Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Jenna's Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

For Thanksgiving, Jenna's class had a school feast. Mommy and Daddy couldn't be there, so Kye Kye was there!

With her friend Hailey

This is the turkey the class made. Each feather represents what that child is thankful for. Jenna's feather (yellow one to the left of the turkey's head) says she is thankful for her brother. Let's hope that lasts many years!!


Happy (belated) Thanksgiving!

Halloween

Backtrack to Halloween.....here are some pictures from the Harvest Celebration at Jenna's preschool.

Our beautiful butterfly....


with her lead teacher, Miss Tiffany


with her class (the "Trusting Turtles")



with her friend Kalia


and here are some that were taken on Halloween as the kids went to trick or treat and also visit the grandparents...

Catching up....

haven't done this for awhile....so this is my attempt to start playing a little catch up. I'm gonna start with this post for Ryan's 10 month and 11 month milestone pictures....

Ryan turned 10 months old on October 23rd. Yeah....that's right....OCTOBER. I know....I'm lazy.

Here are a few pictures from THAT big day....




and then, naturally....Ryan turned 11 months old on November 23rd. Here are a few pics I took on THAT big day.





Had to throw those last two in to show Ryan's current (for the last 6 months or so) obsession. The remote control!! This boy goes GAGA over the remote. We have to hide it under pillows or put it up high (which means we usually can't find it either). We've tried giving him a spare remote (for our old DVD player) but he's not interested. We've tried giving him toys that look like remotes.....but he's too smart for that.

Between his 10 and 11 month birthdays, his hair started getting rather long.


First Jim wanted to cut it (read BUZZ it) and I was against it.....then I decided to cut it...and Jim was against it.....so we ended up deciding to wait a little longer. More on that in another post.

Also between months 10 and 11 Ryan started standing up on his own and letting go. He even took a tiny step once or twice...but not much else at that point.




More...in a moment.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Picture Time!

Last weekend we went up to my Uncle's house to take some pictures with some friends. They turned out pretty good I think!

















Thursday, October 22, 2009

Storytime

Reading to her babies...



...fyi: the mark on her arm is a temporary tattoo that wouldn't come off for days!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Feelin Froggy

Just sittin in my froggy chair....in my froggy shirt.


Hi Frog!!


=)

Congrats to Ty and Elaine!

Jim's sister Elaine got engaged a few weeks ago and I'm just now getting around to posting the pictures....how ridiculous right???

We are SOOOO excited for Elaine and her fiance Ty. He's a great guy and has two super adorable little girls. We are so happy to have them joining the family. Jenna can't wait to spend more time with her new (soon-to-be) cousins!!

Here are a few pictures of the weekend they spent visiting. Ty and his girls live out of state...and Elaine will be moving there after they get married!! :(

First...we all met for Pizza and Jenna got to meet Ty's girls for the first time....


GranMary, Elaine, Ty, Jenna, Gabriella, and Ana

Ryan enjoying his pizza

Ryan and Jennifer (Jim's half sister)...

Jenna and Jennifer showing off their temporary tattoo's (took forever to get those off!)

Jenna and Great Grandma Elena (who got a Tattoo too!!)

Elaine, Ty, Jenna, Gabriella, and Ana


...and then the next night...at Aunt Jane's house....


The girls being silly.... (poor Ryan)...

left to right: Marisa (10), Elizabeth (8), Gabriella (10), Ryan (9 mo), Jenna (4) and Ana (8)

Jenna adores these girls!!


Ryan.....doing his "thing"....

...and then getting some love and attention from his Auntie Elaine....


and then more love and attention from Aunt Jane and Great Grandma Elena...

...and of course GranMary and Uncle Al....

More cute pictures....

Elaine and Jenna

and Marisa and David....

some more cute shots of Ryan getting some love from Gabby and Elizabeth...


and then Jenna playing Pictionary....

...she didn't quite "get" the game and had to announce what she was drawing beforehand....which made it quite easy....

The fun weekend didn't end there....we had a very "interesting" day the next day....I'll post about that later!!

CONGRATULATIONS ELAINE AND TY!!!