Brown Belt

Last night, Sydney graduated in her karate class......She is now a BROWN BELT!!!  She is doing so well in her classes and is doing her best.  We are so proud of her!!!  Way to go Sydney!!!!  We love you!

Here is Sydney warming up

Sydney performing her Kisos

Sydney with her friends, Wesley and Evan

Here she is performing her Kata.....the Kata has 108 moves.  Here

she is performing the first half in order to achieve her Brown belt.  She will

now have to learn the other half to become a 1st degree Brown belt.  Wow!

Sydney receiving her Brown belt

Sydney shaking hands with her instructor

She is so excited to be a Brown belt

Our Karate kid

Sledding!

Today while Matty took his nap, I took the big kids sledding!!!  They had a blast!  We hit some of the bigger hills on our property!  The kids loved it!  We have spent pretty much every waking hour playing in the snow! We have had so much fun these past two snow days!!!

Sydney and William sledding!!

Here she goes!!!!

Here is William sledding!!

He is so happy.....He loves the snow!

Snowman

Today, the kids and I decided we would do our best at building a snowman!  I have to admit that I am not good at building big, huge snowmen.  So, we built what James likes to call a "snowbaby"!  We thought he looked like an outdoorsy snowbaby so we got Matt's Bass Pro hat and we found a little jacket!  I thought he turned out quite cute!!  

Our Snowman

Matt with the snowman

I love how Matt is peeking over Sydney's shoulder!!

Sydney with the snowman

Snow Day

Today, we had another SNOW DAY!!!  We have gotten a total of 3 inches so far!  Woohoo!!  We absolutely LOVE the snow!  We have had a blast sledding, having snow ball fights, making snow angels, and attempting to make a snowman which we failed miserably! Oh well, it's been a fun filled day!  Here are some pics below of our snow day.........

a peaceful birdie enjoying the snow

Will and Matt

Our girl

Rocky lying in the snow!

mmmmm......a good cup of joe in the snow!

Sydney giving Rocky some loving!

Will and his beloved tractor!

Sweet Sydney

Will couldn't figure out why his tractor kept getting stuck!

Silly Matty!

Snow Ball

Fight!!!!!

more snow ball fights!

Sydney trying to sled

Will giving her a push!

Our snow angels!

A civil war cemetery covered in snow......beautiful!

beautiful snow covered tractor

our babies are ready for a snowy 4-wheeler ride!

We of course ended our fun with a warm, yummy cup of 

hot chocolate!!!  We LOVE snow days!!

New Year's Eve

We decided to let the kids stay up with us to ring in the new year!!!  They were so very excited.  We rented a movie and stayed up late!!  When the clock struck midnight, the kids went nuts with excitement.  We were all upstairs so we had a great view of fireworks!  They loved it.  Little Matty was the only one who didn't make it!  He tried though.....maybe next year!  Here are the last pics of our family for 2010.......

 Sydney was very excited to ring in the new year!

 James and Will being silly!

Sweet Matty tried his best to stay awake......so cute!

Happy New Year.......2011!!!