So Much to be THANKFUL for!

What a weekend we had! The past week Kendal has been spending the afternoons with mom and Rogan. As you can see in the 1st pic she loves stuffed animals and she loves playing school with them so she usually occupies her time by lining them all up and pretending she is the teacher. Cora likes to go play at Coleens house, which works out pretty good b/c then mom can snooze. Not so sure what my little wild child would do while I m sleeping:)

Rogan in his swing, he looks soo tiny!

 Last Wednesday Kendal had special friend day at school. Grandma Linda and Grandma Sharon came up to spend the day with Kendal at school then have lunch with her. Cora, Rogan and I came in for a little bit for craft time until Kendal told me that it was time for Cora to go home after they got into a fight in the bathroom.

This face usually means he is going to make a mess in his pants:)

 Kendal snuggled with Rogan on the couch while we got the Christmas decorations out. She was a good little baby sitter. She put him right to sleep.

Cora helped with the decor and yeas those are all tattoos on her arm!

The girls being silly

Kendal getting Ruger in the festive mood:)

Daddy snuggling with his little man on Thanksgiving Day

little family photo, perfect  pic!

 Over the weekend we went to Sioux City to stay at a hotel with all of the Cronins. We had a great time with everyone.

The great Grandchildren filled the pool!

Grandma watching all of the kids!

Great Grandma Cronin with all of the 18 Great Grandkids and there are 3 on the way!

Cora with Lexa's little girl Ashton, they are new best friends, She is 2 and Cora is 3

 Santa came to the hotel! As you can see below the look of complete shock on Cora's face!

Grandma with all of her kids

Grandma and her 22 Grandkids

The girls with Caleb and Ashton (Lexa's kids) at 11:30pm still bright eyed and bushy tailed!

This was such a pretty fall sunset the other night I had to snap a pic out our back door. I can't believe Thanksgiving is over. We are working on getting the house all ready for Christmas! We are soo thankful for everything we have been blessed with! A wonderful, healthy, happy family. In this crazy world we are soo fortunate to have such great a family for our kids to grow  up with.

Rogan is 1 Month Old

Rogan is 1 month old! He weighs about 9 lbs already and is 22 inches long! Rogan had his first road trip to Des Moines in his 1 month birthday.  We went to stay with Brenda and Chuck and go to the Zac Brown Band concert. The road trip was a little slow on Saturday since thre was freezing rain and the roads were ice

covered. It took us an hour and half to get to Spencer, uusally it takes us 1/2 hour. After 6 hours and 3 stops we made the trip safe and sound. Mom and Dad were ready for a night out:) Grandma Sharon and Grandpa Joe stayed with the kids while we went to the concert.

Looking at his Big Sister!

 The girls are still doing amazing with there new little brother! They absoulutely adore him and Kendal loves to hold him. She helps mommy out alot while I am trying to get supper ready or get myself ready.

Our little Turkey!

The girls being goofy wathcing the football game

Going crazy in the car ride to Des Moines

Rogan with a great memory of the ISU victory over #2 Oklahoma St game

Cale holding his little Cousing, excited to play catch with him someday.

Maura loving her cousin!

And we are spent, the car ride home went much faster only 4 hours this time with one stop:) Overall is a wonderful weekend and a lot of fun! Now we get ready for Thanksgiving!!

3 Weeks old and alot of Firsts!

Rogan got to snuggle with Grandma Sharon last week while mommy ran some errands and we went to Kendals parent teacher conference. While we did that he took his first bottle and did great! We got a good report on Kendal she is doing awesome and we could not ask for anything better. She loves to color right now and could do it for hours:)

 Mommy and the girls went to the high school musical in town while the boys stayed home:) The musical was back to the 80's so it was a lot of fun for us.

 Rogan had his first road trip to Holstein on Sunday. We went to visit Uncle Jim and Aunt Jeannie. Uncle Jim has been in the hospital the past few weeks so we soo excited to go see him at home! He was doing great and it was soo wonderful to see him and have him meet little Rogan.

 Rogan's umbilical cord fell off while we were at Grandma Sharons! So he got to take his first bath with the girls! They were soo excited waiting for him to get in the big tub!

He was a little tired and hungry so he was not so happy but he has had another one since and loved it!

Rogan and Ruger bonding for the first time:)

Our little guys is 3 weeks old and doing great! Adjusting to the chaos well! The girls are awesome. mom and dad a little sleepy but it is all worth it!!