Well we made it over to Grandma Aufenkamp's on Christmas day. Then we made it to Grandpa & Grandma Walkenhorst's on Saturday afternoon. The highway was pretty bad from Fremont to Cedar so we ended up all staying in Cedar on Saturday night instead of trying to drive that highway back home in the dark. Cruz wasn't really into opening his presents this year but he is definitely enjoying playing with all his toys. He got so much stuff that Jake & I are already thinking we didn't buy a big enough house if every Christmas is gonna be like this:) We still have one more Christmas to go to at my Aunt's house, it was supposed to be on Christmas Day but we've rescheduled to New Years Day due to the weather. Hopefully by then things will have calmed down and we won't get any more snow between now and then! Below are some pictures form the past two days. I hope everyone had a safe and merry Christmas!

Christmas 2009

Merry Chirstmas!!!

Well I wanted to post a quick picture and video from Cruz this morning. He got a big bounce house from Santa that he's been playing in all morning and absolutely loves it:) For those of you that don't know or don't live in Nebraska we got a huge blizzard last night and are snowed in right now. We're gonna try to make it a few blocks to Jake's mom later this afternoon, hopefully we can make it! Anyways being snowed in has given him more time to play so it hasn't been all that bad. I'll post more pictures from all of our Christmas' after this weekend is over. Merry Christmas to everyone!!!

Hello everyone! I can't believe Christmas is just around the corner! I finally got my Christmas cards sent out and my Christmas shopping done so I think I'm finally ready for Christmas to be here. I do have to say it's so nice to be here for the holidays, to be able to shop for anything and everything and not have to worry about shipping it back to Nebraska or buying something small enough to fit in a suitcase! Now if only I could figure out a way to bring that North Carolina weather to Nebraska right now it would be perfect:) Anyways, I hope every one has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!




I've been watching Theresa and Aaron's little boy, Kane, for a few hours a day so here's a picture of Cruz practicing to be a big brother some day. He's always asking to hold him, it's so cute:)








Take 1 of trying to get a picture for the Christmas card








take 2








take 3






And I think we got it!







Walkenhorst family picture #1







Walkenhorst family picture #2








All bundled up for his first time playing in the snow!

Cruz helped me decorate some sugar cookies today. He started out doing really good until he realized he could eat the cookies! By the end we ended up with just pieces of cookies but at least he had fun doing it:)

Super Cruzer!

We had a fun Halloween this year with Cruz. Last year Jake was in Iraq and Cruz & I were in North Carolina so we didn't even really celebrate Halloween so this was a nice change:) Cruz caught on to trick or treating very quickly, he'd go to someone's door, say "trick or treat", get his candy and then say "thank you" and he was done and ready to go to the next house. (Not sure if that was because he just wanted to get back to the van to watch more Elmo between stops or if he really wanted to hit as many houses as possible:)) Anyways we had a lot of fun and couldn't of asked for better weather! Here's a few pictures of our little Superman or "Super Cruzer" like we called him. Grandpa Aufenkamp always called him Super Cruzer since he was born so we thought it was pretty fitting for this year. Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween!

Cousins

Katie took this video on the way home from the pumpkin patch, obviously Cruz had a lot to say about it!

Here's a few pictures I shot today of Cruz playing outside and helping daddy rake the yard.




He loves his swing set!




























At first he wasn't so sure of the leaves


































Gonna help daddy rake!















Such a good helper!

I can't believe it's October already! Time has really flown ever since we got back to Nebraska. I don't have a lot to write on here but I wanted to post a few pictures and a video. The pictures were from the pumpkin patch this week. And the video is just a random evening at home. Hopefully I'll have more time to write later on! Hope everyone has a great weekend:)

Britt Aufenkamp - Obituaries - The Fremont Tribune - Fremont, Nebraska's Community Newspaper

Family Pictures

We had family pictures with the Aufenkamp side of the family on Sunday so I wanted to post a few of the pictures on here. With Jake's dad not doing very well his mom wanted to get one more family picture before anything happened to him. Well we got them just in time because on Monday night we got that dreaded middle of the night phone call and they thought Britt was leaving us. He held on and is still fighting at this point, everyone keeps telling him it's ok to go because we hate to see him suffer like this but he just won't let go.