Our little getaway

It was our yearly cabin trip this last weekend. What a great weekend. It may have started out rough with the kids being a little under the weather. I told Nate that we were going to have to cancel going but was informed that there were many years that he went up to the cabin sick and we were not going to let a little fever stop us from going.

We got up there Friday night with our family, Devin, Celest, Jered, Stephanie, Maddy, Eli, baby James and then my brother John showed up really soon after. Justin and his kids showed up later that night right before bed so we had a good crowd at the cabin this year. I love this next picture. It is always cold when we first get to the cabin and we try and get the kids to keep on their coats but Norma is a little stubborn. So Celest was wrapping her up in her coat with her and Kate went right over to her and climbed right up on her lap too.

We got settled in and were just sitting around when John wanted Celest to help him open a birthday gift he had. (His birthday was earlier in the week.) So of course the kids hear present and want to help. Norma, Maddy and Eli go with John to get the gift and he has them hide it behind their backs and come out and hand it to Celest. It's this cute little horse with a saddle bag on. Little did I know that it had a ring in it! John proposed right there at the cabin in front of us all!

I am so happy to be getting Celest for a sister! Winni is pretty upset that he did it in front of me and without her there but all I can say is, HaHaHa! I am so happy for my brother and come May, I'll have another sister. Celest has been a great addition to our family and I'm glad that they could come spend the weekend with us.

Eli with the horse. The kids loved playing with the horse and Norma even slipped up a few times and called it "her" horse but would correct herself and say it was Celest's.

Saturday was a day filled with games, sledding, snowball fights, snowmen, food, movies, naps and just a little fighting. Thadd was my sledder this year. He was out nearly all day. He would go out and get sopping wet, come in, we'd throw his clothes in the dryer and as soon as they were dry he would go out again. Devin did a lot of sledding with him and Andrew came out too for a bit with him. They would chain sled down. I wish I would have gotten more pictures but I was planning on taking more on Sunday and then we didn't go out at all on Sunday. It rained most of the day. Maddy, Anna and Norma really hit it off though and had a ton of fun playing together. Here they are in the kitchen, pages ripped out of coloring books, coloring a picture for everyone. Eli was in there too but I missed getting him in the picture.
It was a really nice weekend. We did miss Heather and her family, she had to go out of town for work so they couldn't come. It didn't seem like it was complete without her.

Here are just a few random pictures of Kate. She has learned to wave and she loves to wave at people now. Her other big thing is she is scooting across the furniture to walk. My baby is growing up too fast! I don't even want to think about her turning 1 in a few weeks...