Christmas Card

And last but not least on my catch-up-posts... We didn't send out Christmas Cards this year but if you wanted one... here it is!

Happy Holidays!

We donated a tree to the Festival of Trees this year in behalf of Lincoln. It was so fun to pick out the decorations, treats, books, etc that we put with our tree. It was so exciting to go set up the tree and go see it later during the festival. What a wonderful tradition the Festival of Trees is and what a big support it is to Primary Children's Medical Center. I hope we can continue to take part in the Festival of Trees for years to come.


For Christmas, we had an extended Beck Family party in Idaho about a week before Christmas. It was so exciting to be with all our family and to play BECK BINGO! We spent Christmas Eve with my Mom's family and had a Swedish Christmas dinner. We had Christmas morning at my mom's and Link got the present thing down pretty fast. He had a couple presents already opened by the time I woke up (thanks Uncle Brandon!) Then we went out to Russ' grandmas house for dinner. I love these pictures of Lincoln and his cousin Charlie!

Then more Cousins showed up and of course all the 'babies' had to run around in their diapers. We loved spending so much time with COUSINS!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween was fun this year. We went to a pumpkin walk with my family and Link loved looking at all the different pumpkins. On Halloween night it took a little coaxing to get Link to go to the first house but it didn't take him long to figure out that if he dresses up like Elmo and carries around a big pumpkin, people will give him candy! He was so excited to go from house to house!

Just pics

Of course I have to post a bunch of pics of Link. We kinda like him...

I don't know when this pic was taken but I found it while I was looking through pics and thought it was blog worthy.


Here's Link just being his goofy self. He has SO much personality!
Like father like son... Lincoln LOVES to read... just like his daddy! (and I guess his mommy too)
Just Link.
Family pic on Russ' birthday!

California

Sorry I have been such a blog slacker! Since it has been such a long time since I have posted, I won't be able to fill you in on all the little daily happenings in our life but I can at least post some of the highlights...

We went to CALIFORNIA in October with Russ' Family. This was the first vacation we have gone on as a family. It was Link's first time on a plane and his first time out of the state. We stayed in a beach house a couple blocks from the beach. It was pretty cold but the kids still had fun playing in the sand all day. Since pictures are worth a thousand words I'll just let you see our vaca for yourself...

Link lounging on the beach!
Link did NOT like his helmet when we went biking but he LOVED to ring the bell! Sorry Charlie!
Since it was almost Halloween we dressed the kids up and they went Trick or Treating to the different rooms in the beach house.

One day we went to La Jolla Beach and hung out with the stinky seals!One night we played "minute to win it" games. So fun!
We loved being able to spend almost an entire week with Russ! Link LOVES his daddy!

Like I said... he LOVES his daddy!Link and Russ hanging out in the airport. I got the flu the last night (no bueno!) but when vouchers were offered to wait all day until the next flight, Russ jumped at the chance and we hung out all day in the airport. It was a horrible ending but a great vacation!