Merry Christmas!!!

Here are a few pictures from our wonderful Christmas! I hope everyone had a very very Merry Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve at my parents house in Walla Walla.

Here are my 3 kids...Tyler's head is in the bottom left corner, remember he dislikes photos and therefore didn't cooperate. Just imagine them all three sitting there still and smiling perfectly at the camera! HA! :)

Waiting for Christmas Eve dinner. A big deal with my family. It's an Italian tradition to eat fish on Christmas Eve and so...we do! I really look forward to this meal every year.



Grace trying to take Tyler's toy...naturally.


Doesn't she look pretty in her Christmas dress?! :)

A doll stroller!

sleeping bags!!

We came home late Christmas Eve and had Christmas Day at our house. Here is a picture of the kids Christmas morning, Santa brought them an adorable little table and chairs!


Pretty excited little children they are! Christmas is such a special time of year! I had the honor of hosting my family on Christmas Day. It was lots of fun. We enjoyed a prime rib dinner and played some fun games. It was a great Christmas!

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Charleston Baerlochers take 2

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Revamped Baerlocher Elves...Dancing Disco!

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The Baerlocher Elves

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Manners, Manners, Manners

When you are 3 years old, you are most certainly still learning manners. Part of learning manners in our family is learning to sit through church. Tyler has improved in this department immensely! He truly is doing great, BUT there seems to always be something that tempts him to be on the naughty side. I guess you could say its fairly innocent stuff, for example, two Sunday's ago, he didn't quite make it through the entire mass so he was in back with Justin and Grace. I was attempting to get over to them as quickly as I could but got stopped talking to people (I know shocking), apparently Tyler got VERY close to pulling the fire alarm. I mean VERY close. We quickly left church thanking God that Justin caught his little hand before he actually pulled it. Then there is last Sunday when he again didn't quite make it through and was in back with Justin and he apparently got VERY close to ringing the bell, yes the big church bell! Again, he got VERY close. We quickly left church and thanked God he didn't actually ring the bell. So tonight we went to Saturday night mass, well he wasn't doing too badly when apparently the scarf worn by the nice woman in front of us was just to hard to just sit and look at. Only this time Justin wasn't around to catch him at the last minute, this one was on my watch and yes he actually yanked the poor lady's scarf. Can you imagine standing there singing in church only to have your neck choked because a 3 year old behind you yanked your scarf. I wanted to crawl under the pew. She was very nice about it, in that she had 3 older boys of her own, so surely one of the 3 were on the spirited side like our Tyler. The worst part was that he thought it was very funny and proceeded to keep trying to yank the poor lady's scarf! SIGH, it felt like a long mass but we made it through. Got to love our little Tylerman, he keeps us on our toes and laughing for sure! :)

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!

Alright everyone let's see those snow photos because from what I hear, snow is everywhere right now. I am going to say that we are up to about a foot of snow and it is still snowing! Adam hasn't had school all week. Here's a few photos from around our house.



Hoops anyone? :)

Note the black handle sticking up about half way into the yard, that is from a few days ago when Tyler attempted to "mow" the snow...he was shocked when it got stuck...now i'd say it's REALLY stuck!


Please note how well I am keeping our very large driveway shoveled...exhausting work! the boys aren't much help but they sure have a blast out there! :)


All dressed for the snow...AGAIN!

The boys- "MOM, WERE COOOOLLLLDDDD!!!" me-"ALREADY?" :):):)



Everyone stay warm and drive safely if you must drive at all!

Winter Wonderland!

Well the weather outside is frightful! We have temps below 10 degrees, about 6 inches of snow and no signs of warm up anytime soon. In fact they predict more snow this week. Yesterday and today they canceled Adam's pre school. Which also meant them canceling his Christmas program! I am bummed. I have not heard when they will reschedule it too, if at all! So, we have been doing our best to enjoy the snow, although it is so cold that no one lasts all that long out there, but I still feel obligated to bundle them up and send them out because they LOVE the snow and just wait for the few days a year that we actully get it. It is true however that for Tyler at least, it takes me longer to get him dressed than he actually lasts out there...oh well :) What type of weather is everyone else experiencing??

some pictures for your enjoyment

Here is a picture from Saturday night when the Jones Family visited us at our hotel room. The room wasn't huge so we just stuck all the kids in the playpen so us adults could just enjoy a glass of wine. LOL, yea right! Actually, they all VOLUNTARILY climbed in themselves and I quickly snapped a photo because well, it didn't last long before someone got smooshed, smashed or stepped on etc. count them baby, 6...the oldest...not yet 5. We rock! :)

This is my favorite Gracie expression. Isn't it the most darling little look! :)

Daddy and his boys. What can I say, I have a very significant place in the boys hearts but they do love their daddy! :)


This is Grace's FAVORITE thing to do lately. She climbs up onto Adam's bed, finds his hats hanging above his bed and puts them on. Darling...dangerous, but darling!


Does this look safe to you? It's not. Don't worry I DID catch her before she fell. :)


Not to bore you but, isn't she just a heart breaker? :)


Adam posing for me in front of our Christmas tree. Please notice that there are NO ornaments on the bottom half of the tree. This is because little people in our house can't seem to resist the temptation to touch them...hence our half decorated tree=my sanity. :)

Here are Adam and Grace having some fun this afternoon. They emptied the toy baskets in our living room and sat in them, Grace thought it was the funniest thing ever. Thanks for teaching her how to COMPLETELY empty the toy baskets Adam because she only partially emptied them before. :)
You may be wondering why there are never very many pictures of my middle adorable child Tyler. He is very camera shy and basically totally dislikes having his picture taken so I just don't torture him...or me:) Good night!

We're Healthy!

Ya-hoo! We are FINALLY all healthy! It was a long haul dealing with all the different bugs our family had the past 3 weeks, but we survived. So our weekend plan was to head up to Colville to help my brother Joe celebrate his 30th birthday. When he called me Friday and said his daughter was throwing up guess what I said? You guessed it, we DIDN'T go to Colville. My parents and brother Alex were braved the germs and still went to Colville. Sounds like I missed an amazing meal and fun time. Since we have all been cooped up in the house forever and we were in desperate need of an outing and we had hotel reservations in Spokane we decided to still head over to Spokane for the weekend. We had a blast. Saturday we took in all the Christmasness of downtown. It was awesome. It's quite an atmosphere to see the ginormous tree, hear the carolers, see all the shoppers etc. The highlight for the boys was riding the escavators! (it doesn't matter how many times we corrected them that they were escalators they were escavators)The totally awesome Jones family joined us for swimming and dinner. That of course was a total blast. I won't lie, 6 kids in the small hotel room had moments of chaos, but in a very good way. The four adults could look at one another and just know that we all knew what each other was thinking because we really are in the same boat! Our kids play SO well together and we have such similar lives having children all the same ages that our large group well...it just works! We were thrilled to get to spend time with the Jones family again. Sunday consisted of more shopping and of course eating:) The kids always enjoy time with their Grandparents and Uncle. It was a great weekend! Hope everyone else had a great weekend too! Is everyone getting ready for Christmas...it's coming quickly!