January/February

We had a few mild weather days in January, so the girls and I took advantage of our zoo pass and headed outside.

While Christian and Ashlee were in the process of moving and finishing their basement, we spent some time at Wheeler Farm feeding the geese and ducks, and checking out all the other animals. Yes, Buz wanted to blend in as a farmer. Nice.

Lily's preschool had a celebration day at Airborne. I think this is what has sparked Lily's somewhat new determination to be daring. Somewhat daring.

Zoe always likes to pull the goofy faces.

Matilda Jane Time!!

Save the date!

Come check out their amazing spring line for little girls, teens, and women. It will be so much fun!

Friday, February 3rd, 6 - 8 p.m.

My house

(message if you want my address)

Bring your moms, sisters, friends, aunts, and of course kids are welcome!

Also, Cozette Couture will be here to sell all of her little lovelies!

snow

It FINALLY snowed, and we were able to test out our sled I bought, I think, in November. The girls looooved it.

Merry Christmas 2011

i'm sitting here listening to zoe defy our new plans...we moved her to a big girl bed. in lily's room. lots of changes coming that little one's way. i figure while i wait for her to fall asleep i may as well update the good old blog. here's our happenings for christmas morning:

the annual anticipation on the stairs picture

posing in front of their santa spoils. all lily asked for was a sailboat for the bathtub. that santa really delivered! and zoe is all about babies, and pretty much hasn't put hers down since!

buz and i got zoe a few accessories for her baby, in the hopes that fights over the stroller, etc., would be thwarted. yeah right!

lily got lots of new games. she's in heaven.

after our family (and aunt sarah!) opened presents, the rest of my family came over for our traditional aebelskivers. a very yummy breakfast! (santa brought the girls their own table this year too!)

thompson, sarah, my aunt carla, and christian. my mom, other aunt maren, and ashlee and baby cole were also there, but apparently i didn't take that picture.

hope you all had a merry christmas and a happy new year!

it's a.....

boy!!!

looks like it's time to mix things up around here and start evening the scores. just a few more months and he'll be here!!!

Fall Getaway

We spent the last part of October in warm and sunny Southern California again. We're really going to miss this vacation when Lily is really in school. Maybe one more year, right?!

LaBrea Tar Pits

Our first day, unprepared, at the beach.

Our second day at the beach. Although the marine layer didn't burn off like we thought it would, we still had lots of fun.

Eating at Ruby's on the pier.

Palm Springs

We may have eaten a couple of times at Tyler's. You would too if you knew how amazing it is.

And we were back just in time for Halloween! Poor Zoe threw up in the car right after we took this pic, so she missed out. She still partook of the goodies!

Dentist, etc.

I finally took Lily to the dentist. She's a little overdue, but I was pretty sure she had a pretty healthy mouth. No cavities! She was sooo brave! However, the dentist did comment that her baby teeth are so tight (no surprise there!) that we should probably start saving for braces now! Yikes!

Sweet little munchkin.

Buz and I got to go to a gala for his work, it was fun to dress up (and go shopping in Hailey's closet!) and have a fancy night out!