Happy 3rd Birthday

It's been a busy week. Someone in this house turned 3 years old. Happy birthday, sweet boy. Life with you has been so much fun! There is never a dull moment and you have added so much excitement to our lives. We are blessed to be your parents.

A Day Out With Thomas

Last September, Thomas the Tank Engine came into town and Grandma and Grandpa thought it would be fun to take Beckett. He absolutely loved it and still includes it in his night time prayers (and even meal blessings) every single night.

March Madness

In honor of March Madness, here's a cute picture that I just found from last year. Go ORU!

Fun Pictures

I still have a few posts from last year that I'd like to get up, but the pictures are scattered all over the place and I am having a difficult time locating some of them.

So, to keep from getting more behind, I wanted to quickly post a few pictures to document what we have been up to lately.

Petting the armadillo at the basketball game

Watching their parents play dodge ball

Someone start recruiting this kid

Free aquarium (PetSmart)

Trying to convince me that this outfit
is appropriate snow attire

Throwing rocks into the river
 during the sunset at the park

Making sure that all of his friends have socks and shoes

Throwing snowballs with Daddy

Today, he suddenly decided that he wanted to start coloring
 inside of the lines (the purple markings were from a previous day) 

Freeland Christmas 2013, Part II

Grandma bought special wrapping paper for each grandchild. Beckett
 had Thomas, of course, Cale had Buzz Lightyear, Casen had Spiderman,
 and Campbell had Dora. The kids enjoyed knowing exactly which
presents belonged to them. 

Working on the Thomas puzzle

Superhero meeting

The weather after Christmas was so nice and we were
 able to let the kids outside to run around for a bit. 

Beckett got hurt playing basketball, but Uncle Chris is pretty good at "fixing" the injuries.

All I want for Christmas is...a storm shelter

Blake's parents had a tornado shelter installed a few days after Christmas. They didn't really get it as a Christmas gift, the installation just happened to fall during the time that we were all at their house for Christmas. The weather was quite chilly, so the guys stayed outside to supervise while the wives and kids "checked" on them throughout the morning.

Christmas 2013, Part I

This year, the Freeland Christmas was in Stillwater. We had such a great time with family that we do not get to see very often. There were about 20 of us who spent the night on Christmas Eve, and then many more family members joined us for lunch on Christmas Day. There were almost 50 of us eating lunch at Blake's parents' house on Christmas Day. It was a blast and the food was wonderful.

It's so much fun watching the big kids come down stairs and open presents on
 Christmas morning. We did our little family Christmas at home before we left for
 Stillwater, but brought Beckett a few presents to open on Christmas morning. 

All he wanted for Christmas this year was a Thomas puzzle.
 He was pretty excited to open it.