Clara's getting brave in the pool!

She's getting to be quite a daredevil. She can now jump off the diving board and swim to the edge.

Easter fun

Despite the weird weather and gale force winds, we got a few pics on Easter day of the kids hamming it up.

Clara looking way more angelic than she actually IS :)



Aidan hiding bunny ears behind Clara's hug

All five grandkids mostly looking at the camera and smiling



The family 2011

Christmas Hats!

Another favorite tradition... funny hats!

Look!

James CAN smile for photos!

One more pic

I love this picture of Aidan and James.

I don't know what Aidan was laughing about but looking at this picture just makes me smile.

birthday pics 2

Father's Day

Father's Day 2010
County Line BBQ
Our family & Dad & Jenny
(the "extra" kid is Dylan; his dad is taking the picture)

A few pics from San Francisco

Just a walk in SF

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Playing with the iPhone

Still experimenting with a new app on my phone...

You spin me right round

Who needs Disneyworld when you've got the spinning chairs at Sports Clips? :) Clara & James entertained themselves while Aidan got a trim.

Saturday was a rough day...

Apparently we wore everyone out on Saturday. The whole house crashed pretty early (for a weekend).

Upside down

I'm never surprised to find the living room turned upside down. I was shocked though to come to an upside down couch!

Apparently our couch was starting to give out so james patched it up for now.... let's hope it holds out. It took us a long time to pick this one out and I'm not ready to go through that again!

Sock- a- palooza.

James has (lovingly) decided to start doing more laundry. I think he just got sick of digging socks out of the basket.. he and the boys tackled this task last night. He had quite an interesting approach to sorting through them. He was holding up each sock and asking the boys to claim it... it was pretty hilarious to watch. I'm not sure what the pile in the middle is for but I knew better than to ask questions. I just watched and took pictures.

Football Madness - in the stands

A group was selling candy, drinks and snacks at the football game as a fundraiser. The kids had already dragged us (me, james, grandparents) to the table numerous times. I finally broke down and bought cinnamon rolls for Aidan and Clara. Later that game, Clara took Nana to the table and wanted to get some candy. Nana told her that she didn’t have any money and that she needed to ask momma. (thanks mom).

Clara came to me in the stands, held out her hand and said “I need money.” James immediately reached in his pocket and handed her all the cash he had on him - $53!

Somehow I don’t think that’ll be the last time I hear that and we definitely have to start working on James’ self control.

Some pictures of the kids from the stands:

Some random pics of goobers @ Disney

Misc fun in June

James, Clara & Mack keeping an eye on the street

Aidan and Clara

Aidan driving the go-carts @ Austin Park and Pizza

January

Well, my New Year's resolution to keep the blog more up-to-date has (obviously) not helped!


Now that I've finally downloaded pictures from the first part of the year (yes, the year) here is what we've been up to.


James' Bday - January 7th

Misc Dec Pictures

Mack getting lots of attention on sleep-over night

Clara loves her new hats & gloves!

James & Devlin - trying out the new camera!

Devlin & Clara -- See devlin... you can smile for pictures!

Christmas @ Aunt Frankie's