Duvall Thanksgiving and Logan's Birthday Party - Part II

On Thursday, we went to Cherokee to celebrate Thanksgiving with Jeff's family and celebrate Logan's birthday with Grandma and Grandpa Duvall. We weren't sure Jeff could do it, but he cooked a very yummy turkey for us and Lorraine had plenty of other food to go with it! A friend of the family, Marian, joined us for our feast. After stuffing ourselves, the boys got to go out to the farm and ride the tractor there...a little chilly, but the boys didn't care. I wasn't feeling the greatest, so I didn't go and don't have pictures of that. When everybody got back to the house we ate some more (like we really needed to) and had cake, ice cream, and Logan opened his present. He got a drum set and was SO excited! He's been wanting one for awhile now! Now he won't have to set up 3 or 4 buckets and pretend he has a drum set...he has the real deal now...I'm sure even the neighbors know it too, as he drums constantly and there are no volume controls on a drum:)

Family

Today the Umscheid side of my family celebrated Thanksgiving and a family reunion. Many members of the family were able to make it home, but not all. Included in the pictures above are: Dale and Maurine Belz (great friends of my grandparents and like family), my family (Mom and Dad are in front with Logan and Landon, Ben and his girlfriend Alyssa and Jeff and I are in the back row), my aunt Donna and her family, my aunt Diane and her family, and my Grandma and Grandpa with all of their children. Not everyone got a family picture taken because not everyone was here, but I included the ones that I had. We had a nice time, and things didn't get too wild and crazy this year, though many family members either ended up with a piercing or a tatoo from my cousin Eric (yes, he is licensed to do both)...not my kind of thing, however! I am thankful for my grandparents, who head this family up...they are GREAT!

More Pictures of Logan's 4th Birthday!

Logan's 4th Birthday!!!!

Today was Logan's 4th birthday! It's hard to believe that 4 years have gone by already! We started our celebration last night by taking the boys to McDonald's (Logan's favorite, not ours). Today we spent the day just playing, and hanging out, and getting ready for his party tonight! After eating lazagna, cake, and ice cream, Logan opened his presents and was pleasantly surprised by them. Some of the items he got from everyone that came were a new farm set, a new, larger bike, a scooter, some books and a Memory game, 2 play snowmobiles, and small 4-wheeler, a fire helmet with gas mask, a fire extinguisher/hose toy, some new clothes and pajamas, money, and I'm probably forgetting some too! I think he scored pretty big!! After all of the guests left to go home, he played farm with Jeff for awhile and now he is staying up late and watching his favorite movie of the season, "A Christmas Story" (my personal favorite) in Mommy and Daddy's bed! He told me had a good birthday! Now he is getting excited to celebrate his birthday again when we go to Grandma and Grandpa Duvall's for Thanksgiving!! Round #2!

Hawkeye Family!

As we prepared for Logan's 4th Birthday party today, we also prepared for the Hawkeye vs. Minnesota game! The Hawks won BIG time and made us proud!!! The word is fight, fight, fight for Iowa, until the game is won!! Go Hawks!

Some of Logan's Preschool Pictures

Logan has been in preschool for awhile now and he is LOVING it!! He is always excited when it is a preschool day and on those night he always shares with us what he did that day. He brings home a project nearly everyday, so we are running out of room on the refridgerator...guess it's time to start a tub for all of his projects! The pictures in this post are of Logan wearing his birthday hat from preschool today (since this is the last day of school before his birthday), Logan with his whole class and teachers at their Halloween party, and Logan showing off a turkey he made just recently. I think in the picture of him in his birthday hat he looks like either a golfer or a gangster, but at any rate, he was proud of his hat! We are thrilled that Logan is so excited about preschool, and we hope this continues as he gets older! He is learning so much each day and we are proud of him!!!

Random Pictures of Landon

Here are a few random pictures of Landon. I am feeling bad because I haven't posted any pictures of the boys since Halloween! As you can see in a couple of the pictures, Landon is a little bruiser with a black eye...not sure how he got it...he's always bonking his head and what-not on something:) You can also see in one of the pics that Landon has become quite the comedian. I think he thought he was posing for senior pictures or something!! Landon is starting to talk a lot and he's really starting to put words together into short little sentences. It's amazing how, though it took him forever to start talking, now he's just taking off with it! He just got over a little sickness with an ear infection and a croup cough, but other than that, he's been VERY healthy! Other than that, he is just being a typical 2-year-old...ornery and full of temper tantrums!