Happy Birthday Wes!

Uncle Wes's birthday is January 20, and we always have fun celebrating!  We all went to Pops and Mama Zo's to eat and had a great time!  Here are George and Chase helping Udub blow out the candles...

Hank was very interested, but refused to leave his Daddy's side :)

We gave Wes a duck hunting toy....where you shoot the fake duck with a laser gun...it was lots of fun, and it is a miracle that it wasn't broken before the end of the day!

The three boys :)

They all had fun piling on Clay!

And playing at the top of the steps, as always :)

The Snow!

Chase and Hank were pretty pumped about the snow!  I must say that day ranks as one of my most stressful in the past year...the roads got so bad so quick that I, like many others, had a really hard time getting to the boys.  It was a little scary, but so much fun once I had them safe and sound at home.  Drew got to leave early too because he was worried I couldn't get to them...so we had so much fun once we all made it home and got to have fun in the snow!
I think Chase had the most fun!

Daddy and Hank...Hank had fun but was a little less patient with the cold than his brother was :)

Ruby always has fun when everyone is at home and playing outside!

The boys and Ruby...I thought this was really cute!

Sweet little Hank...

And sweet little Chase :)

A little girl who lives two doors down came to play with us for a bit...Chase liked having her there...

Here they are warming up in the bathtub!

Hank was happy to be warm and with his favorite person!

Christmas with The Dukes

We usually see the Duke family (my aunt, uncle, and cousins) right after Christmas, but we ended up having to wait a little later in January this year.  We were so glad that we got to see them and celebrate, though!  We all went to my cousin, Jenn, and her husband, Karl's house and we had a great time!  I think this was their first time to meet sweet little Jackson....here is Aunt Kay rocking him...

The kids had fun playing in Jack's room...he had all kinds of fun toys!

And they loved piling on Drew...the honorary kid :)

I thought this was cute of Alex :)

Here are all of the kids lined up on the couch...from left to right we have: Alex (4 yrs), Jackson (3 months), Jack (3 yrs), Chase (2 yrs), Annie Elizabeth (2 yrs), and Hank (14 months)....they had so much fun together!

Here are Peg-P and Gran with their grandsons!

And our family...

The Duke family...

We are so glad that we got to see them and so thankful for them!

New Year's Day

Drew had to work nights the week of New Year's...we were sad, but glad that we had him for Christmas week!  So, we had a big New Year's Day lunch at our house with Drew during the hour that he was awake before he had to go back to work.  We had a great time together!  Then, that night the boys and I went to Hunter and Anna's to play with them and Peg-P and Gran for a while.  We had lots of fun!  Chase and Alex playing together...

Peg-P and Jackson....

Hunter and Hank...

Chase and Alex in the bathtub....

Hank is a fast little crawler!  He kept trying to get away and Hunter would pull him back and he would take off again...he loved that game!

This is the best I could do at getting a pic of all three of them in the tub...they have so much fun together and I know Jackson will have fun too when he gets a little bigger!

More fun over the holidays

These are just pictures of the boys after Christmas playing with all of their new toys!  It was so much fun getting to be at home with them...we played and played!  Here they are watching tv together...Peg-P and Gran gave Hank his own chair just like Chase's and he is so proud of it!

 

They both love to play in the tunnel, and the firetruck pop-up tent that Santa brought them made it even more fun!

Here they are sporting their new Duke gear...we were actually trying to get a good one of them with Ruby, but you can see how that went :)  It has gotten pretty difficult these days to get all three of them to look at the camera and have a pleasant face at the same time!  But, we get a lot of fun pictures!

They love sitting in Daddy's chair together!

Chase was really excited about his new jacket that he got for Christmas!

One of Hank's favorite activities!  He LOVES to get into the cabinets and pull things out!  :)

One day, we bundled them up and took Ruby on a walk...their faces crack me up in this picture!  They look so happy :)

Hank got into the Oreos....he loves sweets as much as the rest of his family!

Pops and Mama Zo stopped by one day and Pops read "I've been working on the railroad" to Chase :)

Then Chase showed Mama Zo how good he is at playing his new guitar that Santa gave him :)

Hank and Daddy reading "Goodnight Gorilla"....that has always been one of Chase's favorites and Santa gave Hank his very own copy :)