The Last of 2012

That last couple of months in 2012 were filled with lots of family time--which is always fun.  We went to the children's museum one day with the cousins, played lots of games and visited.  One day while playing with the cousins, it was a beauttiful day the first part of November so I decided to take the kids outside.  We played several games, one being "Duck, Duck, Goose".  Noelle didn't seem to quite understand the game and just sat and watch the other kids run around.  Well, a couple of weeks later while getting her ready for bed she walks over to me with her arm raised like she was about to hit me.  She reaches up and hits my head and says something. I wasn't quite sure what she was doing until I heard her say "Goose".  Ah, the first few utterings were "Duck, Duck".  Oh so funny--I was quite surprised and shocked that she had remembered from a few weeks previous.  Now we often play the game although it's more like tag.

We also went and took some family photos at the Capitol Building. The large group turned out pretty good, I think, but our little family one not as good. Oh well, guess you take what you can get. Well, I'd share them with you but for some reason the link to add pictures is no longer responding...sometimes I wonder about this website. I'll add them when I can. Anyways, I digress. We had a fun Christmas and got a lot of snow. On New Year's Eve Corey built a big snow slide in the backyard and the kids had a good time with that. We also had a fun New Year's playing games and had quite the spread of goodies. Can't wait to do it again next year.