Sledding time!

Hey everyone! We were finally able to get outside w/ our sleds this weekend, and it was a blast! The kids loved it! We also celebrated Great Nana and Ryan's birthdays on Saturday, and went to the library! Keeping busy is definitely the key to surviving winters in Cleveland!

 Look at that face! lol!

 Reading at the library!

 Bundling up to head outside!

 Her very 1st snow angel!!!

 Gabrielle likes to go in Mace's crib and read w/ him at night!

 Bath beauty!

 My favorite picture!!

Adorable!!

**And by the way, ignore any lines that may be going through the pictures; sometimes they upload funny and I'm not sure how to fix it! :)

Winter has arrived!

 There's finally a few inches of snow outside...so we had to take a few minutes to play in it on our way to the library yesterday :)

 Sorry Gabbie, Mason doesn't stay still for too many photo ops!

 We love the library! Gabrielle's new favorite thing there are the computer games; Dora in particular :)

 The Mason man LOVES brushing his teeth lately! Matt said he brushed for like 15 minutes last night; every time he tried to take it away, Mason would cry! haha

January!

Okay, so i'm really falling behind on my blog updating, aren't I? How the heck is it already half way through January? Not that i'm complaining...the faster we get through winter, the better :)

Does anyone believe that Mason will be 18 months in a week either? That's crazy! He is quite the explorer these days! He can climb on ANYthing (and will) and we've also mastered a few animal sounds finally! (Yeah!) We're still not talking (besides "Up" and "Mama" and "Dada" still) but we're working on it!

Gabrielle, on the other hand, won't stop talking! haha She is just the smartest, most caring little girl! The other night, I mentioned to her that my neck hurt...and the next morning, with no prompting what-so-ever, she looked at me and said "Mama, how are you feeling? Is your neck better?" It was so sweet!!

In case you haven't heard, Matt has officially turned into Bob Villa around here :) His most recent project was our master bath and the kids bathroom; they turned out awesome! He painted them, installed trim around the mirrors (I promise to get some pictures up soon!) and put up new light fixtures. He did great! (especially for never doing trim before!) The basement is still a work in progress; but we're hoping to have it done sometime this spring or summer.

Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!! Well, 2011 will surely be a year we never forget :P Starting Christmas Eve, a terrible flu single handedly took down every member of our Feaster household! (and quite a few Bergmooser's and Davis' as well!) Thankfully, however, we were able to spend some great, quality time w/ family and friends before the plague struck!

The kids and Matt and I received some awesome presents (a dancing/singing Elmo, Gabbie's 1st pair of ballet shoes, a so-real-life-it-kinda-freaks-you-out cat, a new timer and lens for my camera [wahoo!!! Sorry, the person writing the blog gets to be partial!], tools, a sled, cars and racetracks, doll shopping carts, barbies, the list goes on and on, but you get the idea! It was awesome!!)

I'm happy to say we're all feeling better (knock on wood!!) and praying that 2012 will be as great to us as 2011 was!! We are truly blessed and can't wait to see what else God has in store for our family :)

 Making cut out cookies at Grandma's!

 Gabbie was a master sprinkler!

 Mason was a master sprinkler eater :)

 Cutest little Santa man!

 Clean up time!

 Feaster family Christmas 2011 :)

 Sibling love!

 Outside in the snow!

 That's her "smile" in case you wondered :P