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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
One week later, take two
This is what our tree looks like now. MJ tied it to the ceiling so we would be safe.
Timber
This is what I found in my living room Thursday afternoon after I heard a crash while changing Hunter's diaper. Luckily the kids weren't in there at the time. Someone could have been hurt.
Christmas in the Park
Saturday we had another relaxing day. The Dad's tackled our entertainment center, which was quite a mess. It now works well and we don't have to switch the connections to use different accessories.
Then we went to Christmas in the Park in downtown San Jose. My camera died but I got a few pictures before then.
Here are our crazy cute kids. We dressed extra warm, but by the time we got there it wasn't so bad.
Here is our family.
The kids. Hunter (about 6 weeks), Tanner (2), Zack (7), Jessi (4 1/2), Kirsten 8 1/2), and Caleb (3).
Here we are watching the train go by. The kids loved all the fun things to see.
Then we went to Christmas in the Park in downtown San Jose. My camera died but I got a few pictures before then.
Here are our crazy cute kids. We dressed extra warm, but by the time we got there it wasn't so bad.
Here is our family.
The kids. Hunter (about 6 weeks), Tanner (2), Zack (7), Jessi (4 1/2), Kirsten 8 1/2), and Caleb (3).
Here we are watching the train go by. The kids loved all the fun things to see.
Black Friday
Though it is called Black Friday because of the shopping, we didn't go out this year for the first time since Jessi was born. We went and got our Christmas tree and decorated it and put up the Christmas decorations instead and had a nice relaxing day at home and skipped the crowds this year.
This is the tree that we found for our house. Jessi and Tanner enjoyed "helping" Daddy cut it down.
This is the group of us that went to cut down the trees this year in front of Mike and Vicky's tree. Chris and Melissa were taking the pictures so we had to get a separate shot of them. Sorry it wasn't that great.
Here we are putting up the tree and decorating it.
Here is Jessi doing some more decorating after everyone else was done. She loved these hand made ornaments from Grandma/Grandpa Gale and Gloria.
Aunt Kathryn and the boys on the floor reading a story. Tanner, Zack and Caleb are all there, look closely.
The boys didn't last long decorating the tree, we had already helped decorate Mike and Vicky's tree earlier. They decided to "play" and I think it ended up in a little fight but the pictures are good anyway.
Enjoy!
This is the tree that we found for our house. Jessi and Tanner enjoyed "helping" Daddy cut it down.
This is the group of us that went to cut down the trees this year in front of Mike and Vicky's tree. Chris and Melissa were taking the pictures so we had to get a separate shot of them. Sorry it wasn't that great.
Here we are putting up the tree and decorating it.
Here is Jessi doing some more decorating after everyone else was done. She loved these hand made ornaments from Grandma/Grandpa Gale and Gloria.
Aunt Kathryn and the boys on the floor reading a story. Tanner, Zack and Caleb are all there, look closely.
The boys didn't last long decorating the tree, we had already helped decorate Mike and Vicky's tree earlier. They decided to "play" and I think it ended up in a little fight but the pictures are good anyway.
Enjoy!
Zach's Birthday and Thanksgiving Day
Wednesday was my nephew, Zach's, Birthday. He turned 7, I can't believe it. The kids played all day and pulled out tons of toys and had a blast all day and then we had cake and ice cream after dinner and then Grandma Vicky and Grandpa Mike took the kids and some other helpers to the Sharks Hockey game. We (Kathryn, Me, Melissa, and MJ) were only left with Hunter.
MJ was busy making 5 pies for Thanksgiving dinner so us girls watched "My Sister's Keeper." MJ is an amazing cook and makes excellent pies. He makes everything from scratch. He made 2 pumpkin, 1 apple, 1 lemon ma range and 1 pecan pie. He even cleaned up his mess and was in bed just after midnight!
Thanksgiving day was nice and relaxing thanks to MJ making the pies the day before. The only chore we had to do was make the "kids" turkey. They all had a blast.
Tanner and Caleb, Buddies, watching Dora on the computer while they waited for the older kids to wake up. They are 10 months apart but are into almost all of the same things.
Here is the Turkey in process. Is there more eating happening or more making the turkey?
The finished product. They were so proud:)
Hunter lived in his bouncer this week when we wasn't being held. He was content as could be with all the noise from the other kids, I think he likes it more when it is noisy.
We had Vicky, Mike, Adam, Jessica, Chris, Melissa, Kathyrn, Nathan, and their kids, and MJ and I with ours at our house this year for Thanksgiving. We usually go to MJ's Auntie Rains, but with my sis in town it was just too many people, so we split up this year. Vicky lent us her china and so we had quite the spread for the adults at least. I'm sorry that I didn't get any pictures of us or the food. I don't think anyone did. After cleaning up and relaxing a little we broke out the wonderful pies and then put the kids to bed. Then the adults played some Wii, again, sorry no pictures. Over all it was a great holiday with even more fun to come the next day.
MJ was busy making 5 pies for Thanksgiving dinner so us girls watched "My Sister's Keeper." MJ is an amazing cook and makes excellent pies. He makes everything from scratch. He made 2 pumpkin, 1 apple, 1 lemon ma range and 1 pecan pie. He even cleaned up his mess and was in bed just after midnight!
Thanksgiving day was nice and relaxing thanks to MJ making the pies the day before. The only chore we had to do was make the "kids" turkey. They all had a blast.
Tanner and Caleb, Buddies, watching Dora on the computer while they waited for the older kids to wake up. They are 10 months apart but are into almost all of the same things.
Here is the Turkey in process. Is there more eating happening or more making the turkey?
The finished product. They were so proud:)
Hunter lived in his bouncer this week when we wasn't being held. He was content as could be with all the noise from the other kids, I think he likes it more when it is noisy.
We had Vicky, Mike, Adam, Jessica, Chris, Melissa, Kathyrn, Nathan, and their kids, and MJ and I with ours at our house this year for Thanksgiving. We usually go to MJ's Auntie Rains, but with my sis in town it was just too many people, so we split up this year. Vicky lent us her china and so we had quite the spread for the adults at least. I'm sorry that I didn't get any pictures of us or the food. I don't think anyone did. After cleaning up and relaxing a little we broke out the wonderful pies and then put the kids to bed. Then the adults played some Wii, again, sorry no pictures. Over all it was a great holiday with even more fun to come the next day.
Thanksgiving week
My sister, Kathyrn, and her family drove in from Utah for the Thanksgiving weekend. They were here Wednesday morning to Sunday and we had a blast. I didn't get enough pictures and I'm sure that I will forget something fun that we did, so here is her blog so you can check it out too http://knatfam.blogspot.com/ Then next few posts are of that week. If I can get them in today I will while Hunter is attempting to sleep and the other two are entertained for a few minutes.
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