Thank You All!!!!

Thank you to our family for making Christmas special. The kids are busy playing with all their new toys. They are defintly spoiled by everyone.

Christmas 2009

Christmas gets more fun every year as the kids learn to appreciate it more. Sunday started out our Christmas at my parents house with yes, 13 grand kids, it's crazy that the children out number the parents. We forgot our camera but the boy cousins enjoyed playing with their new light sabers while the girls enjoyed their new dolls, singing puppy and listening to Denea play her new guitar. The night also included sledding and snow ball fights. Love you Mom and Dad. Thanks for everything.
Next was our Christmas as the 4 of us. We enjoyed a mid morning brunch(which I prepared)opening presents and in the evening dressed up for a night at Fanny Hill dinner theater for a fun night of Frosty the snow man, Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer and Santa, complete with a show for kids.
Christmas Eve was spent at the Koehlers, the adults searched for hidden snow flakes in the deep snow while freezing and wondering how we were going to find them as it had just snowed and was now raining. We found 11 of 30 but it took us 45 min. The kids enjoyed a visit from Santa and we read stories of Christmas and had props to illustrate. The night ended with Bingo and the kids were wired as can be. Love you Mom and Dad.

Koehler Christmas Card 2009

Merry Christmas to everyone! This year with all the hustle and bustle we weren't able to get motivated to send out cards via snail mail. We send a big thank you to all of you who did, we really enjoyed them.
We sent out a e-mail to those of you we had e-mails for, letting you know to check our blog for this special greeting from the kids. For those of you we didn't have e-mails for, this is for you too.
We hope you have a Verrry Merry Christmas, and please remember that Jesus is the reason for the season.

H1N1

Well it didn't make any difference for us that we all got our vacinces for the swine flu, we all ended up getting it. Craig came home after a weekend of working the night shift wiped out, weak, high fever, no appetite and a constant cough. A few days later Preston and I came down with the same syptoms. We were a family of coughers and when the night time came no one could sleep. Preston a few days ago got a double eye infection as well. He is on eye cream 3 times a day for 10 days. When I put it in his eye he freaks out every time because it makes his sight blurry for awhile. I cry right along with him!!!! I ended up with a sinus infection on top of it all as well.
As for Audrey, thankfully she got the mild end of it. She has had a slight fever, and a cough. Thankfully it never affected her sleeping.
It has been a long 3 weeks for all of us and we are still getting over everything. Appetites still aren't where they should be and I could still sleep all day.
Hope none of you get it. It will wipe you out!

Preston turns 3

On Sunday the 8Th Preston turned 3 years old. I can't believe my little blue eyed, brown hair little man is 3. On Saturday we went out to one of his favorite restaurants Burrachos for dinner with both sets of Grandparents and a friend of ours who was down visiting. We then headed to our home for cupcakes and presents. He is very into Star Wars right now so he got a lot of fun Star Wars gifts, guns, some books, a car mat that he and Audrey enjoy playing together and even a Darth Vader mask complete with outfit(which he wore out to eat).
On Sunday he had a few of his boy cousins over for pizza, Star Wars movie, popcorn, cupcakes and time outside playing Light Savers.
I am so proud of the little boy that he has become and for his tender heart.

Trick or treat

This year the kids reused their costumes. Audrey was a Sea Turtle(this was Preston's costume when he was her age), and Preston was a Cowboy again this year. We went to both Grandparents and loaded up, then Grandpa Jahn walked around their block with us and we then headed to a near by neighborhood and the kids both filled up their buckets, we ended by going into the town by our house and by that time Preston was tired of walking and didn't even care about the candy. He was cold so I gave him my jacket and he told everyone we trick or treated to that he was a freezing cold cowboy.

My little sweetie

Audrey is so fun and her talking and development has gone into high gear. She loves to look at pictures and says "who's that?". Her favorite thing to do lately is go around the house asking "what's that?", "what's this?". It is such a fun game. Her reaction to what we tell her is priceless as well, she says "mmmmmmmmm", or ohhhhhhhh, or ooooooohhhhh wow". She enjoys playing by herself but stands her ground when Preston trys to take something from her. She yells at him and has tried to bite him and pinch him. She is definetly a girl!
She loves to dress up and loves to play with her dolls. Her favorite part of her outfit is her shoes. I can't go past the shoe department in any store without at least letting the look at them and hold at least one pair.I have to sneak them back on the rack when she isn't looking.

Pumpkin Patch

Last week we went to the Pumpkin Patch when the weather was in the 60s. Each year with the kids is that much more fun because of all the new things they can do each year. We spent a couple of hours there and the kids had a blast. We never did get a picture of them in the pumpkins however bacause the batteries died.

Wisconsin Dells

Too many pictures to choose from.........hope you enjoy them all.
This last weekend we stayed at the Dells in a Condo with Craig's brother Ryan and his family and his wifes sister and her family and their brother. We had so much fun there the 3 days that we were there. The kids loved the water slides. Audrey kept saying please and would point to the water slides. When I would take her down she would say "weeeeeee the whole way down". Preston even went down some adult slides with us. There was one he decided once he got up there that he didn't want to go on it but it was too late, there was no way we would be able to make it back down with the crowd of people now formed behind us. I had to literally unbuckle his legs and told the lifeguard to push us. I felt so bad, he screamed and cried the whole way down. Needless to say he wouldn't trust me after that. He stuck to the kid slides that he could go down himself and he could see out of.
The waterpark had around 4 indoor waterparks and a wave pool. We spent most of day getting wet, and enjoying each others company. The kids never got to bed until around 10 and they slept till around 9 or later. I can't believe how well Audrey did adjusting to this new schedule, but I guess the water wore her out. As much as she doesn't like pack n plays, she was litterly jumping into it at bed time.

Audrey walking and ears peirced

Yes, Audrey is walking and yes, you read it right, she got her ears pierced.
The walking thing is so much fun, she gets so excited and claps for her self.
As far as the ear piercing, well, we talked about it for awhile and I just went ahead and got them pierced today. She did really well and doesn't even know she got it done. I think she looks so cute in them and it makes her look more girly with her short hair.

Grandpa Koehler

Grandpa Koehler came over the other night for dinner. He brought steaks out and we enjoyed Caprese salad and fried potatoes and smores over the fire. We enjoyed having you out along with Kevin and Angie. Grandma needs to come over after she gets back from vacation:)

Fighting swords

This is Preston and Audrey's new fun thing to do lately. They like to fight with swords. Audrey even knows how to make the same sounds that Preston makes while fighting. So very fun to watch.