Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you all! I'm a little late in publishing our Christmas pics, but better late than never --- right? So here is a quick recap of our holiday season...


Cameron got a basketball hoop from Santa Clause. He's really good at the slam dunks! His sister on the other hand is learning to dribble and daddy has already taught her the proper form for a layup .... just hope they don't expect me to play one-on-one in the future!

Anna on the other hand wrote to Santa Clause asking him for a princess babydoll - and since she stayed on Santa's "good" list last year she received not only a princess babydoll, but and entire princess baby set complete with crib, swing, bathing station and so much more!

Here they are playing their cool new V-Tech video game system they got from grandma and grandpa. It took some learning to use the joy-stick, but she's gotten the hang of it. Luckily Cameron "plays" along side her thinking it's him doing all the movements, hopefully that will last a little while.

We've had trouble lately with Cameron wanting to play dress-up, and having an older sister means there are only princess dresses to wear. So for Christmas he got a number of boy dress-up outfits including the pirates that you see above. Arrrrgghhh!!!

And then my favorite gift of all is the GeoTrax automatic train set. This has to be the coolest train set out there. The pieces actually stay locked together and you can build huge ramps and stuff. Then there's the remote-control train that goes on it --- too cool! If you're in the market for a train, I definetly recommend it!!! Five Stars!!!!!

Christmas Card Outtakes!!!

Christmas Trains

Justin's dad came up for the day and we all went downtown to the Museum Center to see the Christmas Train Display. There was a train the kids were able to ride on and a few train tables for the kids to play with. The funniest part was Cameron beating up the other kids for their trains. Okay, he didn't actually beat them up, but there was some crying, pushing and biting involved --- and let's just say that Cameron wasn't the one crying.

Anna and Cameron posing with David infront of the train display.


The kids riding on the train together.


Justin, David and the kids posing on the steamboat at the History Center.

Zoo Lights

The Cincinnati Zoo puts on a Christmas Lights Display every year. So we all bundled up and headed out. It was a lot of fun! Here is Anna posing with Frosty, as you can see Cameron isn't in the picutre - - he was too busy crying over the sight of Frosty.


Mrs. Clause and Anna after story time, again- Cameron refused to pose with anyone in costume.

Disney World

We recently got back from Disney World and we all had a lot of fun. It was the first year that both the kids knew who the characters were and they got all excited about it. Not to mention the fun they had seeing their cousins and grandma and grandpa.

Anna posing with "Santa"

We did the princess breakfast on my mom's birthday and the girls loved it! Anna was Snow White and her cousin Olivia was Tinkerbell. But Justin wasn't about to be outdone......

Here he is posing with Princess Jasmine. Any questions as to why this was his favorite princess?

Just a little family posing infront of Cindrella's castle. Anna loved her Minnie Ears and didn't take them off the entire trip, Cameron was a diffrent story. (surprise, surprise)

Grandma with the kids. Cameron was afraid of all the characters and this is one of the rare photos that he's actually showing his face. Surprisingly the only character of the whole trip that he didn't freak out over was Alice in Wonderland. He loved Alice!

Here's a group shot of all ten of us! Yes, keeping all ten of us together was quite an ordeal. The boys had monkey leashes on them so they couldn't run off - we all decided that next time we'll get one for my dad because he was always the one wondering off and we spent half our time looking and waiting for him!

Preschool Halloween Party

I had a lot of fun this year helping with Anna's preschool class party.
Here is Anna and her friends posing in a class picture!

Now she's smiling

Getting ready to make a fun craft

At the end of her preschool day they hold hands in a circle and sing a good-bye song!

HALLOWEEN

Here is our witch (Anna) and Dragon (Cameron). Cameron as you can see is trying to give us his biggest Dragon ROAR!!!!

Here is almost everyone. Jonathan, Cameron, Jack, Anna, Robin and the only one missing is baby Madison who was dressed up like her brothers as a tiger.

The kids at their first house. The only problem was keeping them from going inside everyones houses. They didn't quite understand that you get your candy and leave, not go inside and stay for awhile!

Cameron checking out his loot. At one point he was so tired that he sat down on the street and when Justin asked if he wanted to be carried he held out his pumpkin bucket and said, "candy".

Eventually our little dragon had to be carried, but he wouldn't let go of his candy bucket for anything.