Sophie Randomness

Since Sophie is home the most with mommy she gets pictures taken most often.  Usually because she is just silly most days....

Found her like this one morning- totally zoned in on Mickey Mouse

Burrito at Moe's

Reading after getting her own red sandals on with her pink pants (nope, didn't leave the house like this!)

Texting....

 Checking out the edible arrangement from Nana and Paca

Tyler's new trick

Tyler has been working very hard on crossing the monkey bars and he has gotten very good at it. Mommy was finally able to catch a video of him crossing the bars. You may want to turn your volume down a little bit while watching. :)

Mini Photo Shoot

Everyone looked so nice today that mommy decided we should do a little photo shoot.  It's usually very difficult to get a picture of everyone smiling and looking at the camera, but we all cooperated very well today.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Mommy got us each a special treat to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! We each got a yummy green cupcake to enjoy. It was a very special treat. Thank you Mommy!

Caleb's Final Mile

Caleb participated in the Operation Smile Final Mile today.  He has been running at school and tracking his miles.  He completed 25.2 miles at school and finished his final mile of his marathon today at the ocean front!  What a great accomplishment and we are so proud of him!

Just some fun

Not Just for Kids

During their visit, Uncle Richard, Aunt Sarah and Aunt Katie tried out the trampoline.  We're not sure who laughed more- Aunt Sarah or the rest of us watching her jump :)

Happy Birthday Caleb!

Caleb is 7!  He got to have two weekends of birthday celebrations, lucky kid!  Mommy was out of town for the first one with Grandpa and Grandma.  For his second birthday celebration, he chose to have lunch at Red Robin and then have cake and presents at home with Nana, Paca, Aunt Sarah, Uncle Richard, Aunt Katie, Lily, mommy, Tyler, Garett and Sophie.  He seemed to have a nice day, though he does get embarrassed when everyone sings happy birthday to him :)

 Opening presents

 Cake at home

 Trying out his new roller skates

Happy Birthday Garett!

Today our little monkey man turned 4.  So crazy.  Garett is our family clown.  He has the ability to make us laugh- it is definitely his gift.  He has such a sweet personality, we are really enjoying the little boy that he is starting to become.

This past weekend we celebrated with friends (and a special friend who shares his birthday).

Yesterday we went shopping for birthday supplies.  He chose these for his cupcakes to share with his class at school and for dessert tonight:

It was a monster party for our little monster :)

Our sweet 4 year old!

Dinner and cupcakes at Moe's- his choice

It begins again

Monday was spent finishing up last minute things followed by a movie and getting to stay up a little later than normal and snuggling.  

We pulled out our 'kisses from daddy' jars again, and Aunt Katie made mommy a bouquet of suckers because "deployment sucks".  

1/3/2012

Caleb ~ 6 years, 11 months

Tyler ~ 5 years, 5 months

Garett ~ 3 years, 11 months, 1 week, 2 days

Sophie ~ 2 years, 3 months,  2 weeks, 1 day

Garett's Song

He is so proud of this song, he sings it all the time.  Always makes mommy smile!

Family Pictures

We are very fortunate to have a wonderful friend who will come and take pictures of us all (and usually have dinner with us as well).  While we didn't get an amazing shot of all six of us (she's not a miracle worker), we got great shots of the kids individually and also some good group shots.
Here you go:

Merry Christmas!

Pictures tell our Christmas day best!

Goodbye note from Ollie with the result of the magic seeds!

Coming down the stairs 

Stockings

Caleb's gifts

Sophie opening

Tyler not too thrilled with underware

Caleb getting some clothes

Sophie and her baby's bottle

Garett completely thrilled with his underware

Sophie and her new Strawberry Shortcake from Tyler

"why's the door wrapped?"

Well?

A trampoline?!?!

First jumps

And jumping with daddy

Hope everyone had a wonderful day!