Finally a day outside

It has been a very long winter around our house. The snow seems to just keep coming which means that Jordan hasn't been able to get out and play in the snow much. Today was much different. Finally a day to be outside, getting him to come inside was another story!

I haven't been very good at getting pictures on here, so, here are a few of the recent photos that have been taken.

Katie & Jordan are GREAT friends. This is truly a case of "a boy and his dog"

Jason got a new flash for his camera recently and of course Jordan volunteered to be the model.

Please don't make me go inside!

by Jeni

WOW Christmas!

Well, we have made it through almost two weeks of Family Christmas gatherings. We started in Odebolt on the 22nd of December with the Scanlan's. Here is a photo of all of the cousin's that were at Grandma & Grandpa's. Jordan loved playing with Cousin Ben and still talks about if this car is Ben's or Jordan's and tells us lots of the things that they did together. Who knew that the 3 year olds knew what cars were theirs better than the adults that bought them.

(Jordan, Emily, Ben, Breanna, Amanda, Alexa, & Brittany)

Then to Audubon on Christmas Eve at Taylor Hill with the Levis bunch and was quickly followed by Christmas Morning at Great Grandma Nielsen's.

On Christmas Eve, Jordan was able to keep up with both Megan & Madison although it was hard sometimes to tell who was following who. All three of them knew they were the stars of the night and made sure that every adult was watching when they did cute things. Then Christmas morning, Jordan was the only kid there and again, KNEW he was the center of attention and took full advantage.

(This was Jordan's response to getting his picture taken AGAIN, at about 10:00pm on Christmas Eve.)

Saturday, December 29th was the party with Nielsen's in Waverly. As usual Jordan had a great time with Megan & Madison. Grandma had a cake and the kids helped her decorate it so that we could celebrate the birthday of Jesus.

(Megan, Grandma, Jordan & Madison singing Happy Birthday)

All of these parties gave Jason lots of pictures to take and Jeni to label and try to get into some kind of order for everyone's viewing pleasure. Here are just a few of them, but to see all of them try these links:

Scanlan Christmas2007

Levis Christmas 2007

Nielsen Christmas 2007

We wish everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year.

The Scanlan's

by Jeni

Getting ready for Christmas

Christmas is coming very fast and the weather this weekend forced me into getting some things ready. Jordan & I set up the tree on Saturday then Sunday we decided to take a family photo for our Christmas cards this year. So, here is a preview of what the might be on your card.

by Jeni

Thanksgiving Travels

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year. This is one of the first years in some time that we have actually traveled for Thanksgiving, usually we stay home and have a small "Thanksgiving Dinner" here. This year was different, not only did we go to family for Thanksgiving, we also stayed around for a SURPRISE birthday party for Jack.

Thursday morning we left our house to go to Jacks for Thanksgiving where most of the Scanlan family was going to be. Jordan was really looking forward to playing with Cousin Ben and realized once we were there that Cousin Alexa was a good playmate also. He even shared his cars with "my Lexa".

The boys spent lots of time playing with the trucks, cars and tractors. We discovered that they are a lot alike, or at least are when they are together. This was a favorite way to play with the cars.

While the "little boys" were playing with cars the "big boys" went on a geocaching trip.

Friday and Saturday morning we kind of hid from Jack, since he thought we were heading home. But Saturday night......... SURPRISE!

Ben & Jordan are getting ready to surprise Uncle Jack with one of his gifts.

SURPRISE!

To see more photos of Thanksgiving, check out Jason's smug mug site:

ScanlanThanksgiving

by Jeni

Jordan's Newest Toy!

Papa brought the four wheeler up to our house a few weeks ago and Jordan LOVES that he can drive it "all by myself"! For only being 3 he does really good driving it around the yard and between the cars in the drive-way. Mir followed Jordan around the yard, just in case, on his first tour.

WATCH ME GO!

by Jeni