Molly Bridget Conrad

Welcome to the world little Miss Molly Conrad! 7lbs 3ounce, 19 inches, great lungs in the middle of the night, looks like her mommy!!

Happy new Year

Party Hats, noise makers, good friends and a great dinner made by Jeremy Miller. We spent a fun night at the Millers for New Years, JR stayed home to recover from the bruised tale bone, broken finger and sinus infection!

Jaxson Whitaker

Jaxson, Colton and Brady are such a rough group of boys and its amazing they play so well together! Here are the three little studs hanging tough at the Whitakers one afternoon over break. These kids have such cute little buddies already.

For our kids

That number 11 is JR Swanson playing HOCKEY for the first time in his life. One badly bruised tail bone later he survived but did not conquer the quest of scoring on Jarred! Jarred so badly wanted JR to play in the father son hockey game over break and even though JR has NEVER played and can barely skate he agreed...for Jarred! What a guy!

Our Friends

Ashlynn and Connor Anderson came over for a play date over the holidays, we do not see them as much as us moms would prefer but Colton and Brady are very fond of the Ashlynn and Connor, they are sweet kids and all play so cute together!

Christmas Morning 2008

SANTA finally arrived! Grandpa Terry and Lori joined us in the morning for gifts and monkey bread, another Christmas tradition! In the afternoon we went to Papa Felts with Grandpa and Grandma Felt. Favorite Gifts included ice skates, a drum set and guitar, and robots for Colton and Brady. Jarred enjoyed Guitar Hero, new clothes, North Face coat and too many Wii games!!

Christmas Eve 08

As a tradition we always spend Christmas Eve at JR's parent house. We also get Christmas PJ's and a book before we go! The boys said we were having a "Pajama Party". They had tons of fun. Some favorite gifts included Brady and Colton - train set and hockey sticks(Grandpa Terry is working on getting the table ready so we can set the train up this weekend), Jarred - AE clothes and video games and I got new pots and pans and JR bought a TV mount with his cashYIPEE! When we got home the boys sprinkled Reindeer dust in the driveway so Santa's deer could find their way and sat our water and cookies for Santa, then all headed to bed like good little boys:-)

Giving

This year the Stearns family gave back to two of the families in our community that are currently facing tough times. Check out what the family had to give, we hope this made their Christmas' a little brighter.

Christmas with Ohime's

We celebrated Christmas with my mom and her famiy a couple of weeks before Christmas. Teh boys got "boy" dolls which they have named Carson (Colton) and Owen (brady). Brady is very attached to his and they both sleep with them every night. Jarred got a tailgate Uof M bean bag game and best of all learned he will be going to ALASKA with them for spring break...lucky kiddo.

Christmas Cheer 2008

Well I can not believe Christmas has come and gone so quickly. I can say this year was one of the most enjoyable Holiday times though. We were able to see all sides of our families and never seemed too rushed as in Holiday's past! Christmas Eve was a relaxing day at home with our family, a Christmas Eve service at church and dinner with gifts at the Swanson's. Christmas Day was a morning full of happy and surprised faces at our house. The presence of "Santa" was in the air! The innocence at 2 is remarkable and Jarred was thrilled as well. Terry and Lori joined us at 7:30a.m. for Santa and breakfast, we had to wake up Brady! We had a lunch with papa Felt and Grandpa and Grandma Felt and then a dinner with the Swanson side of the family. We have been so blessed this year.

Stearns Family Christmas Party

We had the Stearns family Christmas Party last Saturday. The boys enjoyed frosting cookies and hanging out with their cousins. After you see these pics you may never want to eat cookies at our house again!

Visit with Santa

HO HO HO.... surely not scared of Santa this year! On the wish list...

Jarred - Wii fit balance board, columbia or north face coat

Colton - guitar, skates

Brady - football, skates

More Birthday's

Brady and Colton enjoy others birthday's as much as they are counting down the days to "the 23rd of January" as they say! This weekend I turned 31, which sounds boring but with two little buddies and one almost as tall as me we had a great day!