New Ornaments

I love Elizabeth's camera. She was sitting all the way across the room on my couch and she took these pictures. It has a great zoom.

Makenlee's 1st Christmas

Our little family

Playing with Haley

Playing horsey

They are playing with some Christmas goodie bag trinkets.

The girls!!

Elizabeth got a new camera so she has been taking lots of pictures of everyone. Here is a cute one of Makenlee and me.

1st Christmas present casualty

Well, I was wondering how long it would take before Easton went sneaking under the tree and open a gift. 5 days. I just came downstairs and he was playing with something I'd never seen. And low and behold there is wrapping paper all torn up around him....Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the animal memory game. He loves it and is already playing with it.....

Homemade food baby

I have been struggling to get Makenlee to eat baby food. So Elizabeth was over and said let's try making her some homemade carrots. So we did and she gobbled them up. She loves homemade food. What can I say my girl already knows what good food tastes like. I had every intention of making all her food but then with going to CA and getting home she still was not into it and I was not going to make all this food to just throw it away. Well, I wish I would have done it a month ago and not now. Oh well. Here she is enjoying some homemade yummy avocado. I was feeding her peas yesterday at church and this lady said, "Gross what is that, it looks like ghostbuster goop. " I said, "Peas." It was so bright in color. Why wouldn't I want to feed my baby something fresh and yummy. I have the magic bullet so making her food is not hard at all. I love it. I never realized how easy and healthy it is too.

Recent Photo Shoot

We had our pictures taken a couple weeks ago. We wanted some family shots but none really turned out. But we did get some good ones of the kids. It was like 36 degrees. Easton was very cold so he was not to smiley in any of the family shots. Makenlee was happy throughout the whole shoot.

He was running through a field. Luckily the photographer was quick she got some action shots but at least he is smiling.

He was shivering here. It is kinda cute!!

Kisses from Daddy. How sweet.

Happy girl with her Daddy

The Christmas card family shot. I was bummed Easton was not looking but oh, well.

Grammie and her angels

Merry Christmas

For those that I don't have addresses for. Merry Christmas from our family to yours...This is our card for the year.

New toys and new friends

The night before we left CA we got to meet Luke and hang out with his Mommy Sarah. He is a few days younger then Miss Makenlee. It was fun to catch up and have Makenlee play with stuff her own size. She got to play in the Jumparoo. Which she never had before.

Makenlee and the future UCLA Lineman, Luke's dad played there so it is in the blood.

Jump Jump

Hanging with Uncle Aaron and Uncle Joey

I was having issues with putting some of my CA pics on the computer only some downloaded. Well, they finally are now all downloaded. Joey and Aaron came by and hung with the kids and I then we went to Bj's for pizza... the kids and the uncles

Makenlee and Aaron

Easton still asks to play with Uncle Joey, he asks if Uncle Joey can come play at his house. We tell him that Joey is in Ca. He does not quite get it is a few states away.

Jeanne got my white elephent gift....ha

We had a Christmas party on Saturday and Jeanne got my white elephant gift and it provided lots of laughs for the night. It was an adult sized diaper if you cannot figure out what it is. She "accidentally" left it at Stacey's she told me later. I got it from a friend who is a home health nurse. It was hilarious when she opened the gift.

Last Tatrau's for 2007

Easton went to Tatrau's w/ Haley on Friday. It was a busy one so I hear. He had fun of course. That place is awesome for energetic children like Easton. A big place to run and play priceless.

I had never seen him get up on this by himself. Of course he does it when I am not there.

Jumping

Rosemary, Haley and E

More of CA

I have more pictures to post from CA. I am behind in my posts. Here I met my friend Melanie and her kiddos at the Irvine Spectrum. We rode the carousel, ate lunch, walked around and enjoyed Coldstone Ice Cream. Makena is 5 months older then Easton and Brody is one day younger then Makenlee. So it was nice to talk to someone in the same exact stage of baby as I am in.

Makenlee and Brody.


All 4 of us

Makena and Easton sure loved their ice cream treat.

The babies all ready for a stroller stroll. They were watching Easton and Makena on the carousel. We guessed Brody outweighed Makenlee by a good 5 lbs.

Silly Boys

A couple weeks ago we went over to Eli's to play. The next thing we know we see this coming though the house. Easton is the climber of all his friends. My friends have said that too. There are things Easton climbs on that his friends would never or have never climbed on. I swear Easton is part monkey sometimes. He even tries to climb the walls in the bathtub. Maybe he is spiderman. Ha. What was funny was we were back over at Eli's yesterday and Easton was in the car and Eli jumped on the top like this and I said to Leah, "Did he get that from Easton." She said, "Yep, he started doing it afterEaston did that a couple weeks ago."

Laying on a shelf

I think we probably have one of the funniest kids in the world. Today Easton did not nap and he was playing in our bedroom. So I walk in and he is laying on the shelf. I have no idea why, maybe he though it might be comfy or maybe he was like hmm just my size. That is Makenlee's doll and I have no idea why he was laying with it.

Candy Cane outfit

It's the happy girl flying...

Both Stacey and I had red on and Makenlee was in a stripe shirt and Casey was in stripe pants. We thought it was kinda funny...It is the CA girls except for the babes, both were born in TN though. Makenlee at least has some roots to CA since she was conceived there. Casey is 3 weeks now. He is getting bigger everyday.

Already playing the piano

I was in the kitchen baking today and I walked around the corner to check on the kids and I heard the piano on the leapfrog table going, I thought it was Easton playing. It was Makenlee standing up playing it. She has been pulling up on stuff but she stood at that table playing it for a good 15 min. She is so active.

She is always sticking her tongue out.

She is so proud of herself.

Christmas at Chilhowee Park

It was cold last night but not as cold as last year. We had a good time with friends. There were lots of people but we did decorate some cookies. The lights were very pretty. Both kids were bundled up to keep warm.

Look what I found today!!!

Easton is pretty much I think over taking a nap. But I still take him up to his room everyday and tell him he has to have some rest time. I really don't care if he plays just as long as he is quiet and stays in his room for a couple hours. Well, this is out of control. Today this is what I found. It gets worse as you scroll down. I had a great laugh but I am also VERY mad he trashed his room and well, keep scrolling and you will see why.

Some of this was in his closet on a shelf. He climbed up on a plastic tote and took games and markers down that he is not supposed to have unless he is supervised. I wonder why?

Christmas time is here...

It is officially Christmas time here. We put the Christmas tree up Sunday night and decorated the house Monday. Easton enjoyed helping Jon put up the tree. He loved to play with the lights too. He even helped hang the ornaments too. Here are some pictures from this year and then 2 years ago before E's first Christmas. What a difference a couple years make...

I wanted these all to be side by side but it got all screwed up.

Never now what you'll find....

I just went up to see if E was awake from his nap. Well, I found his underwear by the door w/ #2 in them. Then there was toilet paper with you know what all over his floor. It appears he tried to clean himself up not only in the bathroom but also in his room and then decided to go back to bed sans underwear. It is like a trail of ripped up TP in his room and the bathroom. He then took the vent off the floor so I had to then make sure he did not stuff some down there. That would be REALLY GROSS. Too funny!!! This gave me my laugh for the day. I'll spare you all the photos. I did not take any anyway!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We hope you all had a great turkey day. We had a great day with friends and eating a great meal. There was lots to be thankful for this year. We had a good time sharing those things around the table this year.