Ho Ho Ho

Santa visited the Klein's house. Cody left him milk and cookies and carrots for the reindeer. The gifts may not look even but Caden's big gift is going to arrive in April for his birthday! Hopefully these pictures won't come back to haunt me.

Caden got a musical cube from Santa. How neat.

And Cody got a big red firetruck. Way cool.

Cody is helping Grandma decorate the Christmas tree in their new home. Pretty amazing that they moved in on Dec. 18th and we had Christmas right on time...the stockings were hung and the house was beautiful.

Now this is the Jens Christmas which was one of the last Christmases of 2008. But when Cody opened his Batman Castle from Uncle Matt and Aunt Kelli he said, "I've been looking for this!" He was pretty excited to finally get the castle that was on his list!

More Christmas 08

I think this is our only family picture in front of the tree. The boys are in their jammies and Caden is obviously ready for bed! Cody and his new remote control front loader (at least that's what I think it's called)

Adam was very creative in wrapping Chad's new golf club.

Cody got golf clubs of his own...not so sure Daddy should be the one showing him how to use them though! ha ha

Only three of us would pose for a picture at the extended Klein side Christmas. Come on Codes!

Chippy & Bushy

Grammy (my grammy or "white grammy as Cody calls her) wrote a story for Cody about these two squirrels that lived in Cody's backyard and made a book with pictures of Cody and Caden in it. And Papa made Cody a squirrel feeder for his backyard.

And this is Chippy and Bushy eating up all of Cody's corn.

Christmas 08

They are growing up so quickly. Caden now prefers to stand most of the time. And they both like to hang out in their jammies all morning...I do make them get dressed before daddy gets home though! Rock on at the Jens Christmas. It's always great to be "back home" for Christmas. I guess there is a part of me that doesn't want to grow up at times. But it should make mom and dad feel proud that gave us such a wonderful childhood and we all still enjoy being together! And the group is only getting bigger so that means more and more fun!

Cody had so much fun and he was totally pooped from all the traveling that he fell asleep at dinner one night at 6:00 pm.

Caden is such a little show off. He is always smiling and loves all the action.

Crazy Uncle Matt and Sweet Aunt Kelli here for Cody's birthday...what a treat to have them here for the celebration!

Cody's 3rd Birthday!

It's hard to believe our little baby is three! He has brought us so much joy and entertainment the last three years. There are days when I wish he could stay this age forever...(and then there are the other days too :) But he truly is a wonderful kid and we we look forward to many more fun and exciting years ahead!! Cody's birthday theme this year was "The Bee Movie" and Mommy made the cake this year. (Which I was very proud of by the way)

And we all decided that Uncle Nick definitely looks like Barry Benson the Bee.

And then there are Barry's friends...

Jens Thanksgiving is a "Zoo"

Grams & Pops took us to the Henry Dorley Zoo over Thanksgiving weekend. It was Caden's first trip to the zoo and Cody loves animals! Look at these two monkeys!!

The aquarium is a must see...very cool.

Are these two guys great with kids or what?! The other two children aside from my two boys are Jeremy's (Sarah's fiance) niece and nephew.

Papa & the Firetrucks

Papa took Cody to the Glenwood Firestation to check out the firetrucks since that's the only thing on Cody's Christmas list is a BIG Firetruck!

Crazy Kleins!

Yes, I am just now posting our Thanksgiving pictures with the Klein side... Aren't they cute! There's no relationship quite like a mother-son one right! :)

Cody helped Gammy make a christmas chain for her office...quite the helper!

Random Outdoor Pics

Crazy Cody!!

Trick-or-Treat

It took a lot of convincing, but we finally got Cody to put on his fireman outfit and once he saw how cool he looked in it he didn't want to take it off. He insisted on wearing the hat backwards...he thought it was on correctly because the bill was in the front this way! And of course Caden is just like, "whatever".

Too bad mom won't let me actually eat any of this!

Crazy Fire Chief Cody

Halloween was fun this year. The first house we went to Cody rang the doorbell and said trick-or-treat then handed her some candy and she said that was the nicest trick-or-treater that's ever come to her door.

Fall Fun

October 08

I guess I should shoot for updating once a month...so this will be my October post. It seems like the boys are changing so much lately. Cody is growing up and talking a mile a minute. I could write a book with all the funny things he has said lately. I'll just list a few...

*The other night he kept pulling on his nose and I said, "Cody, what are you doing?" and he said,

"Mom, I can't see my smile cause my nose is in the way".

*We went to a family funeral and at the visitation (open casket) my mom was holding Cody as we talked to the family and as soon as we left the room Cody pulled my mom's face towards his and said, "There was a man in there!" And the next morning when we were getting ready to go to the funeral he asked Grams where she was going and she said, "I'm going to a funeral" and he had a quizical look on his face and said, "Is that like a football game?" No, not quite.

*We went down to the high school football field for the new field dedication and the band was playing. As soon as we got in sight of the field and Cody could see the band on the field he started freaking out crying and not wanting to go in. We asked him what was wrong and he said he didn't like the clowns. And said that Caden didn't like the clowns either. So I guess we don't have to worry about him being in band! :)