Christmas Concert

Camden(bottom row)

Camden and Sami(one of his girlfriends)

So grown up

Camden introducing himself to the audience.

Tonight Camden had his christmas concert for Preschool. He was all dressed up and looked so grown up! In the middle of the concert they dressed up as cows, shepards, and angels. The concert was so cute and he did so good!

This is a partial clip from the concert....I can't figure out how to flip it clockwise so it's the right way. Where I download pics and videos I can flip the photos but it won't let me do the videos. It's making me mad. I will have to have Brad figure it out! Camden is in the front row.

Snow Day!

Yummy...hot chocolate and marshmellows

Tackling in the snow

The ice and snow we got yesterday and through the night resulted in no school for Camden today. Camden loves school but was pretty excited he got to go to daycare all morning. He doesn't go to daycare much but when he does he loves to be there with all the other kids. We got enough snow for Brad to get the snow blower out for the first time this winter. After lunch dad and Cam went outside to enjoy the snow. We have only had one other time when we had a measurable amount of snow to actually play in. They had a snowball fight and of course Camden won. He was a little bummed because he wanted to make a snowman but the snow was to fine to stick together. After playing for awhile it was time to come in and have some hot chocolate and marshmellows. His favorite is dipping the marshmellows in the hot chocolate.

I also got the idea today to make gingerbread houses. So I think we are going to attempt to make them this weekend! They can't be that difficult! I am going to use the easy recipe and use graham crackers, icing, candies, etc. Some recipes I have read are crazy and way to much for just a 3 year doing it. Not much else going on this week besides Camden's preschool program tomorrow night. He is excited for us to come watch him!

Birthday Weekend

Cassie, Camden, and Stac....nice face Camden!

Brett and his cake.He probably will kill me for posting this picture.

Tab, Cassie, and Camden....I am so glad Camden gets a haircut this week....he is in need of one.

Oz and Buzz...of course they wouldn't look at the camera....Buzz probably was teasing the kids.

Camden and I headed back to Swea on Friday afternoon to celebrate and have supper for Buzz's 30th birthday(Dec.21st) and Brett's 16th birthday. We went up town to LaRows for pizza and cake. This was Stac's idea and Brett was freaking out that she was going to embarass him somehow. She told me to pick up some balloons and a cake on my way home and I was like no way am I going to bring balloons because Brett would freak!! On the way the town before the party I think he was kind of worried what we were going to do to embarass him. I told him we were going to sing Happy Birthday to him and he freaked out. Well we didn't do anything to embarass him, we just got him worked up a little:) It ended up being a fun night with the siblings and Stac. Of course we missed Brandi though:(

Saturday night Brad and I went uptown for Rob's surprise 30th toga party. He was a good time sitting around with friends chatting and playing cards! Rob's wife is also pregnant and she is due a week after me so I wasn't the only one not able to drink.

Today Brad had to go to work at one and Camden and I have been laying around doing absolutely nothing. It's just one of those days!
Camden also has a crisis right now. The other day he came home from daycare and kind of sighed and I asked him what was wrong and he said " Mom, I have 2 girlfriends now." I of coursed asked him why because before he told me Whitney was just his girlfriend. He said "Because Sami asked me to be her boyfriend today and I told her I would." I thought oh my gosh you are 3 years old and you are already talking like this! Brad of course being a man was like I was like that at 3 years old. We kind of tease Camden about Whitney. I have asked him if he has kissed his girlfriend and he said no because you have to sit in timeout if you do that at daycare:) Seriously 3 years old and he is talking about girlfriends! I think all kids go through this at an early age! I remember having a boyfriend in preschool, but he is definetly taking after his dad! But that was his crisis, having 2 girlfriends!

How hard is it to find black shoes?? AHHHHH

Camden's preschool concert is next wednesday night and I have been looking for black dress shoes for him for over a week. I seriously have looked in 3 different Walmarts, Kohls, Childrens Place, JcPennys,Target and Payless. Everywhere I went had black shoes just not a size 10 or 10 1/2 in little boys. They had everything else but those sizes. Yeah I was getting pretty pissed. His outfit is dress pants with a shirt and tie so he needed dressy black shoes!! How stressful is it just trying to find a frickin pair of shoes! Well my last hope was trying Spirit Lake Walmart on the way to Swea today otherwise I was going to have to run back to Sioux City. Well walmart had one pair of size 10 black shoes left, thank goodness!! Geez it was stressful!!!
Also I got my christmas cards in the mail today. This is the first time, maybe second time that I have done my own christmas cards. Usually we have professional pictures taken and I have them order them. This year I just took a few snapshots and used those for the cards. So I did the order myself and when I got them today I so do not like them. The original photos are not dark but once I got the card today the pictures on the cards turned out dark!! I don't know if I did something or if Walmart did something! I was going to go through all the BS to send them back and redo them but I think I am going to save myself the stress and just use them and send them out. So yeah needless to say I am not happy about them!!!
Anyways I am done complaining, I think it's just the day today! We are at dad's now and going to celebrate Brett's birthday tonight!

