Our Christmas

Our Tree

Christmas Eve PJs for the kids. Evelyn got purple princess footies. Egan got Fire engine Elmo.

Egan very excited to get started!

Evelyn got a new "bear" and a toy bottle. Care bears are her favorite thing right now.

Chicken Little is Egans new favorite movie. He saw it for the first time at grandma and grandpa Harwards and has been bugging us to watch it again for the last six months so we had to get it for him.

Evelyn got a pink tea set. After opening it she immediately started handing out pretend tea to everyone. Such a cute little hostess.

Egan got a train set that goes with the one he got last year, now he can make a "Big Choo Choo!"

We had Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, green bean casserole, homemade rolls, apple pie, and martinelies cider. MMM good.

Christmas Songs with Daddy

Gingerbread Christmas Tree

My awesome cousin Katie came over with a surprise for the kids a few days before Christmas. They helped frost and decorate a gingerbread Christmas tree. Of course they had a ton of fun eating more than decorating, it still turned out great! Thanks Katie!

Aaron's 30!

Because of the holidays I haven't posted this when I should. Aaron turned 30 on the 22nd! I made the ugliest looking Boston cream pie for his birthday. It tasted great according to him, (he ate the whole thing! Minus one piece for the kids to share).


Earlier in the month we celebrated together on a date out to dinner and he got a new game for his game cube and another controller.

Beautiful Ice!

We are Iced in. Everything Is closed, and the streets are covered (no plows in this part of the country)There is some amazing beauty around us though. I took these pictures of a bush just outside our front door.

Winter in the Northwest!

Take a look at our snow! (unheard of in the northwest!) We went outside to build a snowman, and we discovered that our snow was covered with 1/2inch of ice! So as we stepped in it, it would crack under foot. We can throw the peices of ice over the top of the other ice and it will shatter! Its crazy! obviously we could not make a snowman, but we had fun anyway.

One Down, One to go!

This little man has kept his big boy pants dry all day three days in a row! I wanted to announce to the world that my little boy is Potty Trained! YEAH! Just in time to go into sunbeams next month!

Extemely Funny Good Advice!

Take a look! Thanks Jaclyn
http://bewareofthedoghouse.com/video.aspx

Look How They've Grown!

I found last year's pictures in the computer, and I wanted to post it with they're new ones. Its amazing to me how much they can change in just one year!


As you can see we had just as much trouble last year as we have this year.

I tried to take more pictures Sunday.

Its been a busy season, and I haven't had the opportunity or the funds to get the kids pics taken professionally. I was thinking it couldn't be too hard to take some myself... definitely not so, this one is the best out of the bunch.

They get worse from there.


Poor Evelyn she hates getting her picture taken,... and Egan touching her.

Any suggestions?

More Dress up

My wonderful sister gave me a few huge bags of clothes her massive Samoan boys have all ready grown out of. In those bags were these costumes Egan just Loves! Thank you Harmony!

I colored my hair....

My hair has grown pretty long this last year or so. I haven't had the opportunity to cut it, and I think I'll just keep it long a while, I still wanted a change and decided to color it. I got a color that looked like exactly what I wanted, darker with a hint of red, but it turned out a lot more red than anticipated. Aaron seems to like it, so that's ok. Luckily my hair doesn't hold color very well, and the red will fade soon. Here is a dorky picture I took myself.

My Aunt's Great News!

My Mother's sister is a wonderful woman. She has just brought another sweet spirit home to adopt for time and seal for eternity. Lucy Noel is her fourth child with down syndrome. What an inspiration to us all. Check out her blog! http://wynkoopfamily.blogspot.com/