christmas pics

a few pics taken around christmas time...

danielle swung by the morning after we got back to see the babies before she flew off to new jersey to see her fam for christmas. the babies were happy to see her, although all three of them refused to smile for the same pic...

 a few days later we had a little junior high reunion...

adrianne meeting her godson ethan

matthew hanging out w/ both kiddos

adrianne and both kiddos

the whole junior high group + spouses + babies that were able to hang out that morning.
blake, dave (representing jackie who had to work), me, brianne, adrianne and kiddos, aaron (adrianne's hubby), and matthew

merry christmas! aren't our jammies cute?

today we say goodbye to all the vacationing and go back to work - it's been fun!

see how much they've grown

pretend I wrote this post on new year's eve. because I mentally composed it and intended to write it then, I just couldn't find the file until later.

anyways, here's what the babies looked like last year on new year's eve. it was our first ultrasound in which we found out yes, we were indeed having twins.

yes, it's only 4 seconds long and yes, I can really only find one baby too, but the doc said she could see two, and apparently she was right! in my mind the baby you can see is kaylee because she likes space and ethan is the one you can't see because he likes to snuggle, so I think he's just snuggling the side of his little amniotic sac. of course, in this ultrasound the larger baby (by two days of size) is the one you can see which would suggest it's ethan you can see, but we'll never know and it doesn't matter, so I say pick your favorite and pretend you're right!

anyways, 2010 has been a very crazy year for us, but it has been fantastic. here's to 2011!

CA - the end

the last post w/ CA pics. going minimal on the captions because if you really care about these pics, you prob already know who's in them. :D

@ our hotel

@ the airport

ethan is into reaching and grabbing things now. this is him grabbing the camera. for some reason I love this pic.

somebody (ech em kaylee) needed some swinging at the airport

on the plane at last

the rest of these pics were taken by my incredibly awesome cousin mimi. they're from the day we journeyed over to her parents' house.

the ladies - riley and kaylee

CA trip continued

the rest of our CA trip was great. the flight back was not quite as excellent as the way down - there was some fussing and crying in the airport and we didn't get a free seat so Ethan hung out on our laps, but there was very, very minimal fussing on the flight itself, so no complaints. in an effort to get caught up chronologically and get on to blogging about christmas and eating food (the babies, me eating food is not quite as exciting), I'll skim over the details of the rest of the trip and just give you a few pics and captions.

here goes!

babies in the airport on the way down

baggage claim at SJC (this was not all of our stuff)

Ethan reading his card from Nonnie (Great Grandma Caulley)

Nonnie, Kaylee, and me

Gramps in his "office." He spent a lot of the vacation working and waving at people who visited us through the doorway.

my dad, grandma, and uncle mike at dinner. blake watched the babies so I could join everyone at a restaurant - what a crazy idea! hadn't been to a restaurant in 4+ months...

two of alyssa's friends (and bridesmaids) were also able to join us for dinner - they were very fun to meet!

the kid table at the baers': darren, evan, mimi, tommy, kristin

the adult table: aunt kate, aunt risa, uncle brian, my mom, uncle george

ha! uncle brian, riley, and aunt kate

one of the few pics that includes jennie and philip! also tommy, blake, mimi, uncle brian, aunt kate, & riley

the kinex creation grows...

this is about the state it was in when we left. my brothers and parents stayed to finish it though.



kristin, tommy, blake & ethan, Darren,. evan, riley & mimi, jennie, philip, kaylee & me



these fine folks came to visit us at the hotel one day: my dad, my grandpa, great aunt bea, me, mom, darren, evan, donalee, lyn and rick (my mom's cousin and his wife)

the penguins and bear danced. so did my brothers.

yummy cookie.

tracy (my uncle mike's girlfriend) also came to the hotel to visit! I had actually never met her before and this was sorta a joke because everyone else in my family has met her several times, but we kept missing each other. kaylee really liked her.

annemarie and kaylee at breakfast at the hotel.

grandpa and ethan

grandpa and donalee and the babies

alrighty. there are a few more pics still on my camera, which I may or may not post later. but this is it for now and I'm off to work! if any relatives want a copy of any pic, just let me know. it was really great seeing you all and introducing you to the kiddos!

merry christmas

hangin' at the baers'

I thought I took more pictures, but there are only a few on my camera. this means that either a) I'm crazy, or b) I took pics w/ someone else's camera. option b is not unlikely, as my parents and the baers and I all have the same camera (possibly different years, but they all look the same). but then again, option a is not unlikey either!

anyways, here are a few pics I do have!

technically taken at the hotel right before we headed out the door



kristin and kaylee



for those of you non-relatives reading this blog you may remember kristin as the flower girl at our wedding.
tommy (pic below) was a ring bearer, but I don't have any of those pics on this computer.

tommy and ethan

tommy, darren, and blake playing dominion (dominion and dominion seaside to be specific)

kristin, mom, and evan building a crazy kinex volcano roller coaster thing.

Grandma (GG), Jim, and Uncle George watching TV and the kinex building

kristin, uncle brian, and kaylee

I didn't take this pic, but it's on my camera and it's cute!

4 month photo shoot

Also... after seven million hours of downloading pics (because the internet speed at this hotel is not awesome) I bring you the four month video. if I can get it to upload here...

ta da!

thanks again to danielle for taking these pics!