My first video!

I got a Flip video camera for Christmas so here is my first video of me scaring the kids and playing monster with them (they love that!).

Merry Christmas!

Larry doesn't get Spongebob, but I think it's hilarious. This short 40 second clip came from the Christmas special and I couldn't stop laughing.


The boys were up early and they feasted on the treats in their stockings. They were so eager to open gifts, their manic smiles are obvious in the picture. This is before the gift massacre....


They had 2 Christmas's, one here and one at Grandma and Papa's house. These pictures are of the one there. Mom-in-law was super surprised to get her gift. I organized the siblings on Larry's side to go in on a really nice gift, a Nintendo DS with the Brain Age game.




David has this funny Santa hat, he got it from his teacher at church and loves it (he loves her too and thinks she's fun).

Gingerbread houses & more elves

Today the kids made gingerbread houses. They had a blast making it and eating the fruits of their labor. Boy are they hyper!



The elves sure are sneaky! One night the boys got their toenails painted while they were asleep and another night the elves had fun with a marker.

Elves visit and a BAD kitty!

For the past couple of days, an elf has been visiting our house at night while everyone sleeps. These elves are quite mischievous! So far, they pulled all of the paper cups out of a box to make a pyramid, stacked all of our DVD's up in the front living room, and put toilet paper all over the Christmas tree. They usually leave a note encouraging the kids to be good and a piece of candy.



Last night, Panda peed on the bean bag downstairs. It feels like a litter box to her and it's not the first time she's done that. She was punished and put outside for it. This morning, I hadn't quite forgiven her so I let her into the laundry room to eat, but wouldn't let her into the house to roam. She threw a kitty tantrum, meowed and let us see her agony from under the door. I almost felt sorry for her....... almost.


It did end up being a happy ending for Panda, she got to roam the house like the little princess she is.

Just Because

Larry and I rarely get pictures where it's just the two of us so I had my mom take them.

A visit with Santa

We took the kids to the mall to see Santa. The line wasn't long at the time we got in, but we were glad we did because it got really long within 30 minutes of our visit. The boys were excited to sit on Santa's lap (despite the face David pulled for the picture). I brought my own camera which turned out to be the exact model the studio was using. They didn't complain about me taking pictures, but I'm sure they were annoyed. I didn't want to spend $20 on 2 digital print-outs when I could do my own.

David told Santa he wanted a dancing Santa Clause with a red button for Christmas. Jared was like that kid on the movie 'A Christmas Story' and sort of froze, I think he wanted to say much much more than he did - which was about 2 words.

The Nutcracker

We went to see the Nutcracker today. The kids enjoyed most of it, they were a bit restless during the long ballads near the end, but overall they were pretty good. It was my 2nd time seeing the Nutcracker. I went last night with Larry for our date night (my first time seeing it) and knew the boys would enjoy it. Since Larry is in Bellevue for school, my mom and I took the boys. It was also her first time.

We Elfed Ourselves!

This is hilarious! Click here to see us all elfed up.

Christmas Tree

Last night we went shopping for a Christmas tree. We found a tree lot in Richland which only sold Nobles and that is what we were looking for. They are a little more expensive, but they don't shed so much, they're suppose to last much longer before drying out and they smell great! The boys helped decorate it this morning before church. If they didn't have my help, only the bottom of the tree would have ornaments. It was a lot of fun deciding where everything should go, they change their minds and like to move the ornaments around.

Here are some pictures I took, they were in a good 'picture mood' so I took advantage of that. You don't want to know what I had to do to get them to laugh like that :D

Hallway Football

Larry and the boys played football in the hallway. It was quite entertaining! I wish I had a digital camcorder to record how David wiggles his little bottom in anticipation of catching the ball! When I get one, there will be short videos on this blog. Until then, I have action slides. Jared got tackled here, that was his favorite part.





David loved tackling his daddy!