Twas the Night before Christmas

Christmas Eve at Oma and Pompa's is always our favorite time of the year. A yummy dinner of Crab legs and Christmas Salad satisfies our crustacean cravings for almost an entire year. Christmas Eve traditions include:

1. Reading "The Night Before Christmas" and switching envelopes everytime Oma says "the" and then opening the envelopes to reveal money. Unfortunately we are getting to be so numerous that pretty soon the grand kids will probably be the only ones who can play.

2. Reading Luke 2 while the grand kids perform in the live nativity minus the livestock of course but luckily we have George and Cassius.

3. The grand kids getting into their new jammies courtesy of Oma and Pompa.

Everyone goes home full and happy ready for visions of sugarplums. Thank you Oma and Pompa for throwing such fabulous parties. We love you, dearly.

Snow Cave Camping

Jonathan, Sophie and Izzie braved the cold weather and headed to the Unita's for a snow cave campout. Audrey, Munich and I enjoyed our nice warm house with heat and electricity.

Halloween Trunk-r-treat

Fun times had by all at the neighborhood Halloween Party and Trunk-r-Treat! Jonathan and I went all out as cow-folks while Audrey dressed as Tinkerbell and Sophie as Will Turner. Yes it happened to snow on us too. Happy 36th birthday, Jono.

Audrey goes to Montessori Pre-school

Audrey was very excited to pose for her first day of pre-school photo. She goes to the most amazing school ever and continues to blow us away with her sign language, french and spanish. One day while hanging out with her dad she starts counting in French. Jonathan was stunned and amazed! Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq...

Cruise July 2009

Our cruise to Mexico July 2009

Jonathan and I were lucky enough to be able to go on a cruise from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. We had an awesome time! Thanks to my in-laws who kept the girls for us. My favorite part was definitely sitting on the back of the cruise ship and just cruising. So beautiful!

First day of first grade for Sophie Mae