Christmas 2013

 Some winter scenes from our backyard.  I was only willing to open the back slider door to take these, not actually walk out there--so not the best shots, but still beautiful.

 no idea what google automatically did to the Christmas lights.  huh.  nice photo of the three together.

 Josie's favorite toy:  Kendall's princess castle.

 Josie's quickly forgotten about toy: her new bike (purple and pink, I might add, just like she requested)

 The V-side cousins.  all 10 sitting still. 

 Aaron and Kendall: 2 months apart

 focus...

 smile?

 princesses?  cupcakes?  perfect.

Is it November already? 2 months of blogging...

  Caleb had a great soccer season and improved a lot.

Josie gradually grew less scared of the ball and the other kids on the field: also imrovement.

 

Kendall is our official greeter for neighbor kids.  She is very social.

 

 

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 Practicing her climbing skills

 

 still enjoying warm fall weather.

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 We went to ChuckE Cheese's to celebrate Mikiah's 3rd birthday.  Some of our kids liked this car ride. 

 Little Elephant trick or treating in the rain

 back home, digging through the stash.

 Excited and ready to go (and still dry in the garage)

Preschool and other stuff

 The big shot preschooler...Josie has been waiting to be part of the school group for quite some time. 

 looking a bit nervous?

 Little miss social, so excited to greet the neighbor kids when she spotted them 5 houses away. 

Soccer Saturday

Caleb and Josie are both involved in AYSO soccer this fall.  Josie plays 3 on 3 on a pretty small field with no goalie.  Caleb plays 5 on 5 on a slightly larger field but still no goalie. 

 This group of 4 rides the bus together in the morning, and plays together in the afternoon and evening (plus Josie).  Great to have great neighbors with great kids!

1 year old!

 happy birthday to our beautiful, happy and fun 1-year-old! 

1 week's time...

One week ago, we spent 2 days at Joel and Shontel's new house, and had a blast spending time with cousins, aunts, uncles, grandpa and grandma, and lots of warm water.  Thanks, Joel and Shontel for the party!  

Not pictured: we celebrated with Ben and Kim in their wedding, and spent a great couple of days with Chris and Syd.

 We went to pick Blueberries on Monday afternoon.  Mostly because we all love eating them.  Only 3 of the four of us liked picking them.

These 2 went to tennis camp this week.  One of them liked it.