Christmas time!

We got our Christmas decorations out last weekend. The kids have been beyond excited about Christmas this year, we are going to have super fun! Everytime Annika sees Christmas lights she says "Christams time!"







I just love this picture. It is so Patrick... getting all the ornaments ready to hang up.



Annika found a friend "snowman" and she won't put him down.

We let the kids open their new ornaments for this year

happy halloween

from my two adorables

Annika woke up this morning and when we told her it was Halloween I'm pretty sure she about fell off her chair she was so excited. That girl loves sweets, this is her day!

Fresh snowfall

As I reflect on our hectic Christmas week and stare at the brown landscape outside I realized I hadn't shared these wonderful snowy photos yet. Enjoy my babes in snow.


Annika and I were still recovering from our yucky flu stuffs, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to photograph them in the lovely snowfall.





Annika had enough.

Happy Holiday's from the Bliss family

Happy Halloween!

Enjoying the 4th of July

This year we spent our holiday a little differently. We still enjoyed boat rides, the lake, playing cards, panpakes (according to Patrick) and staying up far to late. But we had the pleasure of enjoying these things with our friends Ali and Art.

Why they were interested in traveling through the back country of Minnesota to spend the weekend with us is beyond me, but we are glad they did!

Catch up

ok, so I'm a little behind lately. So back to April...

Patrick's birthday! We did a Curious George goes to the fire station theme.

He was pretty excited about his birthday cake. (I was pretty proud of my decorating skills!)


He celebrated with lots of family and friends


The next week we turned it around for Easter. The kiddos woke up to find the Easter bunny had left eggs around the house and baskets for them.

Patrick was good about sharing

Later we had church and got all gussied up.




A couple weeks later we drove out to Sioux falls to go through Great Grandma Hilma's things as she prepares to sell her house. Linda played dress up in her wedding vail

Annika played dress up in Linda's old dress.

The kids spent a beautiful day outside while we worked
Before we headed home we made a stop at the falls park. What a great day!







Patrick was pretty sleepy after all that fun!