The many cute faces of Aly

The new and improved me..

Before

After

Random Pictures

Gosh I love that face!!!

One tired baby. I think this is the first time she has fallen on the floor.

Cole also insisted on being swaddled.

I promise I will get more pictures of Alyson up.

Egg Wash

Yesterday while I was cooking dinner and talking to Bret, Cole got into the fridge. Without looking I told him to close the fridge - and then I looked. He had pulled an egg out of the fridge to "make a cake" (this was his response when I asked what he was doing) and accidentally dropped the egg. Since he obviously couldn't make a cake with a broken egg he decided to not let the fun go to waste and proceeded to smear it all over his legs and arms. Talk about a new meaning to egg wash.

Early Crawler?

Happy New Car - I mean Year

We had such a fun New Years. We left Thursday afternoon and drove to Twin Falls, ID to bring 2010 in with Bret's family and have a late Christmas. Thursday night was Christmas for us and we got some great gifts. Cole and Aly both got clothes and a couple toys. Bret and I got some money, a new car (used but new to us) , I got an opal necklace (love it), two 72 hour kits, and some other small things. It was so great. We then had a fantastic meal of crab, lobster tail, steak, and shrimp. Yumm-o (as my sweet mother- in -law would say). We put the kids to sleep and enjoyed some games as just the adults. Then everyone called it quits at 11:15 and headed to bed. Right as I got ready for bed and climbed in Aly woke up to eat so her and I rang in the New Year together. The next day was traditionally the pig out for the boys which means a full day of football, eating and no watching the kids. Fun for them. So us girls took the kids to see "The Princess and the Frog". Cute, and I loved the music. Cole actually sat through the whole thing, This hasn't happened since he was just a wee baby. The rest of the week was hanging out and shopping. At one point Opa and the Dad's took the boys sledding. They were having a blast until Cole's sled started spinning and he bailed out - on the only patch of ice. Poor kid. He scrapped up his face pretty bad. Once we got him cleaned up we headed to Jump to It and let the kids bounce and play for the next 1 1/2. We ended that fun afternoon with a trip to McDonald's with Grams and Opa. It was such a great week and so fun to see everyone home together.