Santa Came!

I thought you would enjoy a few pictures from our Christmas day of fun!  It was relaxing day filled with presents, food and love (of course!).  The kids make Christmas triple the fun.  They get excited over every gift and it is so much fun to watch them open them.  It was Meghan's first Christmas!  We are so happy she is here.  She adds so much to our family.  We have been blessed indeed.

The boys' big gift this year was brand new sleds.  We haven't used them yet.  Maybe soon.  It snowed this morning!

Snoqualmie Falls, Red Robin and Dear Friends.

Three days before Christmas, we met with our dear friends from California.  (They have now settled in Oregon!)  We met them at Snoqualmie Falls.  This is our favorite place to take guests from out of town.  If you come and visit us, we will probably take you there too.  It is so neat to see.  Come visit us and you can see it too. 

We see our dear friends, The Fourniers, about once a year.  The cool thing is that our kids get along really well for only seeing each once a year.  I was really excited this time because they got to meet Meghan. 


After Snoqualmie Falls, we went for shopping and dinner at Bellevue Square.  We ended the day in the World's busiest Red Robin!  Even so, it was a great meal and a great day!  We cannot wait until we can them again soon!

Owen's Christmas Program

I realize that I am really behind on these blogs.  I will try to get caught up soon.  I broke my left foot about a month ago.   This has been a little bit of a set back for our family but we are surviving.  Only 2 weeks until my cast comes off!  YAY!  
 
I did want to mention Owen's first Christmas program!  They had the kids dress up like angels and sing a little song.  It was really cute.  He looked cute and grown up at the same time.  Owen gave us a calendar that he made.  Each month shows his hand print formed into a shape correlating with that month's theme.  

We are so happy with his preschool program.  He has been growing and learning so much!  I hope you enjoy the pictures of the big event.

Gingerbread House=Family Time

The Sunday after Thanksgiving we participated in the Gingerbread event at our church.  Each family got a gingerbread house and a ton of candy to decorate it with.   We had so much fun creating our house.  The boys really got into it.  Unfortunately, the night ended with Owen getting sick on the church's floor.  Besides for that, it was a great family night.

Fun in the Snow!

I am going to try and get caught up with our activities over the holiday season.  Hopefully, I can update these blog posts fairly quickly.

I will start with some pictures of the boys having fun in the snow.  It snowed here around Thanksgiving.  Which resulted in days of playing outside because school was closed.

Here are some of the shots of the boys exploring a snow covered yard!

3rd Birthday for Seamus

It is hard to believe that our sweet middle child is already three years old.  Seamus is such a blessing to our family.  He has a personality that is gentle, sweet and loving  yet also mischevious, curious and adventurous.  I think he is our most outgoing child.  He is ready to try any new adventure you throw at him. 

His speech has exploded in the last year.  We started off the year with a speech therapy appointment.  Now, we have a chatterbox on our hands.  He is always asking questions.  Sometimes the same question many times!!  I can tell his imagination is starting to develop.  Everyday he is someone else.  Sometimes Curious George, sometimes Sheriff Woody.  Most of the time he is Buzz Lightyear.

Poor Seamus (or Buzz) couldn't really enjoy his birthday on the actually day.   We think he got the flu.  They were both sick boys that day.  He did rally to open his presents on his birthday.  The next day we blew out the candles on his chocolate Buzz Lightyear cake.  So he got a two day celebration!

Trick or Treating

I realize that I am behind on these posts, but I figured I would let you know about our Halloween activities.  The boys and Brandon went to the Maple Valley community center.  The city parks a lot of trucks and you can climb on them and get candy.  Sounds like a great combination for little boys!  Seamus even got his picture in the local paper at the event!   They went with their best bud, Isaac and his dad. 

After the Trick or Trucks event everyone came back here for pizza and trick or treating.  We were a popular house.  The door bell seemed to ring nonstop.  We live on a street with lots of kids.  We gave almost 3 huge bags of tootsie rolls and the fixings.     

Meghan and I stayed home from Trick of Trucks because she really wasn't feeling that great.  She had diarrhea the whole weekend.  Poor thing.  The next day, she had to go to the emergency room and to get an IV because she was dehydrated.  She is on the mend now, and back to her smiley self.  Which makes us very happy. 

As I write this post, we still have tons of Halloween candy in our house.  If you visit us, you are welcome to it!!! :)