And We Have A WINNER!!

The boys enter the various Lego contests that come out in hopes of winning one of the Grand Prizes with their creations. Of course, we always tell them that the odds of winning are low, but that is still good to do their best work and enter.

And then a couple weeks before Christmas the UPS man rings the doorbell and there is this huge box on the doorstep... from Lego... addressed to Brendan... He had entered a Lego Space Police contest at the end of October and was selected as the grand prize winner from his age group.

Getting ready to break into the box...
Aiden hugging one of the sets sent as a prize...
The whole haul: 6 new Space Police sets and one huge Lego Space Police villain trophy.
Some very happy boys! :)
A truly unique trophy.

'Tis the Season

What better way to get in the mood for Christmas than putting up some decorations - and having a major blizzard to keep you indoors... putting up decorations ;)

Yep, looks like Christmas in Minnesota!

Family Photos

Some fun photos downtown St. Paul on a very chilly afternoon in December. We rotated in and out of the St. Paul Public Library to get some shots and warm up. The kids weren't the most cooperative, but we still had some fun and got some cute photos.

Thanksgiving

Not sure where all the time goes, but it sure does go! I've fallen off the blog wagon lately and am going to attempt to get back on track. Until then I'm going to do some fast-forward pictures to get up to speed.

A Thanksgiving visit from Grandma and Grandpa Pomeroy! Making some clove apples.

Brendan teaching them to play his new Star Wars game.
Aiden VERY busy cutting out pictures for his 'wish list' for Santa.
Getting some hugs!
Off to the Mall of America - crazy place on Black Friday.

Amazingly enough, no line to see Santa.
Santa going over the HUGE list of items Aiden was wishing for.

Being silly.