Heading toward Christmas!

I love our tree! I love all the kids ornaments, my Beatles ornaments...just everything. They all liked decorating this year too, especially Teagie.

We did our best to get a Burgman family picture this year. Teague was not cooperating. This was a round 2 photo I think. Dad had already changed back into his gym pants!

Family photos wear a guy out!

Time to decorate at Grandma and Poppa's house - love that missing tooth on Landon!

They love this little Christmas house a little too much. Sometimes we have to hide it because the songs are so loud!

Decorating with Grandma in his Bumble shirt (he refused to take it off that night and wore it under his pajamas). He really liked that Spongebob ornament.

Time to sit on Dad. That happens anytime he lays down to pet the dog!

Teague and Ave love the days they stay home and can get into anything they want. This day was obviously a dress-up day. Looking good Teaguers!

Family pictures are so hard. Looks like poor Teague was tired of being told to smile! This kills me!

Another outtake. They were really good that night. I didn't even care what they were wearing - I just wanted them to smile!

Funny Funny Video!

Funniest thing I've seen in awhile! Carter and Ave decided to pack their pajamas full of stuffed animals, then Kyle laid them on their backs to see if they could get up. You can tell we enjoyed it - we're laughing throughout the whole thing!

It's working! (knocking on wood right now)

I don't know what's happening, but it's working! I should probably go check my bank account to see if they're charging me something! Anyway, that makes me happy! We'll be starting way back, a long, long time ago...Thanksgiving. I'll keep updating it this week. My poor camera just died while I was taking some more Christmas present pictures. I'll charge it when we get home. I digress. Here is Teague's lovely hair. It's really starting to fill in!

Cheese-tastic brothers! Carter's face is so cute, and Teagie's face is so silly!

We set up Teague's toddler bed. He's quite the wiggly worm at night. Kathi sent us Luke's dino bedding, and he loves it! Thanks Kathi! He fell asleep listening to the Beatles - I'm so proud. I have a Beatles coffee cup. He can name all of them. Then he says, "Ringo play the drums, Paul play the bass". We're working on lead guitar for George and rhythm guitar for John.

Sometimes there is nothing funner than jumping off the stairs into our living room. Ave's action hair is awesome.

Teague steps down, but he's pretty sure he's doing a Carl Lewis long jump. Look how happy he is!

Lando Commando is 6! I can't believe it! He had a wonderful birthday at Silver Bow with lots of friends of family.

Poor Teagie Pie got one of the eight million stomach bugs going around Butte, and it hit him hard. The poor thing could not stay hydrated and ended up overnight with IV's in the hospital. Some visits from Aunt Terri and Grandma (and red popsicles) really helped.

Ave loves to help her brother dress up as Prince Teagie while she's Princess Avery.

A nice family Thanksgiving picture (sorry about Ave's underwear). We had a lot of fun and delicious food!

Erica and her boy - so cute.

These two are very much alike, so they either get along great or...you know. Here they were getting along great!

A rare Terri and her girls picture. Very pretty! More to come this week...I hope! Kels, hope this helps fulfill part of your Christmas wish!

Problems...

My blog is being dumb. It tells me I'm out of storage space. When I try to upgrade it for 2.50/month, it tells me my request failed to process. I'll try again later. Sorry it's so late!

A super quiet time

Jocko turned 14 on November 2nd! I can't believe it! Everyone had a great time singing to her.

My poor husband had his 4th ACL surgery on his left knee on Tuesday. He's feeling very good though and his kids are being very helpful and nice to him!

Avery's favorite color for daycare on Tuesday! I can't spell out the color unfortunately because the double-u on the computer keyboard is not cooperating.

I can't even spell out the name of this cold substance that came from the sky in bunches! Apparently it is named inter Storm Brutus - and it is a doozy. None of it has melted at all. There are tons of huge icicles hanging too!

Teagie has discovered that he can climb the ladder up to Carter's bed. I'm not pleased! He is though! He refused to take off this shirt from Grandma for 2 days - he even slept in it!

Day 2 of the storm. 2 crazy boys loving it before they hopped in Auntie Erica's car for school!

Looking good Miss Boo - she's ready to brave the Storm!

Grandma and Poppa came back from Bozeman ith this lovely turkey hat! Carter looked fabulous!

They also got Ave some dance clothes. She loves dance stuff (and she looks smashing in it)!

Sometimes a boy is so tired, he can't even get a shirt on before nap time. Poppa said it looked like Mardi Gras!

These three helped Poppa shovel outside. They had some rosy cheeks after! It as definitely cocoa time! Unfortunately it is too cold to really play out there.

Teagie really enjoyed his first time having cocoa. He made a giant mess so I found a nice orange stra (damn keyboard!). This is a hard post to type out - I use that missing letter a lot! More next time...very quiet these last couple days.

Another singing Avery video!

I'm not sure why this is so orange, but I love her raspy little singing voice. I'm also proud she can sing old songs that I remember from when I was little (Mom bought us a Disney sing-a-long tape). She also knows all about the Beatles (that's my girl!).

More Halloween fun!

This is from Grandma's camera. She was late for the parade at Emerson because she was at Teagie's parade. The teachers let her take a few pictures before they went back to class. Mr. Popular here has a lot of little buddies already! Mom said they didn't want him to take a picture by himself.

He won best costume! I'm not sure who voted, but my little policeman led the parade and got a $5 giftcard for Walmart (he got a gun that makes noise of course)!

These cousins are awfully cute. They had a lot of fun together on Halloween.

My friend Andrea had some great decorations - we stopped there after visiting Nancy and Frank.

Teague liked her glowing pumpkin.

All purple flower fairies should really wear police hats - look how great they look together!

They enjoyed some pizza with Grandma while Dad and I were in Billings for the third week in a row.

Cool guy alert!

Four Halloween kiddos!

It was so nice to see Terri Jo and Drea! I wish I would have seen them more than once. She is so cute, and such a good little girl!

I got to walk the little ladybug around for a few minutes and get some cuddles. She's just a sweet baby!

The spider checked out the ladybug a few times. It was pretty funny to watch them size eachother up!

We did some trick or treating at Grandma's work and Aunt Terri's work. The waiting room on the 5th floor has an awesome fish tank. They almost didn't want to leave!

Cute little brothers going around the neighborhood together.

Erica and I were there too, but this is a nice shot of Kyle and the four kids all lined up. It was a beautiful night! We really lucked out!

Teague was a maniac. He wanted to pick out his own candy at every house! All the kids were so good about saying "Trick or Treat", "Happy Halloween", and "Thank You!". Even my Ave, whose usually shy, was wonderful about it.

Erica and Lando were doing some great bear shadows. Since you can't see the shadows, they just look crazy!

They are lucky to have such a giant kid for a Grandpa. This mask has been around about 20 years I think - it never fails to scare at least one of them!

Gotta pass around such an awesome mustache!

Teagie loves a good bath - he looks so fresh and so clean (clean).

Poor passed out baby! I love when he falls asleep on his own, that's when you know he's a super tired guy!