Monday, January 19, 2009

Happy New Year!

My friend Kati inspired me to start this New Year's tradition-everyone traces their hand and then chooses 5 goals they will try to accomplish in the next year. I like goals better than the whole resolution thing-that never seems to work out well for me ;)

Christmas

We simply had a wonderful Christmastime-I've been waiting months to say that :). We made tons of treats (with intentions of giving them all away of course), cut down our big tree, made gingerbread houses, played in the snow, and watched lots of Christmas movies-you gotta love December!


All ready for some snow fun...

if only I had taken a picture 5 minutes later when Mark was the only one still outside-we really need some snow clothes!


My little Seattleites don't quite know what to do with all the sunshine








Rig just being cute!



Christmas Day



Tess got a dress-ups, a barbie car, a boy barbie and a few other things. The boy barbie was essential-lately she had been putting pants on her girl barbie, calling her a boy and pairing her up to get married-like I said, the boy barbie was essential!


Sawyer's cool new "smile"-he got a car & track set, action figures, baseball bases and a few other things-he was in heaven!


Rig, opening presents and performing his favorite trick "whooooo"


Mark, Tess, & Sawyer building an ice cave


Mark and Sawyer in the cave

Rig is 6 months!

Happy Half-Birthday to my sweet-wiggly-squishy-precious-Rigdon!

Aren't they sweet?

Tess puts together some really interesting dress-ups, in case you couldn't tell. And yes, that is a dish towel around her neck.

Thanksgiving in Portland

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year in Portland with a portion of Mark's family. We had a great time playing games, watching movies, hanging out and, of course, we ate entirely too much-I love Thanksgiving!

These are some of the pictures from our trip to OMSI

(Oregon Museum of Science & Industry)





Halloween 2008


Halloween Take I
Halloween Take II

Apparently my kids seem think that choosing just one thing to be for Halloween is too simple


The cake walk at our playgroup party-such fun!
Thanks Alycia!


Ferocious huh?

Mark's 30!

Happy 30th Birthday Mark!

You are the greatest dad and husband-we are so lucky to have you!


Tessa's 4th Birthday

October 28 2004 our beautiful Tessa was born-It's hard to believe she's 4 already! Tessa is such a sweetheart and always willing/wanting to help. She loves playing make-believe, reading books, dressing-up and playing games.


Her birthday this year started out with a few gifts when she woke up (she gets her lovely morning hair from me) :)
My sis-in-law inspired me to start a fun birthday tradition: the birthday kid gets to pick out 1 small toy/treat for each sibling to open on their birthday. I think it's a fun idea especially when the other kids don't quite get the whole birthday thing. Thanks Julie!

We went to the Children's Museum with some of our friends and after the kids played for a while we had some cupcakes-yum cherry chip my favorite-I figure until she has a preference, I should get mine, right?

The kids spotted a bit of frosting on the lid...
going...

going...

gone
Why do we even make cakes for children? From now on I think I'll just give them their own container of frosting and a spoon-Happy Birthday!
When Mark got home from work we went to a pumpkin patch. There was a hay maze, a petting zoo, a playground, a corn pit, and giant pumpkins-pretty fun!


That evening we had some more friends come over for cake and ice cream. Tessa got to pick out who/what topped her cake and she picked Cinderella in her wedding dress-it looks a bit too much like a wedding cake and it kinda freaked me out :)