Thanksgiving...

Let's see if this works, but here is Matthew's school play....

Long time, no pictures....

There are no words or excuses, so I'll just cut to the chase and give the people what they want...pictures of the super-cuties kids!!!

Partying at Bella's 2nd birthday...how time flies...

Great Photos!

After much too much of a delay, we thought these were too cute to keep to ourselves!

Nice family shot....

Fun family shots....

More to come soon, along with a proper update....

Wagon Fun!

So the weather was (temporarily, we suspect) nice and the kids took full advantage.

This shot, especially of Ella, was too funny to pass up...




As you can see, everyone had a good time!

Happy almost spring!!!!

Food!!

No party is complete without party sweets!

Ella shoveling come cupcake at her party...the real mess is still to come...



Big brother loves his food too :-)
(incidentally her biggest brother loves his food so much that he ate it neatly enough it was not phot-worthy :-).

On her birthday we had her cake after lunch...let the real mess begin...

After all that, she was happy, messy and exhausted.
Here is Ella chillin' after the cake carnage!

Ella's Party!

In spite of our best efforts, Ella decided to turn one this week!!
To celebrate we had a party at the local gym.

More photos of our awesome long weekend with (almost) all the family to follow, but we thought we'd start with the party itself!

Happy birthday girl!



A fan of the trampoline, just like her brothers...

Lots of party friends (and some sugary sweets :-)!

Waterpark in February

Ella was VERY excited about seeing her cousin, and the rest of the crew, at the waterpark!!!



Playtime for all!!

Cousins, matching outfits threw them, but their mommies must be sisters, since we did not plan the outfits.
A bit skeptical at first...

Sharing, sharing...
Such cuties!!!

Disney on Ice

Excited about going (and our light-up Spiderman slippers)....




Fun!

Dancing and skating....maybe why the boys are still so excited about their own skating lessons...photos to follow of that!

Good-Bye Lion!

We decided that it was time to let the lion go....
but not before we got some cutie photos of the kids on it!!

Fear not, part of the reason the lion left is because Ella was lucky
enough to get a wooden rocking horse as a gift from family friends...lucky crew!