Our very own Karate Kid!

Preston has been attending karate now for the past month - he loves it!  He goes 3x/week and does not want to miss, EVER!  He is learning to be focused and motivated - we are trying to use it all to our advantage at home with saying "yes sir" or "yes ma'am"!  If you are ever in town on M/W/F you should come watch - it is really cute to see all of these 4-6 year olds doing the drills and saying memorized phrases!

Our Cute Valentines!

Happy Valentine's Day!

The kids both got a new movie that they were so excited to get!!  Preston got Iron Man and Chloe got Cinderella - we have watched them both already!

Playing, a child's work!

The kids have enjoyed playing both inside and out lately!  They have their moments where they play really well together and then there are the times when they just don't do as well and I really wish we had a basement!! :)

This was from a snow early in January that they thought was great!

Cutie!

This is Chloe telling me she does not want her picture taken!!

Fun finger painting!

Just hanging out tonight!

Christmas Day!!

I know I'm a little behind, but here are some Christmas Day pictures, that I know Papa Butch has been anxiously awaiting for weeks and weeks! :)  I of course have too many and couldn't delete many, so if you want to see some more, please go to Picasa b/c I can't put them all on here!!
We got to wake up Christmas morning and have another Christmas with Grandma, Papa Butch, Uncle DJ, Aunt Tori and Aunt Ali!  Luckily, Chloe again didn't realize what was going on so we were able to hold off until everyone else got up.  We enjoyed our time as a little family and then later the Abt side came over for a fun day!

Christmas Eve with the Gegg's

Christmas Eve was spent. as is tradition, with the Gegg side of the family.  This year it was hosted at Butch and Joyce's.  The kids had a great time opening gifts and playing together!  Papa Butch played Santa Clause and handed out the presents, which Preston and Chloe thought was great!
Here are a few pictures

 Playing hide and seek with Papa

 Cheese!

 Our little helper!

 Trevor

 Aunt Ali's turn

 My turn...

 Daddy and Preston

 Papa with Chloe, Preston and Trevor

 Aww!  Michael and Ali

 Happy Birthday Grandma! (a day early!)

 Cousins

The boys!

Christmas, just the 4 of us

Our Christmas morning was celebrated on the Saturday before Christmas day so we didn't have to drag all of the kid's presents to Ste. Genevieve.  Chloe got up at her typical time around 7, but Preston slept a little later until 8ish or so!  Luckily Chloe wasn't quite aware enough this year to remember when she got up that it was Christmas, so I was able to keep her in our room for a long time.
There were a couple of unwrapped gifts left by Santa that they discovered first thing and were excited about.  Then a note was discovered.  Our Elf, Oddie Joey, whom the kids had a lot of fun with this holiday season had gone back to the North Pole and left a note for the kids!  We have had several questions since he left, about when he will come back! :)

Preston and Chloe enjoyed unwrapping gifts and seeing all of their new toys.  Their joy is just awesome to see!  Oh to be a child again and experience this type of joy and happiness!  There are so many pictures, you will have to visit our Picasa page to see all of them.  Enjoy a child's excitement of Christmas day:

 I love Preston's face here

 Chloe is excited too!

 Chloe's computer!

 She found a big present! I don't have a good picture of it, but it is a Disney Princess Castle

 Chloe got her own cape and had to put it on immediately - and then Preston had to go get his as well!

 Chloe's own Bible - although I am pretty sure this has ended up in Preston's room

 She ate lots and lots of candy this morning...

 Daddy loved putting together toys :)

 Dancing Aerial - she didn't make it through the morning unfortunately

 Batman!

Princess Castle! Looks like Batman found his way there :)

We very much enjoyed our Christmas at home, but there was so much more in store once we got to Ste. Genevieve....that will come later :)

Have a fantastic Monday!!