So I finally figured out how to put video on this thing. So I'll putting some on here, but they are pretty old. This one is Tobias when he was just a crawler! He was having a growling contest with his Nana :)

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning we had my family over brunch after early morning present opening chaos. It was really fun!












Justin's mom, Judie (aka Nana), stayed with us the week of Christmas and it was so fun to spend time with her!




























Tobias wasn't really wanting to cooperate for this picture. He always has to do things HIS way!















Tobias got some party blowers (noiseless ones thankfully) in his stocking, which he had fun with.














Tobias is very fascinated with sea animals so he was very excited to get some toy sea animals from his Aunt Niki, Uncle Justin, and his cousins. I think he's slept with them in his bed every night since Christmas.












Don't they look cuddly? I mean, who wouldn't want to sleep with that in their bed!














Kiernan got some fun new toys too, but I think he was just as interested in the ribbons :)














Tobias also got an awesomely huge dump truck from his Nana that he was also very excited about. That afternoon, he pushed it all the way to the park and back!

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas eve at my parents' house and we had a great time. Tobias got a train table from Grandma and Grandpa and he went absolutely crazy when he realized that he had gotten one! I wish I had gotten it on video, but I wasn't fast enough. Here's a picture that gives a little taste of how he reacted. The veins popping out of his neck should give you a clue how excited he was :)





Here's part of the "I got a train table" dance.













Tobias was totally into people opening presents. He thought it was just as fun helping other people open their presents as it was opening his own.











Kiernas was mostly fascinated by the sparkly things on the boxes.














Here's Kiernan about to eat some sparkly things.











































Grandpa and Kiernan relaxing on the couch.





























Tobias checking out Uncle Eric's new pool Que.














Justin and T having fun














My beautiful mom!

Reno Trip

The week before Christmas we made a trip to Reno to visit Justin's mom (Judie), Justin's sister(Niki) and her husband(Justin). Jusin and Niki have three Kids- Emily who is 3 and twin boys, Rowdy and Saywer, who are about 16 months old. So we had some crazy, but fun times with five kids!

This is Emily and Tobias playing.





This is Kiernan with a bath beard














This is Tobias and Kiernan's cousin, Sawyer.














This is Emily going down the slide at the park. We were so desperate to get the kids out we actually went to the park with snow on the ground. it was freezing!














Here's Nana teaching Tobias to play piano.














This is Nana's dog, Sarika. She had fun with the kids.














This is Tobias when he refused to put pants on before going outside in 20 degree weather!














Emily and Tobias being crazy again.














Kiernan all bundled up














Justin, Tobias, and Sarika on a walk in Graeagle where Justin's uncle lives.













Rowdy and Kiernan "having fun" at the park. I think the swings were actually frozen in place so they just had to sit there :)






























The beautiful scenery as we drove over the summit





























Judie left an empty planter box in her backyard and it filled up with water and froze, producing this fun giant ice cube!

Coookie Decorating

Before Christmas Tobias and his friends Landen did some cookie decorating, or tried to. They didn't really get the idea of decorating the cookies without eating them so a lot of the cookies ended up with bite marks :)














Tobias went a little heavy on the sprinkles!

Thanksgiving weekend

For Thanksgiving we had a great dinner at myh parents' house. I made the Turkey and gravy and my mom made all the sides. It was so yummy!












Here's the buys relaxing after our big meal













The weekend after Thanksgiving my mom and I took the boys for a walk at Rancho San Antonio in Los Altos where they have lots of hiking trails and a little farm with animals to look at. Here' Tobias having a good time.











Here's Tobias after having too much of a good time !
















Here's Justin giving Tobias a ride on his bike (not safe, I know :)














This is a picture of us in front of my parents house on Thanksgiving. It's the picture that was supposed be in our Christmas cards, but I never got around to doing cards this year so....here you go!
























Nikita licking Thanksgiving crumbs off of Kiernan