Monday, December 23, 2013

A cold afternoon!

This year I waited too long to schedule a family photo session but I really wanted one good photo of the kids for our Christmas card. So on this cold afternoon I told them to go outside and play and as usual, I went a little crazy with my camera :)

Oliver found this leaf.










This was the winner!

Friday, December 20, 2013

Tae Kwon Do - Orange belt

Oliver moved up from a yellow belt to orange belt in Tae Kwon Do. 

This was right before he went in for testing.




A few days later... Ceremony




Friday, December 6, 2013

Little moments at home...

Although some little moments don't seem important, I know I will look back months and years from now and remember all the random things they were doing at home.

Pizza Night


Pretending they're Italian with the hand gestures...





A favorite hang out spot - 
Grandpa Hayden's old desk which is now Brian's desk.
See the foot?





Pretend Camping
I love it when they're busy for hours doing creative things. 
They set this up in our backyard. Notice the welcome mat.



Bugs in our backyard
Cute caterpillar...



A snail...
Unfortunately Oli stepped on it by mistake and asked,
"Mom what's that slimy stuff on the bottom of my foot?", Poor little snail.




Cool spider web...
Last week we watched the movie "Charlotte's Web" with the kids. It's one of my favorite movies. Last night a very busy spider worked all night to make a web that started on the roof of the house continued on to our car parked outside and across reaching the basketball hoop at the end of the yard. I wish I had a photo to show the entire length of the web. It was pretty amazing!