January/February/March

So I guess I was a slacker in these 3 months as far as taking pictures, guess that's what happens when you're pregnant?!  Here are a few snippets of things we did at that time.

Here I am at 37 weeks pregnant.  We had some family pics taken a week later and will post some of those when we get them.

A couple of pictures from Mitch's swimming lessons.  We're taking a break from them for now because half of the time he didn't want to get in the water.  He likes to play in the pool, so I have hope for the future!

Mitch is learning a bunch of spring time songs at school and was kind enough to let me catch him singing on video!

 So we ended up making our gingerbread house in January since we were out of town for the holidays.  It got a little out of control, we found some extra candy that we added to the stuff that came in the kit.  (We're still not good enough to try building it from scratch).  But we had a great time decorating!

 Mitch and Gillian remain good friends even though we don't get to see them as often.  We had a play date and ended up reading books in pj's before going home for bed time.

November

 I don't have a lot of pictures from November but these are pretty awesome.  This is an elevated train track that took a while to construct but held up well to at least allow 1 train to travel on it.

December

 Baby belly at 22 weeks

 Zoo lights with Gillian (and family)

The kids were actually very patient waiting in line for the zoo train, it was about an hour wait even though we got there right when they opened!

Finally on the train!

For Christmas this year almost the entire Mitchell side of the family traveled to WI which meant a lot of cousins and somewhat hectic days at times.  Here are just a few pictures leading up to and around the holidays.

 Making cookies for Santa with mom and Grandpa M.

 Learning about licking the beaters!

Getting ready for church...Aunt Beth helping with shoes

 Excavator!

Christmas at Aunt Caron's house.

Gianna, Nick, Evan and Mitch.  Just one of several attempts to have most or all of the cousins pose together for a picture.

Evan and Mitch weren't shy

Evan, Mitch, Aunt Beth and Gabrielle

Sisters

No husbands or grandparents, but everyone else accounted for:
Kate, Gabrielle, Caron, Gianna, Allison, Nick, Beth, Mitch and Evan


Cold day at the zoo





This pretty much sums up how the vacation was!

Chuck E. Cheese--Mitch's first time there.  He really enjoyed air hockey and the helicopter!

Grandma (as usual) is a genius at ski-ball, winning 200-some tickets.  We pooled all our winnings together to let all the kids get cheap plastic toys of their choosing!

A little bit of down time after the pizza place

Mitch borrowed some of Gianna's pj's for bed that night (don't worry, she actually had her own to wear).

Hugs!

Mitch really liked this singing cat trio that Grandma M had so we took some pics to remember it.

Evan pretty much entertained all the kids with this toy; there are mechanical bugs that jitter around in the tracks.

So after 6 days in Wisconsin we flew to Colorado to visit Aunt Sheryl, Uncle Ron, Evan and Annie.  Grandma and Grandpa G met us there too and we had another Christmas celebration!

 The Geiger side of the family has a tradition of making a cookie Christmas tree.  Here they are rolling out the dough and using the cookie cutters.

 We didn't have any snow actually fall in either location while we were there, but in CO there was a little bit left on the ground.  Grandma, Annie, Evan and Mitch went out to play and build snowmen.

Then it was time to decorate the tree!



 

 
 Ta-da!

 More presents!

 Cousins Annie, Mitch and Evan

Grandpa G, Grandma G, Matt, Kate, Annie, Mitch, Evan, Aunt Sheryl and Uncle Ron