With a twinkle in his eyes....

So 2008 marked Fox and Nevada's first official full year together and what better way to celebrate than to go and visit the "Jolly Ol Elf" himself. You always see kids crying and screaming when sitting on his lap and I figured that because my father, their grandfather is a spitting image of the Man, my kids would be fine....I'll let you all be the judge!!

First, here is a picture of my dad and how he looks:

And this is a picture of Fox and Nevada sitting on Santa's lap ~ 2008 (ages 3 1/2 and 15 months)

So I guess the saying of "it's who you know" just isn't all that accurate eh!!

I want to also take a moment and wish all my American Friends a very Happy Thankgiving!!

Winter fun

This is how it looked with the snow falling in our back yard. So beautiful!!

Love this picture of Fox...his mitt had fallen off and he came to the door to have it put back on.

Christmas is coming...

We've been slowly starting to decorate for Christmas...no tree yet though..too early for that. When I was a little girl, my mom and I (can't remember if my brother and sister helped or not) always made a long red and green chain out of paper. We'd color both sides of the paper either red or green and then my mom would make some glue using flour and water and we'd cut the paper into strips and glue them together to make a chain and then we'd hang it up on the ceiling. I've decided now that my children are starting to get older :-( that I'd like to have that same tradition in my house so Fox and I sat down and painted our papers red and green and then I cut them into the strips and glued them together and we hung them up. Here is how it turned out:

We've also decided to start making gingerbread houses every year and this was our first year doing it. Fox was wanting to do it with his Daddy but today he's decided he wanted to put it together and surprise him with it...so here it is:

IMPRESSING US MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY!!

Ok so everyday Fox either draws a picture for his Daddy to surprise him with when he gets home from work or he will find a toy and wrap it in a sock and give it to him that way. Two days ago however he wanted to write "I love you daddy" so I wrote it on paper for him and he proceeded to copy it (his version) on another sheet for him and it was so good that we decided to share it with all of you.

BEYOND PROUD OF OUR LITTLE MAN

So Phil and I have been trying to teach Fox is ABC's and he is getting better and better each and everyday...so I thought I would post a pic of his work for you all to see. We are beyond proud of our little man!!!



~ Fox ~ 3 years old.

Just some random pics of my little munchkins

Here is a picture of Fox trying to give Nevada some love while they were playing in the toy box together...didn't quite work out the way he wanted it to.

And yet another...lol

Finally he was able to give her some love without her trying to squirm away from him..lol

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD...I LOVE YOU

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

So this year was Fox and Nevada's first official Halloween together and they looked adorable.

It was Fox's official trick or treating where he actually went around to a bunch of houses...last year he went to a few buildings with his Uncle Josh and some day Aunt Keri and had a bunch of fun then but Phil and I felt he was too young to actually go trick or treating so we waited till this year and he had a blast. Not once did he complain about being tired.

I am very proud of my little man and little girl!