Happy 2nd Birthday...Haley!

I will post more party photos soon (Esther has more in her camera)...here are some to start:


For breakfast, Haley had candles in a Mickey Mouse shaped pancake made by grandma (just like she used to make for me :) )


Setting up for the party at the park...


AJ waiting for everyone to come...


Blowing candles out on her cupcake


Cheeeeeeeeeeeeese!


Grandpa and Me :)

Happy Birthday, James!

James and all 36 candles :)

Growing up...

Haley has graduated from her crib and is now in her twin bed. She loves sleeping in it and she does great. I thought she might keep getting up and wandering, but she is a really good sleeper and just lays in bed until she falls asleep. (That is until she figures out she can sneak out of her bed and play with her toys...I'm crossing my fingers!)

Sad attempt at catching up...

We've been busy and I obviously have not kept up my blog. So here's my sad, sad attempt at a quick glance at the past couple of months...

DECEMBER


Christmas










We surprised the kids for Christmas and took them to Disneyworld. Our friends, Derek and Patti (with their daughter Allison) have a timeshare at the Disneyworld resort and invited us to go along. We had a great time... Here are a bunch of random photos. Some are at the park and others are back at the room where we went swimming in the middle of December....crazy!
















We drove up to Utah to visit James' family before Christmas... SNOW!



























NOVEMBER

AJ won an award at school. His school has been studying "profiles" since the beginning of the year. They've learned what it means to be *Principled, *Communicator, *Risk Taker, *Caring, *Knowledgable and *Open-minded. AJ received the "Communicator" award for his ability to use his knowledge and share it with others in his class.

We also went to his school fair...BOTH Haley and AJ won goldfish which unfortunately are no longer with us :(

























OCTOBER
HALLOWEEN

Halloween was a blast! We went Trick or Treating around our neighborhood and ended up with a TON of candy! We had a family theme going: AJ was a Kansas City Chiefs football player, Haley was their cheerleader, James was the crazy fan, and I was the referee.






























James and I went on our first cruise - from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. My parents came up and watched the kids and the dog so we had our first vacation since before AJ was born without the little ones. It was really fun...would love to do a cruise again!