Happy Birthday Taylor!

We hope you have a wonderful day. May your next year be great as well! We love you!

Through the eyes of a child...

Bug received a kid friendly digital camera for Christmas this year. Here are a few of the pictures she took! She really liked taking self portraits.

Christmas Cheer

Tonight we attended a wonderful Christmas party. I had so much fun! There were lots of friendly faces, and nice toasty fires. Not to mention that Santa was there too!!! Bug was very excited earlier when we mentioned Santa, but when he arrived, she froze up and didn't even want to be in the same room. But bear took right to Santa and had a nice little chat with him. The kids all had a blast playing together too. It's occassions like this that make the holidays so special. Thank you Jeremy and Taylor, for inviting us and for hosting such a great party. We love you!

Oh, The Holidays...

This just proves that the Holidays can be stressful on everyone... Young and old!

Happy Holidays!!!

I've been working really hard on putting together a Christmas site for everyone to enjoy. Unfortunately I didn't get it completely finished, and with Christmas so close, I figured I had better just give you what I had. I hope that by next Christmas, I will have everything done on it. Here you go... Christmas 2006!

A Good Time!

Today my parents called and offered to take the kids for the night. We agreed since this will probably be the last time before Christmas to get a break. But instead of just shipping the kids away, I decided it would be nice for all of us to go do something fun. We invited them up to go to the aquarium with us, and then over to Gardner Village to see the Christmas lights. The aquarium was great like always, and since Mom and Dad had never been there, it was a treat for them as well. The aquarium added a new section, where you can pet other animals instead of just the stingrays. You can pet Horseshoe crabs, urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers.

Of course Bug had Papa tied up at the tide pool, petting the rays, but the rest of us enjoyed the other exibits. Bear was running around naming everything he could. I think we all had fun. We practically had to drag Bug away from the tide pool so we could go see Christmas lights. Then, her shirt was soaked, so we stripped her down outside and then put her dry sweatshirt on. We got over to Gardner Village and walked through, glancing into the stores, (which are not a good idea to enter with children...)

Then we looked at all the Elves and the pretty lights. When we were finished, we walked everyone back to the truck and gave the kids loves goodnight and then sent them on to Papa and Grandma's house. After that, Jeff and I headed back to the fudge shop. There were so many kinds to choose from, but if you bought 1 lb. you got 1/4 lb. for free. So we finally picked out what we wanted. Well worth the price since it's such a rare treat. I think we all had a great night!

Take 2:

I finally convinced Jeff to get the kids' pictures done again. But first I called the studio to find out if they had the disks. They told me no, and then they told me that they wont do them anymore because the company that makes them went bankrupt. But they said that if I brought in my own disk, they could make it for me. So that's what we did. Unfortunately I didn't make an appointment this time. We did a walk in. So we had to wait through 2 appointments. We were waiting for over an hour and the kids were bored, tired, and hungry all at once. They were whining and wiggling, and I thought "This is going to be another nightmare!" Then we were finally called back for our turn. Amazingly it went so well! The kids smiled like pros and we accepted our very first picture. There was only one pose that had to be retaken a couple times, but it was only because Bug wasn't looking at the camera. I bet we were done in 10 minutes! I am much happier with these pictures. I wish every photo session was this easy!