Birthday

Happy 16th Birthday Brett!!!!

Appointment

Today we had another doctor appointment in Sioux City. Everything was fine and we got to hear the babies heart beat for a short time because baby was being stubborn and moving so it was hard to hear it but according to the monitor it had strong heartbeat! The nurse said it must be a stubborn boy not wanting us to hear the heart beat for a longer time. Of course we don't care if we get a boy or girl, we just want it to be healthy. Camden and I are saying boy and Brad wants a girl. I am also officially past the first trimester and everything had gone well....and I didn't gain much weight the first 3 months...YAY!!!! I know the weight is coming though. I am definetly getting the pregnancy belly. With Camden I popped out pretty fast in the belly and with this one I am doing the same.
Not much else going on this week. I finished my chirstmas shopping yesterday and all the presents are wrapped and under the tree! It's a relief to have that done. Tomorrow we are going home for the day to have supper with Stac for Brett and Buzz's birthdays. It should be a good time.
Have a good weekend!

Green Bay Weekend!

ChuckE Cheese....I think he is going to have a pretty good shot!

Playing video games at Chuck E Cheese

Playing miniature golf. Our hotel had mini golf and a 2 lane mini bowling.

Hotel Video arcade

At Lambeau atrium playing games

Hall of Fame

Camden at the Hall of Fame. Donald Driver#80 is his favorite. All weekend everytime he saw something with #80 on it he got so excited. He ended up getting a Driver jersey. We missed getting Driver's autograph by a day. He was going to be signing autographs with his new book today. It would of been pretty cool if Cam would of got to meet him!

Kid Zone in the Hall of Fame. THis is Camden tailgating.

Attempting the Lambeau leep

Kicking the ball

Hall of Fame

Camden in the Packer's Hall of Fame

Camden at Lambeau Field

Hall of Fame

Camden and Brad coming out of the tunnel

Camden by the Vince Lombardi statue outside the atrium

Our trip to Green Bay was tons of fun. Camden had a blast and still is talking that he got to see Lambeau field. We took off Friday and stayed in Oshkosh which is only about 45 minutes from Green Bay. It was a long drive for us. Camden could not understand why it was taking so long to get to Lambeau Field. Saturday morning we got up early and headed for Green Bay and stayed the rest of the weekend at a hotel there. Right when we got into town we drove past Lambeau Field and you should of seen Camden's eyes....they were huge! Brad went and got us tickets to tour the field and go to the Hall of Fame. We went on our tour and Camden wasn't so interested in the lady talking and telling us facts on Lambeau, he just wanted to go out on the field. Well that time came when we got to walk out of the packers tunnel onto the field. Camden was so amazed....He said "this is so cool." After the tour we went to the Hall of Fame and Camden loved that too. Brad and I have been in there a couple times so it wasn't to new to us. After the tours it was time to eat, shop, and play. We enjoyed lunch at Curley's Pub and got to watch some of the packers players leaving the stadium from the window seat we had at Curley's. Then Camden was off to the video arcade and kid area. He had a blast there and was hard to get him away from there. The rest of Saturday we did alot of shoppping and hanging out in the atrium at the field. I think we all have enough packers attire for the next year:) I love shopping in Green Bay!!! We hit some pretty good after thanksgiving sales! Sunday we decided the weather was cold and it was supose to start snowing during the game so we decided not to buy another ticket for Camden to go to the game. Camden and I dropped Brad off early that morning at the bars and at noon he went to the game. Camden and I hung out at the hotel, went out for lunch, and did some more shopping. We had to go pick Brad up after the game. They ended up losing in the final minutes of the game. Yeah my husband was not happy, I knew I would have to listen to it the rest of the night! By the time he got back to the truck the snow was coming down pretty good. Our hotel was only a mile away and it took us over an hour to get back with the traffic jam after the game and the roads were getting horrible. We were in a winter weather warning. We got back to the hotel and an hour or so later we decided to run to Walmart and take Camden to ChuckE Cheese. Yeah 4 hours after the game the traffic and roads were still aweful but we only had to go a couple miles. We enjoyed a fun night at ChuckE Cheese and it was back to the hotel to get packed up and ready to leave Monday morning. Monday morning we headed out and the roads were still crappy but not as bad as the night before. It was along drive home and by the time we got here we were all very happy to be home. So all in all we had a very good weekend! I posted alot of pics of our weekend! I couldn't decide which ones to post so there are a bunch. I probably should of done a slide show but oh well. Enjoy!