Thursday, January 22, 2009

My future's so bright...

The first time I stuck a pair of sunglasses on Nate he was 6 months old. We were at the beach and he wore them almost the whole time. Since then, he's been an excellent sunglasses and hat wearer. He looks so stinkin cute in em that I have a billion shots of him in various glasses. Here are a few cuties from October to now that I never posted.
These are actually MY sunglasses!These came in an FBI playset from the Dollar Store
Not to be left out:

Monday, January 19, 2009

Dumps like a truck

In January of 2007 I took a picture of Nate on his last morning waking up in his crib. We were so lucky to get to use the Reynolds' Race Car bed for the last 2 years, it is such a cool bed.
Today I took a picture of Nate's last morning waking up in the car bed.
We are super lucky once again to get a new super cool bed! Uncle Paul brought over Merrick's Dump Truck bed for Nate today!
Talk about a cool bed! It's got a steering wheel:
and a hiding place underneath!Thanks Merrick! (and Dawn and Paul)

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Lookin good!

Zach: 1 1/2 years, Nate: 4 years So I was looking at the portraits we did yesterday and dreading the next haircut for Zach. He HATES the big clippers so I hold him while he's screaming and cowering into my neck while Ryan does his best to give him a good hair cut - we always miss big chunks and I get covered with hair... it's sucky. He doesn't mind Ryan's moustache trimmer that I use to clean up the edges of his hair but it cuts super short. I've been thinking of cutting the sides SUPER DUPER short then I'd have a longer break in-between haircuts for him and Tara's son's hair turned out so cute, so this morning I just decided to do: mohawk.
And here's the gelled up version:

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

We're gonna bo-o-o-wl tonight

Hey friends
I'm signing Nate up for Bowling and I thought I'd let everyone know in case they wanted to do it with us cuz that would be super fun. But now I feel weird about posting exact information about when and where we're gonna be on my blog. So sad.
Anyways if you think your kids (ages 2-8) want to bumper bowl with us, lemme know and I'll give you the details.

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Camping the year away...

The week after Christmas we took the trailer out on our second voyage! Once again we went to our favorite place - good ol' San Diego KOA!Zach was on meds but he was still a little (a lot) cranky the first day.But he got better.Uncle Joel and Auntie Becky brought their 2 dogs + my moms dog = 3 dogs in 1 trailer! Good thing we have our own trailer now! Nate LOVED having the dogs there and playing with them, especially with a laser pointer!The boys spent alot of time playing in the area between my folks trailer and ours.Here's the inside of our trailer:And an outside shot - the sticker is still stickin! We were planning to all spend 1 final day at Sea World since our passes were only good thru the end of the year but that morning Zach just seemed extra tired so Ryan took Nate and I stayed home and ripped off the pink ruffles inside our trailer while Zach slept ALL DAY!
(that is a shark)
That night was New Years Eve, this is how we spent it, sitting around the campfire roasting marshmallows, blowing blowers and popping poppers. The next Day we drove to La Jolla for lunch at the beach.
Nate has been really into taking photos with my camera lately, he took this one of me and Zach.
This is his "Quit making me pose for pictures when I want to play" face.
Nate was having a great time leading Pepsi around on her leash.
After lunch we walked down to the tide pools quick.

Whenever we go camping the boys always want to play in the back of Papa's truck. It's a nice place to keep them contained while we are cleaning up!

Christmas is best with family

Between Christmas chaos and SuperGrumpySickKid, I certainly did not take a good array of photos this Christmas. Usually I initiate the "let's all get together for a photo" photos but I guess my brain wasn't on the right mode this year.
Anyways. Our first stop was Christmas breakfast at my mom's house.

Mom mom actually got an fairly good family shot of us (mine was horrible) Check out Zach's drool, it's increased 10 fold in the last couple of weeks! Hopefully this means teeth are on the move and it's temporary.Look! A rare smile from Zach on Christmas! It's a Christmas miracle!Afterwards we went to Ryan's moms house to hang out with his family.Grandma Donna made me and Tricia matchy scarves and hats!Remember our stocking tradition, Zach was super into it at Grandma's house. He was having a great time in his stocking, probably the happiest he was all day!

The day after Christmas we spend with my extended family. The kids all did the advent tree together before presents.Nate was super stocked to get this Cars Race Track from Merrick - it is awesome, he loves it!

Christmas... finally!

Christmas morning at our house. The boys came out to their new remote control car track. It's cool cuz it senses obstacles in it's path so the boys dont crash as much and have much more fun.

We had to tear them away to open their stockings.Zach has been really into "scoots" (as we call them) at everyone else's house so we got him this one which he loves. We have a big stocking tradition that Ryan's mom started where we put the kids in their stocking and take their picture in front of the tree. Zach was not into the tradition this morning.