Monkey Joe's

We took the kids to a place called, Monkey Joe's, the day before Brandon left for Texas. It is a place filled with about a dozen different inflated jumpers/climbers. It was a good couple hours of the kids being able to run around crazy, get out some energy and have a blast!
It was also nice because it had a couple of designated jumpers that only 3yrs and under could go in, so that the way the bigger kids wouldn't trampled the little ones. Lily was all for going in the big kid ones though.
We got there right when they opened so it wasn't busy (which was nice and why we went then) so she was able to enjoy playing in the ones with the boys.

Lily trying to get threw an obstacle.

Corbin on his way to the slide.

Rowen on his way to slide.

Wahooo, go Lily! This was a jumper set up to be like you were in a pin-ball machine.

Lily of course on Daddy's should-ez, and for some reason at the end she was all about sticking her tongue out. She sat there for a good 5-10 minutes like this.

RIP Uncle Speedy

Martin “Speedy” J. Lawson age 55 of Lowell formerly of Carlisle passed away suddenly on Thursday, December 31, 2009.

Born in Lowell on February 7, 1954 he was son of the late Virgil Lawson and Nora (Casey) Lawson (of Killarney, Ireland). Marty graduated from Nashoba Technical High School in 1972 and attended Northeast Broadcasting School.

Marty was an active volunteer with the Carlisle and Westford Fire Departments and enjoyed listening to his police radio. He was a devoted father and grandfather.

My favorite Uncle. Always so upbeat, full of life and welcoming. You made everyone feel like they mattered and were appreciated. You did anything to make all the kids happy at the family BBQ's. You will be missed dearly.

Winter fun

Lily coloring with new crayons from Grandma and Grandpa.

Corbin wearing the hat that came with his forklift for his birthday.

Boys going for a ride. We don't have many hills here in Illinois.

Lily has been in a total Daddy phase the past couple weeks. I find it very cute. She loves to sit on his should-ez, as she calls it. She backs up to him saying, should-ez daddy. And still of course with her hat and her baby doll.

Ahh, swaddling her baby.

Christmas!

Christmas was really fun this year. With them being older, they understand more about what's going on. It was awesome to see how excited they were. We did a lot of craft time making decorations for the house, baking cookies, and decorating the tree.

Lily is always wanting to play with the boys' Lego's, so we got her her own set. The boys sets are too little for her to use. She knows not too eat them but she can't build anything with them. As you can see she was very happy.

Rowen was super excited he got a train Lego set. Corbin is in the middle of opening his excavator set. Lily loves her hat! She decided a few weeks ago that she always wants to wear it.

American Girl baby doll from Grandma and Grandpa. Poking eyes of is course the first thing you do to a new baby.Mommy and Lily chillin' after a busy day.

Lily loves her lollipops! I gave them each a lollipop in their stockings. It was the first thing she opened. She then went into the boys stockings to try and snag theirs.

Awesome Lego's from Auntie Alaina and Uncle Trey.

Happy Birthday Corbin!

You are such a sweet little boy and you give us so much entertainment.

I Love you so much!!!

What to do on a cold winters day...

The past week or so we've been hanging around getting ready for Christmas. We got our tree and decorated it. Now Lily says "its Christmas time!" repeatedly throughout the day. It's cute and very enthusiastic. She wants shoes for Christmas (of course) and now Legos because the boys have big boy Leogs.
The boys are still very much into trains, diggers and now Legos since we got them some a few weeks ago. We got Rowen an Transformers tank to see if it would interest him. He liked it until he lost the missile and couldn't shoot it anymore.

We shall see what Santa brings them this year in just a few days!

Lily having fun painting.

Playing in the first snow of the season.

Snow ball fight!!!

We of course have to make Christmas cookies. The boys really love to help cook and bake.

Lily getting some painting tips from the best artist, her daddy.

Gotta love the dry winter air. Wahoo, static time!

Playing, ring around the rosy.

I believe we have a new tradition at the Ford household!

We made a Gingerbread train/digger over the weekend. It came out really good. Trains are of course part of the holiday season which is great for Rowen, but we also did a mini digger for Corbin to decorate.
The frosting was like cement and the pieces all stayed together no problem. They all helped with cutting pieces out. I put them together and they decorated them. They had a lot of fun. I think it will be a new tradition to make a gingerbread house, train, digger and whatever else we can think of. An Igloo would be cool.

This is what Corbin looked like most of the time.

Rowen was very into decorating and was totally focused when he was doing it.

Lily helping to cut wheels.