Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas here at the Yeingst house. We spent Christmas Eve at Mom-mom and Pop-pop's house with Jim, Tarri and cousin Paityn. There were lots of presents and lots of fun. Ben and Maddie do not really grasp the concept of Santa, but they really enjoyed opening presents with Maddie asking "what is it?" during the process. She was so excited that she even unwrapped her Brother Christian's gifts too! Fortunately he was not here yet so Daddy was able to re wrap them. We did not have a lot of pictures from Christmas morning, but all photos can be found via the link on the right. Merry Christmas to all and to all a big EAGLES win!

Halloween - Finally!

Well the pics form Halloween did not turn out well. I think the kids messed with the camera and changed some settings so the flash would not work. So here are some pics from Paityn's Halloween parade and what little I have from Halloween itself. Christian was here for Halloween and dressed as a storm trooper from Star Wars. He insisted on carrying the twins' pumpkins and had a great time following Dad and the wagon of twins around the street. After Ben and Maddie were done, he and Dad went around and hit a few more streets while the three of us hung outside with Shane and Kyle. They had a lot of fun with their tricycles in the driveway and I had fun watching someone else (Shane and Kyle!!) run after them. We had a wonderful night and everyone fell asleep and slept hard!

Welcome to Potty Training -- NOT!

I thought some might find this as amusing as my mother did..... so for today's laugh...

i decided to start potty training today. We have been talking about the potty and sitting on the potty chair and the seat on mommy's potty, so this morning I decided to throw a pullup on them and start this process. This morning went well... no has done anything on the potty, but they seem excited about the process, but I figured I would get someone for the after-nap pee. I brought them down from naps, put them back in pullups and shirts and went to get the potties set up. No one seemed very interested so I started to clean my kitchen. About 5 minutes in they were laughing and running around and I thought I;d try the potty again when my son tried to climb into my lap and I left the wetness......the runs! I will leave it at a big mess and quick tub visit, then I saw my daughter and bingo! same thing. Now I think that I have traumatized my children. What could have caused this???? How badly did I botch this??? Then I started prepping for dinner and looked into the fridge and noticed the blueberries were missing. Hmmmmm... I have a whole pint left! Hmmmm nothing on the floor. Then I recalled our failed pullup incident. Apparently they decided to eat an entire pint of blueberries after lunch and before naps. Blueberries + pullups = BIG MESS + TUBBIES!

Maddie sunshine

The local fire company had Santa pay a visit to the neighborhood. And Maddie was so excited. Just watch our little ray of sunshine. See was so excited.

Happy Birthday Paityn!

Today was Paityn;s 4th birthday. We all went over to Tarri and Jim's for the party. They had a Dora pinata and everything! It was lots of fun and there were tons of presents. Happy 4th Birthday Paityn!!!!!

Lots of pics can be viewed using the link on the right.

Halloween -- delayed posting

We had a little camera drama with Halloween. It decided not to work properly and not one single picture came out. As such, we will be waiting for big brother Christian to come next week and try again. More to come .....

Township Fall Festival

In our new township, they held a Fall Festival today. There were pony rides, moon bounces, face painting and an area to make scarecrows. One of our favorite neighbors, Shane, was working with the scarecrows! All three kids took solo pony rides -- and the white one was a horse... a big one! Christian and Daddy had a great time with Shane making the scarecrows while Ben tried to help and Maddie wanted to play in the little stream that Mommy had not allowed her to see prior to today. Cousin Paityn and Aunt Tarri were there -- of course! And we all had fun eating popcorn and dancing to the kiddie band that was there too. It was such fun!