Train Expo

Anyone who knows Mark understands that his whole world revolves around trains. He can even make train sounds like no other person I know of. You can always hear him coming by the sound of the train whistle (without a whistle). So it was a no brainer when my dad told us that there was a huge train expo at the cow palace in SF. I was a little worried how we were going to get him out of there, but it was surprisingly easy when we told him we were going to eat lunch in a train car...

She's 6!!

Lilliana turned 6! And where did she want her party...Chuckie Cheese. All I can say is that it wasn't at my house and the planning was relatively easy - and let's be honest with a 3 month old baby that was all I could handle. She invited all the kids from her class. It was a star wars party. You'd think it would be easy to get a star wars cake made?? Nope no cakes and the cake decorator had no idea what a light saber was so having 2 light sabers crossed on the cake was out. Hmm what to do what to do? Well the Super Bowl was that weekend and they had a lovely FOOTBALL cake that Lilliana decided she just had to have. So she had a superbowl cake for her birthday. All I can say is that Lilliana marches to the beat of her own drummer :) Gotta love her!

Blessing

What a special day for Camille - not that she will remember it. However our whole family gathered together to have Jim give her a name and a special blessing that will help her through her life. A very sweet lady in our ward took notes for us and I have a wonderful summary of the blessing Jim gave Camille. We are so very lucky to have her as a part of our family. We love you Camille.

Ummm Christmas

So I was going to post some photos of our Christmas but Mark is completely naked in most of them...Here is the lone photo to represent our Christmas this year.

More Camille

Annual Christmas Tree Hunt

Every year we go out and cut down our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. The weather wasn't really cooperating, but we went anyways. It was cold and wet! It was the fastest we had ever found a tree - about 10 minutes! Afterwards we warmed up with hot cider and sandwiches.

Buffalo Hunt

Lilliana's class has been learning about Native Americans and their culture in school this week. At the end of the week they have a pow pow and a buffalo hunt (ok it's just a parent dressed up like a buffalo, but it's lots of fun). The kids make all their own things. Lilliana's Indian name is Thunderbolt. They had to earn the feathers in their headdress by mastering the color sight words.