Christmas Fun

Our Christmas was alot of fun. It was this year that JD started to understand who Santa was. JD got so much stuff (which is what happens when mommy starts shopping in October). Later on, we made our annual trip to the Washington DC Temple to see the lights. Once again, JD wanted to go inside the temple. That just brought tears to my eyes and filled me with so much warmth. Hope everyone else had a great christmas.

I actually took a ton of pictures! It was really hard to narrow it down to a couple of them.

This is what Santa left for JD

He's so cute!

JD got Daddy a Nerf Gun!

Our little handy man!

Washington DC Temple

Reed and JD

Me and JD

Making Cookies for Santa

So we were doing some grocery shopping and realized that we needed to get cookie mix for Santa. Well, Santa (Reed) said that he would like to have peanut butter cookies. Well, this was my first time making peanut butter cookies. I decided to be brave and let JD "help" me. He was very excited to help out and especially loved squishing the cookies down. We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and we love you all.

Cox's Farm

So, after Halloween was over with we went to Cox's Farm (about thirty minutes from us). This place is huge! Before Halloween, they gave free pumpkins. Now, after Halloween, you could bring your pumpkin and they were doing pumpkin smashing! It was really fun! There were slides everywhere at this place! Along with a petting zoo, hay ride, and a corn maze! We spent over two hours at this place! JD did not want to leave. Definitely a place that we will hit this time next year!

JD actually got to milk a cow!

This is just one of the many slides

More slides!

JD at the petting zoo with a goat!


A happy boy with his free little pumpkin.

Halloween Time!

Well, I know I'm behind on getting the Halloween pictures up... better later than never!! This year when went trick-or-treating with some friends that we went with last year. JD and his friend Erica had so much fun walking from door to door they didn't want it to end!

We only did one block around and his bag was dragging
on the ground from all the candy he got.

Even I and our cat, Wilson, got into the Halloween mood.
We sure had a great time.



Check out JD's bounty of candy
(it went straight to his potty jar).

We are the Eckmans!

So, it's about time that I started our own family blog. We are living in Virginia right now, about a half an hour from Washington D.C. Reed is doing great with his work, and JD continues to amaze me with all his adventures that he brings into my life everyday.