Christmas Day with Nana and Papa...

Merry Christmas 2012 with the grandparents in Stillwater, MN.   They lived one mile or less as the crow flies from the house we had in Stillwater. We get the privilege of sharing most of our holidays with them, which is a blessing for my boys. Someday they will be glad and remember our memories with them.

 Nana and Papa always give the boys a nice box filled with different unique things like paint by numbers, candy and something special she picked out specifically for each boy...

Christmas Day 2012....

Christmas morning and the first thing we always do is our stockings.. They love to see them stuffed to the gills with little things.It was my parents always did and will probably pass that same tradition to their kids someday.. It is just what you do..

Zack grabbing his stocking..

Josh LOVES knives. He has quite a collection. Zack and Nick got him this present. Just what a boy needs, more arsenal right.??

 Zack and Josh Christmas morning,..One thing about Christmas is everyone has bedhead. No one wants to wait for mommy to shower and no boys care, so we never look good, dad has a hat on and there are no pics of mom...=(  same story every year.

Dad and Josh playing a good old fashion game of battleship...

The boys got this game for Christmas and we couldn't believe how much fun it was..Brought back some good childhood memories..

Christmas 2012

MERRY CHRISTMAS BUROW FAMILY...OUR LAST CHRISTMAS IN THIS HOUSE..

 

 

THIS IS MR. TREE. HE COMES TO LIFE EVERY YEAR BY A MIRACLE. MR. B WORKS HARD WITH HIS LITTLE ELVES TO RESURRECT THIS TREE TO LIFE.. HARD TO BELIEVE HIS LIFE STARTS OUT LIKE THIS....

 

 

 JOSH PLAYING AROUND WITH THE DECORATIONS OR IS THIS MR. C

 ZACK LOVES MR. SNOWMAN. EVERY YEAR HE SEEKS TO FIND THE PERFECT SPOT IN THE TREE FOR HIS WINTER FRIEND...............................................

Nick's 10th Birthday!!!

 Nick's 10th Birthday party.. Good Friends, Good boys, good times.. Josh Leslie, Vitaly Brown, Bayard Johnson, Ben Bydlon were there.. They all play so well together....

 Nick opening one o fhis gifts.. Money, money,money.. He love that to save up for what he wants..

 I got each of th boys their favorite animals for their birthdays and filled them with their favorite candies. Unfortunately it was around christmas time and so they look christmasy, but they loved them. Nick got it filled with Sour patch kids and zack's was filled with skittles.

 Nick made this cake and has each of his friends sign their names and so it was special to him.

Nick's 4th Grade Soccer career....

 Here Nick is playing Goalie. HE WAS AN AWESOME GOALIE.....

 Zack hanging out watching Nick.. It was really cold at these games. We played Sept. Oct and into beginning of Nov and it WAS COLD......

 End of the year championship games.. Since Chris and I were the coaches, we could do what we wanted and so I put goodie bags with all kinds of different soccer things together along with their medals.. It was a fun last day.. Nick had soooo much fun playing...

Hallowee 2012....

Halloween 2012 and the four cool pumpkins the boys made.. a little blurry but you can still see how hard they worked and how they put each on a chair to display...

 

Zack's 12TH Birthday....!!

 Here is Zack with Ben Bydlin, Vitaly Brown, Josh Leslie and his brother Nicholas at his 12th birthday party.. Good boys, good friends...

Zack opening his gifts from his friends...

 Zack's Party with his family.. Zack got a scratch and sniff shirt.. You scratch the fruit and they smell even after you wash them.

 Nick and Josh made zack some cupcakes for his birthday...

The morning of his 12th. He loves coming down and finding balloons, gifts and a good breakfast, and gifts he can't open til dad comes home that evening... Fun to tease and torture them...Make them really go bonkers to open up...