Thursday, January 8, 2009

When Mike is gone

our house looks like this......




Mike is out of town, again. We're all getting over being sick and we're readjusting to being back at home. This afternoon I let Olivia play with her toys while I was trying to write in Peter's baby book, he's only 6 weeks old and I'm already behind! In a matter of minutes Olivia had completely destroyed our family room. At least she helped me clean it up.

More pictures

In case you still need to see more pictures here's the link to pictures we posted on Shutterfly.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Bad Santa

So before we left for Houston we took Olivia meet Santa. Apparently Olivia thought this was some form of inhumane punishment. It's a good think we didn't pay for these pictures but I had to post it. Olivia's expression is priceless. I don't know who is more miserable, Olivia or Santa.

Christmas (the condensed version)

We're back home and settling in so it's time to get caught up on the blogging. After a bumpy start in the Seattle/Tacoma airport we ended up having a great Christmas. Here are just a few of the highlights followed by some of my favorite pictures of our trip....

  • Seeing my nephews and watching Olivia and Peter interact with their cousins. At 2 and a half Olivia falls right in between Braden (3) and Hunter (2). It was so much fun to watch them interacting with each other!
  • Olivia really enjoyed seeing and pointing out all the animals, especially the horses and the cows!
  • Catching up with my sisters. We talk on the phone pretty often but nothing beats catching up in person!
  • Seeing my parents with their FOUR grandkids. I still can't believe that my mom is a grandma (I realize this is completely irrational since 2 of her kids are my own kids but I still think of my mom as driving me around to school and sports stuff)
  • Kolaches. Every time we go to Houston we look forward to having kolaches one day for breakfast.
  • A trip to Houston means seeing family! I have a large extended family and most of them live in the Houston area so it was great to see my aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmother.
  • We were also able to see Mike's older brother and his wife and my youngest niece. It was so much fun to catch up with them.
  • The weather! It wasn't super sunny while we were there but it wasn't raining or snowing so that's a huge improvement!

Christmas morning-Santa left boots and lollipops.



Mike and Karen (my sister) with the kids on a hay ride to feed the horses.




The four cousins, Olivia, Braden, Peter, and Hunter.


Tub Time




The whole family (top row: me, Amy, my Dad; bottom row: Peter, Mike, Olivia, my Mom, Braden, Karen, Hunter)


I'll be posting a lot more photos from our trip on Shutterfly so I'll post the link later on.