Brandon baseball

Clara & Jenny

Funny Pics of Clara

Dying Easter Eggs

Another Aidan-ism

Aidan started calling cucumbers "chew-cumbers".

Aidan - tball

Clara @ Easter

Conversations with Aidan

1) Upon hearing the ice cream truck aidan asked James "got any cash?"

2) After watching me sweep for a while, aidan asked "Whose birthday is it?". When I said that it wasn't anybody's birthday he asked me "then why are you cleaning?"

Brandon - Rock Star @ the races

Green day.

The barettes only lasted long enough for this picture on St. Patrick's Day

Book worm

aidan loves to read even when he has no idea what the pages say...

Office artwork 2

Dinosaur in a forest by Aidan

Office artwork 1

Aidan left this for me after spending some time with me at the office.

Clara - OCD???

Clara is sitting in her high chair drinking alternately from two different sippy cups. She picks on up, takes a drink, puts it down, picks the other one up, takes a drink puts it down, repeat.

They both fell and I picked them up and put them back in the “wrong” order. She switched them back. Water on the left, milk on the right.

Brandon's 9th Birthday

Brandon turned 9 this month. We celebrated at Main Event with a rock-climbing party.

Brandon free-climbing

Aidan's 1st venture onto the wall - he liked the "repelling" down part best

The crew...

Brandon, Colton, Devlin, Nachite, Dylan(?), Nathan, Keagan, Aidan Aaron, Macy, Allison, & Sunseaahrhay

Cake time! The volcano cake was made by Mom & Tom. The kids loved the "smoke" coming out of the top.

Post-cake sugar rush

Game Time

Clara had too much fun...

Clara playing

Some pictures of Clara goofing off at home - playing with her purses and smiling for the camera.

Clara loves crayons

Clara loves to take the crayons out of the crayon box (that yellow thing on its side) and scatter them all around

Ice Skating

In February, I took the boys ice skating. We all had a great time. Talk about a workout!

Clara - TTYL

Clara jamming on the ipod & working on her texting skills :)

Goofy kids :)

January 2009

Me & Mom at the 3M 1/2 Marathon

Ok - so this is mostly for the kids but I had to include this one...

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

Cheese! (and ham)

Crackers

A conversation between me, Aidan and Brandon


Me: Brandon, you crack me up.

Aidan: Am I a cracker up, too?

Another Aidan-ism

When flipping a quarter Aidan asks, heads or birds?

Look at an "old" quarter (not a state quarter) and you'll get it :)

Clara's 1st Haircut

Clara got her 1^st haircut on February 14^th

She handled it pretty well, a little crying at first but not much. She just got her bangs trimmed up so they wouldn’t be in her eyes anymore.

As I promised James:

No curls were injured in the taking of this haircut

Aidan-ism

Hand Sans-ma-tizer = hand sanitizer

Aidan isms

Lemo-lade = Lemonade

"Freshes" peanut butter cups = "Reese's" Peanut Butter Cups

Aidan-isms

Aidan is always coming up with "custom" words... these are a couple of the latest. I'm going to try to remember to post them here as they come up.

Chucky-Charms = Name for the cereal he found at Wal-greens which are essentially Chocolate-Lucky Charms.

Freakin' Stein = Aidan's pronunciation of Frankenstein.

Day at the track

Devlin at the track... the next day he won 1st and 2nd in the two classes he raced in.

New Year's Day @ Dad & Jenny's

We spent the first day of 2009 playing in the backyard at Dad & Jenny's house. What a gorgeous day!

Clara loves cake!