Christmas

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. Here are a few of our December 2008 pictures.
Luke is reading who this thing is to.
Ready....Go!

Notice Ellie had to have her doll even while pushing Daniel.
Ellie loved her hamper and blanket. The boys now say their blankets are their favorite! Grandmas got rocks this year....with little handprints on them. :-)Just what they wanted. :-) Grandpa and Ellie.
Uncle Allan was able to join us for Christmas and this little game provided a fun activity as did trying to get all sides of a rubix cube done. Daniel playing tennis against another victim. He beats everyone at it! Grandma and Grandpa L celebrated with us before Christmas. Larry's S.P.A.M. Look for more to come!

Happy New Year

This year has been an exciting year with T-Ball, camping, school starting and seeing family, we've loved it and can't wait to see what happens in 2009! We leave 2008 with a few pictures and hopefully more posts to come. Happy New Year!
As you can see he didn't quite make it to midnight awake. :-)

We watched St-r W-rs: The Cl-ne W-rs and the boys were so excited. Daniel then said just before it started that, "I want to sit next to my buddy."

Ellie kept saying "Party!" At midnight she was the only one still up and smiling!

Family Meals

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This year we spent with ALL of Eric's immediate family, meaning we finally had the spouses all there and a few new additions like my neice! I loved getting to see everyone together in one place and as usual we have pictures, but some will have to wait for another day. Here are two pictures Eric's Mom took about 25 years apart! As she said, it looks like he(Eric) has better gardening skills now. :-)

By the way, we had these as carmelized carrots sliced up with 3 Tablespoons of butter, 1/2 cup of water and 2 Tablespoons of Brown sugar. Bring to a boil in a saute pan and let the water evaporate off mostly and serve when carrots are soft. Yummy!

Birthday Time!

For my birthday this year or actually it was for Mary Beth's birthday I went to Beautiful Colorado!!! It was just me since there was only one frequent flyer ticket so Eric bravely and sweetly took time off work to watch the kiddos!!! What a wonderful hubby I have! I was able to see two of my best friends and their families and while I was there I got to see my new neice (and of course my wonderful nephew and brother and sister too)!!! (Thank you all for driving me all around!!!) I am Aunt Nina now to a sweet and smart little nephew and a beautiful neice!!!! My camera was not working :-( and Katie's ran out of batteries when I was visiting so here's a link to a picture that turned out. http://morrowmoments.blogspot.com/2008/09/two-weeks-old.html

MB and Family!

Cara's family!

I can say that being back reminded me how much I love, love, love Colorado. The crazy weather changes like the afternoon thunderstorms and the smell of rain in the air were just a few that I was giddy about! The mountains of course are majestic and the people I got to hang out with are as always fantastic!

Like father, like son!

I felt like very little had changed and yet getting to know the children of my family and friends made me realize time has marched on. It's so fun to see glimpses of them in their children and see what sweet boys and girls they are. I feel so very blessed to call these people friends/family!

I hope all of you in Colorado that I didn't get to see are doing well and I miss you all too! Thanks MB, Cara and Katie for opening your home to me. The memories I have are wonderful!!!

He can.....Spell!

Eric's mom tells the story of the first word Eric could understand when she spelled it 0ut. Apparently she was wanting to know about some I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M and when she spelled it Eric yelled out "Ice Cream!" From then on spelling words was not an option anymore. Well, our time has come. :-) Tonight Eric and I wanted to watch a M-O-V-I-E and so we spelled it out. To which, Daniel yells, "That spells Movie!" So our own story is that Daniel can officially translate our 'spelling speak' and now we must think of a new way, maybe pig latin?

Here are a few pictures of Ellie and Daniel on Daniel's pumpkin patch field trip.

My lil punkin'.

D and his Big Pumpkin.