The Neglected Blog

Oh my blog I have neglected you! Here's a little update of what we have been doing. Emily was spotlighted at school. It's a cool thing our school does every month. They take a handful of kids from 3rd, 4th and 5th grade and their classmates right nice things about them. Then an assembly is held in front of all the upper grades to hear the cool things people say about them. It was pretty neat. Nathan just met his baseball team, they are the Giants this year and he is pretty excited about it. Having two practices a week however was not exciting news for me. Ryan is hillarious as always. What was not funny is we lost him in Target the other day, I mean lost him for 10 minutes or so. If you have ever lost your child for that long you know the absolute panicked feeling that goes along with it. Not funny at all. He was none the worse for the wear, but both I and the lady who found him were sobbing. Kate has gone from yoga baby to stand up and walk around things baby, yikes! She is also growling at us now. She has become mobile way too fast for us. Here are some pics of her yoga poses.

Ok, so I was going to post this funny video of Ryan and his friends singing Jingle Bells, but I can't get it to upload. This is not the first time I've had trouble getting a video to load on blogger. Will someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Maybe I Should Post Christmas?

So I finally decided to download pictures from Christmas. I know, I'm so bad, sorry Grandma. It was a fun Christmas. It's always great to watch the kids and their excitement. My parents were here as well and that made it nice.

We have a tradition where we let the kids open one gift on Christmas Eve. It's always pajamas. We had wrapped Ryan's in a camera box and he was so excited that he got a camera. I guess you had to be there, but it was pretty funny.

So once again I missed the photo op. On Christmas night Emily had put together a Nativity program. It was really sweet and if I can beg some pictures off my brother-in-law I'll post them. When will I learn?

Here's Ryan opening his "camera."

Honestly I don't have favorites, but Kate is so fun to take pictures of.

The Sunday before Christmas.

We were so lucky to have Geoff's brother Tom with us for Christmas. The kids are still asking when he can come be their nanny. They are lovin' that train. So how about it Tom?

Is this kid a ham or what?

It's just not Christmas without at least one fight.

Wedding Pictures at Last!

I kmow, I know I've been very neglectful (is that a word?) of my blog. I'll admit, I've become a bit of a Facebook junkie, but that is no excuse. I'll have to add updating my blog to my list of new year's goals. Anyhow, I finally got some pictures of the wedding! Christmas soon to follow!

The beautiful bride and groom.

Kate, Geoff and Ry hiding in Geoff's suit.

Too cute.

I thought this picture of Taylor was cool.

Emily the flower girl.

Isn't that the cutest ring bearer you ever saw?

Nutcracker Performance

Once again our school put on a fabulous showing of the Nutcracker. Both Emily and Nathan participated and did a great job. Of course being the person I am I forgot my camera. It seems that if I'm not deleting photos I'm not even bothering to take them. Fortunately I've got good friends who do snap an occasional photo of my children. So here are the two photos that I have. Enjoy! Well the picture of Em didn't turn out so great. Maybe I'll have to order it and see if it works then. Anyways, you get the gist. :)

I'm Thankful.....

There are many things I'm thankful for, but here are just a few.

Nate's Birthday

Ok, ok I know. I am so bad at posting, can I still use the "I'm busy" excuse? Who isn't? Our little Naters just turned 6 and it was really fun. Mom "finally" let him have a friend birthday party. Let me tell you 7 little boys dressed as pirates looking for treasure....can you say barely controlled chaos? It was lots of fun though and I'm pretty sure the birthday boy had a good time.

I think he liked it.

Walk the plank you dogs!

Argh!

Here's some cute recent photos. I want to know why is it when you have this great picture you notice after the fact that there is something hanging off the baby's nose?

I'm Glad It's Over!

I am so glad this election year is coming to an end! I appreciate the fact that I get to vote and I take this privilege very seriously, but boy am I glad it's over. Prop 8 has been an ugly issue on the ballot. Ugly because no matter how you put it, if your belief systems are not the same you are not going to agree on this issue. So I'm glad it's over. I took Ryan and Kate with me to vote and Ryan got quite a kick out of the whole thing. You would have thought he was running for office the way he carried on with the poll workers.
I hope all of you took the chance to get your voices heard!