Happy New Year 2012!

Our Goals for 2012

Dax: "I want to learn how to swim. I want to learn how to do a back flip in the pool. I want to learn how to tell time."

Ian: "I want to start learning how to swim. I want to start staying dry at night. I want to start getting real pets."

Jude: "Ah-ah potty!"

On the 25th Day of Christmas...

We celebrated Jesus' Birthday!

Christmas 2011

On the Twenty-fourth Day of Christmas...

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve! In the morning we opened our Christmas sweaters for church...mom tried to snap a couple pics by the tree.

 After church, lunch, and naps, we headed to Grammy and Gramps along with Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Mark. GG was there too!! We had a yummy dinner, then enjoyed a fun Finders Keepers treasure hunt that Great Aunt Nancy put together and sent just for us!

Back at home, it was time to open our Christmas PJs, get out milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer!

 Time for bed...Santa Claus is coming!!!

On the Twenty-third day of Christmas...

We frosted a bunch of those sugar cookie cutouts that we made earlier in the month! It was so great to have Grandma, Grandpa, and Uncle Mark join us for the fun!!

On the Twenty-second Day of Christmas...

We got pictures in our Santa hats on the beach!

Some Special Visitors Arrive!

First stop...Multnomah Falls!! We're so glad to have Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Mark here to celebrate Christmas with us!

On the Twenty-first Day of Christmas...

We had a pajama party with snowman cookies and Frosty the Snowman!

On the Twentieth Day of Christmas...

We had a special day with Grammy and Gramps baking christmas cookies and watching The Christmas Toy.

On the Nineteenth Day of Christmas...

We made a Gingerbread House with Katie!

On the Eighteenth Day of Christmas...

We went shopping for Share House here in Vancouver so we could help some people have a better Christmas!

On the Seventeenth Day of Christmas...

Mom and Dad let us put up Christmas lights on our back deck!

On the Sixteenth Day of Christmas...

We made (and ate) sugar cookie cutouts!

On the Fifteenth Day of Christmas...

It was Santa Day!!! We had Santa pancakes for breakfast, made a couple Santa crafts, watched Polar Express while we ate popcorn and sipped egg nog, had a bubble bath and made Santa beards and watched our videos sent to us by Santa!!