End of 2012

 Pictures above our from our FIRST Christmas at home!!! We missed all our family in Illinois, but enjoyed making some family traditions.
We headed to Washington on December 27th. The weather was great and we walked and walked and walked and walked around the city. The kids LOVED seeing all the monuments, museums and learning about the history of our country.

HALLOWEEN

Who you gonna call?!

This is the creepy electric chair Jason made for the display.

Caught!

Prisoners- McCoy, McCoy and Tilton

Sam helping one of the little kids trick or treat.

Ben helping to pull the wagon. 

A cousin picture!!! Not sure when the last one was taken!!!

Brothers!

More summer pictures!

We took the city bus to State Fair-

Eating our way through State Fair

Sam got braces!!

Ben learning to mow the lawn.

Spending some time outside

Ben decided to whittle a ship...

What we've been up to...

  In June we went to Door County, for Cheryl and Kelly's wedding. What a beautiful ceremony and a nice time with family!!!

 After the wedding, we headed to Rhinelander to drop Ben off at Tesomas scout camp. He was gone for a week and had a great time!

 We celebrated the 4th of July in Milwaukee. We had friends over for a BBQ, played games and at night did sparklers for the first time.

 Ben enjoyed some pie with Grandpa Buck.

Jason had rotator cuff surgery. Here he is in his chair doing the arm exercises.

Our Wolf/Bear Scout

Sam just earned his Wolf badge!!!!

Here is my award winning cake- I got first prize in the cake decorating contest (ok....so I was the only cake...but still it does look awesome;)

Hawaii

 Jason had been waiting for these banana macadamia nut pancakes for 4 years!!!

 The live entertainment during our breakfast.

 To help keep people safe their are flags that pedestrians carry across the street. I got to play crossing guard!

 Some flowers from the farmer's market.

 The last coffee ripe coffee bean of the season...we learned ALL about where Kona coffee comes from.

 I was REALLY nervous before going snorkeling with the manta rays. Here I was spending love to the kids in case I got eaten!!!.

 In our wet suits---

 The view from our hotel room- mountains in the distance.

 A turtle we saw on the beach near our hotel. I named him Herman.

 Jason's ride for the week.

 Jason did some graffiti for me- Hawaiian style:)

 Sunset at our hotel.

Arrow of Light

Ben with his arrow-

Ben with Grandma and Grandpa

Ben helping the magician~

The crossover ceremony~ crossing over into Boy Scouts~

Us:)