Mount Baker

It seems that it has become a tradition to go sledding at Mount Baker after Christmas. This year was gorgeous and there is plenty of snow as you can see.

Chase all decked out in his new snow gear.

He has no idea what we are doing here but he was excited.

OK - not so excited in this picture. (it gets better) He wanted to walk and not ride in the sled but it was so deep he couldn't move his little legs. Later he did figure out a pretty good army crawl that worked to get him through the deep snow.

Taylor enjoying a series of tunnels that someone had dug in the side of the hill.

Christmas 2007

I think Taylor is having a good Christmas - What do you think?

Chase took his time looking over each item as he opened his stocking - that is after he finally got up @ 9:00 am.

OK are boys just born knowing what do with power tools and cars??? It amazes me that he even knew what to do with the drill. Maybe he was paying attention during his nine months at Grainger :0) He is working on Ryans Nascar PEZ dispenser.

WE GOT A Wii

This is Taylor rocking out to guitar hero.

She is actually very good (when Ryan will let her play)

Thanks Julia for the Red lip gloss it made the outfit!

All in a days work

Chase loves Dinosaurs. He makes a funny little growl sound when you ask him what a dinosaur says. Since he doesn't say many words yet we have been practicing animal noises - he is very good at making noises.

It was all I could do the other day to get anything done so, we pushed up a chair to the sink and got some cups and let him go for it. He stood there for over an hour while I got dinner ready. He was soaked, but it was sooooooo worth it.

Taylor had her second recital for her voice lessons. She did very well! She sang the First Noel. and of course, true to Taylor fashion she chose a beautiful Renaissance dress to perform in :0)

What does a horsey say?????

Grandma Karen and Papa Bear sent Chase this horse that he can ride and when you press it's ear it makes horse noises. Chase is very good at these noises himself - so he runs around the house making just as much noise as the horse does. Notice he won't put down his car to ride the horse though.

He was kissing the horse on the nose over and over for some reason???

Completed Yarn Bugs!

The Far Out Yarn bug

The real Bug Yarn Bug

The Polar bear yarn bug

And a random picture Taylor took that I am still not sure how it got on here?????

Chomper!!

Take a look at this mouth full of teeth - OUCH! (Taylor can testify to that). So compared to some of the other Blog sites I visit - we are very amateur photographers - ok we don't even claim to be good, but what can we day - we still have fun doing it.

Happy Thanksgiving!!! The only way we can get Chase in posed picture is to hold him upside down - then he thinks it's a game and will play along. I am wanting to get the kids pictures taken together, but I think they will all end up being of Taylor because Chase hates the camera. Maybe we will try it anyway.

This was the first picture we tried and Chase was trying to get down the whole time. Taylor couldn't even hold him anymore so we reverted tot the upside down version in the previous picture - whatever works! As you can see the weather was beautiful on Thanksgiving!

Taylor, Cassidy and Grammy making their Thanksgiving day crafts. They made yarn bugs - they turned out so cute and they were pretty fun to make too.

BOOOO!

Happy Halloween

So here we are carving pumpkins that actually came out of our garden. We had 3 big enough to carve and about 8 small one for decoration - which I carved anyway! It was a fun night. As you can see Taylor was prepared with her apron - the rest of us just went for it.

Chase and I went to Walgreens and he bought his first candy collecting pumpkin. He loved carrying it around that day. If he only knew that the best was yet to come.

Yes, Chase was a Dinosaur. I thought it was great because he would stay warm with the head covering and all. He had issues with having purple paws - for some reason he just make them work to pick up any of the candy (they actually folded back so he could use his hands again). Chase loved trick or treating. He got to go with the big kids. Taylor and her friends would take him up to the front door and them help him load his bucket with candy. He would get so excited about a candy bar that he would hold one in each hand and set his pumpkin down on the front step of the house and run away. That was all he needed - just one candy bar for each hand.

This picture is rare because he is actually sitting still and even looking at me. Sorry no pictures of Taylor yet. My camera was dying so my Aunt took the rest of the pictures - hopefully we will see them soon. She looked really good too as a Graveyard Fairy. Halloween is Taylor's favorite holiday. You get to dress up and no one can tell you not to.