The New Year ;)

Hope everyone is having a good year so far! Things are going pretty good here.

We got a wireless router and all got wireless cards for our various devices ;) I can check email and such from my pda - kind of in a limited way, but it's been really nice to be able to check email from the kitchen. We got Maria a palmtop (cross between a laptop and a pda) for christmas with a wireless card - we've been having problems getting it to work properly, so Mike hooked up his old laptop upstairs for her with the wireless card and we haven't seen her since ;) she's pretty happy about being on the internet finally! She gets to look up Zac Efron and all those teenaged Disney boys! :)

Opening Christmas presents with Aunt Renee

Dad's turn :)
Static is so fun! :) (If you click on the picture you can see her hair better sticking to the chair better) :)

Duncan got his table back (the x-mas tree was on it) but then got it taken away within a couple of hours --- he's a climber!

Baby Beatrice is still lovin' the new exersaucer :)

So much so that she even fell asleep in it last night!!

Jo Jo decided to take over Sally's doggie bed! what a goof! they ended up having a huge fight over it... while the babies were sleeping of course!

Snow pics - finally!

So I finally looked through the tons of pics of the kids in the snow from a few weeks ago! :) We got about 6" that day, then 2 more a couple of days later, then another 2 or so a couple more days later :)

Here is Duncan getting bundled up to go out

Peeking from the railing

He absolutely loved playing in the snow this year! He just ran around and ran around. He didn't want to come in!

Poor Maria was trying to make a fort, but Jo-Jo wouldn't leave her alone -

she kept wanting to sit in Maria's lap!

Maria showing Duncan how to make a snowball
Maria tredging out throught the yard on her knees :)
Playing :)
Making snow angels
Maria getting ready to help Dad shovel

Dad running around with Duncan
Maria running around with Duncan

And of course, Beatrice hung out inside where it was warm :)
Here she snatched up some of Mike's hair and started chewing on it! She's fast!

'Tis the Season to Humiliate our babies :)

Who doesn't love to dress their kids up for the holidays? :) I went revisiting pictures from the last couple of years and dug out some good ones :) But I'll start off with some of Beatrice from this year.Of course, most photo shoots end in tragedy ;)
A little reindeer
What pretty antlers you have


Now here are some I dug up of Duncan from 2005!

The Elf Outfit
We've got lots of pictures of him crying in this outfit!
And the Reindeer getup appears again ;)
The Santa shirt and hat

The Christmas Sleeper
What a happy guy :)

And here are some pictures from last year
Everyone loved the antlers!
Though Duncan was a little hesitant at first

And here's last year's Christmas card outtake :) (one of the many anyway)

T Day

;) Who's not ready for the big T-Day yet? Did my grocery shopping Monday - what a nightmare! I figured Monday wouldn't be so bad. Figured that everyone would be out over the weekend or on Wed. I figured wrong :) Anyway, we survived the trip and that's all that matters ;)
This blog will sadly be sans pictures as I really need to get to work on cleaning for company! I didn't really take a whole lot this week anyway - more of Beatrice sucking her thumb (it's so darn cute!). But of course there will be pictures of Thanksgiving as soon as I can get to the computer afterwards.
I finally caught some videos of Beatrice laughing! Now I just need to figure out how to edit them so you don't hear me being retarded for 10 minutes beforehand! ;)
Anyway, short blog :)
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!!

Yes, it has been an entire week since I blogged!!

Maria had her veteran's day concert on Monday. That was nice because Mike had the day off, so he got to come. Good thing because he ended up having to take Duncan out due to a nice little sobbing fit. Amazingly Beatrice was good for the whole thing... go figure. All the choir kids were supposed to wear red, white and blue. Not many of them did. Maria is the one second to the left. If you click on the picture you should be able to see her better. Maria wore a red shirt, black skirt and white leggings. Well, the white leggings somehow disappeared before the recital.
Me: Looks like she took off her white leggings.

Mike: No, she's still got them on.

Me: uh, no, those are her legs.

Luckily the pictures are dark so they are not as apparent :) She had a great time anyway. She loves chorus - wants to be a singer. She wants to sing a song for the talent show in Feb. She wants to sing "Cool Rider" from Grease 2! I just don't know about that.

Maria has been teaching Duncan some new things. How fun it is to roll around on the floor :) and how to run around like Superman! :) It's really cute. And they've been having a great time at it. He also loves piggyback rides.

So, you probably thought I wasn't going to mention that I had a birthday last weekend... the older you get, the less you want to celebrate turning another year closer to 40! ;) (or whatever the next big number is for you). Well, it was a good birthday anyway. I just spent it hanging out with my family :) I got a beautiful bouquet of lillies that are just making the kitchen smell terriffic!! A really cool Betty Crocker recipe card box (with some really awesome recipes inside!). A Stephen King book, and some really great cards! My favorite is from the kids. It says "Somebody be a dear and get me one of those pills that makes the Mommy happy" :)

Anyway, it snowed again on Friday and Saturday and then again yesterday and last night... it actually stuck last night. grumble grumble. And just thought I would throw in some more pictures as if I don't already have too many in this blog ;)