Super Fun time was had by all at our annual Super Bowl Party. We had Jake and Andi come up and bring their girls, Reine and Rose, and it was so nice catching up with them now that they are back in the Northwest.
Go Pack!
Andi and Rose
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lots of people, lots of food...
..and snow - suprise snow storm brought us inches for the kids to play in.
shortest superbowl guest, Rosemary, hanging in the kitchen..
nothing better than a pile o' kids, playing well together.. (we had 9 kids running wild -good times!)
We are so proud of our Lu Lu! She is pretty much potty trained - only wears a diaper at night and wakes early to go potty all on her own. She was so easy to train, only had about two accidents, and is such a big girl. Yay Lucy!
Matt got some great pics of Gus at his friend's sledding birthday party. I was home recovering from the flu. Happy to say we are all healthy and survived the terrible Oroville flu bug that was going around.
We had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's... The O'Briens came up - Grandpa Dick, Grandma Connie, Aunt Molly, Uncle Aaron, and dog-cousin Patsy. We ate, drank, opened presents, decorated cookies, watched out for Gary the elf, watched Griswold's Christmas Vacation.... lots of fun times.
Matt and I got each other a new camera for Christmas, we love it - its a Canon G12 and it takes the best photos. I am sorting through hundreds of photos as we are learning all the different settings and how to use it.
Here are some pics I just took of Lucy dancing around the kitchen this morning in her new Hello Kitty sweat suit that she really loves.
My ghost pumpkin that ended up looking more like Gumby than a ghost.
The Halloween Festivities were really spread out this year, so the kids had what seemed like a week of celebrations. The weekend before we went up to Taber's for the pumpkin patch and photo-op. Each kid gets to pick out there own pumpkin for free, its pretty nice. Then Friday before Halloween the kids did downtown trick or treating at the business, Sat. was the Carnival at the school, and Sunday was the big show. Gus woke early Sunday and came in to our bedroom to announce, "Today is the day!".
Gus was a Transformer - Bumblebee- and Lucy was a fairy princess that she called "Pretty Ballet"- pretty cute.
Other current events include Lucy enjoying showers and wanting to put her hair in a turban like I do every morning. Gus has started singing mock-opera which is hard to describe, but just trust me the kid sounds pretty good.
Matt and I went to have a parent teacher conference with Gus's teacher and we are happy to report he is doing really well in kindergarten and is well behaved at school.
Today we took down the crib (sniffle sniffle) and put up Lucy's big girl bed. We also moved the computer out of her room and moved it upstairs to our room. Lucy has the biggest bedroom in the house now.
We are so looking forward to this Thursday when we finally get to hold our new cousin / nephew Ash Nelson Ugaldea! They are coming up for a visit and I am so excited to see his little baby self.
Well my roast chicken needs basting.... hopefully my next post will be sooner than a month from now.
Go Pack!
Andi and Rose
