Charleigh and Ben enjoying the snow.

In the back ground you can see my neighbor Carol. She is some what famous. Isn't she Melissa?

The day after it snowed.......

Charleigh's first Snow Experiance.

When we noticed it had started snowing we had Charleigh look out the window and showed her all the snow. I asked her if she wanted to go outside and of course her answer was YES!!! She loved it. She kept laughing and saying "wow". It reminded me of how excited I would get as a little kid when it snowed. Our neighbors and us would spend an entire day out in the snow. We would sled, build tunnels, skate on the pond, ( Mom,that is how we lost the black broom sorry.)have snowball fights, hook the sled up to a horse or anything else we could think of. One time when I was like 9 or 10 our neighbor, Pat, Lacy and I told Charity, that in order to build a fort like ours she needed to lay her head down and pack the snow around it guillotine style. So she did, and we built her in there real good. When she was stuck like that we began throwing snowballs at her face. What a bunch of punks huh? That is what she got for being so gullible. Sorry Charity, I think it might have really taught you a valuable life leason on thinking things through before acting. Hey, Your welcome.

FUN IN THE SNOW

Running around and trying to slide like momma did. I forget she wants to do everything we do.

We walked over to the neighbors to look at thier lights. "WOW" is all she could say.

Let it snow

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!

Looking at the ground as the snow fell

Dancing on the sidewalk & Loving this weather.

She just kept watching and laughing, and screaming "Snow!" and "It's Cold!"

SWEET BABY GIRL!!!!

This is what we do when we smell a skunk or Daddy. PEW-WEEE

LOOK AT THIS SWEET FACE.

Anytime she sees our tree or any Christams decorations she says "WOW"!!!!!

Its a Potty!!!!!

Multitasking!!! She gives herself a pedicure and learns to use the potty all at once.

After the stickers got old she saw me wrapping Christmas presents, she wanted me to wrap up her baby. I had her stand by the tree and get her picture taken with her baby. She thought it was funny.

She gives her baby a kiss. She frequently takes her baby to the tree and shows her each ornament. As she points to each one she says this, this this, boots(cowboy boot), bull, momma and dada,(a frame ornament of our wedding picture) and then back to saying this, this, this, this........

Stickers

Charleigh is really into stickers right now, as you can see. She likes to stick them then take it off, then re-stick it over and over until they have lost the sticky. She also enjoys sticking them on her Daddy's head before he goes to work.

Going to the Town tree lighting.

We went to the Bismarck city tree lighting where they have Santa come and the kids can sit on his lap to tell him what they want. The whole time we waited for him to get there she would say "Where is he?" and put her arms up like she was confused. She did this for about a half an hour until he showed up. Then she buried her head in my shoulder and was ready to leave. When we got home she was showing her doll the tree and I asked her if she wanted to sit on Santa's lap she said "yeah", So I said "Oh you do?" and she said "Oh noooooo" It was so funny when she realized what she was sayingshe was like "heck no!"

This time last year..........

Charleigh's first Christmas

ANOTHER BENJAMIN BORN INTO THE WORLD

My good friend Crystal, who I met in xray school, and I work with now had her little boy on December 3, 2007. He weighed in at 9lbs 3 ozs. and was 22 inches long. BOY WHAT A BIGGIN'
They named him Benjamin Dean Reece. With a name like that I am sure he will be a sweet boy.

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

Christmas was always a GREAT time growing up. It was like MAGIC. I hope we can make it just as special for Charleigh. It wasn't just the presents, it was everyone getting together, and staying in one place over night, and then waking up at 4:00 to open presents with all of my cousins. Then on Christmas break all of our cousins would come and stay with us. It was a great time, always. Rockin out the 90's hair. Oh, and yes we are wearing feety-pajamas!!! we wore them WAY TO LATE IN LIFE! sometimes they got to tight and we would cut out the feet to get some more wear out of them. I can remember the feet in them were always a bit cold, especially when your feet got sweaty after being in closed in vinyl for 8 hours. I guess it reminded my mom of when we were Charleigh's age. Maybe she wanted to keep us younger than we were, now I know how she felt and I really can't blame her. Did any of you guys wear these after age 4? Please tell me ya did.

Cowboy Ben in front of his Christmas tree. Ben is that a little dolly you are holding? I mean if it is, it is alright I was just wondering.

Santa is Comimg....

This is Ben and Cecil dressing up like Santa. Ben said "Cecil always got the good costumes." They almost trick Tim into sitting on Santa's lap.

No way he isn't falling for it.