Snow babies

We took a few field trips outside this week.  Ethan and Kaylee enjoy putting on their snow clothes.  Once they get outside, they quickly voice their desire to be "all done".  Here is some pictorial evidence of their displeasure.

Dana construted a makeshift sled out of a plastic box lid and pink zebra duct tape

Kaylee did not love the sled

The Christmas lights are still up

Ethan's lost foot

Toddler and mommy footprints

SNOW!!!

the snow arrived yesterday. here are a few pics from our (very short) adventure out into the snow today.

happpy birthday blake

I love you blake.

Happy 30th birthday.

Thanks Heidi and Bruce for creating such an awesome husband, father, and friend.

Enjoy the random assortment of blake pics that happen to be on this computer.

new daddy. best husband ever.

totally our best family pic.

painting the kiddos' bedroom w/ dave.

two babies? no prob.

in rhode island w/ my fam for my cousin's wedding.

at RTC for Heidi's flute concert.

random summertime pic of ethan feeding blake. :)

our lung surgery shirts. mine said "no mo' pneumo"; blake's said "I'm the husband" and he wore his with pride for my lung surgery. if you want a shirt that's that awesome you have to have a rotten disease, and then brianne and danielle will make them for you. or maybe just ask them. :)

one of the shots we did not use for our 2007 christmas card. snow at our then-new condo.

blake's bday surprise bday party one year. yah, I got him a truck pinata and we did it in our garage (hey, it was snowing outside!) there were other people there, they're just behind me.

blake and dave playing DDR. they are so cool.

resting on the beach before/after our first outdoor triathlon at ocean shores on 07/07/07.

oh... the prom party. jackie in her old homecoming dress, caleb in my old homecoming dress... blake and I in value village purchases.

rwanda. the rwandans were about a zillion times better at this than we were.

disneyworld

hiking little mount si (near the blueberry farm where ev and alyssa got married)

and last, but not least... leaving jackie and dave's wedding just a few days after the kiddos were born. me w/ my pump, blake w/ my purse and our other clothes. he is pretty much the best.

you really are the best blake. happy birthday.

new years

new year's this year was just my family plus darren's friend tiahnan and my friend danielle. we mostly played games, ate food, and made fun of Evan. the kids slept through the whole thing, including the midnight noise we made w/ noisemakers and poppers and everything. here are a few pics from midnight itself.

tiahnan, darren, ev, mom, danielle

this pic deserves a little explanation: we don't own a TV. and apparently other people care about watching a clock tick down on new years. so we watched the NY new years on Evan's laptop at 9pm. Then, the next thing you know, it's almost our new years and my mom tells Evan to pull soemthing up on his laptop. she says go to komo (the local news station) and it will be there, quick, hurry, click on it. So evan goes to the site, and clicks on the first thing he sees. It is about goats. So as the clock struck midnight, we are all laughing REALLY hard, as evan shows us this video about goats eating christmas trees.

we continued to watch it, of course.

happpppppy new year from blake!

evidence that annemarie was there

evidence that dad and alyssa were there (plus mom and evan again too)

I got a new camera

Part of the reason I haven't been blogging as much (other than laziness) has been that our laptop has been dying. I don't know where the cord that goes from my camera to the computer is, but the laptop can read the camera card directly. but the laptop is dying... and the other computer can't read the card directly so... (that's also why I posted a bunch of videos and scans, since that's a different camera / the scanner which can talk to the other computers). anyways... this is to say that YAY! I got a new camera for christmas from my oh-so-wonderful husband. it's a nikon d60. pretty much most of the fancy-camera people I know have nikons so I told blake I wanted whatever nikon he could find used for a good price. honestly I didn't expect him to get it though, so I was excellently surprised. the point is though, it came with a cord. so here I am... with pictures. enjoy!

blake reading a book (that was a present from my cousin jennie) to the kiddos

they still absolutely love the cars they got for their bdays from my aunts

kaylee loves doing this lately. who knows why. blake and I like yelling "kaylee's doing a downward facing dog*!" when she does it, and the she looks up and smiles at us like, "aren't I so silly?" (* that's the name of that yoga position)

playing with dad is so fun

especially when you're wearing just one ugg

this picture is actually the result of me putting my fingers (accidentally) over the flash when taking the picture of kaylee climbing up on my lap. but it's sorta cute.

so now that I have this new camera you are more likely to see a few more posts from me. but having a camera does not fix the laziness part, so... we'll see. no guarantees!

kaylee loves santa

last year...

this year...

(it is appropriate to laugh. we certainly did.)

merry belated christmas everyone!