Thanksgiving pictures

We had a quite Thanksgiving this year. Tom's parents cooked a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch/dinner and enjoyed spending time together with each other. Later that evening I braved Toys R Us to get two Zhu Zhu hamsters and black Friday with two of my friends. Let just say it was easier to stay up all night long then to go to bed and wake up at 3 am. It was fun and got several great deals this year. It really is more for the social aspects then the shopping its self.

Thanksgiving program.

Morgan's Thanksgiving program was on 11/23/09. She was so excited to be up on stage. This amazes me because for so long she never wanted to leave my side as a toddler.

Half Birthday 4 1/2

Morgan turned 4 1/2 on Nov 9th. She is our fun loving, energetic, risk taking, sensitive, caring daughter that we could not love more. Here are a few things Morgan is currently doing at 4.5 years of age. This is more for me, so that I can remember what Morgan was doing at this age.

* Morgan takes a tap/jazz class once a week with our friends daughters Ellie and Cassie. She is the youngest in the class but keeps right up.

*Morgan attends preschool twice a week and is the Pre-Kindergarten class. Her teacher's name is Miss Sandie. Some of her favorite friends at school are Mackenzie, Amanda & Julia. Several of the boys in the morning come up to her and say "Hi Morgan". She quietly tells them hello back. I am not sure she quite knows what to think of the boys quite yet, which is fine with me.

*Morgan's speech has exploded and doesn't miss a beat. She still struggles a bit with her K's & G's.

*Morgan loves to be read to at night and seems to have the ability to remember most of what was read to her and repeat most of the book back to me on her own. Hmm could she be an auditory learner or visual. Still trying to figure this out.

*Morgan loves to write her letters upper case and lower case. She also love arts and crafts & coloring, painting and drawing.

*The computer is great fun for Morgan and very rarely needs help on it.

* Little Pet Shop entertains her during quite play. Along with her stuffed animals and her brother when he is willing to play with Morgan from time to time.

*Morgan also loves riding bikes and her scooter when going around the block in the afternoons.

We love you sweet Morgan and love the adventure you bring to our life.

Halloween 2009

Disneyland in October

We went to Disneyland and California Adventure during Aiden's school break back in October. It was great fun. We stayed in a hotel for a couple of days, so we didn't have to cram everything into one day. The best part was meeting up with several families from Aiden's school. There were a few times that we had over 20 people in our group including kiddos. I love that we have so much in common with families that go to Aiden's school and that we all love Disneyland so much.


Morgan and Snow White. This was her favorite princess last year and was her for Halloween last year.

Chip or Dale. Not sure which one. Aiden, Tyler, Emily, Allison, Morgan & Cassie.

Chip and Dale played tag with the kids. It was the coolest thing. It was a huge group once everyone started catching on that they could play catch.

To cool for words. Waiting to go on the Toy Story ride. My favorite.

Cassie, Morgan and Cinderella.

The A in California.

We rented a stroller for Morgan. She complained about her legs hurting a lot. Thought we had out grown the stroller. I guess not and we sure weren't going to carry around 30lbs all day. Thank goodness for the Tinkerbell stroller.

50's day at Aiden's school

Are newest family member. Aiden's fish Rockie he won at the school fair. He only lived for a couple of weeks unfortunately.




Bad boys, bad boys and one cute chick!

Aiden's school had a 50's day fundraiser back in October that we all went to as a family. It was great fun to see all the kids dressed up in their 50's outfits. The usual theme is Western days, so it was nice to have a change.

Construction Zone

Well we have begun the remodel in our kitchen back in Oct. It was needed about 10 years ago, but we have lived with it up until now. Mostly because we were busy with babies in our house and had little time to think about what the house needed at the time. Could have been all the lack of sleep we have missed out on during that time frame. It still amazes me how one can some what function on little sleep.

I look forward to what is to come and I am trying to be patient, while we learn to live in the construction zone. Sounds a bit like a scary movie. Lets just say I thrive when things are neat and organized. So this will be an adventure, as I try to focus on the finished product. Come along with us as I revel stages of our remodel. More to come in the near future.