December "Adventures"

Whenever we are on a road trip, Jack refers to it as our "adventure" so I thought I would post pictures from all our "adventures"! We have been back in Indiana for a little over a week now after spending the previous 4 1/2 weeks on the road. We started out and drove to Kansas City where Brian went on to Dallas for training and we stayed to celebrate my mom's 50th birthday!! The boys and I then joined Brian in Fort Worth and stayed/took over the Bates home for a week before going back to Kansas City for Christmas. Brian also made a trip to the Fiesta Bowl which didn't go quite as we hoped but I think they still had a great time. When he got back to Kansas City we packed up the car (having to leave quite a bit of stuff in KC) and drove east to Indiana just in time to get another 6-8 inches of snow!

We are slowly getting back into the swing of things and the boys have discovered all of the toys they hadn't seen in a month! It was a long time to be away but we are thankful we got to spend time with so many of our friends and family!

Jack as "helper of the day" today at school

Sophia & Dustin (Dustin loves her!!)

Jack playing in the snow

Uncle Kevin & Jack going down the big hill

Dustin not so impressed

this is actually Brian & Dustin before they got to the bottom

Jack loved sledding with his daddy

pre-sledding

Dustin on Christmas morning not quite awake yet

Jack, Daddy, & Mia doing his new Handy Manny puzzle

Dustin, Sophia, & Jack on Christmas morning--the best we could do for a group picture

Great Grandma & Dustin on Christmas morning

Great Grandma & Jack

Jack with his new Handy Manny Toolbox

Dustin checking out brother's tools

Dustin with Jack's new Mr. The King at Grandpa & YaYa's house

Jack & his Dinoco girls

the boys opening presents at Grandpa & YaYa's

more opening at Mia's house

Jack waiting to get the ok to start opening

Dustin & Daddy

Dustin, Daddy, & Jack

Nathan, Jack, Dustin, & Jacob with Mere Mere in the background

Mere Mere & Jack (he was SO excited to see her)

all the boys "watching" Frosty

pretty sure this is Caleb hugging Dustin

Dustin, Matthew, & Caleb--they were racing around the house on the cars and pushing the grill :)

I think Matthew was wanting Jack to push him some more but Jack is busy putting his Buddy in the grill

Jack got a good workout pushing all the boys

Dustin, me, & Jack riding the train at the Fort Worth zoo

Matthew trying to get over to Jack

looking at the ducks

Now that I have posted pictures, I should probably start taking down Christmas stuff!