A visit from Santa

Santa came to see the kids and here are some of the videos I shot. Austin keeps calling him "daddy".

Santa's visit to our house

Magic Show

Baby #3

Sorry I haven't posted in forever! I've been so sick with morning sickness and the boys have been keeping me so busy too. Here are some of our ultrasound pictures.

Disneyland

Since it's an easy drive to LA, we took the kids to Disneyland again in May.

This is one of our favorite videos from the character breakfast. Pluto had no idea he bumped into Austin.

We dressed Dean up in his Halloween costume to take a picture of him with Woody. Since Woody was on his way out of the park, Dean got to walk him out.

As usual, Austin really enjoyed the Characters.

Here is a video of one of the kids' favorite rides...the Jungle Cruise.

Legoland

In May we headed to San Diego to Legoland. Our favorite parts were the water play areas.

Here is dean squirting water on the people at the water ride.

Austin

Austin is always imitating us now. Here is him grabbing his camera and he always says "Cheeeeeeese!" when he does it.

End of Year School Program

Dean's preschool did a cute end of year concert. Dean seemed really excited about his mommy & daddy coming to school for the concert. Once he got on stage he didn't move a muscle and didn't sing a word. He just stood there and smiled a little. He said it was fun and he wasn't scared at all. : )

Fire station Tour

Our playgroup did a fire station tour recently. It was so fun and they were so nice. Dean was so serious when he got to use the fire hose to spray water.

Dean's 4th Birthday

We threw Dean a 4th Birthday party and even his Grandma and Grandpa came for the party. We were having a lot of people at the party and 5 minutes before it started Dean fell off Kevin's back and slammed his head into an open drawer. There was so much blood and he was screaming so loud that he wanted to go to the hospital we didn't know what to do. Then his guests started to arrive and Kevin took Dean out for some medical tape at the pharmacy and to calm him down so he missed the first half hour of his party. Luckily the bleeding stopped so we didn't need to bring him to the ER, because he would have missed his entire party.
He was calmed down once he returned from the store and was having fun in the jump house and the pool, pinata, cake, etc. We had a train conductor come and do a magic show, face painting and balloons. Here are some pictures from the day.

Austin is always dancing, singing, playing instruments

Brotherly Love...

Bubble Time

Lawn Mower

Austin hasn't stopped playing with this lawn mower after he saw Kevin mow the lawn last weekend.

Christmas

I'm a couple of weeks late, but just wanted to post some pictures of the kids at Christmas. Here is a picture of Dean when he opened Sir Topham Hatt's car (from Thomas train). It was at the top of his list to Santa and I heard about it for months.

Here are the kids on Christmas Eve.

This was Austin's favorite gift...Dance Star Mickey.

Disneyland

We just spent last week at Disneyland. We're not sure who enjoyed it more, Dean or Austin. Dean's favorite rides were the race cars, train, Buzz Lightyear and Jungle Cruise. I think Austin liked the Carousels and Jungle Cruise the most. Austin especially enjoyed all the characters and Kevin had to wait in line with him everytime he spotted one. Got some cute pictures of him with all of them. Dean enjoyed them from afar. They both also liked the parades. Hopefully it won't be too long before we visit Disney again...

Happy December!

Yes, I'm the worst blogger ever! I know I haven't posted anything for a while but we've been sick & busy traveling. We went to Chicago for a week for Thanksgiving and had Austin baptized there. It would have been a really nice ceremony but he was screaming the whole time. Should make for some nice pictures. I'm realizing that Austin is not a good traveler. Too bad since we're going away again next week to Disneyland. Hopefully it will go better since it's just a drive away instead of time changes and planes. Dean loves to travel so at least one of them is happy during the trip.

Just got the kids all dressed up for their Christmas Card picture. They were good sports considering they are sick.

Dean's Prayer

Here is a video of a prayer that Dean learned at school. We thought it was so cute, I ran to get the camera. In case you can't understand him, it goes like this "Tick Tock, here's the clock, now it's time to pray. God you are good, God you are great and this is what we say. Amen."

Some cute videos

It's been a while since I've uploaded some videos so I wanted to try to do that now. I realize I haven't been blogging too much. My friend Staci puts me to shame as she blogs frequently and is currently pregnant with her fourth child (she has 3 girls right now) so I don't know when she finds the time. I do appreciate reading her blog though! In fact, I am baking an apple cake right now that she put on her blog. Here is the recipe...hopefully she doesn't mind me sharing : )

Apple Cake

Mix together:2 C sugar3 C flour1 t baking soda1 t salt1 t cinnamon1 t vanilla1 C vegetable oilAdd 2 beaten eggs to mixture. Stir.

This will be thick!Stir in:3 C chopped, peeled apples1/2 C chopped pecans (opt)(by stir, in this step, it really means take off your rings and mix it with your hands - it's way too thick to actually handle with a spoon or spatula)Press into a 9x13, greased and floured pan.

Sprinkle the top liberally with brown sugar.Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.


Austin is big enough now to play with Dean so I've had to break up some fights between them over toys. Dean gets pretty upset when Austin messes up his train tracks. Lately he's been putting other toys in Austin's hands saying "here Austin you play with this" just so he doesn't touch Dean's trains. I can't leave them alone together for more than a few minutes these days as I know a fight will break out. Sometimes Austin just pulls Dean's hair for fun, but doesn't realize he's hurting him. This video is from Austin's birthday. Austin loves Dean so much and thinks he's so funny.

Happy Birthday Austin!

Austin turned 1 on August 31st. My mom was visiting so we celebrated the day of and then had a party with Kevin's parents the following weekend. Austin is now cruising all over the place and getting lots of bumps on his face and head on a daily basis. He's using his walkers to walk around the house and climbing the stairs at a very fast pace.

Dean started school last week. I love his school and his teachers and cannot wait until Dean is used to this new schedule and thrilled for me to leave him at school.

I'm finding myself spending much more time reading my friends' blogs than updating my own. Sorry about that.