Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all our friends and family, I hope that you all have a wonderful 2010! Bright and early, maybe more early then bright ;), I should be loading the boys up and heading over to pick up J from his "trip". It did get delayed a little, but we will get to spend the last of the boys winter vacation days with daddy...truly the best Christmas gift.

Christmas Morning Pictures!

The kids let me sleep in till 7am this morning, and even paused long enough to take some pictures of them pre-gift opening. The big red sacks were from J's mom and the boys opened them up last night so that Santa could put their presents in them...easier to divide the presents up. N got some lil' people that had magically never got unpacked from the NJ to CA move and no one was the wiser ;)

Thank you to all our family and friends that thought of us this holiday season. The boys are busy playing and testing everything out!

Some More Christmas Morning Pictures

I think it was the year of the books. J's mom always sends a ton of books since she is an English teacher and then M has "tested" out of his 1st grade reading and has been put into the Accelerated Reading program.

I hope Santa was good to all our friends and family and I will be waiting for my special present that will be flying home on the 31st...assuming there hasn't been any changes to the schedule.

Merry Christmas!

The packages and cards have been arriving by the truck load it seems and the boys have been hovering around the tree in anticipation of the fury of gift opening. Most of our family cards have been sent out, just waiting on confirming a couple of addresses to have it finally finished. I continue trying to keep N from completely tearing the Christmas Tree apart. The boys have been home from school since the 18th, and are going stir crazy from the lack of activities, even the marathon of Star Wars movies isn't holding their attention. I am hoping the Santa did ok this year and will bring some relief to their boredom. I hope all our family and friends have a wonderful Christmas. It won't quite be the same this year as "J" is gone on one of his long "trips" and won't be home until New Years Eve...hopefully nothing delays that arrival! I did get the boys to sit down and take some nice pictures in front of the tree this year....enjoy!

The Tooth Fairy!

So M lost his first tooth yesterday right before bed. He had been complaining earlier in the day that his tooth was hurting him, I wiggled it a little and told him not to worry about it. Well that night he was eating--well what else but an apple. It popped right out and stuck in the apple. He was supper excited and said it didn't hurt one bit. So we cleaned it up a bit and dug out his tooth fairy bear for the great tooth fairy to come. She took the tooth and deposited $1.50 (is that the going rate?) in quarters. Today he said that the other lower front tooth is lose, I expect by tomorrow night it will be turned in for some more money. So I have one losing teeth and another teething, it comes full circle. I will say that the one losing his teeth is much happier about the whole situation!

Happy Birthday Big Boy J!

Opening up some of his presents. J and M were super excited to see that he got Lego Rockband for the Wii. They love to watch J play the big boy versions, now they have songs more like what is on their Kidz Bop CDs.

Opening another requested gift, a new digital camera. He got one last year as well, but it was not very well made and didn't survive a week. The Fischerprice one seems more durable.

He has been REALLY wanting to get this Yoda stuffie from Target for a REALLY long time. He has been sleeping with him and carrying him around the house for the past couple of days.

A quick family picture.

Trying to blow out his trick candles...boy those things a smokey!

Happy Birthday!

One Year ago...my sleeping prince taking a bath.
















My lil' boy turned 1! What a big boy you have become. He looks just like M's 1 year picture.

















The 3 happy boys.














Trying to blow out his candle, more like blowing raspberries. Glad he was the only one eating that cupcake!

How to Eat a Cupcake. By: Lil' N

So N got his own little cupcake to eat and he has little experience in attacking such a large piece of food. At first I thought he was going to do a no hands trick and face plant it, but I think he was just sizing it up.








He thought playing with the frosting was better then eating it at first as well.

















Once I tore it into two pieces he was more willing to tackle his cupcake.

YUM! It was good!

The last piece....and then it was bath time once again.

Happy Birthday N!

So our little baby is growing up and turned 1 on the 24th. He has gotten so big and his personality is just as big. He currently can walk around, says oh-oh!, pull himself up onto the couch and has managed to sprout 7 teeth.

N sitting with some of his Loot.









Opening his first present. I was surprised that he was actually pretty good at tearing off the paper and was actually excited about the toys inside...at least with the first one. He had to have help with the rest of them.










Checking out his new airplane.

Eating the bows. After the first present he was more excited about the bows more then anything.

N's first Chocolate bar.

It was pretty funny watching N consume one of those tiny Hershey chocolate bars from the Halloween stash.
















I think it was love at first taste.















Yes, he is wearing a white shirt.

But boy was it yummy.

And then it was bath time.

Our little Tiger Cub

So M has joined cub scouts this year and is classified as a Tiger Cub. He is pretty thrilled to wear a uniform...just like daddy! So here are some pictures from his last den meeting, it was about heroes. Luckily the den leader has connections and they were lucky enough to hear from a CHP...think Erik Estrada..who rides a motorcycle, a DEA Agent, and a K9 unit. The boys also talked about other heroes in the community and then put together a care package for troops and DEA agents in Afghanistan.

Some Halloween Pictures!

So N is a natural and knew exactly what to do with the candy pail! He did not get to walk around that night, but got some practice putting stuff into his bucket anyway.















My little Star Wars guys in front of our house...and yes they are shoeless. It was 80 on the 31st and I think M wore his flip flops and J wore crocs.











Another quick photo in front of our house. N was pretty excited about hanging onto the pumpkin. N was yoda, J was Obi Wan Kenobi and M was a Storm Trooper.













Little Yoda got to cruise in the stroller all night. The stroller also served as a candy drop for when the boys' buckets got full. I think we are going to be in a candy coma for a long time around here!

M and J with their good little buddy.

Our good friends invited us to their church for Trunk or Treating...a really cool concept where you decorate the back of your vehicle and the kids can walk from each station trick or treating.

Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone has a great Halloween. We will be nice a warm here in CA with temps in the mid 70's. This is a far cry from MN, I remember the great Halloween storm when it snowed and we were without power for three days.


So earlier this week I got to go with M, J and N to a cub scouts activity at a pumpkin patch. Unfortunately it was after school at night and I forgot my camera so no pictures. However, J and I got to go to the same place the next day for his field trip. J enjoyed the wagon ride through the pumpkins.







He also had to sit on the straw pony.















A quick shot of his K class and teacher. There are a lot of girls in his class! He is in the second row on the end with the hoodie up.















A quick photo with a scarecrow farmer.

He was a little freaked out by this one. The scarecrow would move and talk when you stood next to the growth chart.