New Years Eve

Sadly we have no pictures from New Year's Eve this year. We went over to the Willit's house where the kids played in a jumpy castle and swam. We BBQ-ed and played Rock Band outside under a canopy. It was a lot of fun and there were a ton of people to chat with. Ashlyn crashed out on the couch by 9pm but Aiden stayed up until 1:30 am and rang in the new year with us. He was so sweet, I scooped him up and said Happy New Year Aiden and he hugged me and kissed my cheek and said HAPPY NEW YEAR MOMMY!!!! He is getting so big!

Christmas time!!!

YAY Santa came!!!!



We had a really great Christmas this year. The kids had a good grasp of what was going on and they were so excited. We got up and made coffee and some breakfast and then spent the whole morning opening gifts and singing Christmas songs! It's really hard to be so far away from our family during the holidays but it was a nice day. Oh and later that afternoon, our good friend Krista went into labor and so we had Hailey over to play. It's nice to have good friends around when your family is so far away!

Kids say the darndest things!!!

Today, Sean and Ashlyn ran to the store to pick up a few things. On the way there Sean was asking Ash some questions. He asked her what her favorite color was and other normal questions. Then he asked her who her favorite daddy was and she yelled SEAN!!!!


Tonight's theme for AWANAS was crazy hair. I used some green finger paint and combed it through Aiden's hair. On the way home he told us he was tired, so Sean asked, "Are you ready for bed Buddy?" and then Aiden answered, "No, first I have to take a bath and wash this crazy off my head."

Halloween

The kids had a blast on Halloween! We knew Ashlyn was going to just love it, she had several pieces of candy in her bucket and then asked me if we were going to more houses. When I told her we were she lifted her little hand up and exclaimed, "I don't believe it". She thinks trick or treating is just the greatest thing in this world. We went to one house where they just left a big bowl of candy out and all of the candy was all gone, Ashlyn decided to go up and check the bowl and then was devastated when there was none. She came down the hill heartroken and telling me, "Mommy the candy is all gone". Thank goodness there was an easy fix, I just had to tell her we could try again at the next house! Aiden on the other hand was ready to go home and start eating the candy after about 5 houses. This year Ashlyn was a good witch as she called it and Aiden was Spiderman. Here are a few pictures..................

The kids with their friend Hailey.

Ashlyn with her loot!

Aiden took his costume off the second we walked in the door!

Dress up as your favorite bible character

So Aiden is in AWANAS and every week there is a theme. We have done Hawaiian week, sports week, and this week is dress as your favorite bible character. So this is what we have come up with.............

I think we are going to go with option number two. The nice thing is that we only had to buy the rope, the shirts are Sean's work shirts and the thing on his head is made from the shirt sleeve. This whole project made me realize that I really need to work on giving my creativity a boost. I can see things like this coming up in my future a lot!

Pumpkin Carving

We all sat down on Sunday and carved a bunch of pumpkins, it was really fun. Aiden and Ashlyn LOVED it a lot.

Ashlyn was digging in the pumpkin and then she'd pull out some seeds and yell, "I caught one!!"

Aiden inspected the goop inside the pumpkins!

This is my pumpkin, it's a sign with a ghost peeking out!

This is the one Sean did!

Our USC fans

Aiden always wants to dress and be just like daddy.
They even have matching hats!

She is a natural!

He just melts my heart!