Downtown Disney

Talia, Falyn and I had a blast at Downtown Disney today. Talia didn’t have school due to the break between semesters. Falyn has been asking for the Valentine’s puppy from Build-A-Bear for her birthday, so we took her to make her puppy. She had never been to Build-A-Bear before and she had so much fun! After she made her dog (who she named Valentine), we walked around Downtown Disney for a while and then had lunch at the Rainforest Cafe. Falyn thought it was the coolest restaurant she had ever been in. She loved the big butterfly and kept staring at the stars and moon on the ceiling above our table. Here’s some pictures of the fun.








2010 Pinewood Derby

The boys all worked hard making their cars for this year’s Cub Scout Pinewood Derby, which was held on Saturday.
Aidan designed and built his car all by himself.

Jared and Riley designed their cars themselves, but had a bit more help from Daddy to build them.


They all had a great time and their cars did quite well. Aidan won 3rd place for the Den and 1st place for the Bears. He got the Most Creative certificate. Jared and Riley got 4th and 5th place for the Tigers and got the Most Colorful certificates. (Thanks Samantha for painting the cool flames on the twins’ cars!)



Twins Birth Film Crew
While filling out a form for the twins 1st grade autobiography, we realized that the twins didn’t know that their birth had been filmed for a TV show called Life Moments. I scanned in some of the photos taken with our camera by the producer that show the film crew and showed them to the twins. We need to dig out the video of their birth so that they can see it. Here’s some of those photos.




I can’t post pictures of their birth without posting a newborn picture of the as well. Here’s one of each of them in the NICU.
Jared

Riley

Rainy Day Photo Shoot

What to do on a rainy day? Why have fun taking pictures in the photo studio of course! Falyn had a blast twirling around in the pettiskirt and tutu. Here are some of my favorites.








The girls did go out and play in the rain too.

It rained really hard.

You rarely see the flood control channel with this much water.

New Recessed Lighting

Dan’s parents gave use recessed lights for Christmas. Over the break Dan, with the help of his father, has been putting them in both the den and living room. We all love that we can now see to read in the downstairs rooms at night. Those rooms use to be so dark! It is so much nicer now.
Living room

Den

Happy New Year 2010!!!!

Wishing all of you a happy and prosperous 2010!!!
New Years 2010

Grandma Nancy, Grandpa Ron and Samantha came over to help us ring in the new year. We dragged the firepit to the driveway and had kept busy with snacks and smores while waiting for the clock to strike midnight.

Kayli had fun making hearts and flowers with her sparklers and I had fun photographing them. (The 2010 at the start of this post was done by Talia.)




When the New Year arrived we were joined outside by some of the neighbors. We had plenty of fireworks left over from the 4th and everyone enjoyed watching them.

We were having so much fun that we didn’t head off to bed till around 1:30 am. I was surprised that all the kids stayed awake that long!
Christmas 2009

We had a wonderful Christmas. Everyone loved their presents and spent all day playing with their new stuff.
Here’s all the kids with their stockings.

Here’s all the Santa presents.

The twins each got a DSi, Talia got a netbook, Kayli got the Disney Pop Hits Wii Sing It game, Aidan got the Extreme Challenge Wii game, and Falyn got Princess Dress-Up.
Here’s some assorted pictures of the fun.








We spent the evening at Grandma Nancy and Grandpa Ron’s house. The kids had another set of presents to open over there.



Christmas Eve 2009

We had a lovely Christmas Eve filled with all our family traditions: writing letters to Santa that are burned in the fire so they go directly to him, opening presents with new pajamas and ornaments, singing Christmas carols and reading “The Night Before Christmas” and the Christmas story from the Bible. The whole time the kids kept an eye on Santa’s location via NORAD Tracks Santa. As soon as Santa made it to the USA, the kids all ran off to bed! As everyone knows, Santa won’t stop at your house unless everyone is asleep and they wanted to make sure they were asleep before Santa made it to California. Here’s some pictures of all the fun.
All the kids in their new pajamas

Kayli reading “The Night Before Christmas”

Dan playing his guitar while we sang carols

The kids with their new ornaments










