X-mas Eve 2010

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Happy Valentine's Day!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Ryan and I never really celebrated valentine's day as it really is not a holiday, but now that the kids understand holiday's and with school kind of making a big deal about it we have been "forced" to acknowledge it. With that said we have been celebrating Valentine's Day since Friday. Avery had his class party and it seemed to go well, unfortunately I caught a cold and did not feel like volunteering to help. That night Ryan took Claude and I to a very nice dinner at Morton's. I do appreciate that these great steak places generally have really good seafood as I am not a huge steak person. The festivities continued on Saturday Claude and the kids got me some beautiful flowers. Bringing us to today, I still feel like I should just be laying in bed but we had to say good bye to Claude fairly early as her flight left at ten o'clockish. We were all really sad to see her leave. But we did kind of threw out some plans for the kids to visit this summer. :) This year she would take both of them........

Santa,Avery and Alyssa

As noted before Avery and Alyssa eventually got to see Santa. This was the result after an hour of waiting. A very excited Avery and a not so enthusiastic Alyssa.

The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition [Stables]

The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition [Stables]

The Elf on the shelf is the newest edition to our family. Our Elfs name is Fred (Avery named him). To hear more about his story click above. Ryan and I have high hopes that Avery will improve his behavior since Fred will be watching and reporting to Santa.

Labor Day Weekend

The kids spent the weekend with nina and uncle joie in Long Beach. Here is a peek into their past three days. Photo captions courtesy of nina.

photos of avery courtesy of alyssa
getting wet with nemo
breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast and milky (as Alyssa so lovingly refers to it)

Easter Sunday

4-16-09 Better late than never


The kids were very fortunate this year and were over indulged in Easter baskets. Starting with packages from Colorado, aunt Cookie(Carroll) and uncle D.J., Mama and Papa in La Puente got them baskets and so did mommy and daddy. We had a great Easter starting with Breakfast at my parents although we were missing daddy(who had to work, they must be atheist at P-Hill), nina, nino (nina forgot nino had made plans to go skiing) and tia lety(who's in Virginia). Daddy watched the masters(poor Tiger) and mommy actually made dinner. I have to toot my own horn it was really good and I did not burn it. I know it was good because Avery said so. Let me tell you that kid will not lie, he's commented on my cooking that it looks like dog food, so there you go. Well I hope everyone else was as blessed as we were to spend the day with Family.

Easter package from Colorado

Avery and Alyssa were able to celebrate Easter early this week as Grammy and Papa Neils package came. You will note a very happy Avery as he gets his Target gift card, Alyssa commented "Money." The future of money, hmm.

Avery and Alyssa Spring Time Fun

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St. Patricks Day 09

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Valentines 09

Valentine's Day landing on a working Saturday did not allow time for me to do more than make the kids some sacked love snacks. They spent the day with my parents and my brother.
This was rather early and clearly we can see who the morning person is not.

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