing :-). Last month we flew back to California for Robin (a great friend of mine from Cal Poly) and Dan's wedding. It was an absolute blast!! We had an awesome time spending the weekend catching up and celebrating with everyone. Thank to all of our friends for a great weekend...we miss partying with you SO much!

BOTH of my cameras were broken that weekend, so I have to send you to our friend Sam's blog for some pictures (he does a better job than I do anyway). Here it is, http://valtenbergs.com/archives/3891.

4 Months & Halloween

Last week we celebrated Will turning 4 months and Halloween! Will is just getting easier and easier as time goes on, he is much happier and just seems so content all the time! A nice change from his first month of life. We went to the doctor last week and he weighs 15 lbs. (59th percentile) and is 25.5" long (78th percentile).

This year was Kennedy's third Halloween, but the first one where she actually understood what was going on. The first few houses we went to it was hard to teach her what do and she was very shy, but once she caught on it was game on! After every house, she would say "more candy"! It was so fun to watch her, she was just adorable.

4 months (getting much better at tummy time :-)

Carving the pumpkins! (please ignore the mismatched pajamas :-)

Our little bulldog slept through most of the trick-or-treating!

She loved all of the decorations.

These guys really went all out...they had a guy tied to a tree the whole night!

More candy!

Our little cupcake was too cute!