Mogel Family Reunion weekend

Well, this winter was a little tough for the Mogel holiday get together.... it was the first one since we sold mom-mom's house but since we all like to be together we worked it out. Most of the VA/NY gang stayed in Harrisburg between my mom's and our house and we had a blast. The kids had so much fun playing together and Max loves when people sleep over! (We did miss Michelle though but glad she stayed home and let her back heal.). Saturday we had brunch at my mom's and then took a trip to Chocolate World in Hershey. We had dinner back at our house. Sunday we headed in to catch up with the rest of the family and visited with mom-mom. Unfortunately her place was in lock down due to a bug going around but we were able to meet at the Chapel. It was great to see Katie's growing belly and meet Ryan's fiancee Tracey and just have almost the whole family together! Can't wait for the next one!!!

Brothers:)
Kids enjoying late Christmas gifts!

Hoping someone got a better shot!

Snow!

We finally got some snow!! We've been waiting anxiously. It wasn't snow man snow like Max wanted but he did get to do the second best thing, make his snow angel!

The neighbors came down to play (and share a new snow blower!). Lost one!

I had to wake her up from her morning nap so she wouldn't miss the fun. Poor kids, I only had one mitten for them each so she is wearing baby mittens not made for snow. (Max wore the one mitten I had for each of them, luckily the snow covered Ali's pink leopard print one).


It didn't last long but we'll take what we can get. If it's going to be cold it might as well snow!

Farm Show 2012

Yet another year of the farm show. It was fun that Aliyah was old enough to really enjoy the animals this year. Max was less than thrilled with them (I really think he was kind of scared to be honest) but he loved the tractor parts of course. This picture is "Frank" from the Cars movie. He likes to take all his cars and act out the scenes and this is one of his favorite when Mater and Lightening go Tractor tipping until Frank comes and scares them away!

Max walked almost the whole time till we got to the end. Then he wanted in the stroller. Aliyah was SO excited to get to ride on daddy's shoulders. I figure it was quite a different point of view from up there than where she had been the rest of the time.

This is his "cheese" face.

She loved the animals "look mom a cow!"

She just stuck her hand in, big brother was scared but she sure wasn't. He even talked about it for days how Ali wanted to touch the animals!

I had to get Aliyah a bathing suit for our Shenandoah Crossing trip coming up in February since there is an indoor pool. Luckily for me (crazy for them!) Target has some out already. I got it a size up so she can still wear it in the summer but I wanted to try it on her to make sure it would be ok for now too. I did and it fit and I put her PJ's back on but she thought it was so pretty she wanted it back on and wore it like this for about 3 hours until I made her take it off for her nap (yes, some days the kids stay in their PJ's all day...). To top it off she wanted her mittens on as well, quite an outfit!